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W. F. Allen’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
MEADE.—Originated by O. H. Meade, ex-president 
of the MassachusettsF ruit Growers As¬ 
sociation. The Meade has fruited here and I find it a 
beautiful dark red berry of unusual fine quality. More¬ 
over. it is very productive, and firm enough to stand 
shipping. It is good enough to atract the local market 
and should be a favorite on the home table. The 
Garden Magazine about a year ago devoted a full page 
to illustrating and describing this variety. It is a 
very stalky, low-growing plant, with broad, very dark 
and glossy foliage, makes plants freely, hut seldom 
crowding too much for a matted row. The berries are 
of large size, pointed, globular in shape. Mr. James 
Draper, of Worcester, Mass., says: “With him the 
Meade is a plant whose foliage eclipses all others in 
vigor, quality, size, healthfulness and color. The 
berry is well formed, glossy red and good quality. I 
noticed on our Worcester market last June that the 
Meade commanded the highest prices of any variety 
on the fruit stand,’’ 
£' . ■: m ■ i ; ,■ '■ 
MAY KING.— Originated by T. G. Zane at Chew’s 
Landing, N. J.. and was intro¬ 
duced about 24 years ago. It was a favorite with a 
great many growers at that time, and to my knowledge 
made money for quite a number of them. I grew this 
variety for a number of years and then let it go alto¬ 
gether. as there seemed to be but little demand for it. 
Two or three years ago I tried to get a new stock of 
It and had great difficulty in doing so, but finally got 
hold of a few plants. My reason for putting it in 
stock again was on account of its very fine table 
qualities; in fast I know of nothing better for eating 
from the vines. We have a few plants if anyone 
wishes to try this old variety. 
GANDY. —Too well known to need any extended 
description. This is the standard late 
variety all over the country, and probably no higher 
compliment could be paid the variety than the taet 
that all other late varieties are compared by It. It 
should be planted in black swamp land, if possible, 
otherwise in clay land or medium land of a springy 
nature, never on dry, sandy land. While it will bear 
a very good crop on soil that is described above, It 
does not thrive on light, sandy soil. I have an excel¬ 
lent crop of very fine plants this season and think I 
can please the most exacting, and shall be pleased to 
have your order. 
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCHMAN.-T hlslai 
very promis¬ 
ing new variety from the Keystone State. The exact 
origin or originator of this berry is not known to me. 
It comes to me from York Co., Pa., from one of my cus¬ 
tomers who writes me as follows: “I have a new kind 
of berry that has no name, and 11 and 12 fill a quart 
box that fetch 25 cents per box when the rest wer® 
only 8 cents in the Harrisburg market. They have 
perfect blossoms and firm. No one has them except 
one party and myself, and he will not sell anybody <*- 
plant. I will spare you about 500 plants If you wish 
to buy them, and I will sell them to you and nobody 
else.’’ I bought the plants and was well pleased with 
them. The plants are very large—as large as any J 
have ever seen. The foliage is green and healthy ; 
makes a moderate number of very large plants that 
make a perfect bed ; the fruit is large and very attrac¬ 
tive. I sold these plants last season at $5.00 per 100, 
but I now have a good stock of extra fine plants and 
I am going to furnish them this year at $6.00 per M. 
Do not fail to try it. 
