10 
W. F. Allen’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
THREE W’S.— Three W’s originated with W. W. 
Wallace & Sons, of Roanoke Co., 
Tenn. Three W’s is a chance seedling found in 3901 
growing wild on right-of-way of the railway. The 
first fifteen plants which were found were transplanted 
into a garden and produced 600 plants the first year. 
In 1902 the original fifteen plants produced one quart 
of berries to the plant and the 600 plants produced 
25,000 plants. In 1904 the Three W’s won highest 
prize at the World’s Fair and made a record for keep¬ 
ing ten days. In 1905 it stood the freezing of April 
15th and 16th and made a big crop of large red ber¬ 
ries, while other standard varieties made about 25 per 
cent, of a crop. This berry is a chance seedling and 
possesses many points of excellence. The foliage is 
beautiful, clean and healthy, dark green in color, and 
very attractive. I consider it a promising variety. 
Fruit is uniformly large, fine quality and very pro¬ 
ductive, covering a long season from medium early to 
late. It is quite firm and ^has a wonderful keeping 
quality. Berries picked Monday and shipped 500 
miles to the St. Louis Exposition were placed on plates 
Wednesday morning. Late Friday evening out of 11 
plants only seven berries could be found that were not 
in good condition. Part of these berries were on exhi¬ 
bition until the following Thursday. The past season 
has been quite dry here, but notwithstanding this the 
Three W’s have made an excellent bed at least two 
feet across. The plants are very large and stalky and 
look as though they could bear an enormous crop. Mr. 
Wallace claims that he has a trade-mark on the name 
Three W’s and has been trying to collect royalty from 
all who are selling plants. I wish to say that I knew 
nothing of this until after I had the plants growing, 
and my plants were received from a reliable grower 
in New York State, without any restrictions of any 
kind whatever. Quite a number have written me that 
they had received threatening letters from Mr. Wal¬ 
lace that they must either not sell the plants of this 
variety or pay him the royalty. I will simply say 
that if Mr. Wallace will investigate the matter he will 
see that there has never been, and is not now, no law pro¬ 
hibiting the sale of your own products which are pro¬ 
duced and multiplied by nature. There have been 
several such cases tried out and the verdict has always 
been that you could not trade-mark, copyright or* pat¬ 
ent anything that was produced by nature and not 
manufactured by man. 
We have an excellent stock of plants and we are 
offering them this season at the very low price of 
$3.50 per M. or $3.00 per M. in lots of 5,000 or more. 
We shall be pleased to have orders from any one w&o 
wishes to plant Three W’s. 
<£«• 
& AS USUAL. $ 
*X+ Keokuk Co.. Iowa, April 22, 1908. 4fr 
#2 W. F. Allen. Salisbury, Md. -is 
♦3*- Dear Sir—I received the strawberry plants in 4* 
fine condition. Thanking you for sending me '% 
such fine plants, I remain. 4* 
Yours very truly, C. C. STUBBS. 
A WARM RECEPTION IN A COLD % 
COUNTRY. $ 
Kennebec Co., Maine. May 9, 1908. is 
W. F. Allen, Salisbury. Md. # 
t Dear Sir—We received the strawberry plants W 
in good conditon. Thanks. Yours truly, S* 
® . WALTER H. COOPER. % 
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