W. F. Alien’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
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CHIPMAJT. —This has made a very good 
— growth and looks quite 
promising. It has been attracting quite a good 
deal of attention in the strawberry sections of 
Delawre. It originated in Sussex County, Del., 
by a grower of over 80 years, experience, and is. 
considered by him the best he ever fruited. It 
was first planted for field culture six years ago, 
and it has always come out ahead where planted. 
The plants are strong, upright in growth, large 
and healthy, with tall, broad, bright, glossy 
green foliage, and has never shown any signs of 
rust or disease. It has strong, perfect blossoms 
and is a good variety to plant with pistillate 
sorts. The fruit is large, with large green caps 
of even size and shape. It begins to ripen four 
or five days earlier than the Bubach ; the color 
is dark red, bright and glossy ; it is very firm, a 
good shiper and good quality, and retains its 
bright color a long time after being picked ; suc¬ 
ceeds equally well on light or heavy soil, and it 
is predicted that it will soon become one of the 
leading commercial varieties. 
OOM FAUX.—This variety has made a 
good growth of large, heal¬ 
thy plants which make enough runners to bed 
up nicely. The fruit is large, the larger berries 
being sometimes a little flattened; color dark 
red all the way through : flesh is quite firm and 
of good quality. I fruited the Com Paul for 
the past two seasons and believe it is a variety 
that it going to give general satisfaction. It is 
a good variety for the home garden and firm 
enough, large and attractive enough to give 
g«od results as a shipping berry. I do not think 
anyone would make any great mistake in plant¬ 
ing this variety. 
PARSON'S BEAUTY - O r i g i nated in 
this county and 
has been largely grown around Pittsville and 
Parson*burg. It is very productive, medium 
large and good quality. To anyone who has a 
near market where the fruit can be hauled in, 
or picked one day and sold the next morning, I 
would recommend this variety, but for long 
shipment I do not think it is firm enough to 
give best results. It makes a luxuriant growth 
of dark green, vigorous plants, 
of dark green, vigirous foliage. 
PRIDE OF CUMBERLAND.-Origlnat- 
v ^ ed in New 
Jersey. Brilliant red berries and holds the lus¬ 
ter and freshness a long time after taking from 
the vines. It is so attractive that it always 
brings the highest prices in the market. Where 
everything is favorable it is very productive 
very firm and good quality. It is a strong stam¬ 
ina te variety and an excellent variety to plant 
with medium to late pistillate varieties. 
S EVERYTHING SATISFACTORY. I 
5 Jefferson Co.. Mo., April 8, 1008. 3 
$ W. F. AJt.n, aSlisbury, Md. 3 
$i „ Otar Sir—I received the plants the St 
80th day of March and everything was ~i 
satisfactory. They were in very good 3 
6 eOHditon, Years HENRY KONECT. 3 
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P®CAH»NTAS. —This new variety eomes from 
. „ _ „ Virginia, and was originated 
by b. K Garrison, who writes me as follows: “W. F. 
Alien, Salisbury, Md.—Dear Sir: I have one of the 
finest berries that has ever been seen. I showed it to 
ail nf the berry growers in this section and they all 
said it was the biggest berry that had ever been seen. 
I found the plants up in the mountains where never a 
strawberry had been planted, and it is the heaviest 
and largest plant I ever saw. From the small patch 
I had of them I got 32 quarts every other day and I 
sold them to Mr.-in Charlottesville, and he sold 
every quart of them for 25 and 30 cents when he could 
not get but 10 cents for Glen Mary, and the Glen 
Mary is a favorite of mine. I had a lot of calls 
for this new berry, but I have not let any of the plants 
go. I have only a few of them this spring and I have 
not named it yet. It is a fine, large, heavv bearer 
as I ever saw, and I would like for you to name them. 
The plant is a big, stout fellow, larger than Glen 
Mary. I showed the plant and berry to a number of 
the prominent gentlemen here and they will all tell 
you that just ■what T say is so.” 
The plants are exceedingly large and sturdy, some¬ 
what resembling the Marshall, hut more vigorous and 
healthy, and makes more plants. The berries are 
large and beautiful, and fine quality, as described by 
Mr. Garrison, and this is one of the berries that yoo 
want to plant. Do not fail to try it. 
ARMSTRONG.—In plant growth and in many 
respects it resembles the New 
York. From medium to late in season, with perfect 
blossom. This is claimed to be a German seedling a nil 
is supposed to have been brought to this country from 
Germany several years ago. For several years it feftss 
been in the hands of German fruit growers in New 
York State. It is one of the largest and most produc¬ 
tive berries grown in that section. These growers 
claim to be able to grow them by the crate where 12 to 
15 will fill a quart, and that they will bring 10 to 15 
cents when others are bringing about one-half that 
amount. With me, as before stated, it is similar to 
the New l r ork in many respects, both as to plant 
growth and fruit. 
READER WOOD.— I have a nice stock of tk).M 
old Western favorite. I my 
Western favorite, because we sell a good many plants 
in the West and very few in the East. The foliage 
very dark green in color, rather tall, and has long, 
narrow leaves: has very long roots, which extend deep 
in the soil and enable it to endure dry weather better 
than most kinds. The plants of this variety are not 
large, but they bear large crops, and that is what most 
growers are looking for. 
