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W. F. Allen’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
suit your customers who want 
something a little better than 
anybody else and are willing 
to pay for them. I think our 
customers who grow a few and 
want them very nice would do 
well to give this berry a trial. 
JESSIE —This is a fancy 
variety that 
makes a great showing where 
the soil suits it. There are 
more places, however, where it 
will not suit than where it 
will. For several years I 
ceased to grow this variety, 
but quite a number of our cus¬ 
tomers kept inquiring for it, 
and for that reason I have put 
it in stock again. Where the 
soil conditions are favorable 
to the Jessie it is an excep¬ 
tionally fancy berry for either 
home use or for market. 
JOHNSON’S EARLY- 
Originated by O. A. Johnson, 
Somerset Co., Md. Time of 
ripening, second early. Berries 
above medium in size, very 
prettily colored and extra fine 
qualities. I really doubt if 
there is an early berry that 
will equal it when quality 
alone is considered. Its foliage 
is green and healthy, and one 
of the most persistent plant 
makers. It is particularly 
adapted to stiff clay land, and 
will not bear a satisfactory 
crop on light sandy soil. 
COBDEN QUEEN.— A medium large berry, and 
shows up better than many of 
the larger kinds. It is a berry that will hold up well 
and look attractive in the market long after shipment. 
The plant is vigorous and healthy. It is very produc¬ 
tive, firm, medium size, and crimson color inside and 
out. 
BISMARCK.— A strong grower and very produc¬ 
tive variety and very much resem¬ 
bles the Bubach in habit of growth. It has perfect 
blossom, especially recommended to plant with the Bu¬ 
bach. As this variety is well known, it is hardly 
necessary to give an extended description. 
FREMONT WILLIAMS- My attention was 
first called to this 
variety by a Western grower, who writes me as fol¬ 
lows : “Why is it you Eastern growers do not try the 
Fremont Williams? I shipped 50 crates to Indianapolis 
last season and they were pronounced the largest and 
finest seen in that market. This berry was originated 
by Louis Hubach, of Arkansas, who speaks in the very 
highest praise of it. and indeed from what I have seen 
I see no reason why he should not. I consider it very 
promising and recommend it as worthy of trial. I am 
so favorably impressed that I am planting quite a 
large block of it in my plant beds, as I believe there is 
going to be a demand for it. I have fruited it in a 
small way and it was very satisfactory. The fruit is 
exceptionally beautiful in appearance, being of large 
size, proper shape and good quality. The plant is a 
very strong grower with an abundance of very dark 
green foliage. A good one—try it. 
CHELLIE- This berry has been on the market 
now for several years, but for some 
reason I see little of it in the catalogues, possibly 
owing to the fact that it makes very large plants and 
but few of them. This variety cannot be grown profit¬ 
ably at the price usually charged for plants, but with 
me it is an excellent variety, and produces very fine 
berries of good quantity, that are extra fancy, large, 
rather pointed, and very firm. This is just the kind to 
KANSAS.- Originated by 
J. J. Wittman, 
Emporia, Kans. Fruit rather 
above medium in size, and im¬ 
mensely productive. The fruit 
is a brilliant crimson, not only 
on the surface, but through 
and through. It is the most 
fragrant strawberry that I 
know of. The plant is free 
from rust and disease of any 
ports of it from California and 
kind. We hear excellent re- 
I would advise my customers in that section to try a 
hundred plants and see how it will do for them. I am 
just in receipt of a letter from a customer in Omaha, 
Neb., who says : “The Kansas is the best of them all 
with me.” 
