Nineteen Hundred and Eleven 
'JAIN my Traveling- Salesman (this Cata¬ 
logue) has come to call on you and quiet¬ 
ly, at your convenience, talk over the 
matter of your 1911 order for plants. 
I hope that our past dealings have been 
so satisfactory that there will be no 
question about who gets the order. The 
season just past has not been altogether favorable to 
plant multiplication or propagation, but of a greater 
part of the standard money-making varieties we are 
very well supplied. I have about one hundred acres 
in young beds to draw on for strawberry plants to 
fill my orders, and while I shall do very little advertising 
in the papers, I shall spare no pains to take the best of 
care of my old customers and any friends they may send 
to me. I have discontinued the retail seed business, for 
the present at least, in order to give ray undivided at¬ 
tention to the plant and nursory business. Our plant 
business is constantly growing, so much so that it keeps 
us on the hustle to keep pace with it. “ THERE MUST 
BE A REASON.” We have made arrangements to plant 
120 acres in strawberry plants alone for plant stock in 
order to take care of our 1912 plant customers. Other 
small fruits are getting to be a feature also. It takes 
many thousands of Blackberry, Raspberry, Currant and 
Gooseberry plants an<i Grape vines every year to supply 
our constantly increasing trade. Ornamental shrubbery 
and Hedge plants, the things that help so much to beau¬ 
tify our home surroundings and make them pleasant 
and worth while are getting to be no small part of our 
business. And in conclusion I wish to say that, in filling 
any orders that you or your friends may intrust to me, 
your entire satisfaction will be our first aim. 
Thanking you for your confidence in the past and 
trusting to merit it in the future, and wishing you 
happiness and prosperity throughout 1911, I remain, 
Yours faithfully, 
W. F\ ALLEN. 
Please Read This, and Then, Please Read II Again! 
We fill Strawberry plant and other small fruit plant 
and 8hrubbery orders any time after November 1st, 
during November, December, January, February, 
March, April, and until May 1st. From May 1st to May 
10th we will fill a limited number of orders on any stock 
that is unsold and put it in tho vory best possible order, 
but at purchaser’s risk as to results. 
After May 10th. and during June, July, August, Sep¬ 
tember and October, we most positively will not fill any 
orders for small fruit plants. (This, however, does not 
apply to vegetable or flower plants.) 
During March and April, the great planting season, 
almost our entire attention and that of over one hundred 
employees is given up to filling plant orders. 
Wo are willing to~answer any questions during the 
summer months as promptly as possible, if written in a 
short style and to the p int. Long letters are subject 
to long delays. This notice was made necessary from 
tho fact that we receive hundreds of orders for straw¬ 
berry plants during the summer months when we have 
no plants in fit condition to transplant, and when not one 
in ten could make even good plants grow if we could 
send them, unless it were potted plants, which we do not 
grow at all. Thanking you for your attention, I remain, 
Yours faithfully, 
W. F\ ALLEN, 
Salisbury, IVIcL 
IMPORTANT TO CUSTOMERS 
ORDERS should be sent in just as soon as possible 
after receiving this Catalogue. It is better for you 
as well as the nurseryman. 
TIME OF SHIPMENT — From the time vou receive 
this atalogne to May 1st Bv far tne larger p-irt of our 
shipments are made during Maroh and April. Bermuda 
Cuba. Florida, Ca iforniaand other similar! i located sec 
tio s are supplied any time the fall and winter after No¬ 
vember 1st 
GUARANTEE.—T guarantee plants ordered by mail 
or expr ss to reach customers in g >od conditi >n >* hen 
promptly taken from the express office and opened at 
once. 
CLAIMS, if any, must be made on receipt of 
goods. 3 cannot become responsible for stock that 
is allowed to lay around your station or express of¬ 
fice, for neglect of purchaser or his employees to 
care for stock after it has been received, or for mis¬ 
fortunes perpetrated by droughts, floods, frosts, 
insects, etc. These things are entirely beyond my 
control. 
AT PURCHASER’S RISK—Plants shipped by 
freight will be at purchaser’s risk and all small fruit 
plants shipped after May 1st will be packed and shipped 
in best condition possible, but always at purchaser’s 
risk 
PACKING.—I make no charge for boxing or packing 
at rates quoted in this catalogue. Everything is deliv¬ 
ered f. o. b. trains at rates named 
Our price includes the packing and the package. 
TWENTY FIVES. — All plants are tied twenty-five 
in a bundle. 
PAYMENT.—Invariably ca^h in advance. It is my 
desire that all customers should have the very best of 
success and strange as it may seem, plants that are not 
paid for seldom do well. 
REMI r by Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank 
Draft. Postage Stamps will be accepted for the fraction¬ 
al part of a dollar, the larger denominations preferred. 
Foreign customers will please send Money Order on Sal¬ 
isbury, Maryland, or Bank Draft payable in New York. 
TRUE TO NAME. —While I use every precaution to 
hav* all PI.ANTS etc . true to n i me (and I believe we 
come as i ear doing this as anyone in the business) I will 
not be responsible for any sum greater than the c st of 
the stock should any prove otherwise than as repre¬ 
sented 
CERTIFICATE OF NURSERY INSPECTION 
/v. s-y.- 
tTn E3l]Bm St fUaij (Uottrrrtt: 
THIS IS TO CERTIFY^That an the 3 / day of a tJ^S' , 
au^su** vr? S', 
trowing in /L— o nursene, at 
County of Ml t? < C.d Stair of Maryland, in , 
2B9, Section 58. and that raid nurseries and premiers 
'torda rut wit* Hr tawSof Maryland. 1898, Ch8 
m apparently free, str-ftr as can he determined by 
pests 
inspection, from the Son Jose Stale. Pear* Yellows, Pear Blight and other dangerously injur 
and plant diseases. 
Thit Certificate is invalid after CUp^tf^T. 'So*l9lP and does not include nursery stock 
not groan, within His State, ants, such sfek ») Previously covered try certificate and accepted t, the Stale 
.... 
_ Plymouth Co., Mass., May 18, 1910. 
W. F Allen, Salisbury, Md 
Dea Sir:—The s a eet potato plants were received in 
excellent condition and I shall be glad to recommend 
your plants a jd careful attention shown to my order 
Very Respt., F. B. Turner. 
