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W. E. ALLEN’S CATALOGUE, SALISBURY, MD. 
OOM PAUL. —The fruit is large, the larger 
berries being sometimes a little 
flattened. The berries are dark red all the way 
through, firm and good quality. I see no reason why 
this variety has not been planted more largely. I 
have fruited the Oom Paul for several years and 
consider it a good variety either for home use or 
market, as it is firm enough to ship well. 
PARSONS’ BEAUTY.— Parson’s Beauty origi¬ 
nated in this county 
near Parsonsburg. It is very productive, medium 
large and of good quality. Anyone who has a near 
market, where the fruit can be hauled in or picked 
one day and sold the next morning. I would recom¬ 
mend this variety. Some claim that it will ship 
well, but I have never found that I could recom¬ 
mend this as a berry that would ship a long distance 
and give good results. It makes a luxuriant growth 
of dark green, vigorous plants, which bear an im¬ 
mense crop of medium to large berries. 
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCHMAN. —This is 
a n o ther 
variety that is enough like New York to be its own 
brother. The berry comes to me from the Keystone 
State from one of my customers, who writes me thus : 
“I have a new berry that has no name and eleven 
or twelve will fill a quart. In the Harrisburg market 
they have been bringing 25 cents per box when the 
rest were only 8 cents. They have perfect blossoms 
and are firm. No one has them except one party 
and myself, and he will not sell any plants. I will 
supply you with some if you wish to buy them, and I 
will sell them to you and no one else.” I bought the 
plants and was well pleased with them. The plants 
were very large, as large as any I have ever seen, but. 
as stated above, the light green, healthy foliage and 
the fruit is very much like New York. 
WOOL VERT ON. -Introduced by the late John 
Little, of Ontario, Canada. I 
have fruited this variety for a number of years. It 
will succeed on almost any soil, but will do better 
on a sandy loam, where the soil is not too dry. The 
plants make a good growth, has a perfect blossom, 
which makes it an excellent pollenizing variety. It 
is no uncommon thing to see blooms and ripe berries 
on this variety at the same time. A good, reliable 
standard variety. 
SARATOGA. —Originated by William Palmer, of 
New York State. It makes a vig¬ 
orous growth of healthy, vigorous plants, of very 
dark green foliage. Mr. Palmer describes it thus : “I 
exhibited the Saratoga at the New York State Fair 
in September, 1006. One plant set in May, 1006, 
with ordinary field culture, had twenty-five good ber¬ 
ries and several small ones. A portion of three acres 
was of this variety, cared for the same as the balance 
of the field. One picking at the height of the season 
yielded at the rate of 5,000 quarts per acre, maturing 
the last of the crop with Gandy. It has a perfect 
blossom and is a cross of the Glen Mary and Sample, 
two of the leading all-around berries in this section. 
The fruit is deep red, a good shipper and medium to 
late in season.” 
OAK’S EARLY. —This is a very early, firm 
shipping berry. It originated 
in Somerset County, Md. Some think it better than 
Excelsior. It is. to say the least, probably equal to 
that variety, equally as early, equally as vigorous in 
growth, equally as productive and equally as sour. 
^ THE BEST THAT CAN BE HAD AT ANY 
& PRICE. 
Washington Co., Ok la. 
Mr. W. F. Allen, Salisbury. Md. 
Dear Sir—I want to thank you and give you 
credit and praise for the best plants that can be 
had at any price. Thanking you for your hon¬ 
esty and promptness, and wishing you great 
success, I beg to remain, very respectfully yours, 
R. J. NABORS. 
BUBACH. —I will speak 
of this va¬ 
riety by first asking how 
anlany of the older cus¬ 
tomers is there that does 
not remember Bubach or, 
as it used to be called, 
Bubach No. 5, and I want 
to ask further how many 
of the older customers is 
there that have seen many 
if any, better berries than 
the Bubach was when it 
was first put on the mar¬ 
ket, and right here I want 
to say that I have a very 
fine strain of this grand 
old variety that I think is 
just about as good as the 
Bubach was in its earlier 
days. I have heard some 
complaints, and especially 
from nurserymen, that 
they could not get it to 
bed up, and yet our Bu¬ 
bach plant beds are just 
about two feet across, 
with as fine, luxuriant, 
healthy growth as you 
will find in almost any 
variety in this section. I 
heard a prominent Con¬ 
necticut nurserymen make 
the remark two or three 
years ago that he had dis¬ 
continued growing the Bu¬ 
bach because it would not 
make the plants and be¬ 
cause there had ceased to 
be a demand for it. This, 
however, Ms not been my 
experience, and the strange 
part of it is that I sell 
many thousands of Bu¬ 
bach plants all around 
this man and throughout 
his State. It must be that 
his soil is not adapted to 
the variety. The fact is 
we have had so much demand for this grand old 
variety that I have kept it among my leaders, and 
only once in ten years haye I failed to sell every 
plant that I had. My present stock will exceed 
half a million and I doubt very much if there will 
be a plant left. “The Bubach were by far the 
finest berries and brought the best price. In my 
experience of strawberry growing for fifteen years I 
have never seen any berry to equal the Bubach” 
is the verdict of one customer, and we have many 
similar ones. We have a very fine stock of Bubach 
plants and will be pleased to have the orders of all 
customers who admire this variety. 
