THE W. F. ALLEN CO., SALISBURY, MD. 
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EVERBEARING VARIETIES 
Everbearing strawberries have been produced suc¬ 
cessfully wherever spring-bearing varieties are grown. 
There are varieties adapted to every section, altho Pro¬ 
gressive is the best of the lot nearly everywhere, and is 
the only one which gives satisfactory results in the 
South. The plants are set in early spring, just like 
other strawberries; they are hoed, cultivated and fer¬ 
tilized just as other varieties. For best results, the 
blossoms should be kept pinched off until the last of 
June, or middle of July. About August 1, you can com¬ 
mence picking fruit and continue to get it until freez¬ 
ing weather. The second year, the plants will fruit in 
the spring and if seasonable, will continue to fruit all 
through the summer and early fall months. If you 
neglected to set some plants last spring, so as to have 
some fruiting beds this spring, the everbearers, planted 
this March or April, will bear you a crop of berries 
the first year, only a few weeks after the plants are set. 
If the ground is rich and moist, these can be allowed 
to commence fruiting earlier than August 1, so that 
you can have strawberries all thru the season, as well 
as in the fall. Given good land, good treatment and 
good growing conditions, every plant of the Progres¬ 
sive will produce an abundance of berries during the 
fall. No investment you could make will give the whole 
family more satisfaction and pleasure than a plot of 
these berries. 
PROGRESSIVE. The very best of all the fall-bearing 
varieties and has been successful wherever planted. It 
is the only everbearer yet found, which does well in the 
South. There are a few places in the North, where Superb 
seems to do better, but our advice to the great major¬ 
ity is stand by the Progressive. It leads them all, because 
of its remarkable yielding qualities. The richer the land 
and the more manure you apply, the more good fruit you 
will get. The berries are medium in size, possibly not 
quite so large as Superb, but they are produced in great 
abundance and the berries are simply delicious in qual¬ 
ity. If kept closely picked, the berries are firm enough 
to stand shipment. The most -striking feature of the Pro¬ 
gressive, is that you will get fruit a few weeks after the 
plants are set and that they continue to bear until freez¬ 
ing weather. We have about a million and a quarter of 
these plants, but at the time of the writing of this cata¬ 
log, they were already more than half sold. The demand 
is exceedingly large and we advise you in all sincerity, 
to get your order placed at once, and have the plants re¬ 
served for you, until time to ship. Price $15.00 per 
thousand. 
Superb. The fruit of Superb is large, firm and of fine 
quality, resembling the Chesapeake in many ways. It is 
not so productive and requires more care and attention 
than the Progressive, but is larger in size and hand¬ 
somer in appearance. In addition to its value as a fall 
bearer, Superb will bear an excellent crop of berries in 
the spring. They look well, ship well and sell well. We 
advise planting Superb in small quantities only, unless it 
has been tried and found to be good in your particular 
locality. Price $15.00 per thousand. 
Peerless. A new everbearing variety, claimed to be 
better than Superb, which it resembles. After fruiting it 
the second time, we find it to be a more vigorous grower 
and more productive of somewhat larger sized fruit, and 
fully as good as Superb in quality. Price $15.00 per 
thousand. 
Americus. Unexcelled in quality by any of the ever¬ 
bearers. In many places this variety is very thrifty and 
has given excellent results, but with us, it is hard to 
grow and # a rather shy bearer. It is claimed by some 
that Americus is better the second year, than the first. 
We have nearly always sold out of these plants and 
have not had occasion to test this out thoroughly. We 
advise trying it in a small way only. Price $15.00 per 
thousand. v 
