20 THE W. F. ALLEN CO., SALISBURY, MD. 
Fendall. The berries are large in size, rather light in 
color and with large, attractive green caps. Blossoms 
are imperfect and should be planted with Big Joe, Ekey, 
or Magie Gem. Fendall, like Haverland, is unable to 
hold the great bunches of fruit off the ground and 
should be well mulched on this account. Price $8 per 
thousand. 
First Quality. Especially recommended for New Eng¬ 
land and other northern states. Berries are large and 
pointed, somewhat like the Haverland, altho a little 
darker in color and better in quality than this variety. 
Plants are very vigorous and very healthy. Blossoms 
are perfect, strong pollenizer, making it good to plant 
with Hustler, Sample, Haverland and other imperfect 
flowering varieties of its season. Price $8 per thousand. 
Gibson. Berries are large, beautiful dark red in color. 
Plants very productive. Bear through a long season. 
Blossoms are perfect and good for pollenizing Sample, 
Haverland, etc. Both plants and fruit closely resembles 
Parson’s Beauty. We fruited Gibson this year, but did f 
not have any Parson’s Beauty, so we could not make 
exact comparison. We believe it is the same, but we are 
not sure yet. Both varieties produce a great quantity 
ef berries that are dark in color and part easy from the 
eap, or hulls, which makes them ideal for canning, jam 
and preserves. Price $8 per thousand. * 
Good Luck. The fruit is large and ripens a few days 
ahead of Gandy. In shape it is conical to wedge shape. 
The plant is a strong grower and in many respects sim¬ 
ilar to Stevens Late Champion, though considered by 
many a better variety. Recommended by N. Y. Experi¬ 
ment Station. Price $12 per thousand. 
Hustler. A vigorous grower,, making a few large, 
strong plants, rather than many small ones. The fruit 
is uniformly large in size and firm enough to ship to dist¬ 
ant market. The berries are rich scarlet in color, and ex¬ 
cellent in quality. The blossoms are imperfect and should 
be planted with some perfect flowering variety. We 
recommend Big Joe, Ekey and Magic Gem as being 
especially valuable to plant with Hustler. Price $12 per 
thousand. 
Late Jersey Giant. Berries very large, almost perfectly 
round. Highly colored and of good quality. Not very pro¬ 
ductive, but for fancy specimen berries for show purposes, 
it is rarely equaled. Price $12 per thousand. 
MeALPIN. A very vigorous grower that should be kept 
thinned for best results. The berries are medium to large 
in size, brilliant scarlet in color and unexcelled in quality. 
After a heavy rain in fruiting time the McAlpin will have 
less sand and dirt on the berries than any variety we 
know and this is especially important, where mulching 
materials are scarce and hard to get. Its excellent qual¬ 
ity makes the McAlpin a good one for the home, or local 
market, as well as for shipping purposes. McAlpin will 
grow on any kind of soil. It is beautiful in appearance, 
and unsurpassed in quality. Price $8 per thousand. 
Sample. The berries are a perfect strawberry type, 
bright red in color, large in size, delicious in flavor and 
very attractive in appearance. It is very productive and 
quite firm, which makes it possible to ship the fruit to 
distant market. The blossoms are imperfect and must be 
planted with some staminate variety, such as Gibson, 
Big Joe, Ekey, or Magic Gem. It is a hardy variety, 
which makes it popular both north and south. Price $8 
per thousand. 
Sharpleas. Berries large, handsome in appearance and • 
excellent in quality. An old favorite. Especially for the 
garden. Price $10 per thousand. 
Marshall Co., Minn., April 7, 1919. 
I received the plants all in good shape. It is as fine v 
a bunch of plants as I ever saw.—Geo. W. Calhoon. 
Westmoreland Co., Pa., Aug. 30, 1919. 
Thinking you might be interested in the failures or 
success of your customers I am writing you of my suc¬ 
cess as results of the 3000 strawberry plants I bought of 
you the spring of 1918. These 3000 plants were Premier, 
Big Joe, Chesapeake, and Progressive. From 23 rows 
in which they were planted I picked 4848 qts. of berries 
which sold for $1,342. My patch was 100 ft. wide and 320 
ft. long, lss than 3 of an acre. In regard to the value 
of the Premier you do not sing its praises half high 
enough. Picked the first Premier June 4 and the last, 
picking June 30. Size of the berries held up to the last. 
Biggest money maker of the lot.—C. H. Colburn. 
