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W. F. ALLEN, SALISBURY, MARYLAND 
Superb. 
The fall-bearing berry for the home 
garden 
For prices of all Strawberry Plants, 
see pages 37 and 38 
taken off their hats to the Pro¬ 
gressive. Mr. Harlow Rockhill, 
of Grundy County, Iowa, is the 
originator of this wonderful new 
variety, and he has a right to be 
proud of it. Under date of Sep¬ 
tember 6, 1912, he writes me as 
follows: “Your letter of August 
30 to hand, and I am pleased to 
learn that the Progressive has 
made a good impression on you. Progressive is the leader out in this country. If I were to confine 
myself to just one variety, it would be my choice of all the varieties on earth. I have fruited it five 
years, and am now ready to discard all single-fruiting kind. I think the rest of you will come to it later 
on. I have about one-half acre of ground in this variety, part spring set and part set last year, and cul¬ 
tivated for plants this year. First ripe berries July 14; to date have picked forty-two crates, or 684 
quarts, with bushels of fine berries spoiling because I have no help to pick them. The quality is so good 
that customers call for more of them. People here at home are paying me $3.00 per dozen now for plants. 
It has long been my desire to get a good everbearer that would make so many plants they could be grown 
as cheaply as the old kind; then everybody could soon have them, and we have it in the Progressive. I 
don’t think you would make any mistake to plant heavily, get a good bunch of pickers and market the 
berries on them. I believe I will get $150.00 for berries, in addition to the plants, in which twice this can 
be realized if the plants are set 18 inches in the row, or grown in hedges. Plants should have the blooms 
cut until fall crop is wanted, then they will come by wagon-loads. It is a commercial success with me.” 
Personally, I think it is the best of the fall-bearing varieties, and I shall plant several acres of it for fruit 
the coming season. 
SUPERB. Harlow Rockhill, of Iowa, the originator of the Progressive, and Samuel Cooper, of New 
York, the originator of the Superb, the two best fall-bearing Strawberries to date, have done more to bene¬ 
fit humanity, in bringing out new fruits than some so-called wizards who claim to “create” this, that and 
the other, practically none of which, so far as I have been able to find out, has much, if any, value. Mr. 
Rockhill and Mr. Cooper, although they have 
not been lauded for their wonderful creations 
through the city-edited magazines, have been 
steadily at work for a number of years, in order 
that we may have Strawberries all the year 
round until freezing weather. It is only within 
the last two or three years that a really 
good, reliable, fall-bearing Strawberry has 
been an actual fact, although they have been 
talked of to some extent for a number of years. 
The Superb is well named, and is the best of 
Mr. Cooper’s productions; planted in early 
spring, with blossoms kept off until mid¬ 
season and until about four weeks before you 
want ripe fruit, you can get a crop the same 
Teams hauling Allen’s catalogues season you plant; the spring following you 
