24 THE W. F. ALLEN CO., SALISBURY, MD. 
Progressive. “It is more than progressive—it is The Complete Strawberry” 
Fall-Bearing Strawberries 
PROGRESSIVE 
We recommend the Progressive as the best of all the fall-bearing varieties to date. The originator 
of the Progressive, Mr. Harlow Rockhill, of Iowa, considers Progressive the best of the fall-bearers and 
better than a great many spring-bearing varieties. With us the Progressive is a good grower, resembling 
Dunlap in habit of growth, and a heavy bearer. The blossoms must be kept pinched off until midsummer, 
until the plants have a chance to make a few runners and plants for the fruiting beds. This must be done 
at least once a week, as the plants are so persistent in producing blossoms that if left over a week they 
will be loaded down with young fruit. We have picked over one hundred and fifty blossoms and green 
berries from one plant, and it is no uncommon thing to see blossoms, or even ripe berries, on the runner 
plants which have not yet rooted. The berries are simply delicious in quality and the fact that they come 
when other Strawberries have gone makes the quality seem even better. The berries part readily from the 
cap and if kept picked closely are firm enough for distant shipment. Mr. J. Horace McFarland, of Harrisburg, 
Pennsylvania, has tried the Progressive and knows how good it is. Here is his opinion: “The Progressive 
Strawberry seems to me to be poorly named, for it is more than progressive—it is The Complete Strawberry. 
I say this because it seems to have but one idea in its Strawberry existence, and that is to keep continually 
bearing good-looking berries of such high quality that each one is a desirable and pleasant event. My first 
hundred plants, set April 29, began to make blossoms before the roots got warm in the ground. Keeping 
these blossoms off for a while, I loosened up on them before the first of October, which meant that we 
had plenty of Strawberries, of a most excellent quality, until frost. This year these same plants have 
A field of our Progessive and Superb, showing how nicely they bed up. Progressive on the right, Superb 
on the left 
