TRUE-TO-NAME STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
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Many carloads of manure are used in growing our plants 
The Best Strawberry Plants—and Why 
The best Strawberry plants are those that are dug from young beds that have never fruited, that have 
the best root-system and largest and strongest crowns, that are hardy in all Strawberry sections and abso¬ 
lutely true to name. We want to assure you that Allen’s plants and beds are grown for good plants—not 
fruit. The whole of the young beds are dug. We never dig plants from old beds. 
1. Root-System. Our plants are grown in a light, 
sandy loam soil. In this type of soil any plant can 
develop its root-system to the fullest degree. Allen’s 
Strawberry Plants certainly have some root-system! 
And, having a light soil, we can dig plants without 
breaking off any of the great bunch of roots. With 
plants grown in heavier soils, the roots cannot pene¬ 
trate the earth and make the root-system they do 
here; and, even if they could, it would not avail in 
giving fine plants, as plants are not removed from 
heavy clay soils without breaking off many of the 
fibrous roots, the kind necessary to start plant 
growth. We repeat: The root-system of our Straw¬ 
berry plants is never bettered, seldom equaled. 
FINE PLANTS—FINE CROP 
I received my Strawberry plants. They were in fine condition 
and have the best roots I ever saw. I am sure to have a fine 
crop with such exceptionally sturdy plants.— Robert Kast, 
Sullivan County, Pa., April 30, 1917. 
2. Sturdiness. Allen’s plants, both crowns and 
roots, are fully developed and of large size for the 
variety, some varieties, as Chesapeake and Big Joe, 
having larger plants than others, as Senator Dun¬ 
lap and Gandy. Our growing season is moderately 
long, just long enough to secure the best develop¬ 
ment of the plants. Constant hoeing and cultiva¬ 
ting keep the plants in good growing condition, and 
the tons of manure we apply help to keep them 
healthy and to make the best possible development. 
Of course, in a good season almost any plant will 
grow. In a very severe drought any plant will have 
a hard time, but we can say that the large size, good 
roots, and great vitality of our plants are a form of 
insurance worth in itself the cost of the plants. 
If you buy such plants as these, you will lose very 
few. 
LOST BUT FEW, ALTHOUGH VERY DRY 
The plants I received from you this spring are doing fine. 
Lost but very few, although we had a very dry spell. Allen’s 
plants for mine every time.—C. H. Lewis, Frederick County, 
Md., July 16, 1917. 
3. Healthy. Our plants are healthy and vigorous 
as grown in the field. Furthermore, our plants are 
well cleaned; the dead and decaying stems and old 
leaves around the stem are trimmed off, so that it 
would be almost impossible to transmit diseases, 
even if they were present. And again, in case of 
delays in shipment (which express companies fre¬ 
quently make), or of warm weather, the dead and 
decaying runners and leaves would make heating 
and rotting of the crowns themselves much more 
probable than if the plants were not properly cleaned. 
SORRY HE DIDN’T GET ALL HIS PLANTS FROM US 
The plants I got of you in January of this year are looking 
fine. They are the best-looking plants in my garden. I have 
plants from several different concerns and yours are the most 
vigorous and healthy of the*whole lot. I notice rust and curl 
leaf in one lot of plants I got from other people. I am sorry 
I didn’t get all my plants from you. I may want about 5,000 
next season and I will get them from you.—M. W. McDavid, 
Orange County, Fla., May 12, 1917. 
4. Hardiness. Our plants are perfectly hardy 
anywhere in the United States or Canada, wherever 
Strawberries are grown. Intelligent reasoning and 
experience both uphold our claim of hardiness of 
our plants. In our climate the ground freezes 6 
to 12 inches deep and thaws several times during the 
winter. Our plants come through this without the 
slightest harm. Any farmer knows that it is a more 
severe test of hardiness to have freezing and thaw¬ 
ing than it is in a somewhat colder climate or sea¬ 
son where the ground freezes and stays frozen. And 
from actual experience our plants have lived better, 
grown better, and produced better than other 
plants. The following letter from an extreme 
northern state was selected at random from our 
big bunch of letters from Allen’s plant-enthusiasts. 
BETTER ALL-ROUND FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE 
I believe I have had plants from you three years. I find 
your plants always get to me in better shape, are better plants, 
live and grow better than any plants I ever got from other 
places.—W. H. Bliss, Rockingham County, N. H., February 
14, 1916. 
Our plants are not irrigated, or stimulated arti¬ 
ficially in any way, except by cultivation, manure, 
or commercial fertilizer, such as any grower could 
do. If we have a “dry spell,” our plants stand it 
and are hardened somewhat to drought. We help 
them by constant cultivation, but we don’t apply 
water. Those experienced in growing plants of any 
kind know that plants suffer more from drought 
after a season of heavy rainfall than they do where 
the drought is preceded by a moderate amount of 
rain. Of course, our plants respond to irrigation as 
well as any others, and those who are equipped with 
