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THE W. F. ALLEN CO., SALISBURY, MD. 
Sharpless Strawberry 
Sharpless. 
LATE STRAWBERRIES, continued 
There must be considerable merit to a 
variety that has stood the test of time as 
has Sharpless. It is the oldest variety in our list, except 
Wilson Albany, but a good many of our growers still have a 
tender spot for the old Sharpless. Quite a few, when thinking 
of large luscious Strawberries, will instinctively remember the 
Sharpless, and when writing to the nursery for some Straw¬ 
berry plants for the garden or a small patch to pick for local 
market, they usually make a liberal percentage of their order 
for Sharpless. The illustration we have of it on the left is 
just right for the berry. Don’t you want to grow some? 
Price, $4 per i ,000. 
WM BELT For a long time, Wm. Belt was the 
standard of quality. 
Now it shares the 
honors with Chesapeake. There are few lovers of Strawberries 
who will cross plots of many varieties and not pick out Wm. 
Belt and Chesapeake as the best-flavored ones. A grower in 
Washington writes us: ‘‘The Wm. Belt and Chesapeake are 
dandy. I am going to run all my plantings to these two kinds. 
They stood the drought best and are in good shape now.” 
The berries are rather large in size, and somewhat irregular in 
shape. They have a rich glossy color, which makes them very 
attractive in appearance. For fancy market or home table 
Wm. Belt is indispensable and it takes the lead wherever quality is the important consideration. Wm. 
Belt thrives especially well in the middle and northern states. Our stock of Wm. Belt this year promises to 
be especially fine and to have the heavy crowns and great root-system characteristic of all Allen’s plants. 
Price, $4 per 1,000. 
The plants ordered from you were the finest I ever saw. Set 
the 1,200 in 1914, March 20, and gathered 1,280 quarts the 
following spring. There are no better plants than Allen’s.— 
W. O. May, Page County, Va., February 29, 1916. 
I have always found your be rries to 
be just as represented .—Mrs. A. L. 
Wheeler, Larue Cou nty, Ky. 
The plants I bought of you some time ago were the best I 
have ever seen, notwithstanding I have been in the fruit busi¬ 
ness about thirty years, and have grown many thousands, and 
handled many other thousands grown by other nurserymen 
and fruit-growers. I shall send you an order soon for some of 
your newer varieties.—E. F. Greenlee. 
Washington County, Mo., January 28,1916. 
Wm. Belt. The standard for quality 
