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9. The berries are of large size and hold their size well 
throughout their long bearing season. 
10. Premier has no equal as a home garden, local market or as 
a shipping berry. 
No variety has ever in this section jumped into popular favor 
as rapidly and so universally as Premier. The talk of the 
growers at the station was that if they could afford to grow the 
other early varieties at all, they could make big money with 
Premier, for it not only vastly outyielded all other varieties, but 
it topped the market in price as well. 
Mr. V. J. Bosler, Macomb Co., Mich, says, “Find enclosed P. 
O. for $10.00 for which please send me 1000. Premier strawberry 
plants. Two years ago the coming spring I got about 2000 
strawberry plants of you, 500 Premier, 500 Wm. Belt and the rest 
of different varieties. The two first varieties did excellent and 
the others fairly. We sold $280 worth of berries off the patch 
from the first crop and such berries people went nearly crazy. 
Said they never saw anything to equal it. Some of the Wm. 
Belt were shaped like a fan and as wide as your hand, but the 
Premier, they are cracker-jacks, such berries and so large and 
showy. When shipping time comes be sure to ship me 1000 Pre¬ 
mier strawberry plants by express.” 
Mr. H. E. Gutshall, Washington, D. C. says, “The Premiers 
came O. K. and are fine. My Premiers of last year are bearing 
fine large berries and are very early.” 
Mr. A. G. Stevens, New Haven Co., Conn., says, “The Premier 
have proven the best ever with me the past season. Received as 
high as 40c wholesale.” 
Mr. Arthur F. Grace, Talbot Co., Md., says, “I purchased one 
hundred of the Premier plants from you two years ago and con¬ 
sider them the finest berry I have ever seen from every stand¬ 
point.” 
Miss Amanda Greenawalt, Berks Co., Pa. says, “I got plants 
from you two years ago and they were the finest plants I ever 
had, and the early Premier berry is the best cropper I ever had.” 
Whatever else you plant, grow some Premier. If you were 
not intending to set any plants this year, make room for some 
Premier anyway, and do it early. You will never be sorry. 
Price list Page 23. 
$ 500.— $ 
We want our customers to have the best. If there is a variety 
of strawberries better than Premier, we want it. We therefore 
offer Five Hundred dollars (500.00) in cash for twenty-five (25) 
plants of any unintroduced variety that is better than Premier. 
If none proves to be better than Premier, we will give two hundred 
dollars (200.00) anyway, for the twenty-five (25) plants cf the best 
variety we receive. 
The points we will consider are the vigor and healthiness of plant 
growth, productiveness, and the size, firmness, quality, and at¬ 
tractiveness of the berries. 
Season of ripening will not count, except that a late variety 
EQUAL to Premier in all the above points will receive the $500. 
prize. A variety of the same season as Premier (early), to receive 
the prize money must be equal to Premier in all the points above 
and superior to it in at least one. 
Other things being equal, a variety with perfect blossoms will be 
given the preference. 
The members of the W. F. Allen Co. are to be the final judges in 
this contest. 
Every plant grown from the new varieties sent us will be des¬ 
troyed unless it takes a prize or other arrangements satisfactory 
to the sender are made. 
