ALLEN’S BOOK OF BERRIES 
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Blossoms are perfect and good for pollenizing Sample, 
Haverland, etc. Price $8 per thousand. 
HUSTLER. A vigorous grower, making a few large, 
strong plants, rather than many small ones. The fruit 
is uniformly large in size and firm enough to ship to dist¬ 
ant market. The berries are rich scarlet in color, and ex¬ 
cellent in quality. The blossoms are imperfect and should 
be planted with some perfect flowering variety. We 
recommend Big Joe, Ekey, Aroma and Magic Gen as being 
especially valuable to plant with Hustler. Price $12 per 
thousand. 
Late Jersey Giant. Berries very large, almost perfectly 
round. Highly colored and of good quality. Price $12 per 
thousand. 
McALFIN. A very vigorous grower that should be kept 
thinned for best results. The berries are medium to large 
in size, brilliant scarlet in color and unexcelled in quality. 
After a heavy rain in fruiting time the Me Alpin will have 
less sand and dirt on the berries than any variety we 
know and this is especially important, where mulching 
materials are scarce and hard to get. Its excellent qual¬ 
ity makes the McAlpin a good one for the home, or local 
market, as well as for shipping purposes. Price $8 per 
thousand. 
SAMPLE. The berries are a perfect strawberry type, 
bright red in color, large in size, delicious in flavor and 
very attractive in appearance. It is very productive and 
quite firm, which makes it possible to ship the fruit to 
distant market. The blossoms are imperfect and must be 
planted with some stamiriate variety, such as Gibson, 
Big Joe, Ekey, or Magic Gem. It is a hardy variety, which 
makes it popular both north and south. Price $8 per 
thousand. 
Sharpless. Berries large, handsome in appearance and 
excellent in quality. Price $8 per thousand. 
WM. BELT. For a long time, Wm. Belt was the stand¬ 
ard of quality—now 
it shares honors with 
the Chesapeake and 
McAlpin. Wm. Belt 
berries are large in 
size and somewhat 
irregular in shape. 
This variety is indis¬ 
pensable and it takes 
the lead whenever 
quality is the import¬ 
ant consideration. We 
have a nice block of 
Wm. Belt plants this 
year that are dandy. 
The quality of the 
berries, altho of the 
highest, does not ex¬ 
cell the quality of 
our plants. Order 
these early, as they 
are a great favorite. 
Price $8 per thousand. 
Win. Belt 
VERY LATE VARIETIES 
GANDY. One of the best known of all strawberries. 
For best results, it should be planted in black-swamp 
land, or in springy land with some clay in its makeup. 
Never plant Gandy in dry, sandy soil. Gandy has been 
and still is a great favorite on the market. It is not a 
heavy producer, but the berries it does produce are uni¬ 
formly large in size, brilliant red in color and have a 
large, bright green cap, which makes the berries very 
beautiful and attractive Price $6 per thousand. 
KELLOGG’S PRIZE. The berries are large and beauti¬ 
fully formed. See illustration front cover. They are very 
firm in texture, which makes them good for shipping pur¬ 
poses. Kellogg’s Prize is one of the most productive very 
late varieties we have seen, and it holds its size well until 
the end of the season. A good point about this variety 
is that it gets better with each succeeding season, giving 
two or three big crops of very fine berries where proper 
care is taken. Kellogg’s Prize ranks with Hustler and 
Sample as one of the three best late pistillates. Price $8 
per thousand. 
OREM. This is the very latest berry that we have and 
it is a good one. Many growers, especially those who 
are supplying a local market, are planting Orem to ex¬ 
tend their season as long as possible. The plant is a 
