= Strawberry Plants ^= 
FROM NOVEMBER FIRST TO MAY FIRST 
We supply leading fruit growers, nur¬ 
serymen and dealers with fine strawberry 
plants. 
Our plants are healthy, heavily rooted, 
and guaranteed tfue-to-nQtTie. 
We grow all the leading standard and 
everbearing varieties. 
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The W. F. ALLEN CO., 100 Market Street, Salisbury, Maryland 
The Empire 
Red Raspberry 
Report of New York Experiment Station 
on New and Worthy Fruits 
Empire is one of the most promising new red raspberries 
on the Station grounds, having hardiness, productiveness, 
vigor of bush, healthiness and large, handsome, firm, well- 
fiavored fruits as its chief assets. The canes need no 
winter-protection in this region; equal any other variety in 
productiveness; are unusually vigorous, reaching a height 
of six or eight feet; and this season, 1916, when anthrac- 
nose was everywhere rampant, showed but a trace of this 
disease. A peculiarity of the canes is that in mid-summer 
they are purplish-red but become brown at the close of the 
season. The berries average larger than those of the well- 
known Cuthbert, and are about the same color as those of 
that variety; they ripen a little earlier and have a longer 
picking season. The fruits are mild, rich and sweet so 
that the variety may be ranked among the best in quality. 
The texture is firm and without doubt the berries will stand 
shipment well and may be kept long. With such an array 
of good characters, it seems certain that Empire must take 
high standing among commercial red raspberries. 
We are anxious to have all interested persons visit our 
fruiting fields this season and see the “EMPIRE” in all its 
glory which will be about July 1st, but as its picking sea¬ 
son is from four to five weeks you can easily arrange to 
see it. We are so sure that you will pronounce it the 
“Best Ever” in raspberries, that we will pay the traveling 
expenses of anyone who comes to see it and does not find 
it all we represent. 
L. E. Wardell & Son and C. G. Velie & Son 
Marlborough, N. Y. 
Note height of bush in comparison with the nine foot pole 
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