Fields of excellent plants for our customers this Spring. On the left Premier, our largest selling 
Spring variety. On the right Mastodon, our largest selling Everbearer 
THEY SAY 
3,000 Miles in Perfect Condition 
Riverside Co., Calif., April 19, 1940. The plants 
reached me in as nearly perfect condition as any 
I have ever received in the more than fifty years 
I have been engaged in growing berries and 
berry plants.—Mr. E. L. Pollard. 
Strong Roots a Big Help in Bad Weather 
Cherokee Co., Ala., January 11, 1940. The 500 
plants I ordered from you last spring grew 
excellent, despite the dry weather of last fall. 
They have a wonderful root system. I am very 
much pleased with them.—Mr. Loyd Singleton. 
IVot One Failed to Grow 
Fountain Co., Indiana, May 1, 1940. I received 
my 2,000 strawberry plants and will say I never 
bought as fine plants in any of my orders before. 
I never lost a plant out of the 2,000. I have cul¬ 
tivated them twice. Do not fail to send me a 
Book of Berries for 1941.—Mr. Austin Livengood. 
Thank You, Mrs. Applegate 
Mason City, Ky., Mar. 25, 1940. I am sending 
you a small order for strawberry plants. Your 
plants are superior to any I have ever seen. I 
think you will receive orders from this vicinity 
from persons whom I have recommended your 
superior plants and dependable way of handling 
orders. Please send my plants around the first 
of April. Many thanks.—Mrs. Emma C. Apple- 
gate. 
Good Plants Properly Packed Will Live and Grow 
Jackson Co., Mo., April 1, 1940. I received my 
strawberry plants last Thursday, just six days 
from the day I ordered. Good service, fine. I 
thank you. The plants were perfect and the 
moss was plenty damp. The plants looked like 
they were growing. I planted them immediately 
and they are doing fine.—Mr. Arthur Ham. 
Allen’s Plants Speak for Themselves 
Sussex Co., N. J., Apr. 26, 1940. Replying to 
yours of the 23rd, the strawberry plants came 
safely to hand. I was utterly amazed at the 
speed with which you filled the order. The plants 
were here within seventy-two hours after I had 
mailed my last letter to you. And the condition 
of the plants! They looked as fresh as if they 
had just come out of the ground. Evidently you 
people are not only experts in growing but in 
shipping live plants. As they stand in the ground 
now, I think they would say “Allen grew us, 
shipped us and we were set in so quickly that 
we have never stopped growing at all.”—Mr. 
Truman Kilborne. 
100% Stand 
Suffolk Co., N. Y., July 1, 1940. I have had 
good luck with your 2500 Mastodon and 2500 
Gem. Haven’t lost one. There are plenty of 
runners.—Mr. William Anderson. 
They are Good in All the States 
Dakota Co., Nebr., April 3, 1940. Last year I 
ordered 5,000 Premier plants from you and I am 
telling the world that they are the best plants 
Jhat have been transplanted in the state of 
Nebraska. I a,m sending an order today.—Mr. 
Roy R. McKinley. 
Good Plants Produce. Good Berries Sell 
York Co., Pa., June 19, 1940. Out of 2100 plants 
I got from you last year 2100 grew and I just 
can’t see how they could get so full and big and 
nice. My berries started to ripen just ahead of 
any others in this section so you know what 
that meant to me, higher prices! I used Allen’s 
plants and gave them careful attention. I had 
the cover worn off the Berry Book reading the 
instructions and I know it paid me. The towns 
were flooded with berries but I kept right on 
selling those nice big red Premiers. I had to 
turn away orders for berries. I have a thirteen 
acre truck farm here along the hard road and 
they just kept stopping for berries every day 
and are still asking for them. Whenever it is 
plants for me it is Allen’s. I will try to advertise 
your plants all I can.—Mr. Russell Alban. 
Always Dependable 
Roanoke Co., Va., Feb. 16, 1940. Check enclosed 
to cover order. The plants you sent last year at 
this time were lovely as have been all the others 
I’ve ordered from you. Ordering new plants 
from you each year is an established custom with 
us and we are always glad to recommend your 
plants for we know what they are and how 
they will produce.—Mrs. Frank Petticrew. 
Wants Allen’s Plants from Now On 
Washington Co., Md., April 12, 1940. I would 
like to have 500 Fairfax and 500 Chesapeake as 
soon as possible. I received 1500 you sent me a 
few days ago and am well pleased with them. 
I received 350 Fairfax plants from you in 1938 
and I had the most beautiful and largest berries 
ever raised in this section last spring. Picked 
more than 350 quarts from them. I didn’t have 
much time to cultivate them and from middle 
summer on the weeds grew so high and thick 
I was sure they were smothered out. They sure 
can take punishment and still produce big crops. 
Thanking you for such good plants. You can be 
sure I will order my plants from you from now 
on.—Mr. Edgar C. Jones. 
Good plants—packed to arrive in good condition 
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