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Title: Allen's catalogue for 1906 : choice strawberry plants and hundreds of other good things for the farm and garden
Identifier: allenscataloguef19alle (find matches)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Allen Co. (Salisbury, Md. ); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Nursery stock Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Strawberries Maryland Salisbury Catalogs
Publisher: Salisbury, Md. : Allen Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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W. F. ALLEN'S PLANT AND SEED CATALOGUE. 21 Pride of Cumberland.—Like Gaudy, this berry will carry from Florida to Boston, or from Louisiana to Chicago, and arrive fresh «ud firm. It is ^brilliant red in color, and holds its lustre and freshness longer than most other varieties. It thrives on any soil, but owing to its immense crop, better results are obtained bv putting it in rich springy land. fruit is equal to the Gandy in every re- spect and better in quality. Ripens one week earlier than Gaudy. The past season I shipped Pride of Cumberland to Boston en Saturday. which were de- Igg laved and didn't arrive in market until the follow- ing Tuesday. They were repor- ted to be in per- fect condition and sold for IT cents per quart. This is one of the best market berries for distant shipment on the list. Ridgeway. — I grew this va- riety several years ago and did not like it. I have not been growing it for several years, but having had n u m er o u s calls for it, I pro- cured stock lasst spring and now can supply it. The plant is of medium size and a good grower fruit is medium large, round, smooth, dark red and good quality. 0 t h e i growers say it suc- ceeds well and it is considered by many a safe variety to plant. Nimrod.—Originated by Mr. Beaver, of Ohio, who is about seventy-five or eighty years old. The variety was introduced last spring by Mr. Matthew Crawford, of Ohio, who describes it as follows: "The Nimrod is the most beautiful berry in our collec- tion : the fruit is roundish couical. of regular form, and smooth, glossy surface, brilliant red, firm and second to none but Beaver in flavor. The plant is of medium gize with healthy thick foliage. It is a good berry, season me- dium." Lyon.—The Ohio Experiment Station de- scribes it as follows; "Red flesh, moderately firm, good quality, plants rather blender in growth but vigorous and healthy; the berries of thi3 variety were strikingly beautiful, attractive and distinct in form. Sharpless.—Too well known to require a lengthy description from me. It is a great favorite with many people for the family gar- den. It is enough to say that I haveast- very flue plants. Somerset Maid.—This variety wa by a Massachusetts grower under the following description : •*It bears large crop on tigh or low land and ripens medium iate. J have no doubt but what it will do equally . in other localities, but to the strawberry gi hereabouts wiiO have been looking for a great big fancy strawberry, a big cropper, a Big -eller. and a big money maker, get it; now is your chance." @SrOW^531l
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COPVR1 Nettie.—This is one of Joseph H. Black's seedlings. -A seedling of the Bubach and Yale was crossed with Sharpless: the best of these seedlings were again ci - with Gandy and among them he found the Nettie, the large.-t strawberry he ever fruited. It combines with this valuable quality the produeth emess of Bubaeh and the vigor of plant sb prominent in Sharpies?. The foliage is exceptionally strong, vigorous and healthy, fiowers imper- fect, enormously productive, berries very large bright red. exquisite quality,season very late."—(Originator) Saunders.—This is a good reliable berry and ha* been quite a favorite with me for many years. I have grown many acres of it for fruit and find it very reliable. It has a strong scam- inate blossom and is one of the best to plant with the pistillate varieties. Fruit is large and a deep glossy red, does well on light soils.

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