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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 SEE 1 CATALOGUE.
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load and it invari- ably brought as (much and usually a cent or two more 'per quart than ;Gandy, not once fhas it brought ^less. Ttie greater ^part of my patches If rom which I pick- sed fruit the past I season was an old ^bed that had not §received a pound fof manure or fer- tilizer since pick- Ping the last crop \ and only ver37 or- dinary cul 11 v a- tion. Notw i t h- standing this we loaded car after car of large, regu- larly and evenly haped berries al- imost every one be- ting as uniform as lif made in mould ~and presenting the Iprettiest show in Ithe crates of any iberriee that I ever ^handled. I have had reproduced a letter received from Conant & Bean of Boston, just as rwe were winding* up the vigor of plants,gwith the added advantage of Excelsior and starting in with the New Home, being earlier and ripening its fruit in a shorter The letter speaks for itself. The bulk of.the season, thereby enabling the grower to get his crop sold for 10 cents to 14 cents. I have made a crop off before the older varieties invade the considerable reduction in the price of New Home market. This statement is corroborated by Mr. Irving Jones, who has been acquainted with the Climax from the first and who saw the "Vir- ginia growing the past season. Those who buy plants this year will make no mistak'e. "The NCW Home."—In my 1905 catalogue I described the New Home as follows: "As late and large as Gandy, fruit a bright red color that does not lose its lustre and turn dark after being1 picked a long time; uniform large size and ihe best shipping and keeping berry grown. Hoffman not ex- cepted; vigorous grower and unlike Gandy. will produce a large crop on either high or low land: the fruit is so firm, and keeping quality so excellent it does not need to be picked oftener than three times a week, when it will usually make 1,000 quarts or more per acre at each picking during the height of the season. Pickers are . always anxious to pick these berries and several have ftj _ told me they could pick forty quarts or more p* r hour, if and one man declared that he picked twenty quarts in "/) ,y ^ twenty minutes. £7~?^ ^<- Since writing the above I have harvested an- other crop of this berry, I grow more of it than all other varieties combined because it pays me best. I have shipped it this year by the car J (^VS^ED ^Y^S\^ CONANT & BEAN. Fruit and Produce. 15 FANEUIL HAUL MARKET

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