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Title: Allen's book of berries for 1943
Identifier: allensbookofberr19alle_27 (find matches)
Year: 1943 (1940s)
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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ALLEN'S PLANTS PAY The most iraportant dolleurs you spend in producing your berry crop are those which you xise to buy plants. The kind of plants you get has an influence for good or bad on every hour of labor and every other dollar of cost incurred from the time the field is plowed until the berries are sold. It is vital to get the best plants obtainable. We make no claim to selling the only good plants you can get—but WE KNOW ALLEN'S PLANTS ARE GOOD PLANTS because they have in abundance the three things which all really good plants must have. 1. Freedom from insect and disease troubles. 2. Good, well developed crowns and roots. 3. The vitality to grow vigorously and bear heavy crops. THESE ALONE ARE NOT ENOUGH. The plants must be kept true to name and not mixed by careless handling or lack of knowledge of varieties. Every bundle of our plants carries an individual variety label. You as a buyer are entitled to full count of good plants which only careful grading can give. Promptness in shipping which makes possible early setting, is very important to you. Plants that are well cleaned and tied in straight even bundles make it possible to do a better job of setting—quicker. And finally, a most necessary part of your good plant growers job is to keep the plants from undue exposure to sun and wind at digging time and to pack them so that they are still brimful of vigor and vitality when they reach you. Our long experience (SB yeazs) gives us the know-how to do these things. Our attention to this one nursery crop enables us to make this knowledge and experience count for you—when you buy Allen's Plants. We should be able to do a better job on just strawberry plants than equally experienced growers who handle dozens of other things. Let us prove to you that we do. Bond Co., 111., April 9, 1942. The plants we got from your nursery last year were the finest strawberry plants I ever saw from a nursery. Our friends got plants from different nurseries in but there wasn't any compariaon. Your plants seem to have such long roots and the leaves such a dark green color. »t ,_i « , ... Noble Paul Tumbow Middlesex Co., Mass., April 2, 1942. Received my straw- berry plants Saturday and I never saw such grand plants. I know they will grow to beat the band. Many thanks. Mrs. A. Paquette Champaign Co., Ohio, June 5, 1942. I got 1,000 plants of you this spring early and they are doing fine. Have not lost any. I got 400 plants of you 5 years ago and have had a good yield each spring. This spring I picked 309 quarts from that five year old patch. Mr. H. Johnson Crawford Co., Pa., Dec. 11, 1942. I am enclosing a snapshot of my strawberry beds, the plants purchased from you last spring. This picture of course does not show the full patch. I planted about 1200 plants and can gladly state only lost about 25 during the very dry spell we had here and my stand shows it is a very healthy lot. My neighbors all say mine are the best in this section. Mr. R. P. O'Connor

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