Title: Allen's book of berries for 1940
Identifier: allensbookofberr19alle_24 (find matches)
Year: 1940 (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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Top prices for Fairfax berries like these Some growers make money with strawberries every year, and it isn't always the very large growers who gi-ow the best crops and make the most money per acre. OHIO Harrison Co., Ohio. Jan. 16., 1939.—Three years ago I ordered 500 Fairfax plants from you and set them out in red clay soil. Every plant lived. I had all the berries that four families could, use and sold SlOo.OO. It does not pay me to use my OT\-n plants. So many of them die that I don't get a g-ood stand. I won't have many berries this year for I used my o^vn plants instead of buj'ing- from you.—Mr. Enos Hayhurst. NEW YORK Otseg-o Co., X. Y., February 22, 1939.—I have not had the pleasure of ordering- from you since I purchased Fairfax and Dorsett plants the year of introduction. Fairfax is about the one and only berry for me since that time. Dor- sett never much good to me, sets too thickly. Fairfax "^as the only variety I grevi* last year. I picked about 6.00O baskets from one acre and sold sam^e for over SI.000. Sold nearly all at SS.OO per 32 quart case and believe it or not many berries "weighed 2 oz. I picked one berry S ^o x 'o'^o. I am interested in vour neT\' Xorthstar.— Mr. F, L. Horning. PENNSYLVANIA "Westmoreland Co., Pa., June 13, 1939.—I would like to knoTv if it is too late to put in stra^wberry plants. I would like to have about 3.000 Premier. I got that many last spring and we are picking berries by the load. They sure are nice.—Mrs. TTm. Simpson, INDIANA Union Co.. Ind.. April Ist, 1939.—I set 6,000 of your Premier plants four years ago and they were the finest I believe could be raised the fol- lowing spring. The crop brought the best prices of any berries that spring, ^'e netted S600 from those plants that spring.—Mr. "Walter P. Stinson. ILLINOIS TVilliamson Co., III., Jan. 26. 1939.—I am going to set 1,500 Catskill this spring. Set 2,000 from you in 193 7. They are the berries for me. Sure had a fine crop of berries and received 20c per quart at home and the plants are the best I ever sa^w. Send me prepaid price on 1,700 plants. Want them about March 1st.—Mr. Lloyd Krantz. MAINE Oxford Co., Maine, Mar. 9, 1939.—I purchased 1,000 Dorsetts in the spring of 1939 and I cer- tainly had a great stand of berries. Set them* in an old garden plot, the same being such for over 150 years. You can imagine what they did. Less than one eigrhth of an acre and realized S72.50 from them last vear. Can't "berry" well kick.—Mr. Frank L. Teague. 2G

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