. Allen's catalogue for 1906 : choice strawberry plants and hundreds of other good things for the farm and garden. Nurseries (Horticulture) Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Nursery stock Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Strawberries Maryland Salisbury Catalogs. khMSLl. > *JW CLIMAX. Climax.—This new berry was originated in this county and has become quite popular. I have an order now for 100,000 plants from one grower who fruited several acres last season and made sales in New York City as high as twenty-five cents per quart. The Climax is supposed to be a cross of Bubach with Hoff- man. The foliag
. Allen's catalogue for 1906 : choice strawberry plants and hundreds of other good things for the farm and garden. Nurseries (Horticulture) Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Nursery stock Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Strawberries Maryland Salisbury Catalogs. khMSLl. > *JW CLIMAX. Climax.—This new berry was originated in this county and has become quite popular. I have an order now for 100,000 plants from one grower who fruited several acres last season and made sales in New York City as high as twenty-five cents per quart. The Climax is supposed to be a cross of Bubach with Hoff- man. The foliage is beautiful light grpen that can be distinguished from other varieties as far as you can see the patch. The plants are strong and hearty, no rust. Season of ripen- ing, second early, size of fruit rather above medium, productiveness simply immense. I think that no variety ever offered had a greater record for immense productiveness than has the Climax. T1 e ^bove photograrh was taken by the writer and is only an average of what the patch was all over. It was so good it seemed there was no special spot better than any other. I sold every plant I had last spring, therefore have not shipped any of the fruit to market myself, but the experience above referred to seems to substantiate the claims made for its shipping qualities, and I have no doubt that it will prove a valuable acquisition to most growers whether for home, market, or 'for shipment. Fairfield.—This is a money maker among the early varieties; another year's experience leads us to believ9 that tliis is really a valuable early sort. At the Ohio Experiment Station, where there were one hundred and sixty vari- eties, well grown and carefully mulched, it was the most productive of all the early kinds; the quality is also very good. Its season is only 'two or three days behind Mitchell's Early, Hoff- man, Excelsior, etc., and is far ahead of them in size, quality and productiveness. No one will go wrong in planting th
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