. Allen's catalogue of choice strawberry plants my specialty also dewberry, blackberry, raspberry, gooseberry, currant and vegetable plants, grape vines, etc. Nurseries (Horticulture) Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Nursery stock Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Strawberries Maryland Salisbury Catalogs. W. F. Allen's Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. GLEN MARY.—(See colored plate.) I am proud to be the introducer of this grand strawberry Just ten years ago this spring I first offered it to the public at per hundred, the stock then be- ing very limited. I have had so many good reports on
. Allen's catalogue of choice strawberry plants my specialty also dewberry, blackberry, raspberry, gooseberry, currant and vegetable plants, grape vines, etc. Nurseries (Horticulture) Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Nursery stock Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Strawberries Maryland Salisbury Catalogs. W. F. Allen's Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. GLEN MARY.—(See colored plate.) I am proud to be the introducer of this grand strawberry Just ten years ago this spring I first offered it to the public at per hundred, the stock then be- ing very limited. I have had so many good reports on the Glen Mary that I should be astonished to hear of even a partial failure, especially in New England and Western sections. It is not especially recom-mended for the South. They are big, dark red beau- ties, with prominent seeds of bright yellow; the meat is crimson, very rich and juicy. They are of such high flavor that as the saying goes they "always taste like more. "As a good, firm shipper, it is very popular; for fancy local market there are few, if any better, for this reason, it is a great pet among large and small growers. It has no par- ticular choice of soil sand does not require petting; the roots are long and well developed, providing plenty of moisture for the plants during a drought. The foliage is extra large, upright grower and of dark green color; the leaves are nearly round, with dark glossy surface, making a beautiful appearance in the field. The fruit stems although large and strong are weighed to the ground by the great clusters of berries, therefore, they should be well mulched to keep them clean. This variety, while listed as hav- ing a perfect blossom and having always been grown by the originator without planting with other varie- . is, bv no means, a strong staminent, and we do not recommend itto plant with pistilate varieties, but it has ample polen for its own bloom. The berries are just the right shape to make a fine ap- pearance in th
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