Allen's book of berries, 1922 . unintroduced variety that is better than none proves to be better than Premier, we will give two hundreddollars () anyway, for the twenty-Sve (25) plants of the bestvariety we receive. The points we will consider are the vigor and healthiness of plantgrowth, productiveness, and the size, firmness, quality, and at-tractiveness of the berries. Season of ripening will not count, except that a late varietyEQUAL to Premier in all the above points will receive the $ A variety of the same season as Premier (early), to receivethe prize money m
Allen's book of berries, 1922 . unintroduced variety that is better than none proves to be better than Premier, we will give two hundreddollars () anyway, for the twenty-Sve (25) plants of the bestvariety we receive. The points we will consider are the vigor and healthiness of plantgrowth, productiveness, and the size, firmness, quality, and at-tractiveness of the berries. Season of ripening will not count, except that a late varietyEQUAL to Premier in all the above points will receive the $ A variety of the same season as Premier (early), to receivethe prize money must be equal to Premier in all the points aboveand superior to it in at least one. Other things being equal, a variety with perfect blossoms will begiven the preference. The members of the W. F. Allen Co. are to be the final judges inthis contest. Every plant grown from the new varieties sent us will be des-troyed unless it takes a prize or other arrangements satisfactoryto the sender are made. 16 ALLENS BOOK OF BERRIES—1922. Missionary, A Very Popular Shipping Berry. Medium Early Varieties early berry ofin color. LargeBlossoms perfect. Good for fancy Dr. Burrill. We are still listing this variety separate, but ourobservation for several years is that it is just the same as Sen-ator Dunlap. A very vigorous grower and heavy cropper. Ber-ries medium size. Fairly good shipper. Excellent for canningand fine for table use. Perfect blossoms. Good pollenizer. Pricelist page 23. Early Jersey Giant. A very large mediumhighest quality. Conical in shape, deep redgreen caps which make fruit very large and firm and delicious in quality,trade. Price list page 23. Howard No. 17. After fruiting this the past season we pro-nounce it to be the same as Premier. If there is any differenceit was so slight that we could not detect it. Long before wefruited it, the foliage and habit of growth was so like Premierthat we thought then it must be the same. This year, with thelate fre
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