. 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. 14 W. F. ALLEN'S PLANT AND SEED Cobden Queen.—I fruited this the past season and found it to be very productive and firm, medium size, and crimson color inside and out. It is not a very large berry but shows up better than many of the larger kinds, but it is a berry that will hold up well and look attrac- tive in tbe^market after lo
. 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. 14 W. F. ALLEN'S PLANT AND SEED Cobden Queen.—I fruited this the past season and found it to be very productive and firm, medium size, and crimson color inside and out. It is not a very large berry but shows up better than many of the larger kinds, but it is a berry that will hold up well and look attrac- tive in tbe^market after long shipment. The plant is vigorous and healthy. Brandywine.—A very large, broad heait-shaped ber- ry, of medium red color, with brignt yellow seeds and firm flesh, which is red to the heart. Brandywine comes at a good time, between the medium season berries and the very late ones, and thrives on a great variety of soils. These points combined with large size, productiveness and firmness of texture, make Brandywine a very valu- able strawberry, especially as it has a peculiarly rich spicy flavor that charms all who taste it. Challenge.—This variety is from Missouri and origi- nated by a Mr. Peck, about ten years ago. The plant makes a fair amount of runners and medium large healthy plants. It is very productive of large sizedr regularly formed fruit; the color is a dark, glossy red; quality is excellent. Crozier.—This variety comes from Virginia and seems to be an improved Sharpless. It makes a luxuriant growth of healthy dark green foliage, is free to make plants and is very productive of berries that would pass readily for the old well known Sharpless. It seems to have much more vigor, however, than that variety. Crimson Cluster.—This was found near an^old bed of Gandy in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and is supposed to be a seedling of that variety. The plants are very much like the Gandy, but in claimed to make more plants and to be freer from rust. It is also cla
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