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Title: Allen's 1948 book of berries
Identifier: allens1948bookof19alle (find matches)
Year: 1948 (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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BERRY GARDENS Mrs. Housewife, insist on that berry garden! You'll like having plenty of berries for all the family to enjoy, you'll save on the family food budget and you won't mind a bit the extra dollars the surplus will bring in. Make your own selection of varieties or buy from the Collections offered on pages 4 and 5. They're tailored to suit your needs. From From Berry fo B They're Beautiful Strawberries rank iirst as a fruit crop for the home garden! They're popular. Did you ever know anyone who wouldn't "go for" a big, red, luscious strawberry, or enjoy picking it fresh from the vines in the berry garden? Strawberries rank iirst because they come into bearing sooner after being planted than any other fruit crop. Strawberries rank first because they ripen earlier in the season than any other fruit—earlier even than most early vegetables. Fresh berries from your own garden are appealing to the eye, a delight to the taste, useful as a food, very popular as a dessert and an unsurpassed source of Vitamin C, the sunshine Vitamin. Strawberries are enjoyed in so many ways! Fresh from the garden or "sugared down," preserved, canned, in strawberry shortcake, in fruit juices or punch, as a flavoring for ice cream, etc., etc. With home freezing unit, frozen food locker, or with Everbearing varieties, the season for enjoying them can be extended indefinitely, as strawberries make one of the most satisfactory of all frozen food products. All of the above and more too! As a nice gesture to friend or neighbor, what could be more pleasing than a box or two of sparkling, red strawberries? And if you have a few to sell—they're always in demand. New London Co., Conn., March 10, 1947. I would like to brag about the strawberries I harvested in 1946, seeing the way you folks brag about your 1946 Midland and 1945 Catskill. From a 600-ft row of Oorsett and Fairfax, I picked 500 quarts of nice, large berries, piled as high as possible. Some of my customers said the large Fairfax looked like large apples. Chester W. Krajewski Marion Co., Ind., May 1, 1947. I bought some plants from you folks about 6 years ago, and I'll never buy from anyone else. I had wonderful success with my first planting of your plants. On less than Vz acre, we ate over a gallon a day, canned about 100 quarts and sold $50 worth of berries a year for four years which isn't bad with anyones plants. C. C. Calvin

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