E. 
W. TOWNSEND SONS © SALISBURY © MARYLAND 
Followin : ETE , 
by the Puadee Gn and plant selection methods as practiced 
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men making “ 
forty two acre block of new ground BRAM gone nea 
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Dear Friends: 
Your name has a place of honor 1m our mailing list files. It is in the 
up of fruit growers which constitute Townsend’s Plant Farms and Nur- 
gro 
series life blood-satisfied customers. 
_. You who have bought Townsend’s plants and trees in we past know the 
high quality Select-Strain stock which have given you larger yields, ‘fat no 
extra cost.” 
To our prospective customers, We. wish to state that the economy of 
Townsends’ Select-Strain plants is particularly important these days of short- 
terials. ‘‘Fruit is Food” and no grower can afford to 
ages of labor and ma 
waste labor, soil and precious time with inferior plants and trees taking 
chances of crop failure or short crops and inferior fruit : 
Townsends’ fruit plants and trees are i ide for their ‘““heavy 
yields and top quality fruit’, as the many testimonials sen 
have quoted throughout this catalog will testify. 
rs recognize these advantages now more than 
g their orders in advance every day for future 
shipment. To those who have no fruit coming along this season, we suggest 
that you send your order to us at your earliest convenience for our everbearing 
strawberry plants, everbearing red-raspberry plants, bearing-age plueberry- 
raspberry-grapes-blackberry-dewberry, and large, three year asparagus roots. 
Don’t overlook our quick-bearing jumbo size fruit trees that bear early after 
planting. 
You’re no doubt going to be needing 2 certain number of plants and 
trees, we suggest that you get your list. of requirements and mail your order 
without delay. ith the present day demand and labor shortage, it wi 
more than repay you. It takes time to handle thousands of orders although 
we believe we are better eauipped than most as we have specialized im 
handling this type of business for 42 years. “Brit is Food’, certainly 
you don’t want. to get caught without your fruit plants and trees this season, — 
so place your order now. 
Thanking you for the past business that you have sent us and trusting 
that we may have the pleasure of serving you this season, we are 
from a 
Thousands of our custome 
ever before, and are now placin 
The results of Townsend’s 
plant breeding methods. 
Note heavy crown and 
fibrous root system 
Sincerely yours, 
G W Fe ‘cunsend Sons 
rowers and Shippers of Strawberry Plants 
World’s Largest G 
Cultivating a 34 
pak ee of Townsends’ “Select Strain’ New-Ground-Grown D , 4 
ghted 1943 by E. W. Townsend Sons, Salisbury Sse IG punk: 
