BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS 



OF- 



TOWNSEND'S CHOICE HIGH-GRADE 



STRAWBERRY PLANTS 



PREMIER (Kellogg^s Premier)— Per. 



Is the king of all strawberries. Premier is distinctly in a 

 class by itself. Unquestionable the very best strawberry ever 

 grown. Premier is adapted to all soils and climates. To describe 

 it would be impossible in words. The only way you will ever 

 know Premier is to see it as it is. Premier begins to ripen with 

 the etxra early varieties and continues until most of the late sorts 

 are well gone. Size is large to extra large, slightly p Dinted. 

 Color bright red to the center, firm, with the very highest quality. 

 In productiveness it can not be beat; it is in a class' by itself in ev- 

 ery way, shape and form. In the past six years we have pro- 

 bably sold 25,000,000 Premier plants. We have shipped them to 

 every nook and corner of the United States, and never have we 

 heard a word of complaint — but praise after praise has come 

 from every source. 



The biggest profits ever made from strawberries that we have 

 ever heard of has been made from the Premier. We have netted 

 more than $3,000 ourselves from one acre. The' past season when 

 freeze after freeze visited us during April and May, Premier 

 yielded at the rate of more than 10,000 quarts per acre on our 

 own grounds, and netted us more than $3,000 per acre, when such 

 varieties as Klondyke were a total failure by their side. Prem- 

 ier is the nearest frost-proof we have ever seen in a strawberry 

 plant, not excepting the ever-bearing. 



We have received reports from our customers that have made 

 bigger profits per acre than we have made. You will note that 

 many of our customers mention Premier in writing about their 

 success with Townsend's plants. We have 220 acres of Premier 

 this season, as fine quality plants as it is possible to grow, but we 

 will not be able to fill one-half the orders for Premier. While 

 we are not the introducers of this grand variety, we have probab- 

 ly done more to put it before the public than all the rest of plant 

 growers combined. Five years ago we sent out more than 100,- 

 000 plants of Premier as free samples in order that our custom- 

 ers should see just what the behavior would be in their particular 

 sections. These results were most gratifying to us, and has re- 

 turned many fold to us in dollars and cents, besides putting cus- 

 tomers and friends next to the best berry in the world. 



We note that some of our New England friends are catalog- 

 ueing Premier under the name of Howard 17. We called their 

 attention to this fact during 1920, and many of them claimed 

 Howard 17 was a distinct variety. But I am pleased to see that 

 most of them have given away to the fact. One of our N. J. plant 

 breeders, from whom we purchased a good lot of Howard 17 

 plants (getting his direct from the introducer of Howard 17), was 

 gentleman enough to acknowledge to us after fruiting them again 

 together that there was no difference. They were all the same. 



Copyrighted 1921 by E. VV. Townsend & Son 



