E. W. TOWNSEND & SONS, SALISBURY, MARYLAND II 
Everbearing 
Varieties 
THE ARISTOCRAT OF ALL THE 
EVERBEARING STRAWBERRIES 
After the Introduction of the Mastodon, there was so much attention being paid to that berry, and such 
wonderful claims being made that we lowered our prigexon “the LUCKY STRIKE to correspond with Masto- 
don. Thousands of our customers have tested both varieties Side by side and have found LUCKY STRIKE 
to equal Mastodon in practically every respect, and to’ heatly* surpass it on quality. 
We have been very modest in our claims for LUCK TRIKE. Our customers have done most of the 
boosting. We do claim that it is the most worthy Everbearing Strawberry that has ever come to our atten- 
tion both as an everbearer and a spring crop. In a test plot Spring 1928 LUCKY STRIKE was given the 
highest award on the three main qualities that go to make up a strawberry—namely Quality of Fruit, Size 
and Beauty, as well as Productiveness. In this test plot were all the very best late and midseason sorts. 
When I tell you that LUCKY STRIKH is not only the best Everbearing Strawberry, but the best variety for 
spring crop that we have tested on our farms in the past thirty years, I am speaking the truth as I have 
found it, and am not making this claim in order to sell any more LUCKY STRIKE plants. As we have 
not one-tenth enough of these plants this year to fill our orders. 
PRICES OF LUCKY STRIKE PLANTS 
25 50 100 200 250 300 400 500 1000 
Plants Plants Plants Plants Plants Plants Plants Plants Plants 
$2.00 $3.00 $5.00 $9.50 $12.00 $14.00 $16.00 $18.00 $30.00 
Townsend’s 
Genuine 
100 Per Cent 
Mastodon 
There’s a Reason Why Our Customers Increase 
Their MASTODON Planting Each Year 
We do not have to tell our customers how 
good MASTODON is, or put on a circus style 
of advertising in order to sell all the plants 
we can grow. 
We have never made claims as big as some 
growers do, such as 18 berries fill a quart, and 
lots of other stuff. But our customers come 
back year after year and buy our plants, tell- 
ing us that we produce the best MASTODON 
plants they have ever seen. Season 1929 we 
had sixty acres planted to MASTODON. Long 
before the season was over we were returning 
money and turning down orders by the hun- 
dred of thousands of plants. 
Growers who bought MASTODON in hundred 
lots three years ago are now buying them in 
lots of several thousand. 
Crop of MASTODON plants are very short this year, owing to the 
extremely hot and dry season. This applies to all other varieties of 
everbearing plants, as well as most of the standard varieties. 
= —Was the first real 
PROGRESSIVE Everbearing everbearing strawberry 
and for a long time was highly advertised and spoken of. Since the intro- 
duction of such varieties as Lucky Strike and Mastodon it is not so largely 
planted. Fruit is small to medium size, of excellent quality. Recommend- 
ed only for home use at this time. It is a good strong grower and pro- 
duces a good quality of berries on good rich moist garden soil. 
