TOWNSEND’S 20th CENTURY CATALOG No. 24 
Ashville, Ohio. 
Gents: I have received my plants O, K. 
They were nice and tresh as when dug trom 
the ground when they arrived. Please send 
me one of your catalogs next spring, as l 
wish to get some more plants then. 
Yours respectfully, 
Cc. A. LOCKWOOD. 
Plant City, Fla., Feb. 26, 1913. 
Mr E. W. Townsend. 
Dear Sir: I received plants Monday, the 
24th, in splendid condition and with the 
tinest roots I ever saw on plants. Please ac- 
cept thanks for promptness in filling my 
order. Respectfully, 
EF, T. KENDRICK. 
Lakeland, Fla., Jan. 23, 1912. 
Mr. E. W. Townsend. 
Dear Sir: Will say that I am well pleased 
with the plants bought of you last season. 
i enclose another order; also ain sending 
names of my friends. 
C. W. REYNOLDS. 
Mr. J. R. H. Hilton, Knoxville, Tenn., and 
Atmoure, Ala., writes that my Missionary 
is doing well in Alabama; also Tennessee. 
Plants were fine; never iost a plant. Mr. 
Hilton is one of the largest fruit growers 
in the United States. 
Mr. R. L. Cooper of Durant, Miss., presi- 
dent of Bank of Durant, writes: Your 
plants are very fine and giving our growers 
perfect satisfaction. Strongest and best- 
rooted planis I ever saw. 
Balto Co.,.Md., April. 15; 1912. 
Received the plants in fine condition. 
Strictly fine plants. J. EF. REYNOLDS. 
Litchfield, Conn., April 22, 1913. 
_ The order received O. K. Plants strictly 
fine, aS you stated. Here is another order. 
C.D; CATION. 
NOW SHAKING HANDS WITH HIMSELF. — 
Fruit & Truck Growers Assn., 
Texas, March 12, 1913. 
Mr. E. W. Townsend. 
Dear Sir: The shipment of plants you 
made on the fifth arrived on the tenth in 
fine condition. Will say without fear of 
being contradicted that they were consider- 
ably the best plants received at Pasadena, 
Texas, this season. i could have bought 
plants from $0.70 to $1.00 per.1,000 cheaper, 
but am now shaking hands with myself that 
I bought of Townsend. 
TL. A.. DUFFIELD}*©Mer: 
Griffin, Fla., March 7, 1913. 
Plants came in fine shape. Could not be 
better. They were well graded, strong, 
healthy looking and all living fine. 
T. A. RODGERS. 
Sydney, Fla., April 3, 1913. 
Dear Sir: Enclosed find M. O. for plants. 
My neighbor bought plants from another 
nursery and after they were set they showed 
disease. Seeing the plants I purchased from 
you, which are doing fine, he asked me to 
send you an order for him. I hope you will 
be able to fill same promptly, as your plants 
are the best that come here. 
We-E.. ROSS: 
Pasadena, 
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Millington, Md., April 2, 1913. 
Dear Sir: Plants received in fine condi- 
tion, and are nice, strong, healthy plants. 
D. JAMES HALL. 
Durant, Fla., March 13. 
Dear Sir: Plants expressed to Mrs. Scruggs 
are strictly fine. I am well pleased. 
MRS. CARMICHAEL. 
Knights, Fla., March 13. 
Plants arrived in fine condition. Fine 
plants, J. COLLINS. 
Green Cove Springs, Fla., March 13, 1913. 
Dear Sir: The plants I bought from you 
last. season proved se fine I am sending you 
another order for your offering ‘“‘E.” 
Respectfully yours, 
MRS. REAUGH. 
Plant City, Fla., April 14, 1913. 
Mr. E. W. Townsend. 
Dear Sir: Enclosed find M. O for plants. 
I was going to grow plants from my own 
beds, but after seeing your plants growing 
at a friend’s, concluded that it would pay 
me to’ order from you, as his are the finest 
strawberries I have ever seen. 
Respectfully, 
D. I. WHITTING. 
Polk Ceunty, Fla. 
E. W. Townsend. 
Dear Sir: Enclosed find check for more 
plants. You certainly are furnishing me 
with fine stock. Yours very truly, 
FRED B. ROBINSON. 
Kathleen, Fla. 
Mr. Townsend: Your Missionary plants 
eannot be beat in this state. I was the 
first man to grow them here. They seem 
to get better all the time. Wie era 
(Fine ice) 
Stark, Fla., March 17. 
I received the plants from you several 
weeks ago in good condition, and set them 
out. Have not lost one of them out of 
2,000. Yours, 
J. HORNSBY. 
I please over 99 per cent 
of my customers every 
year. I believe I can 
please you. 
