24 . SQUARE DEAL NURSERY 
STRAWBERRIES AS A SIDE ISSUE. 
Strawberries and poultry usually go well 
together. Many of my lady customers make 
big money with chickens and strawberries. 
I have one particular lady customer in the 
North Carolina hills that has supported her 
family in growing strawberries and raising 
chickens for years, her husband being an in- 
valid. She sends me her orders for plants 
every year and writes that she does not find it 
so hard after all to keep both ends together. 
I have hundreds of lady customers in all 
parts of the country—-some in Canada, Cuba, 
and the Hawaiian Islands—and from their 
letters they find the growing of berries very 
profitable. As 2 usual thing the ladies are 
stuck on the ever-bearing berries. One let- 
ter from a lady a few days ago stated that 
had sold over $10.00 worth of berries 
from the 150 plants purchased last April, and 
still had plenty of berries. She wants 500 
plants this spring. A small patch of berries 
in the garden is not only profitable but is lots 
she 
of pleasure both in the growing and in the 
eating. 
Fresh strawberries from the vines six 
months in the year. WHAT’S BETTER? 
Most everybody can afford them. A 10-20 ft. 
square will grow all your family can use. 
These small lots can go by parcel post and 
go very cheap now. 
Always have the strawberry beds as close 
to the house as possible so they will not be 
neglected and c2n be tended to at little odd 
chances. It is nice for the whole family to 
go in the patch late in the evening and hoe 
and rake over the ground, cleaning the rows 
out, making them fairly shine, and where 
the beds are worked up late in the evening 
once or twice a week the moisture will rise 
in the night and every morning be at the top 
of the ground, and where the ever-bearing 
kinds are grown it is more fun, for you are 
eating all the time you are at work. This 
little exercise is far better than a doctor and 
not half so costly. 
FALL SETTING 
Plant the strawberry in the spring, the 
earlier the better, when the plant is fully 
srown, matured and dormant, while the soil 
is moist and cool and when there is more 
favorable weather generally. 
Most growers refuse to sell plants in the 
fall, because for every plant big enough to 
sell others are destroyed that would be good 
ones later. They are safe enough 
however, when there is plenty of 
where they can be irrigated. 
We can usually supply them in small quan- 
tities by September 15 at listed rate per 100. 
If wanted in larger auantities later in the sea- 
son write for prices on varieties and amount 
desired. 
to set, 
rain or 
ORDER EARLY, PLEASE. 
I truly hope and believe that you will do 
this. I want all my customers to be at the 
first table. I shall have plenty for them and 
plenty to spare. By doing this you will as- 
sure ourselves of not being shut out and will 
also cause many a poor fellow to get plants 
that might not be able to do so if you delay 
your orders. I assure you that it will not 
cost you any more to place that order early 
than at the last moment, and you will have 
eyen more than that advantage. You will 
be sure of getting just what you order. You 
certainly were prompt in sending in your or- 
ond choice when selecting your varieties. Un- 
less you do this I shall return your money 
for the varieities I am sold out of. 
ders the past season. It was a great help to 
me. I hope that it was to you. The bulk of 
my orders the past season were booked in 
January, soon after the catalog had reached 
your hands. 
Give second choice, please. 
TOWNSEND'S THOROUGHBREDS GROW 
BIG CROPS. 
That is what everybody says; it must be so. 
They send across the continent for them every 
season. There must be a reason. 
Polk Co., Pla. 
E. W. Townsend: 
Dear Sir—Enclosed find check for more 
If it happens that you cannot get your or- 
der in early or do not receive this catalog un- 
til very late I will thank you to give your sec- 
Express Charges. The 
shipment by express is because plants are 
more or less perishable, and the quickest 
transportation is best for satisfactory results. 
And then express companies allow a reduc- 
tion of 20 per cent. from the regular mer- 
chandise rate on plants, bulbs, ete., and bill 
the shipment at the number of pounds weight. 
reason we advise 
Approximate Weight of Plants.  Approxi- 
mate weight of orders containing assorted va- 
rieties packed for shipment is: 
1,000 plants, 20 pounds; 2,000 plants, 35 
pounds; 5,000 plants, 80 pounds; 10,000 
plants, 150 pounds. 
Then to determine the probable express 
charges inquire of your agent for the mer- 
chandise rate to Salisbury, Md., from which 
deduct 2C per cent. and figure according to 
the approximate weights. 
plants. You certainly are furnishing me with 
fine stock. Yours very truly, 
FRED B. ROBINSON. 
Kathleen, Fla. 
Mr. Townsend—-Your Missionary plants 
cannot be beat in this State. 
man to grow them here. 
better all the time. 
I was the first 
They seem to get 
W. D. HARP. 
