E. W. TOWNSEND (Strawberry Specialist) 
NOT A SINGLE DAY SINCE MAY FIRST THAT WE HAVE NOT HAD RIPE 
STRAWBERRIES 
Salisbury, Md., November 16, 1914. 
We have not only had them for our own 
table, but the people of our city have been 
kept well supplied with them daily, fresh 
from the vines. Our berry fields have been 
a show ground for the surrounding country 
for several years. Lots of our brainest folks 
had to come out and look and taste for them- 
selves before they could believe such a thing 
possible as strawberries growing from May 
ist until November 15th. And the same year 
that plants were set. 
But yes, it is all true. 
folks can do as well as we do. 
HOW TO CARE FOR A BED 
Prepare your ground same as for any other 
strawberry plant; set them out the same way, 
hoe and cultivate the same; pinch off all the 
blossoms that appear for the first month and 
then let them grow, and you will have all the 
berries you want by July first, and from then 
on until the ground freezes hard. The second 
year crop, after your berries are through 
fruiting in the fall, the first season cover with 
coarse barnyard manure, or straw, leavins 
the manure or straw on the beds, and let the 
plants push through it in the early spring: 
And any of our 
Many of our 
customers write us that they have picked 
nice berries from their vines after they had 
been covered with snow. We have seen the 
photographs, taken with the snow on the 
ground, showing the ripe, red berries on the 
plants. Can anything be nicer than to have 
this, God’s best fruit, fresh for your table 
every day for so long a time and at so small 
a cost? 
At the prices you can buy the plants at 
now they will mot cost you one cent per quart. 
And the pleasure in growing and watching 
them more than pays for any expense. 
OF EVERBEARING PLANTS 
cultivate two or three times in early spring 
before the berries are ripe, and continue this 
frequent cultivation all through the summer 
and fall the second year, as this keeps up the 
moisture and causes larger and more fruit. 
We do not sell less than 100 lots of other 
varieties, but our everbearing varieties we are 
allowing our customers the privilege of order- 
ing as small lots as 25 plants. We do this 
as there is still some doubting Thomases that 
want to see first before setting heavy of them. 
We are willing to show them. 
NUMBER OF PLANTS REQUIRED TO SET ONE ACRE. 
18 inches by 3 TEEUR aie cee 9,680 plants 
iSvimnches: by o26 Peete. 2. %.s = 8,297 plants 
Z4Inenes: by Ss Teel... css sos 7,260 plants 
Z4 inches Dyost6 feet? 2% «. 5. - 6,222 plants 
24 inches by 4 MOGs al pie ashe es 5,445 plants 
aunmches hy sos feet..-...o..% 4,978 plants 
Growing strawberries is a pleasant and 
profitable position, in fact the most profitable 
of any business I know of when carried out in 
the proper way. And the business needs all 
the thought, care and attention that can be 
given it, to make it the success that it deserves. 
I have received letters from my friends saying 
that they had made as high as $1,000 per 
26 inches by 346 feet... ..25...- 4,148 plants 
36 inches by 4 hCG. - pene 2 oOo 0) Plamis 
48 inches by 4 HEC eee arches 2,022 plants 
48 inches by 6 ACCU ink oR ee 1,815 plants 
48 inches by 7 LCL Ped racine ee 1,555 plants 
aere clear profit in a season from their berry 
fields. I have even done as well myself a few 
times, and it is not unusual to get $400 to 
$500 from an acre when the best thorough- 
bred plants are used. 
The beauty is that there is always a demand 
for big red berries. 
SPECIAL OFFER 
Anyone wishing to set a family patch and 
not knowing what varieties will suit their 
wants best, just write for this collection. f 
will give them my whole life experience in 
filling this order. No matter where you are 
situated I can please you, and will give you 
varieties that will bear fruit almost contin- 
ually from early spring until late in the fall. 
This collection will include (everbearing) and 
you will be more than delighted with my 
mimake up. 500 plants for $4.00; 1,000 plants 
for $7.50, by express prepaid. 
I will furnish enough of my Thoroughbred 
plants to set one acre for $18. Seven thou- 
sand plants, my own selection, will furnish 
all early, all mid-season early to late or late. 
I will furnish only varieties that are adapted 
to your locality and guarantee to please you. 
i have been making this offer for several sea- 
sons and find it one of my very best for mak- 
ing new FRIENDS. If you are a new begin- 
ner this offer should certainly appeal to YOU. 
REMEMBER—7,000 Good Plants for only 
$18.00—My own selection. 
