This variety has been thoroughly tested in practi- 
cally every state where strawberries are grown. No other 
variety in so short a time has ever proven so popular with 
the Home Gardner. World’s Champion is a strong hardy 
grower on most soils, and begins to fruit its heavy load of 
berries in two months after plants are set and continues to 
fruit all the time until cold freezing weather sets in 
We have at least five thousand letters praising the 
World’s Champion Ever Bearing Strawberry, and so far 
the only complaints received have been where plants were 
received from nurseries or growers where the plants were 
allowed to fruit during the summer and fall and then taken 
up the following spring and sold for fruiting plants. No 
variety can stand such treatment and do its best. 
Townsend’s World’s Champion Ever Bearing plants 
are never allowed to fruit. You always receive the plants 
from us full of life and vigor the same as cur Standard 
varieties. We do not know of another single plant grow- 
er in the country (and the writer visited hundreds of places 
during the past summer,) where the grower does not let 
the Ever Bearing plants that he offers for sale during the 
spring, fruit all summer and fall. 
This is the reason that we call our Champion Ever 
Bearing strain the “WORLD’S CHAMPION”. There is 
no other strain being grown that we know of that is as 
full of life, vigor, hardiness and productiveness, as our 
World’s Champion strain of ever bearers. 
We have not only received letters from our custo- 
mers to back up our belief, but we have tested the dif- 
ferent strains by the side of our producing plants. There 
is no comparison in size of fruit and vitality of plants. 
Our first planting of the Champion plants received direct 
from the Originator were the same weaklings that we 
are now speaking of. We could barely pull one half 
of the plants thru the first summer. Fruit was not as large 
as Progressive grown from our own strain of Progressive. 
The second year we saw a big improvement over the first 
year. Plants produced freely, and become healthy, and 
fruit more than twice as large as the first year. The third 
year made even more difference; and the fourth year 
which was the past season, World’s Champion shown its 
best on our grounds, and same on thousand of our custo- 
mers. 
Mr. Rotherveil, of Penn., writes us October 1st. 
Isaw some of your World’s Champion plants grow- 
ing in my neighbors garden last summer and I sent to you 
for 250 plants, as the Champion plants I had received from 
a Northern Grower were not doing much for me while my 
neighbors plants were producing heavily and much larger 
berries. The past summer I picked from ten to fiifteen 
quarts every week from these 250 plants, and more than 
400 quarts all together to date. Plants are still full of 
green and ripe berries, but the freeze has about fixed them. 
I am covering them with straw now, do you think they 
will bear again next summer? If not I want to know, as I 
want more plants from you; for I would not give 100 of 
your World’s Champion for 1000 of the first kind I bought. 
‘ Mrs. Deerfield, of Maine; writes as follws: Noth- 
ing as good for us as your World’s Champion Ever- 
Bearing. Others have Champion here, but they do not 
produce with yours. 
Worlds Champion Everbearing Strawberry 
Mr. Hill, of Conn., says: World’s Champion beats 
anything for producing ever planted in our garden. Wants 
to try 25 Lucky Strike to see how much better they can be. 
Mrs. Parker from New York State, writes August 25, 
picked 500 quarts from the thousand plants set out in April 
and hardly commenced. 
Fr. Franklin of Pennsylvania, writes: Have been 
growing Progressive, but took your advice and planted 
World’s Champion last Spring. Have picked three times 
as many berries from the Champion as I have Progressive 
and Perfection. 
Mrs. Emery from North Carolina, writes, we are pick- 
ing enough berries from the 200 plants to supply our table 
three times a week; about fifteen quarts a week. 
Mr. Edw. J. White of New Jersey, writes that he grew 
World’s Champion as large as apples on rocky land where 
he had to keep the roots covered with a shovel over the 
rocks. _ 
Mr. H. M. Jones of New Hampshire, writes: Your 
World’s Champion, best yet. I have tested about every 
variety and every strain. 
Mrs. Howard Judson, New York, writes: Would not 
miss another strawberry garden for anything. Had all 
the berries my little family could use, from the 100 World’s 
Champion plants. 
Mr. J. McIntyre of Pennsylvania, writes that from 
3000 World’s Champion, I picked and sold over 2500 quarts. 
This is the plants I got from you. I had an order in with 
another nursery for 5000 Champion, I wanted to set an 
acre, and wanted to try both strains. I am frank to tell 
you that I got twice as many berries from your 3000 
plants, as from his 5000 plants. Guess I will know where 
to get my plants hereafter. 
In a test plot in 1923, on our own farms, we picked 
6000 quarts from 5000 Champion plants set. Netted us 
$1200 clear of all expenses. Just ordinary cultivation, 
grown in narrow matted rows. 1000 pounds of bone meal 
and dry fish, equal parts, was spread between the rows 
about July 15th, and cultivated in and worked up to the 
plants, plants kept cultivated until fruiting season was 
over. The following spring, crop produced from this 5000 
plants was 3000 quarts, which netted $325.00, making a 
total of $1525.00 in one year or 12 months. 
As to fertilizer for everbearing strawberries, there is 
nothing better than chicken manure and Rock, broadcast 
over the ground. Where chicken manure is plentiful, we 
recommend as high as two tons per acre, and ton of Rock. 
This will be all the manure required to grow the crop, in- 
cluding the following spring. If chicken manure is not at 
hand, a good grade of Tankage, Rock and Nitrate Soda; 
1000 pounds Tankage, 800 pounds Rock, and 200 pounds 
Soda, broadcast 800 to 1000 pounds per acre, or put 500 
pounds in drill. There is nothing in this fertilizer to injure 
the roots. (Potash does the damage to roots). 
The above fertilizers are just as good for standard va- 
rieties, and will grow good crops on very thin soil. Some 
varieties need top dressing in late winter or early spring 
before buds show. Better ask for information, as not all 
varieties are benefitted. 
TO OUR CUSTOMERS 
We wish to inform our customers that we will issue a small catalog this fall, listing choice Tulps, Peonies, 
Hyacinths, Narcissus, and other choice fall bulbs. To those who are interested in the fall planting of bulbs we wish 
that you would write for this book which will be ready about August 15th. We have planted a good acreage to 
these fall bulbs, many of the leading new varieties will be included in this list. We feel sure that we will be able to 
please you on this line. If you will send us the names of your friends who are interested in growing this stock we 
will be pleased to add extras to your order. 
