BLAKEMORE 



The Ideal 



Commercial 



Berry 



Removes All 



Shipping 



Worries 



Blakemore is unquestionably one of the 

 best commercial varieties introduced by 

 the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture for many 

 years because it is ideal for shipping long 

 distances. Where time is pressing, and 

 help limited, it will keep on the vines 2 

 or 3 days longer than most of the older 

 varieties, and can be picked in perfect 

 condition. 



With its high jelly-like content, pleasing flavor and acidity 

 is most desirable for preserving and table use. 



The fruit ripens very early, bears large crops and maintains its 

 size when the plants have been kept well thinned. 



Note, the Western and Southwestern States. Where the Aroma is 

 planted extensively, the Blakemore is an ideal companion variety for 

 earlier fruiting and will in many ways equal the Aroma and provide an 

 earlier market for the growers in those sections. 



Townsend's Select 



MISSIONARY 



The Best of 

 the Southern 

 Varieties 



. The fact that, during the past 

 22 years, the Townsend nurseries 



have shipped over 100,000,000 Missionary plants into the State 

 of Florida alone is proof in itself that, for a main southern crop 

 the Missionary is unexcelled. Because of our method of "up- 

 breeding" (continually improving on this old variety), the Town- 

 send standard for this variety has been continually raised so that 

 today southern planters acknowledge that our strain is the most 

 productive and the surest to produce consistently large profits of 

 any Missionary plants sold. They do not gamble, but stick to us 

 and are well repaid for their confidence in our product. 



Buy Townsend's Selected Missionary plants for southern plant- 

 ing! 



BELLMAR 



Another good 



Southern variety 



Among the many recent introductions of the U. S. Dept. of Agricul- 

 ture, the Bellmar ranks high because of its handsome appearance and 

 heavy crop-producing possibilities in southern territory. As an early berry 

 it is recommended as a commercially profitable item to be planted in a 

 states to which the Premier is adapted. 



McDonald Co., Mo., 



April 20, 1934. 

 E. IV. Townsend & 



Sons. 



Blakemore. 

 Gentlemen: 



Received shipment 

 of 60,000 Blakemore, 

 and have them all set 

 out — growing fine. 



We -find your strain 

 of Blakemore free 

 from disease and pro- 

 duces an exceptional 

 fine crop of uniform 

 berries. 



Townsend's strain 

 in our experience has 

 proven far superior to 

 the average Blakemore 

 plants offered. 

 A. B. BROWNELL. 



McCracken Co., Ky. 

 July 15, 1934. 



Gentlemen: 



I have fruited the 

 Bellmar this past seas- 

 on and find this varie- 

 ty to be well suited 

 for this section of the 

 country. 



The fruit shows ex- 

 tra fine texture, ships 

 well and averages ap- 

 proximately 6,000 

 quarts to the acre. 



It should be classed 

 as an early superior 

 Aroma with a much 

 heavier yield. I like 

 it. 



B. WILLIAMSON. 



Norfolk Co., Va., 

 April 16, 1934. 

 Dear Sirs: 



One of the largest 

 strawberry groivers of 

 this section has recom- 

 mended your strain of 

 Blakemore plants to 

 Die, as he has grown 

 them for the past two 

 years with unusually 

 heavy yield. 



I would like to have 

 a quotation immedi- 

 ately on one hundred 

 thousand of the Town- 

 sends strain of Blake- 

 more. 



Please advise if you 

 can ship at oner. 

 R. NOTTINGHAM. 



Note — Order receiv- 

 ed April 19 100M de- 

 livered direct to his 

 truck April 20th. 



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