E. W. TOWNSEND, SQUARE DEAL NURSERY, SALISBURY, MD. 



Ideal 



Another one of Sam- 

 uel Cooper's introduc- 

 tions, and from what 

 we have seen we believe 

 that the Ideal will equal 

 the Peerless; we have 

 them growing side by 

 side. The Ideal seems 

 to be fruiting more on 

 the young plants than 

 any variety that I have 

 seen except the Pro- 

 gressive; fruit is not 

 quite as large as Peer- 

 less, but considering 

 the showing of fruit 

 made this season we 

 feel like recommending 

 it for trial. The flavor 

 is fine enough for a 

 king, and I am sure the 

 fruit would be firm 

 enough to make a good 

 shipping berry. Makes 

 fine growth of plants, 

 without a blemish of 

 any kind. Don't miss 

 this. Same price as 

 Peerless. $3.00 per 100, 

 $2.00 for 50; $1.25 for 

 25. 



King (of the Autumn) 



Introduced by E. W. Townsend, 1913, 

 cross between the Autumn, E-B, and 

 the Chesapeake. The King greatly re- 

 sembles the Chesapeake in fruit, being 

 about same size, in color a little bright- 

 er red. All who have grown the King 

 claim it to be the largest and finest 

 flavored of any of the everbearing va- 

 rieties tested. Moderately productive 

 as grown on our grounds, but our cus- 

 tomers make great claims as to pro- 

 ductiveness, especially in the farther 

 North, and even in Delaware and New 

 Jersey. All experiment stations are 

 recommending it very highly, and we 

 predict a great demand for the plants. 

 We have never had very many plants 

 to offer, and our supply is still limited 

 this season. We left about 100 plants 

 to see the fruit on Spring crop this 

 season, and with one exception it was 

 the finest berry in the trial plot — size 

 averaged fully as large as the best 

 Chesapeake, and was better colored, 

 and much firmer, and without a doubt 

 the best flavored berry I ever ate. The 



King Straw liern . 



Ideal Strawberries. 



fruit just lay in piles around every plant. Season of 

 ripening about same as Chesapeake, or medium late. 

 For the spring crop alone the King will become a great 

 favorite in the strawberry world. Price: $3.00 per 100, 

 $2.00 for 50, $1.25 for 25. Note — put all the money you 

 can on the King, you cannot lose. 



A SATISFIED CUSTOMER 



Indiana, Dec. 10, 1916. 

 Several of our neighbors bought the everbearing plants last spring, 

 nearly all paid more money than you charged us. But now we have 

 the laugh on them. We are the only ones who have had any berries 

 this summer and fall, and we have had bushels of them. And of 

 course we gave our neighbors some of ours. I think you will get 

 the business from here next time. We want to set half acre more 

 and you bet we get our plants from Townsend. A satisfied cus- 

 tomer. W. D. JOHNS. 



How to Care for Everbearing Plants 



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 ther. 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 fruitincr in the fall, the first season 

 cover with coarse barnyard manure, or straw, leaving the manure 

 or straw on the beds, and let the plants push through it in the 

 early spring ; 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. 



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 

 made as high as $1,000 per acre 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 

 thoroughbred plants are used. 



The beauty is that there is always a demand for big. red borne- . 



Number of Plants to Set One Acre 



15 inche- by l'L. feel 14,060 plants 



is inches by :; feet 9,680 plants 



is inches by VA feel 8,297 plants 



24 inches by .'i 1 _> feel 7,260 plants 



•1\ inches by W ., feet 5,222 plants 



24 inches by 4 feet [ . ; ; -, plants 



30 inches by &A feet 4.^7$ plants 



36 inches by .'?'•.• feel 4. us plants 



36 inches by t feel • plants 



is inches by i feel 2.722 plants 



4S inches by 6 feel 1,815 plants 



4S inches by 7 feet 1,665 plants 



