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



Late Jersey Giant 



Late Jersey Giant Strawberry. 



Nic Ohmer 



A standard late variety for the South, 

 as well as the Pacific coast. Plant is a 

 fine grower, under favorable conditions, 

 and the fruit is almost perfect. Quality 

 the very best. Moderately productive in 

 the East, and very productive in the Cali- 

 fornia district. We sell hundreds of thou- 

 sands of Nic-Ohmer plants in California 

 every season. In fact, seldom have 

 enough to fill our orders. We have some 

 customers there that buy as many as 

 250,000 plants a season. Our crop is very 

 fine this year, although we did not plant 

 as large an acreage. Price: $4.00 per 

 1000, 500 at 1000 rate. 



Mascot 



One of the very latest in season varie- 

 ties. Size extra large and productive. 

 Fruit rich glossy red, firm and good. 

 Price: $3.50 per 1000, 500 at 1000 rate. 



Produces a good crop of large berries, that very 

 much resemble the Gandy. The quality is good but 

 the extra large size is a very prominent feature. It 

 was sent out with some of the widest claims ever 

 made about a strawberry, and is being tested over 

 a wide range of territory. It is truly a wonderful 

 variety, and we hope all our customers who have 

 not tried it will test it at once, as we believe that 

 they will be pleased with it. Price: $4.00 per 1000 

 plants. 500 at 1000 rate. 



Fendall 



For a strictly fancy berry this is among the leaders. 

 We have recommended Chesapeake set with Fendall 

 for several years, and suppose that we have made 

 no mistake as hundreds of our customers have set 

 these two varieties together with remarkable results. 

 Townsend's Late, Baltimore, Aroma, and Rewastico, 

 may also be set with good results. When well fertil- 

 ized, it is one of our very best productive varieties. 

 Price: $4.00 per 1000 plants. 



Brandywine 



Is another good old standard that seems hard to 

 down especially in the tropical and semi-tropical sec- 

 tions. While it is among the leaders in the tropical 

 districts, it is also a leader in many other sections of 

 the country. The plant is healthy and vigorous and 

 produces a large crop of fine fruit, that usually sell 

 well above the average. We grow a large plot of 

 plants each season and continue to recommend it. 

 Price: $3.50 per 1000, 500 at 1000 rate. 



Gandy 



Probably the best known late variety, and by many 

 considered the best. The Gandy cannot be grown on 

 as many different soils as some late varieties, but 

 where the soil is suitable it is indeed a very good one, 

 notwithstanding so much competition as is being 

 brought against it at this time. For best results 

 plant in damp swamp land. A very black soil is 

 always the Gandy's home. Where this is not pos- 

 sible select some springy spot with some clay mixture. 

 As to quality it is seldom surpassed as an all around 

 strawberry, either for home use or distant market. 

 It is the great shipping qualities that has caused the 

 Gandy to hold its own. more than any other part. 

 Price: $3.00 per 1000, 500 at 1000 rate. 



Forty Crates of Fall Strawberries 

 per Day 



The Maple Hurst gardens, of Michigan, writes the 

 Country Gentleman, September the 19th, 1915, as fol- 

 lows: Since the 15th of August we have been picking- 

 berries on an average of forty crates of strawberries per 

 day. These berries have gone to Chicago, Cincinnati, 

 and Philadelphia, and many other cities, and have sold 

 as high as 35 cents per quart wholesale. This firm also 

 writes that they will set 300,000 Superb plants in the 

 Spring, and all will be grown under the hill system, 

 which certainly gives good results. 



Note the above are facts — and what the Maple Hurst 

 Gardens can do, anyone else can do. So get busy, there 

 is not enough Fall strawberries grown to give each per- 

 son in the United States a handful apiece. This season 

 is the time to get busy. 



We have millions of the plants growing. Look up the 

 price list on page 30 and get your order off at once. If 

 you wait another season it is you that will be the loser. 

 Don't delay; act quickly. 



EASTERN GROWN PLANTS HARDIER THAN NORTHERN GROWN. 



St. Joseph County, Mich. 

 Dear Mr. Townsend — I am writing you today to know if you can furnish me with sample of Chesapeake 

 plants for the coming Spring. I have grown your Eastern Sho" plants here for five years and I have had the 

 best success of my life in berry growing. I have never had any trouble to get plants to grow, and my yield 

 is much above the average in my neighborhood. I think that you have made several customers here by the 

 way your plants behaved in this section, and the time is coming when other growers will take notice. Kindly 

 let me hear from you at once, and oblige yours, etc., GEO. BRUNSON. 



