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E. W. TOWNSEND & SON, SQUARE DEAL NURSERY 



PEELESS— (Continued) 



ly all summer on both old and new runner 

 plants. Fruit very large, equal to Superb, 

 round and of rich dark red in color, and a 

 most delicious flavor, both in spring and fall. 

 Second year it is the best probably of the ever- 

 bearing, excepting our two Giants, the Lucky 

 Boy and Lucky Strike, which are unsurpassed 

 in any- thing like strawberries we have yet 

 seen. We have a good stock of fine Thorough- 

 bred plants; prices reasonable. 



IDEAL (per) Ever-Bearing. 



Same in every way as the Peerless, there is 

 no need of but one name, 

 \y^ KING of the Autumn (per) Ever-Bearing 



Introduced by us season 1913. A cross be- 

 tween the Autumn, one of the first Cooper 

 ever-bearing, and the Chesapeake. Greatly 

 resembles the Chesapeake in appearance, be- 

 ing slightly larger and brighter red, firmer in 

 quality and many state it is their choice as a 

 table variety. The King fruits moderately the 

 first year, but produces one of the heaviest 

 crops of fruit the following spring, ripening 

 with late varieties, and continuing until the 

 very latest thing like strawberries are gone. 

 About August 1st it begins to produce another 

 heavy crop of fruit which is almost equal to 

 the spring crop, and again late in September 

 is loaded again. The King has received the 

 highest praise from the leading experiment 

 stations, as an ever-bearing variety, and re- 

 commend it to the public as the very best late 

 crop variety. We have grown the largest crop 

 of plants we have ever grown of the King and 

 have cut our price with the other sorts such 

 as Progressive, and hope our folks who have 

 not tried the King will do so this season. 



A Townsend Customer Brings His Friends. 



"Several of our neighbors bought ever-bear- 

 ing plants last year and paid more money 

 than you charged us. But now we have the 

 laugh on them, we are the only ones who have 

 any berries, and we had bushels of them. You 

 will get the orders from here in the future. 

 We think it pays to buy of Townsend. We 

 expect to set half acre more and you bet we 

 get our plants from you. W. D. Johns, Ind. 



V FRANCIS (per) Ever-Bearing. 



In some localities Francis is the favorite. 

 As far as the quality of fruit is concerned it 

 is a "dandy". The quality is enough to make 

 one swallow the tongue, and the later in sea- 

 son the better the flavor. We grow them only 

 in a small way, and will not sell more than a 

 few hundred plants to any one customer. 



AMERICUS (per) Ever-Bearing 



It would take an expert to tell the difference 

 between Americus and Francis. If any better 

 in the two varieties the Francis has the best 

 flavor, and is slightly the largest berry. Plants 

 grown only in, small lots. A few hundred only 

 to one customer. 



ONWARD, FORWARD and ADVANCE 

 Ever-Bearing. 



We keep these three varieties separate, but 

 there is practically no difference. Fruit mod- 

 erately during the first year plants are set. 

 Fruit is large and fancy, with very best qual-. 

 ity. As a spring crop they produce wonder- 

 fully, of the veiy best and largest berries. 

 We do not grow a large stock of these berries, 

 as we consider others more profitable as ever- 

 bearing. 



TOWNSEND'S SPECIAL EVER-BEARING 

 GARDEN 



SPECIAL PRICE $5.00. 



300 of our leading Ever-Bearing varieties, our 



own selection. 



This garden will give you a continuous crop 

 from August to November this season, and 

 another big crop in early June and July and 

 continue until November 1920. You pay the 

 postage at the special price, which will not be 

 over 75c. and you save SI. 30 from list prices. 



NO, we cannot afford to select Lucky Strike 

 or Lucky Bov, v^e have only a very small sup- 

 ply of those "^plants and sell them at hst price 

 to everybody. They are cheap at the price we 

 ask you. 



WHi^T SOME OF OUR CUSTOMERS SAY 

 ABOUT TOWNSEND'S SPECIAL GAR- 

 DEN OFFERS. 



"We sold far more than $25.00 from our 

 Townsend strawberry garden. Have canned 

 plenty berries for winter, and have had all we 

 could use from July until now— November. To 

 say we are delighted puts it very mild. We 

 thank you from the bottom of our heai-ts for 

 putting us next to this business. Mrs. T. M. 

 Jones, Kansas. 



"We have had a wonderful success with tiie 

 strawberries from the $5.00 invested. We 

 have had plenty berries all the time, and a 

 show ground for the town. We thank you for 

 this service. Mrs. Annie Johnathan, Maine. 



SO WELL PLEASED CAME BACK WITH A REPEAT ORDER. 



Sherbourne, N. Y., April 23, 1918. ^ 

 Dear Mr. Townsend.— I received the box of plants in just six days from time I mailed 

 you the order. I was so well pleased with them that I am sending you another order 

 for 1,000 Progressive. 



Respectfully Yours, Wm. B. 



