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E. W. TOWNSEND & SON, SQUARE DEAL NURSERY 



i/WORLDS WONDER (per) Very Late 



Introduced by us four years ago. 

 The Worlds Wonder holds the record 

 as being the largest strawberry 

 grown. We have sold it to more than 

 2,000 customers in the past 3 years, 

 who make much greater claims for it 

 than we do. In size it runs more like 

 apples than strawberries. In quality 

 it is wonderful — one of the most plea- 

 sant tasted berries ever tasted. Unus- 

 ually firm for so large a berry. In 

 plant growth it is a marvel — makes 

 plants in abundance, that look more 

 like bushes than strawberry plants, 

 when grown in hills. We have had 

 them stand fifteen inches high, and 

 as big around as a bushel basket. 

 Broad leaves and heavy fruit stems 

 that hold the wonderful large berries 

 well off the ground. There is no va- 

 riety on the list that will produce 

 more quarts than World's. Wonder 

 Where the largest strawberries are 

 wanted, we recommend World's Won- 

 der. We have a moderate supply 

 of plants and expect to be sold out long before 

 the season is over, as the demand increases by 

 leaps and bounds each season. We will pay 

 ten dollars in gold for a plant that will pro- 

 duce larger berries than the Worlds Wonder. 



Worlds Wonder Largest Berry Ever Seen. Tejls 



His Neighbors About Townsend's Plants 



And Townsend's Service. 



Dela. Co., Ohio, May 31, 1918. 

 Mr. Townsend: Dear Sir. — Received an or- 

 der from you with a neighbor for some Pro- 

 gressive and Worlds M^onder plants. Both are 

 bearing fine. Progressive are wonderful. But 

 Worlds Wonder is certainly the largest berry 

 I have ever seen. Picked one this morning 

 measured four by five inches, and there are 

 still larger ones on the plants. Have recom- 

 mended you and your plants to my friends and 

 hope you will receive more orders from here 

 in the future. If not too late please fill the 

 enclosed order. — Horsea Slough. 



L/ KELLOGG'S BIG LATE (per) Late. 



We secured our stock of plants the past sea- 

 son and can give only the introducers' de- 

 scription — in part as follows: The Kelloggs 

 Big Late is the one strawberry in a class by 

 itself. It dift'ers from all other varieties both 

 in plant and fruit. It grows the tallest foliage 

 of any variety we have ever grown, its leaf 

 stems measuring over a foot in length. It is 

 an exceedingly heavy fruiter, each fruit stock 

 producing from twenty to thirty berries. At 

 fruiting time the plants are completely sur- 

 rounded with large beautiful berries with the 

 very highest quality. The berries are not only 

 large and produced in large quantities, but are 

 of a flavor that leaves nothing to be desired. 

 They are bright red with a polished surface. 

 They are solid and firm, unsurpassed by any 

 other berry as a shipper. It is further claimed 

 that berries that have been picked for a week 



World's Wonder. 



can not be distinguished from fresh picked ber- 

 ries. There is much more of the good things 

 said of them which we have not room to men- 

 tion here, but we will close by saying the plant 

 growth made here this year is great, fully up 

 to expectations, and we believe they are worth 

 a trial. 



AROMA (per) Late. 



One of the best known late varieties now on 

 the list. Once grown always grown. Fruit 

 large bright red, and firm enough for a ^ood 

 shipping variety. As a commercial variety 

 there is probably no variety more widely 

 grown than the Aroma. Grown from coast to 

 coast. Productive of large fancy good quality 

 berries wherever grown. We have a fine stock 

 of Aroma plants, fully up to the Townsend 

 standard. 



A Good One On The Flivver. 



Erie County. N. Y., July 24th. 1918. 



Dear Mr. Townsend : — I want to write you a line re- 

 garding those FOICD plants sent to us. Never saw any 

 such berries in this part of the county. From Fifty 

 plants grown in hills under the "Townsend way," we 

 picked forty-two quarts one picking. I am sorry I did 

 not keep correct count of the total quarts picked from 

 the fifty plants, but I am sure it would have been un- 

 believable in print. I must have picked more than two 

 hundred quarts altogether. I do not understand why 

 you named them the Ford, they should have been called 

 "Super Six" or Packard, if you were going to ncune 

 them after an Automobile. Their equal has never been 

 met here, and I doubt any where else. 



Respt. yours, H. E. HEINTZ, Gardner. 



Plants Too Niee to Accept as GRATIS. 



Lonaconing, Md., May 8th, 1918. 



Inclosed find Another order for Superb. The Lucky 

 Strike plants received O. K. You sent me just twice as 

 many as I paid for, I enclose payment for the extra, as 

 they were such nice plants, and arrived in such good 

 condition. MR. WM. GARLANDER. 



Chicopee Falls, Mass.. May 8th, 1918. 



E. W. T. Dear Sir s^-I received plants in such fine 

 shape want another 500 Progressive, for which I eneles9 

 check. Re&pt. WM. DTJN. 



