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E. W. TOWNSEND SONS • SALISBURY • MARYLAND 



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We are describing and listing on this page two extra late 

 strawberries. The many demands each year by our customers, 

 who were looking for a heavy producing variety of very late 

 season ripening, caused us to make restrictive plant selection 

 on the Gandy variety, to build it into such a berry, and at the 

 same time seek to find a new one. We have accomplished this 

 in our Xtralate variety, which is a new seedling that we have 

 been testing for the past five years in our trial grounds. We 

 are well pleased with the results of these two varieties, and we 

 are passing them along to our customers as two of the best 

 extra late varieties on the market. 



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Gandy 



Fancy Late Berries always bring top prices 



GANDY 



(Extra Late Variety) 



GANDY originated in New Jersey under the name Gandy- 

 Prize, and has been grown successfully in practically all berry 

 growing sections in the Central West and all Northern States. 

 By selective methods we have built up the original strain of 

 Gandy and succeeded in getting yields practically double that 

 of a few years ago. 



GANDY should be grown on rich, damp soil for best results, 

 although we have noticed excellent results obtained in this 

 section when grown on rather stiff clay. The Gandy is a good 

 strong grower, sending out numerous plants to make a good 

 fruiting bed without restriction. The foliage stands up well 

 on the beds and protects the fruit from hot suns during 

 harvest time. 



The fruit of Gandy is of excellent quality, a good shipper, 

 large to extra large, of a very bright red, with large dark green 

 caps. One of the outstanding points of Gandy is its season 

 of ripening, it being very late and one of the last berries to 

 ripen, coming into bearing about two weeks after the first pick- 

 ing of Premier and Dorsett. It is an excellent commercial 

 variety where a very late variety to extend the berry season 

 is wanted. 



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Strawberry Plants 



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The Berry That the Strawberry World Has 

 Been Waiting for 



In offering Xtralate for the first time tliis year, after having grown 

 it in our testing grounds for the past five years, we are of the honest 

 opinion that we are offering tc the Strawberry World the latest ripen- 

 ing Strawberry on the market today. We want you to try Xtralate this 

 year if you are in need of an attractive late variety. Purchase it with 

 the full understanding that if it is not all that we represent it to be 

 your money will be returned to you. 



One of our customers from Long Island, New York, visited us this 

 year to see it at fruiting time. His remark was this: "Well, Townsend, 

 you told me you had a new late one, but this caps all I have ever 

 seen or heard tell of in a late strawberry." The vines were loaded 

 with plenty of green berries and blossoms, and practically all the late 

 varieties were off the market here before Xtralate started. 



The berries are medium to large, having a double green cap. Quality 

 is of the best. In plant growth it is vigorous, making good beds without 

 any trouble. It is an imperfect flowering variety and very easily pol- 

 linated with any of the late sorts, as it seems to set blossoms all at one 

 time. Xtralate will extend your berry season fully seven to ten days 

 longer. 



Our Plant supply of Xtralate is limited this year, so order early! 



The New 



Xtralate 



Berry 



