2 E. W. TOWNSEND & SON, SQUARE DEAL NURSERY 
PREMIER.—In a class by itself. 
The above photograph was taken from one stem plucked from a Premier plant May ist, 
and showed more than thirty green and ripe strawberries (mostly green). 
The Premier is abso- 
lutely unsurpassed for productiveness, fine in quality, and one of the largest extra early varie- 
ties. 
ever offered for sale in a standard variety. 
Kellogg Premier 
We could not describe all the wonderful per- 
formances of this extraordinary variety, and if 
we could, such would not be necessary at this 
time. The Premier, was introduced in 1915 by 
R. M. Kellogg Co., of whom we purchased our 
first 1000 plants. Since that time we have been 
trying more to get a large stock of the plants 
than to sell plants. And while we have not 
tried to push the sale of the plants, it has been 
a very hard task for us to save enough each 
year to set the acreage we wished to of this 
grand variety. 
It has become so well ‘known the country 
over as the BEST Early Variety, that printing a 
long description becomes unnecessary. 
There is no question in our minds but that the 
Premier is without any exception the greatest 
of all early varieties, and growers everywhere 
who have seen it in fruit fully agree with us 
in our statement. Every year we have grown 
the Premier it has out yielded all other early 
varieties, and as to quality is also in a class 
by itself. The Eastern Shore of Maryland has 
long been called the Garden Spot of the World, 
and rightly so, and every thing good, better and 
best like strawberries is being’ grown here, and 
when one single variety takes the lead over 
hundreds of other varieties in every way way, 
shape and form, it is going some. And today 
just as fast as plants can be grown the Prem- 
Has now been tried out in nearly all sections. 
In great demand by the large growers everywhere. 
We consider it one of the best we have 
ier is taking the lead every where the country 
over as it is here on the Eastern Sho’. Of 
eourse not half nor one fourth of the berry 
growers yet have had a chance to grow the 
Premier, and it will be several years before all 
get this chance, but just aS soon as you do you 
will quickly discard what other early varieties 
you are growing. The past season we had of- 
fers from more than one hundred large grow- 
ers in different sections that would have taken 
every plant we had. It is these elass of grow- 
ers that will keep the Premier from being 
ecually distributed over the country. They buy 
the plants by the hundreds of thousands where 
ever they can find them and the supply is soon 
exhausted. 
To those who have not seen the Premier, we 
give a short description. The plant growth is 
ideal, clean, entirely free from rust from Spring 
to Fall. .The foliage grows tall and forms a 
eanopy-like covering for the berreis which in- 
eircle the entire plant. When grown ji 
each plant is loaced with berries from the 
ground to the very top of the plant. No variety 
we have ever seen early or late will produce 
more berries or of better quality than the Pren- 
ier. And the berries are so handsome that they 
will top the market anywhere anytime. it’ is 
a very long season variety, picking here in 
Maryland from the very earliest until the late 
varieties are pretty well done. And if there 
was any variety that sold for more money ‘t 
our Station the past season than the Premier, 
we never heard of it. We saw one horse dear- 
born loads of Premier sell for moive than $250 
per load the past season at our shipping station 
at Fruitlan’, Md. The writer wzs on the ground 
buying every erate he could get of them and 
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