E. W. TOWNSEND, Salisbury, Md. 



KELLOGG PREMIER, Greatly Reduced 

 in Size, 



Keliog's Premier 



Kellogg's Premier (Per). — Another new 

 and promising variety is the Premier, intro- 

 duced by The Kellogg Co., of Michigan, the 

 past season. These people gave such glow- 

 ing discription of it in their 1916 catalogue, 

 that we purchased a good supply of plants, 

 and have grown a nice hed of plants for this 

 season, and would advise our customers to 

 give it a trial. We quote a part of their de- 

 scription, as follows: 



We make the confident prediction that 

 Kellogg's Premier is to become the most 

 widely known and most extensively grown 

 extra early variety throughout the country as 

 soon as its virtues have become known to the 

 strawberry world. Kellogg's Premier is dis- 

 tinctly in a class by itself. In productiveness 

 it is a wonder. The berries is mammoth in 

 size, beautifully formed, bright red color 

 through and through, delicious in flavor and 

 is a splendid shipper. In one word, every 

 berry is a show berry and a prize winner. It 

 is the money-making king of all varieties. 

 Last year the Premier began ripening a week 

 earlier than any other variety and continued 

 to fruit for at least four weeks, and the last 

 fruit was as good as the first. The Premier 

 is a fine variety to use in fruiting other im- 

 perfect extra early varieties, on account of its 

 long blooming season, being heavy laden with 

 pollen. Many of the best judges of straw- 

 berries have passed on the Premier as being 

 the best extra early strawberry they have ever 

 seen. It must be sure a money-maker where 

 a good extra early commercial variety is 

 wanted. By all means, try a few plants this 

 season. 



Kevit's Wonder 



Kevit's Wonder (Per). — This is a variety 

 that we lost sight of for a few years. We 

 had it growing in our nurseries several years 

 ago and some way failed to set plants and 

 run out of stock, but the past season we got 

 if back again. This variety is well and favor- 

 ably known as one of the very best for home 

 use. Berry is very long in shape, the calx 

 almost leaving the neck of the berry when 

 ripe; size is large and quality very fine; flavor 

 mild and a great favorite with most women 



and children. Is a strong, easy grower and 

 will do well in nearly all sections as a home 

 berry. 



Pride of Somerset 



Pride of Somerset (Per). — After fruiting 

 this variety another season we find it grow- 

 ing in favor. It was among the very first to 

 ripen in our fields the past season, and as to 

 quality of fruit was among the very best. In 

 quality it is not surpassed by anything, and 

 we are recommending it to our most par- 

 ticular customers as our very best early table 

 variety, while it is just as good as a long dis- 

 tant shipper, being just as firm as the Klon- 

 dyke, and with us yields just about the same 

 quantity of fruit. Size larger than Klondyke, 

 about same color, oblong shaped with a beau- 

 tiful calax, and makes a beautiful appearance 

 after being picked and crated. Sold on our 

 local market for three cents per quart above 

 Klondyke, Don't fail to give this a trial. 



Early Ozark 



Early Ozark (Per). — Extra early, one of 

 the largest sized extra early varieties, and a 

 leader in a good many localities. As an extra 

 early variety it is one of the surest croppers 

 on the list, as it is a continuous bloomer, and 

 if killed by late frost will continue to bloom 

 and bear a full crop of fruit, color dark red 

 to the center, very firm, has a sharp, stingy 

 flavor that is liked by a great many. As to 

 productiveness it is surpassed by very few. It 

 has a record of picking sixty quarts of berries 

 from sixty plants set at one picking. This 

 record was made on our own grounds from 

 our thoroughbred plants grown under hill sys- 

 tem. The plants are tall and bushy, and, in 

 fact, look more like bushes than plants when 

 growing under good cultivation. One of our 

 very best sellers. 



Gibson 



Gibson. — A perfect flowering variety; sea- 

 son early to late, commences with Dunlap and 

 continues until quite late in season; this is 

 a new variety here in the East; it has proven 

 well in our trial grounds for past two years 

 and we are recommending it to our customers. 

 I describe it as follows: Very productive, 

 fruit large and firm, quality fair to good. 



Rockford, 111., May 1, 1916. 

 Dear Mr. Townsend — The shipment of straw- 

 berry plants received in good order, they are a 

 nice lot of plants — healthy and thrifty, and I am 

 certainly well pleased. Accept my sincere thanks 

 for all extras and the fine plants and fine count, 

 best treatment I ever received, I shall remember 

 you with my next order. 



Respectfully, C. O. M. 



Arcadia, Fla., December 12, 1915- 



Townsend's Missionary sold for $1.00 per quart 



of strawberries at Arcadia, December 8th, at $1.00 



per quart — these grew from plants bought of you 



last April. We are more than pleased with our 



plants from you, the variety was the Missionary. 



Yours very truly, C. W. S. 



P. S.— We want about 50,000 plants in February, 



can you supply us. 



