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E. W. TOWNSEND, Salisbury, Md. 



Upwards of 7,000,000 Missionary Plants, AH On New Ground. 

 QUALITY and QUANTITY For Our Customers 



This Means 



MISSIONARY, is truly the leading 

 strawberry of the South, especially 

 FLORIDA. It is not only recommended by 

 the growers of the South, but the government 

 authorities, and the largest berry dealers 

 everywhere recommend the Missionary, as be- 

 ing the BEST early strawberry. While the 

 Missionary is probably at its best in Florida, 

 we have yet to hear from any section of the 

 United States where it has been tried that 

 there has been a single complaint. 



We consider ourselves fortunate of being 

 the introducers of this grand variety, and we 

 contribute a very large share of our extensive 

 plant business in the South to this fact. The 

 Missionary had become well known to the 

 Florida growers before plant growers 

 throughout the country could get hold of the 

 plants for propagation purposes, we there- 

 fore held a monopoly on this variety for quite 

 awhile. Some so-called nurserymen found 

 that there was a great demand for the plants 

 before they could get a stock of them and 

 sold spurious varieties of the Missionary. 

 While this worked a great hardship on the 

 growers who bought the fake plants, it never- 

 theless was in our favor in the end, and has 



caused hundreds of Florida growers to buy 

 their stock of us only for many years. The 

 Missionary is a rapid pLant grower, and we 

 have always held the price down even from 

 the beginning. We have never charged our 

 customers over $2.50 per 1,000 plants, and in 

 large lots have sold them much lower. 



It takes from twenty-five to thirty acres 

 of plants each season to supply our trade, and 

 then sometimes we run short. We estimate 

 this season's crop at seven millions of plants. 

 Every plant grown on new ground. This in- 

 sures our customers of getting a high grade 

 of plants this season. W^e do not believe 

 that there is a mixed plant in this I-ot, and 

 the plants will be unusually strong and 

 healthy. There is no variety that we try 

 harder to keep up to the very top notch in 

 productiveness, and we hope that all our old 

 customers will show their appreciation by 

 again favoring us with their orders. All our 

 Klondyke and Missionary plants are grown 

 on this high, new ground land, and can be 

 dug any time this winter when the ground is 

 not frozen, and it is very seldom that this 

 new land is frozen any length of time. This 

 fact means also a great deal to our customers. 



Strawberries For Eight Months 



We have not only had them for our own 

 table, but the people of our city have been 

 kept well supplied with them daily, fresh 

 from the vines. Our berry fields have been 

 a show ground for the surrounding country 

 for several years. Lots of our brainiest folks 

 had to come out and look and taste for them- 

 selves before they could believe such a thing 

 possible as strawberries growing from May 

 1st until November 15th. And the same year 

 that plants were set. 



But yes, it is all true. And any of our 

 folks can do as well as we do. Many of our 

 customers write us that they have picked 

 nice berries from their vines after they had 

 been covered with snow. We have seen the 

 photographs, taken with the snow on the 

 ground, showing the ripe, red berries on the 

 plants. Can aiiy thing be nicer than to have 

 this, God's best fruit, fresh for your table 

 every day for so long a time and at so small 

 a cost? 



At the prices you can buy the plants at 

 now they will not cost you one cent per quart. 

 And the pleasure in growing and watching 

 them more than pays for any expense. 



early spring until late in the fall, all for $4.00 

 prepaid to you. This is one of my best offers 

 and one that is pleasing my customers. 



Five hundred fall-bearing plants for $4.00. 



Do You Know 



That you are not treating your children 

 fairly if you do not grow fall-bearing straw- 

 berries I am headquarters for the fali- 

 bearing sorts, one of the oldest and largest 

 growers of them in the United States. If you 

 want nothing else from this catalog, let me 

 send you my family collection — 500 plants 

 that will bear fruit almost continuously from 



A Wonderfiul Pleasure to Me. 



It would be a wonderful pleasure to me 

 to meet every friend and customer face to 

 for me to grow. I put my whole time in 

 face and have a hearty handshake and talk 

 the business over in our own way. This will 

 hardly be possible on earth. But our dear 

 old friend. Uncle Sam, has provided a waj^ by 

 his messenger that we are not very far apart 

 and we can tell each other our troubles and 

 our wants and we are only neighbors after all. 



Please do not forget to send in the names 

 of your friends, that they may receive a copy 

 of this book free. 



I will appreciate also a photograph of your 

 berry field, showing Townsend's Thorough- 

 bred plants. 



I also wish to hear from every little boy 

 and girl that received my offer of the past sea- 

 son. Also their photographs. The best letter 

 with photo will receive 1,000 fall bearing 

 plants free. This will mean a small fortune 

 to any boy or girl in a few years. 



Kathleen, Fla. 

 E. W. Townseud, Salisbury, Md. : 



r)e:ir Sir — My Joe J(dinson plants are doing fine, 

 Hope to l:e ab e to hand you a lot of business this 

 fall and spring. 



Yoiu" 



W. H. GREEN. 



