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E. W. TOWNSEND, Salisbury, Md. 



PROGRESSIVE EVER-BEARING STRAWBERRIES 



Progressive 



Progressive (The Best). — From reports re- 

 ceived from our customers we would say that 

 the Progressive is the most popular of the 

 ever-bearing varieties, taking the whole country 

 over. The Progressive is a cross between the 

 Pan-American and the Sen Dunlap, and in 

 growth and also in fruit it greatly resembles 

 the Dunlap. Most of our customers know the 

 quality of the Dunlap, for quality of fruit is 

 hard to beat, and I doubt very much that the 

 eating quality of the Progressive will ever be 

 improved upon. The Progressive is an excel- 

 lent plant maker under favorable conditions 

 and bears an enormous amount of fruit begin- 

 ning to fruit as fast as the new runner plants 

 appear, and continue until hard freezes set in. 

 Fruit medium in size, color dark to the center. 

 To get large fruit it is best grown under the 

 hill system; i)lants in this way may be set 

 close together for garden purposes — ^say two 

 feet each way — where cultivation is done by 

 hand. One hundred plants in a garden will 

 give a good sized family all the berries they 

 can use, 



ONWARD, FORWARD AND ADVANCE. 



One Description Does For All Three Above- 

 Named Varieties. 



This trio is the latest orgination of Samuel 

 Cooper, who developed the Original ever-bear- 

 ing strawberry, the plant growth of these varie- 

 ties are wonderfully strong and healthy, the 

 fruit is large, firm and dark-red to the center, 

 with high quality fruit round and uniform, 

 comes highly recommended. Fruits from 

 June until November. 



All the ever-bearing varieties that we are 

 listing have perfect blossoms, and do not have 

 to be set with any other variety. 



We have grown about two million of the 

 ever-bearing plants this season, nearly all of 

 which are grown on new ground and the plants 

 have made a strong and rapid growth, and will 

 please our most exacting customers. We are 

 also proud of the fact that we can lower our 

 prices this season on our ever-bearing varieties. 

 While we cannot sell them as low as we can 

 the Standard sorts, owing to the very great 

 amount of work in keeping off the blossoms 

 for five months, and if the blossoms were not 



