SQUARE DEAL NURSERY 



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Picking Ever-Bearing Steawberries 



FORTY CRATES OF FALL STRAWBERRIES 

 PER DAY. 



The Maple Hurst gardens, of Michigan, 

 writes the Country Gentleman, September the 

 19th, 1915, as follows: Since the loth of 

 August we have been picking berries on an 

 average of forty crates of strawberries per 

 day. These berries have gone to Chicago, 

 Cincinnati and Philadelphia and many other 

 cities, and have sold as high as 35 cents per 

 quart wholesale. This firm also writes that 

 they will set 300,000 Superb plants in the 

 Spring, and all will be grown under the hill 

 system. 



Note the above are facts — And what the 

 Maple Hurst Gardens can do, anyone else can 

 do. So get busy, there is not enough Fall 

 strawberries grown to give each person in the 

 United States a handful apiece. This season 

 is the time to get busy. 



We have millions of the plants growing. 

 Look up the price list on page — and get 

 your order off at once. If you wait another 

 season it is you that will be the loser. 



Ever-Bearing Strawberries No Longer An Experiment. 



A great many of our customers are making 

 big money growing the ever-bearing straw- 

 berries for commercial purposes, and are cut- 

 ting out the old-standard sorts and planting the 

 new race of berries altogether. 



Again many of our customers who grow 

 berries principally for home use are writing 

 us that there is no need to grow but one 

 variety of the ever-bearing strawberries to 

 have all the fruit that they can use the year 

 round, and the selecting of extra early, early, 

 mid-season and late varieties. They are doing 

 no more. 



The ever-bearing varieties even have an ad- 

 vantage not mentioned above, for they bear 

 their finest crop of fruit the first season plants 

 are set, when the common strawberry does 

 not fruit at all. Thus the grower does not 

 have to wait a full year for the fruit. Another 

 point in the favor of the ever-bearing straw- 

 berry is that the eating qualities are seldom 

 found in the common strawberries. Still an- 

 other great point in their favor is that there is 

 no such thing as crop failure with the ever- 



Manatee Countj-, Fla. 

 Mr. E. W. Townsend, 

 Salisbury, Md. 

 Dear Sir — I am writing you, as I believe that I 

 ought to tell you how your plants are beating 

 other nurserymen's plants here in this section, as 

 you know many of the growers buy their plants 

 from you and liave done so for years. F.nt some 

 still buy from North Carolina, and some from 

 Illinois. T think that all will go to you after this 

 year's trial. In every case your plants have stood 

 the drought — the worst one we have ever had. 

 I have not lost a plant, and every other grower 

 here that used Townsend's plants" has done well, 

 and have pretty patches. The other fellows that 

 bought elsewhere have nothing, and have plowed 

 up the patches they set. In my six years' dealing 

 with you I have always got good plants and have 

 always had good crops, and expect to buy and 

 recommend you as long as you and I are in the 

 business. Wishing you the success that you merit 

 and a long and prosperous life, I am your custo- 

 mer, W. H. SEALLY. 



bearing strawberries. No matter if frost and 

 freezes continue until July. As soon as the 

 freezes are over they are at their work send- 

 ing up fruit buds and blossoms, and very soon 

 the ripe delicious berries. 



There are about eight varieties of the ever- 

 bearing strawberries being catalogued at this 

 time. The first ones to be introduced having 

 been replaced with better varieties. Such as 

 the Pan-American, the first to be the Autumn 

 and the Productive, Teddy R, and I think Stand- 

 pat. For, as I heard one grower who tried it, 

 say that Stand-pat was all that it ever did for 

 him. But of the eight varieties that are still 

 on the list several of them have come to stay 

 for a very long time. 



We have been growing this new race of 

 berries since the first introduction of the Pan- 

 American. We have probably sold more plants 

 of the ever-bearing varieties than any other 

 nursery. We therefore should be in a position 

 to help our customers make a selection of these 

 new berries no mattter where vou reside. 



EASTERN GROWN PLANTS MORE HARDIER 

 THAN NORTHERN GROWN. 

 St. .Joseph County. Mich.. November 5. 1915. 

 Dear Mr. Townsend — I am writing you today to 

 know if you can furnish me with sample of Chesa- 

 peake plants for the coming Spring. I have 

 grown your Eastern Sho' plants here for five years 

 ■ind I have had the best success of my life In 

 berry growing. I have never had any trouble to 

 get plants to grow, and my yeiid is much above 

 the average in my neighborhood. I think that 

 you have made several customers here by the way 

 vonr plants behaved in this section, ancl the time 

 is coming when other growers will take notice. 

 Kindlv let me hear from vou at once, and oblige 

 yours, etc., GEO. BRUNSON. 



Green Cove Springs. Fla. 

 Dear Sir— The plants I bought from yon last 

 season proved so tiTie I am sending you another 

 order for your oflferincr **E." 



Respectfully yours. 



MRS. REAOGH. 



