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Your Nurseryman‘s Reputation and The Quality It Insures 
LL of the Plants that you purchase are bought entirely upon 
the reputation of the seller. You cannot judge the quality 
yourself as you do with so many other commodities you buy. Not 
even the most thoroughly trained Nurseryman or Horticulturist 
can give a satisfactory opinion upon their quality without exhaust- 
ive tests. [hus the wise and experienced buyer investigates first 
the reputation of his Nurseryman. It is his best, and in fact his 
only insurance. 
The business of the E. W. Townsend Nursery was established 
in 1900 and has been built to its present proportions by the most 
careful attention to quality. The Founder of this Nursery has 
with him today his two sons who are working shoulder to shoulder 
with their father, and there is something more than just a plain 
business relationship existing between themselves, their employees 
and their customers. 
When you buy Townsends’ Plants you buy more than 20 years 
of the hardest work and experience; you buy the prestige and rep- 
utation of years of successful plant growing and selling; you buy 
plants that have behind them the sentiment brought out by many 
years of careful, conscientious attention to our customers and their 
wants. 
The very smallest part of your field or garden cost is represent- 
ed by the plants, but they are by far the most important item. 
Remember—the lowest priced plants are not always the cheapest 
—but the BEST PLANTS are always thecheapest. “Townsends’ 
plants are known the country over as the standards of productive- 
ness, hardiness and quality. 
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| Marlboro, N, Y., Aug. 14, 1923 
E. W. Townsend & Sons 
| Salisbury, Md. 
Gentlemen:—Will you please quote me nrices on Premier plants. I want 1000 now and balance 
next Spring. I can buy them in N. J , but as I have bought of you for the past 18 years and 
have always been treated O. K.do not care to make change, Let me know as soon as pos- 
sible. Yours truly, 
W. I. Mackey. 
