E. W. TOWNSEND SONS • SALISBURY • MARYLAND 



Experienced men making Plant Selection in a 35 acre 

 field (on farm No. 6) of new ground Fairfax and Dorsett. 



You Receive Townsends* 

 Jamovt^ Plant Selection 



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T!he forty years of our experience in 

 growing and propagating small fruit 

 plants has taught us the vital importance of plant "strain". 

 For, in selecting plants, it is just as important to continually 

 improve the "strain" as it is with horses, cows and other 

 animals. Every Townsend plant is an offspring of a selected 

 plant that has special merits back of it. Throughout the year, 

 experienced men under the personal supervision of one of the 

 Townsends' go into the fields and personally select the plants 

 that are to be used for mother plants. Only plants that show 

 outstanding vigor and productiveness for the specific variety, 

 are used. These selected breeding plants are reset into a plot; 

 and during their period of growth (until the following spring) , 

 numerous strong, healthy runner plants are produced. These 

 are taken up during the spring at proper planting time and 

 set in large acreages on our farms to grow for our numerous 

 customers throughout the country. 



Even after all this we do not consider our work finished. 

 We continue selecting this stock, constantly striving to keep 

 our strain as close to perfection as our forty years experience 

 has taught us. Only in this way can we be sure of giving our 

 customers plants of better quality and greater yield. 





PLANTS OF 



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CROWN DEVELOPMENT 



Recent research has shown that 80% of the fruit buds on strawberry 

 plants are formed in the crown of the plant from September to 

 November of the season before blossoms appear. It is, therefore, 

 important to set nothing but well developed selected strain plants 

 for your fruiting beds — ^plants that will have sufficient vigor to 

 send out strong-crowned runner plants in which these fruit buds 

 are formed. A strong crown plant will always produce the proper 

 leaf area to insure heavy production, which the U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture through recent research work advises us of importance in 

 getting bigger crops of berries the following spring. 



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• A Townsencn^fiEt Strain plant— your 

 insurance of Good Stands, Quick Growth 

 and Bigger Crops. 



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state Nursery Inspectors Double Inspecting 

 Block Select Strain Chesapeake. 



Townsend "SELECT STRAIN" Plants 

 ALL ARE DOUBLE INSPECTED 



In late September after plants have matured and again in 

 early spring when new growth starts, the Maryland State Nurs- 

 ery Inspectors carefully examine all our growing plants. 

 These double inspections insure customers of getting disease- 

 free plants, which is necessary if good yields are to be ob- 

 tained. It costs just as much to plant and cultivate an acre of 

 diseased plants as it does an acre of healthy disease -free 

 plants. The comparative results received usually spell success 

 or failure. This is lust another precaution Townsend takes to 

 furnish their customers with the best plants possible to grow 

 and produce for them the heavy yields which they have a 

 right to expect. You pay no more for these double inspected 

 plants than just ordinary plants. Your berry profits are In- 

 creased at no extra cost to you. 



