WORLD'S LARGEST GROWERS OF STRAWBERRY PLANTS 



Strawberry Culture Directions - Continued from Page 6 



CULTIVATION. Tillage in newly planted strawberry fields 

 or the garden, should start within ten days after the plants 

 are planted into your soil. In commercial plantings, horse 

 drawn cultivators are used, also garden tractors and light two 

 row tractor cultivators. In the home garden, a small hand 

 cultivator with two handles works very nicely. Plants should 

 be hand hoed after the first cultivation, so as to break any 

 crust that may form and to preserve moisture. Strawberry 

 plants should be either cultivated or hoed every week or ten 

 days, until the bed is formed about 30 inches wide, then 

 usually the hoe work drops out about mid-July and the cultiva- 

 tor will take care of the cultivation. Keep all weeds and 

 grass out of your strawberry patch. 



Keep in mind with using the cultivator to use same shallow, 

 this applies to the hoe also. Strawberries like shallow, but 

 frequent cultivation. 



REMOVING BLOSSOMS. After your plants become start- 

 ed after planting, there will appear on the plant 'flower stems 

 commonly known as blossoms,' keep all blossoms removed 

 from the plant soon as they appear. If blossoms are left on 

 rhe plants, then the plants will become stunted. It requires 

 only a little work anci is a important factor in growing straw- 

 berries. 



EVERBEARING VARIETIES and BLOSSOMS. KEEP ALL 

 BLOSSOMS REMOVED FROM YOUR NEWLY SET 

 PLANTS UNTIL THE LATTER PART OF JUNE. This will 

 let your plants become permanently established quickly. After 

 this date let the blossoms remain on the plants and they will 

 form into berries for your late Summer and Fall harvest. 



FERTILIZING IN THE FALL. Putting an application of 

 5-8-12 commercial fertilizer on your strawberry fiefci in the fall 

 will make the grower larger profits than spring fertilizing. 

 We have found that an application of the above fertilizer at 

 the rate of 800 to 1,000 pounds per acre, applied on the beds 

 the latter part of August up until September 10th, will make 

 your fruit buds in the strawberry plants larger, and at the same 

 time make you more fruit buds, for your coming Spring berry 

 crop. 



Apply the fertilizer, on the foliage when the foliage of the 

 plants are PERFECTLY DRY, and then use a bush or burlap 

 bag and gently brush the fertilizer off the plants foliage, so 

 fertilizer will not 'burn the plants.' In the Spring apply only 

 400 pounds of a 6-8-6 analysis fertilizer to the acre, when the 



flants are dormant, usually about MARCH 1st, in normal 

 pring. 



The home gardener can use the same practice as described 

 above for field culture using 2V2 pounds fertilizer per 100 

 square feet of space planted to strawberries. In the Spring 

 apply about ONE POUND per the 100 square feet. For the 

 home gardener, when there has not been any fertilizer applied 

 to the strawberry beds in the FALL, then we recommend 3 

 pounds of 6-8-6 fertilizer applied in the late winter or very 

 early Spring, before the buds start growth. When the above 

 mixtures are not available in fertilizers, we then recommend 

 that you use VIGORO, adding 30 percent more than you do 

 the above mixtures. 



Territorial Adaptability of Townsend's Varieties Strawberries 



Varieties marked with * are the leaders and ones most widely planted 



Variety Approved For of rfpening 



Blakemore* All States with exception New England, N. Y., Penna. Extra Early 



Big Joe* AH berry sections except extreme South Mid-Season 



Chesapeake New England, West. Va., Ohio., 111., Pa., N. Y., Ind., Wis. Late 



Catskili All States except extreme South. A Favorite Mid-Season 



Dorsett* All strawberry sections except Fla., and Ga. Early 



Fairfax* All States except Fla., and Gulf States Early 



Fairpeake Being tested, widely favors Central and Northern States Late 



Gem, Everbearing* Planted In All States except far South Fall 



Evermore Everbearing Central, Western and all Nothern States Fall 



Gemzata, Everbearing* All States Except Fla., and Ga., Fall 



Howard 17* All States except extreme South, and Gulf States Early 



Lupton Del., N. J., Pa., Ohio., W. Va., Conn. Late 



Mastodon, Everbearing* All States except in the warm Southern seaions Fall 



Missionary Fla., N. C, S. C, La., Texas Early 



Premier* All sections except extreme South Early 



Polar-Queen The ONE AND ONLY NATIONALLY PLANTED STRAWBERRY _. Early 



Senator Dunlap Kansas, Iowa, Mo., Mich., Ind., 111., Wis., Ohio Mid-Season 



Sparkle Being tested, looks favorably for Pa., N. Y., New Eng. Mid-Season 



Streamliner, Everbearing __ All States Except Fla., Ga., La., Miss., Fall 



Temple* All States except the deep Southern States Early 



Town-King* All States except Gulf States Late 



Xtralate* All States except Gulf and Southern States Extra Late 



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TOWNSEND SELECT-STRAIN PLANTS ARE GROWN THROUGHOUT 



THE NATION AND ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR HARDINESS 



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OUR 47 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN BERRY CULTURE IS AT YOUR SERVICE 



WORLD'S LARGEST GROWERS AND SHIPPERS OF STRAWBERRY PLANTS 



Cultivating a large field of strawberry plants, grown under the supervision of L. Sherman Townsend, Mgr 



