TOWNSEND NURSERIES INC. — SALISBURY — MARYLAND 



MILLIONS OF SELECTED 

 STRAIN PREMIER ARE 

 GROWN ANNUALLY AT 

 OUR PLANT FARMS 



Still the Greatest 

 Commercial Early 

 Berry of Them All 



NOW --ONLY $11.95 per 1000 in 5000 Lots 



THE Premier strawberry is still the queen, and retains its popularity 

 with thousands of individual growers because it puts a big crop of 

 fine appearing berries on the market first every time, and does it 

 under climatic conditions that often kill other varieties. No other 

 variety can supplant Premier for all around superiority. Superiority 

 as a money maker. Superiority inasmuch as Premier eliminates crop 

 failure, and by fruiting and ripening days and often a week earlier, 

 Premier never fails to command — and get — the highest price. Premier 

 has everything that its name implies, and by our select strain method 

 of growing, we have maintained all of the high qualities that made 

 Premier the immediate sensation of the strawberry world when it was 

 first introduced, and has kept it there ever since. 



Our Strain of PREMIER is True-to-Name. Double Inspected, State Certified! 



Every bundle of Townsend's Premier has been largest in the country — the quality has never been 



FAIR— TREATMEN 

 BIG— YIELDS 

 "AT NO EXTA COST 



Adams County, Pa 

 Aug. 16th, 1948 " 

 Mr. L. Sherman Townsend 

 Townsend Nurseries, Inc., 

 Dear Sir : 



Kindly book my order for 20,000 

 PREMIER strawberry plants for 

 Spring 1949 delivery. Understand 

 that berry plants will be short for 

 '49 planting, and we don't want 

 to be left on TOWNSEND 

 PLANTING STOCK 



Picked rate of about 16,000 

 quarts berries per acre from your 

 plants last Spring Harvest. Hav< 

 good prospects for coming season 

 Thanks for the personal attention 

 you give orders, as well as the 

 very reasonable prices for your 

 higher quality berry plants. 



Yours Sincerely, O. D. D 



double inspected and certified by the Maryland 

 State Dept. of Entomology. Our strain of Premier 

 is direct from the original planting and has been 

 consistently bred each year for heavier yields. 

 Our new ground planting of Premier is one of the 



COLOR — An attractive, bright, 

 scarlet red, capped by a colorful 

 green calyx that serves to accentuate 

 the berries' color when eyed by 

 prospective buyers. 



SIZE — Uniformly large, and under 

 favorable growing conditions, the 

 berries run to extra large sizes, 

 holding up well throughout the en- 

 tire ripening season and up until 

 the last picking. 



FIRMNESS —Classed as a long dis- 

 tance shipper where trucks are em- 



ployed, Premier is ideal for the 

 market gardener because of its last- 

 ing firmness. 



VIGOR — Premier is a strong 

 healthy grower, making a good 

 fruiting bed on a wide range of 

 soils and climatic conditions. 



QUALITY — A constant demand 

 over a period of years serves to 

 rank Premier among the foremost 

 for flavor and quality. Recom- 

 mended for home use, local sales 

 or commercial markets. 



better. If you are seeking bigger, heavier yielding 

 crops of large fine fruit, plant Townsend's original 

 strain of HEAVY YIELDING PREMIER. We will 

 reserve plants for you, digging and shipping when- 

 ever you are ready. __________________ .__„____,, 



SEASON OF RIPENING —Premier 

 berries are among the first varieties 

 to ripen, and comes on the market 

 when other strawberries are prac- 

 tically non-existant or in their 

 earliest stages. 



FROST RESISTANT —Premier i s 

 practically immune to late spring 

 frosts. This is due to the peculiar 

 plant growth which it makes, al- 

 most completely hiding the blossom 

 and protecting it from severe cold. 



