Everbearing 
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/ Hike The Aristocrat of All the 
lg Everbearing Strawberries 
After the Introduction of the Mastodon, there was so much attention being paid to that berry, and such 
wonderful claims being made that we lowered our price on the LUCKY STRIKE to correspond with Masto- 
don. Thousands of our customers have tested both varieties side by side and have found LUCKY STRIKE 
to equal Mastodon in practically every respect, and to greatly surpass it on quality. 
We have been very modest in our claims for LUCKY STRIKE. Our customers have done most of the 
boosting. We do claim that it is the most worthy Everbearing Strawberry that has ever come to our atten- 
tion both as an everbearer and a spring crop. In a test plot Spring 1928 LUCKY STRIKE was given the 
highest award on the three main qualities that go to make up a strawberry—namely Quality of Fruit, Size 
and Beauty, as well as Productiveness. In this test plot were all the very best late and midseason sorts. 
When I tell you that LUCKY STRIKE is not only the best Everbearing Strawberry, but the best variety for - 
spring crop that we have tested on our farms in the past thirty years, I am speaking the truth as I have 
found it, and am not making this claim in order to sell any more LUCKY STRIKE plants: 
—Townsend’s 100% Genuine MASTODON 
There’s a Reason Why Our Customers Increase 
Their MASTODON Planting Each Year 
TOWNSEND’S Strain of MASTODON plants 
cost you no more than the common grade of Mas- 
todon plants being advertised by Tom, Dick, and Harry, 
whose plants have been allowed to fruit all summer and 
fall, and are practically all run down in vigor, and will fail to pro- 
duce when reset for another crop. : 
There is a reason for the increased demand for TOWNSEND’S MASTODON PLANTS every 
year. Our plants are grown for Nursery stock only. They are first grown right and the fruit 
stems are carefully picked off the nursery rows all through the summer months while the plants 
are growing. This throws all the strength into the plants, and when reset another year are full 
of Pep and ready to produce the big crops of berries that are reported every year. 
We do not have to tell our Folks how good MASTODON is, or put on a circus style of adver- 
tising in order to sell our stock. We have never made claims that 18 berries fill a quart, and lots 
of other stuff—but all the same orders for our MASTODON plants are increased several thousand 
orders each year, and hundreds of growers write us that there is as much difference as day from 
night between our stock than that of some other growers, who claim to have the only real MAS- 
TODON plants. Growers who purchased our MASTODON plants in small lots of a few hundred 
years ago are now purchasing in lots of several thousand. Some customers who have their road- 
side markets grow several acres each year, and buy our plants every year to reset a new bed. 
We have a fine crop of MASTODON plants this year, but possibly not enough to go around, and 
we advise our customers to get their orders in early if they want to be sure of getting our True 
Blue MASTODON PLANTS. 
PROGRESSIVE Everbearing was the first real Everbearing Strawberry and for 
a long time was highly advertised and spoken of. 
Since the introduction of such varieties as Lucky Strike and Mastodon it is not so largely planted. 
Fruit is small to medium size, of excellent quality. Recommended only for home use at this time. 
It is a good strong grower and produces a good quality of berries on good rich moist garden soil. 
ALDRICH tz new EveRseaRInGc FROM NEW ENGLAND.—Our attention was called by the 
Originator of this variety in the fall of 1930. We went over to look at it in fruit, 
and found it as the Originator had stated—simply loaded with large size good quality berries, the plants 
being clean, healthy and vigorous while fruiting. . 
The past spring we purchased all the plants we could and have a small stock to offer those wishing to 
give it a trial. It is my opinion that it will prove successful in the Northern states. 
Price of ALDRICH PLANTS: 12, $2.00; 25, $3.00; 50, $5.00; 100, $8.00. 
FOR PRICES OF EVERBEARING PLANTS, SEE PAGE 32 
