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* 

 ^cmeuA Plant Selection 



out no Motkcc cost/ 



THE thirty-eight 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 thirty-eight years ex- 

 perience 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 807c 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. 



• A Townsend Select Strain plant — your 

 insurance of Good Stands, Quick Growth 

 and Bigger Crops. 



BRING 



YOUR BERRY 



PROBLEMS TO US! 



When you have prob- 

 lems, write us about 

 them. We'll be glad to 

 help you whether you 

 plant a Back Yard 

 Garden or a 

 Plantation. 



• 2500 QUARTS OR 10,000 QUARTS PER ACRE— 



Which yield do YOU prefer? 



U. S. Government figures show that the average yield of strawberries 

 is less than 2500 quarts per acre — hardly enough to pay the cost 

 of growing. In comparison to this, many of our customers report 

 yields of from 5.000 to 14.000 quarts per acre — at a net profit of from 

 $500 to $1400. Growers in every part of the country have learned that 

 our select strain plants are bred heavy production: and their success 

 has given us a reputation, which we are constantly crying to maintain. 

 We shall always send our customers only the highest quality plants 

 at the lowest possible price, and with the best possible service we 

 know how. 



