TOWNSEND NURSERIES - SALISBURY - MARYLAND 



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 Fairfax and Dorsett. 



YOU RECEIVE TOWNSEND'S 

 ^&mXX4& PLANT SELECTION 



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TSE forty-five 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 ani- 

 mals. 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 th*. 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 cus- 

 tomers 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-five years experience 

 has taught us Onlv in this wav can we be sure of eiving our 

 customers plants of better quality and greater yield. 



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Townsend Select Stroin Premier As Grown By Our Mr. L. Sherman Townsend 

 Pronounced by Visitors Who Examined the Field as One of the Finest Blocks They Had Ever Seen Crown In Any Section. 



