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From Extra Early to Very Late in Season 



SHORT DESCRIPTIONS of the leading standard varieties, and true 

 descriptions of the newer varieties, as we have found them on our own 

 trial groimds, together with the descriptions sent in to us by our thousands 

 of customers, and the various Experimental Stations throughout the 

 country. 



EARLY VARIETIES 



PREMIER -For the past 11 



years Townsend s 



Nursery have made Premier their 

 special. We have fjrowu Premier in 

 larger quantities than any other 

 nursery. We have shipped them to 

 over fifty thousand customers, in 

 every nook and corner of the T'nited 

 States, as well as to many foreign 

 countries. Over and over, year after 

 year these customers come back for 

 more of Townseud's Premier plants. 

 No variety ever introduced has 

 pleased the growers as well as Pre- 

 mier, for no other variety has made 

 the mone.v for them that Premier 

 has made. We are still headquar- 

 ters for this grand variety. For this 

 season we have grown one of our 

 largest and finest crops that we have 

 ever had to offer. And every cus- 

 tomer is assured of getting only high 

 grade, true-to-name, long bright- 

 rooted plants. 



Premier begins to ripen early, covers a very long 

 season. T'nusually large crops of large to very 

 large berries, uniform in size and color. Foliage 

 strong and healthy and not subject to disease 

 such as rust and mildew. Grows well on any 

 good rich garden soil in all parts of the coun- 

 try. Last Premier has never been known to 

 miss a single crop from late frost. The blooms 

 seem to be hardier than most varieties. When 

 you plant Premier you plant frost protection. 



When you send to Townsend's for your Pre- 

 mier plants you get the best plants that it is 

 possible for thirty years of service, time and 

 money to grow. 



Premier. 



Townsend's Select Missionary. 



Howard 17 



— It is generally 

 known throughout 

 the country that 

 Premier and How- 

 ard 17 are one 

 and the same va- 

 riety. Some of 

 onr c u s t m e rs 

 have purchased 

 the plants under 

 the name of How- 

 ard 17, and it has 

 proven so valuable 

 to them that they 



insist on buying their plants under the name of 

 Howard 17. Again we have purchased plants 

 from a leading New England grower, who sells 

 them under this name, and any of our friends 

 and customers may have the true Howard 17 

 by asking for them. This was simply done to 

 please some of our customers who have all along 

 insisted on buying Howard 17. 



TOWNSEND^S SELECT MIS- 



SIONARY — Townsend's Select Mission- 



ary is the one ideal variety 



for Southern growers. It is this variety that 

 you see on the fancy fruit stands in the North- 

 ern markets from Thanksgiving to INIarch 15th 

 every year. Large blood red juicy berries that 

 sell from 50 cents to over .$1.00 per quart. It is 

 the berry that put Florida on the map as a 

 strawberry state. We introduced this variety 

 to the State of Florida in 1908. Since that time 

 we have shipped probably 100,000,000 plants 

 into that State, and to date it is growing 

 stronger than ever. Few varieties have been 

 sent out that has kept the faith so long a time. 

 We begin to ship plants into Florida about Octo- 

 ber 1st for the main crop of fruit, and again 

 shipping starts in .January for plant propagating 

 for those wishing to grow their own stock 

 plants. 



