E. W. TO-WNSEND 



President 



Heart to Heart Talks With Our Customers 



A New 



Application 



To an Old 



Practice 



Farmers have 

 long been wise to 

 the value of cor- 

 rect animal breed- 

 ing. But have 

 been very' slow^ to 

 applying the same 

 sensible rule to 

 their seed and 



plant breeding. The time is now here 

 when every up-to-date grower's first 

 thought is where can I obtain the best 

 seed or plants. He wants the very best 

 and latest varieties, and the stock must come from a 

 reliable source. This Is Business Farming. 



Your Letters Are Always Welcome 



We welcome the thousands of letters received every 

 vear from our friends. But at the same time try our best to 

 answer as many of them beforehand as it is possible in a limited 

 Catalog like this. 



We are asked thousands of times is it practical to set Straw- 

 berry Plants in the summer and early fall. My answer is this: 

 If you have growing plants of your own or can get them from a 

 neighbor and can secure such plants when the weather is favorable you can have some suc- 

 cess. But to order plants from a distance and set them out in the summer or early fall is 

 simply suicide to the plants. Late fall planting for tlu- South, and early spring planting for 

 the North. 



Another one is, Does it pay to set plants from your own fruiting bed? My answer is 

 Emphatically no. When 3'ou contribute the loss of your own plants, the time of digging 

 and cleaning by inexperienced help where the soil is not ideal for plant growth, and deduct 

 the money you v.ould receive for the berries, you will find that you are a bad loser. 



Another question often asked. Is your Eastern grozvn plants hardy enough for the North- 

 ern climate? Thousands of customers do not ask this question any more, as will be seen 

 by many of the printed letters in this book. But to those who have not had the experience 

 will say that Plants grown on the Eastern Shore of Maryland are the hardiest plants grown 

 anywhere. The growing season is long and the winters mild enough for the plants to live 

 all winter in open fields without mulching. By this they get a winter hardening not possible 

 in climates where they have to be mulched. Mulched plants are always tender, while our 

 stock is tough and hardened so they will stand 

 long transportation in good order. Often plants 

 are blooming in Michigan under mulch, while 

 our stock is lying dormant in the fields. 



Another important point is that you can al- 

 ways get your order filled 

 promptly any time in 

 March or April from our 

 Nursery. 



This fact within itself 

 many times spells the dif- 

 ference between failure 

 and success. 



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