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S. Is). '^OWNSEND & 5oNs' Jttawberry Tlants 



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Mr. McKinley of Penn. makes big money 



from Townsend's Plants. I am writing to tell you what a 

 wonderful crop of berries I had this season. The 2,500 

 plants you sent me in 1926 produced over 1,500 quarts of 

 the finest berries that ever went into our market. Every- 

 body wanted them. I followed your instructions the best 

 I could and am Well pleased with results. 



Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Opitz of North Car., well 



pleased with Townsend's Premier. Very sorry I did not 

 learn about your plants, and especially the Premier 

 sooner. Plants 1 bought two years ago are still fruiting 

 heavily, and best berries I ever saw. 



Mr. McCloskey of Pa. writes us again — We 



have just finished picking our crop of berries. We could 

 never hope to have finer crop and prices were good. We 

 use just as much pains in picking and packing our berries 

 as we do in growing them. We stamp our name on every 

 box and try to make every box just the same. We were 

 getting 30 cents per quart when our neighbors were getting 

 only naif that much and theirs went dragging while we 

 had to turn down orders. We never plant anything but 

 Townsend's plants and always recommend them to our 

 friends. 



The Way They 

 Look When a 

 KRUEGER 

 RUNNER 

 CUTTER 

 is Used 



Price of Ruri' 



tier Cutter 



$8.00 Each 



or GIVEN 



FREEivith 



a $50,00 



Order 



Our Select List of Best Money 

 Making Varieties 



For the Northern Half of the United States. 



I am giving here the same list of varieties as my preference 

 that I gave one of my New York customers today who 

 asked me personally in my office to name him my choice 

 money makers. 



I said Mr. Weaver, Our New Berry the "May Queen" 

 when properly fruited with such a berry as "Town-King" 

 (plant three rows May-Queen and one row Town-King) 

 is without exceprion the greatest money maker on the list. 

 It has every point of character that goes to make a perfect 

 strawberry. 



Now Mr. Weaver, My Next choice as a money maker is the 

 Premier. I say this because 85% of all the strawberry 

 plants sold by us last season in the Northern half of the 

 country was Premier, and because I have never known it 

 to fail to make money for any one who has planted it. 



JT 



Ploujing Under Tons of Humus 

 Keeping Our Soil Rich 



My next choice of the standard varieties is about equally 

 divided between several varieties, namely: 



AROMA, CHESAPEAKE, TOWNSENDS, 

 BIG LATE, FORD, BIG JOE, LUPTON, 

 COOPER, GANDY and WM. BELT. 



If I had my own say I would not grow any more varieties 

 for my Northern or Eastern customers. 



Mr. Weaver asked, what about the best eVer- 

 bearing for commercial growing? 



I said Mr. Weaver, I have but one choice of a commercial 

 ever bearer and that is the MASTODON. It will be a 

 long time before we get a better one. Mastodon, is a 

 wonderful variety and a wonderful hardy plant. A 

 variety that fruits well on any soil the entire season 

 and is sure to produce a paying crop. I know of no va- 

 riety that will make more money for any grower if properly 

 handled. Mastodon will fruit twelve months out of 

 twenty-four, counting five months first year plants are 

 set. And seven months the second year. And a paying 

 crop all the time. Fruit larger than the average variety 

 and very good in quality. 



I then took Mr. Weaver out to our field of Mastodon 

 plants and said here they are, now judge for yourself. 

 After spending half an hour in the field of Mastodon, 

 Mr. Weaver said, "Well I am like the boy who went to the 

 circus and after seeing the giraffe, said 'Darned if I believe 

 there is any such animal.' " He says I am delighted and 

 I do not mind riding three hundred miles to see such,c 

 as you have shown me. I expect to give you an order for 

 enough Mastodon to set an acre next spring. 



