4 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’ 
Samouk PLANT SELECTION 
FPF'HE forty years of our experience in 
a& 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 specia] 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 forty years experience 
has taught us. Only in this way can we be sure of giving our 
customers plants of better quality and greater yield. 
Recent research has shown that 80% 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, 
In late September after plants have matured and again in 
early spring when new growth starts, the Maryland State Nurs- 
ery Inspectors carefully examine all our growing plants. 
These double inspections insure customers of getting disease- 
free plants, which is necessary if good yields are to be ob- 
tained. It costs just as much to plant and cultivate an acre of 
diseased plants as it does an acre of healthy disease-free 
plants. The comparative results received usually spell success 
or failure. This is just another precaution Townsend takes to | 
furnish their customers with the best plants possible to grow | 
and produce for them the heavy yields which they have a 
an. ee : right to expect. You pay no more for these double inspected | 
State Nursery Inspectors Double Inspecting plants than just ordinary plants. Your berry profits are in- 
Block Select Strain Chesapeake. creased at no extra cost to you. 
