What Our Customers Say About Us. 
THE TRUEST MEASURE OF SUCCESS OF A BUS- 
INESS IS ITS NUMBER OF SATISFIED 
CUSTOMERS 
Our long list of satisfied customers are considered 
by us to be our very best assets. Nothing is more pleas- 
ing to us than to open the morning’s mail and read let- 
ter after letter praising our plants and our service. 
These good letters all come to us unsolicited. They 
are from folks who just feel they have to tell us about 
the satisfaction they are getting from growing Towns- 
ends’ plants. Many of these Folks we have been serv- 
ing for more than twenty years, and in many sections 
where we started with a single customer twenty years 
ago, we now number them by the hundreds. 
It is in this way that Townsends nursery has grown 
to be the largest of its kind in the world. Making a 
pleased customer, keeping him pleased so well that he 
becomes our Best Friend, and best avdertisement. No 
pages of advertising that we can do is so valuable to us 
as our pleased customers, for what they say goes much 
fartner with a prospect buyer than anything we could 
say. 
- The following list of testimonials were intended to 
be printed in our latest Catalog but were crowded out. 
So we are sending them in this pamphlet, feeling that 
they ought to be read by those who are asking for our 
Catalogues for the first time this season. 
In most cases we are giving the full name and ad- 
dress, so that you can write any of them if you wish. 
Lots of them you probably know as your neighbors and 
visit them. A few object to using their address owing 
to correspondence. 
0: 
Mr. R. T. Daugherty, Wakefield, Va. Plants pur- 
chased from you have always been good. 
MORE THAN 1200 QUARTS FROM 1200 PLANTS 
From Taylor C. Lyford, Upton, Mass. The 1200 
strawberry plants purchased from you in 1922 did 
splendid. They produced more than 1200 quarts of the 
finest berries. The Premier was the variety grown. I 
want 20V0 more plants next spring and you bet they 
will be Townsends plants. 
My berries sold for 5c to 10¢ per box more than 
others received, or any other berries sold in town. Don’t 
fail to send me new catalog. 
— SF 
TOWNSEND PLANTS ALWAYS TRUE TO NAME 
AND FINE PRODUCERS 
Send me your catalog as soon as out. I want to 
place my order with you again. Last season I bought 
your plants, and some from a Tennessee grower which 
I got much cheaper in price. Well I was well pleased 
with your plants as I always am. But the Tennessee 
plants turned out to be a bad mixture. It does not pay 
to buy this cheap southern grown plants at any price. 
In trying to save a few dollars, we have lost many. I 
will send my order as soon as I receive your prices. It 
seems hard for people here to spend a few more dollars 
for something they know is absolutely true to name and 
will always please them. Yours very truly, 
Chas. J. Bell, Morristown, Tenn. 
NOTE—A few extra dollars spent for best plants 
or seed is well spent. Life is too short to spend our 
hours cultivating worthless plants. 
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Mr. Ben E. Spurgeon, West Union, W. Va. I have 
always had good success with your plants. My father 
recommended you to me ten years ago. 
A Field of Dewberry Plants in Bloom, 
For the last five years we have been de- 
voting more acreage to the growing of 
Blackberries, and next to Strawberries we 
find them to be the most paying crop that 
we grow. We specialize in the running 
varieties, or DEWBERRIES, and find that 
these are the best money making varie- 
ties for nearly all sections. Blackberries 
can be made to pay big money on soil 
that will not produce any other crop. 
This worn out soil if it is light loose 
makes an ideal spot for the Dewberries, or 
they may be grown on new light spruce 
land just cleared with excellent results. 
One hundred and fifty to two hundred 
bushels crates can be grown per acre on 
most any old worn out soil and when it is 
considered that $5.00 per bushel is a low 
average in any section it may readily be 
seen that Blackberries ave a paying crop. 
Requires no fertilizers to grow good black- 
berries. About the only fertilizer IT know 
of that would be an advantage to them 
would be wood ashes. 
Most varieties should be planted in rows 
five feet apart by four feet, and cultivated 
each way. Plants should be set in the 
spring or very late in the fall and culti- 
vated same as a crop of covn. After the 
second crop of berries is off, the vines 
should be mowed or cut off close to the 
ground, the old growth raked off and 
burned, a furrow from each side with a 
single plow thrown directly over the stocks 
just letting the furrows meet—(not lap). 
Should lay this way for two weeks then 
cross harrow plants for the third season. 
This method is followed every year same 
as the third working out, and a bed of 
blackberries grown this way will last for 
many years. Any further advice on grow- 
ing will be cheerfully given. 
