24 E. W. TOWNSEND SONS - SALISBURY » MARYLAND 

MISSIONARY (Early) 

















90% 

Ge SF “Townsend's Nurseries” 
The Home of Missionary: 
Introduced by Townsend's 
26 Years Ago, and Still Going Strong 
The fact that, during the past 26 years, the Townsend nurseries have 
shipped over 100,000,000 Missionary plants into the State of Florida alone 
is proof in itself that, for a main southern crop the Missionary is unexcelled. 
Because of our method of ‘‘up-breeding’’ (continually improving on this 
old variety), the Townsend standard for this variety has been continually 
raised so that today southern planters acknowledge that our strain is the 
most productive and the surest to produce consistently large profits of any 
Missionary plants sold. They do not gamble, but stick to us and are well 
repaid for their confidence in our product. 
of the Total Berry Acreage 
in Florida Is Missionary 
Buy Townsend’s Selected Missionary plants for southern planting! 
Recommended for States of Fla., Ga. N. C., Tenn., S. C., Texas 
EARLY AND MEDIUM EARLY STRAWBERRIES OF OUTSTANDING MERITS 
BEAVER (Early). The fruit of this variety is large, bright 
red of very firm texture and an ideal variety for long distant 
shipping. It is a cross of Dr. Burrill and Premier (two well 
known heavy yielding varieties). Our Western customers, who 
have tried Beaver, have found it to be an outstanding early 
variety for their section. 
BELLMAR (Early). Bellmar is reeommended for the South- 
ern states. including Texas, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. 
It ranks high as an early berry because of its bright, rich 
red appearance and heavy crops produced, even in dry regions. 
COOPER (M. E.). A berry of large size, coarse in texture, 
running very uniform in shape. It is grown extensively in 
Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Western New York. 
GIBSON (M. E.). This variety is also listed as Parson’s 
Beauty. It is an extra heavy producer, well shaped berries, 
but the fruit has just a little too soft a texture to carry well 
on long distant hauls. It is adapted to practically all types of 
soil, very easy to grow, and market gardeners find GIBSON 
produces excellent profits for roadside sales as the flavor and 
appearance is very good. 



(Late) 
Grown 
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WORLD'S 
WONDER 
large berry, 
early. 
WORLD’S WONDER 
The Largest Berry 
The greatest thing 
about World’s Won- 
der is its size. We 
know of no other 
berry that will equal 
it in this respect. It 
is without a doubt 
erty, BRANDYWINE. It is an old favorite being grown 
grown. We have 
picked these berries 
on our test plots, 
where nine berries 
filled a quart. Qual- 
moder- 
ately firm and fairly 
productive. Suitable 
for home use or 
market, 
size 
counts. Our supply 
of this variety 
limited, so if you are 
in need of a fancy 
order customers who wish to order best strain SAMPLE 
JUPITER (Patented) (M. E.). This variety is being grown 
extensively throughout the leading strawberry sections and is 
found to give better results in such berry growing states as 
Nebraska, Iowa, and other northwestern states. Color: Glisten- 
ing red with excellent shipping qualities. It is one of the 
largest mid-season varieties on the market. The berry that 
the fancy trade would take at a good price. We would advise 
giving JUPITER a fair trial in your planting this year. 
KLONDYKE (Early). This is an old variety being grown 
quite extensively now in North Carolina, South Carolina, 
Southern Illinois, Tennessee, and Alabama. The berries are 
very bright, round, firm, and an excellent shipper. TOWN- 
SEND’S strain of KLONDYKE is being used by the largest 
associations in the South. 
MARSHALL (M.E.). It is an old favorite with the berry 
growers in the northern states. Fruit is extra large in size and 
is grown extensively for fancy trade. The plant growth is 
vigorous and does best on clay or low springy type soil. 
SOUTHLAND. Extra early. The Southland is named for its 
apparent adaptability to the southern states, especially 
as a local market berry. Under favorable growing 
conditions at Willard, North Carolina, it has produced 
the fewest cull berries of any sort yet tested there. 
The berries are large, bright red, with a glossy surface. 
Flavor sweet, and are of the very highest dessert qual- 
ity. The berries, while firm, are not so firm as the 
Blakemore or Bellmar. 
CULVER. This grand variety hails from the N. Y. 
State Agricultural Experiment Station. The plant itself 
is a vigorous and healthy grower. Berries are large and 
very attractive, having a varnished gloss, and dark 
red, fairly firm and a very good variety for preserving. 
Fruiting season can be classed as a long mid-season 
variety, fairly heavy producer. 
Every commercial grower expressly, should try a few 
plants of this variety along with his favorite. 
POPULAR LATE VARIETIES 
extensively in N. Y., Calif., Fla. at the present time. 
Fruit is large, dark red with excellent quality and 
very heavy yielder. Should not be planted on low soils. 
PEARL. (Very Late). This variety does best on 
springy type or heavy clay soil. The season of PEARL 
is very late and there is very little danger of late 
frosts getting any of the blossoms or berries. Fruit: 
rich red, good size, and fine quality, grown extensively 
in North and Eastern states. 
SAMPLE (This is IMP.). This variety is still a 
favorite in some sections of the country especially 
Ohio and West Virginia, but is fast giving way to 
A other late varieties such as Town King, Chesapeake 
1S and Xtralate. Fruit is very firm, bright red in color 
and usually very productive and grown on rich soils. 
We grow sufficient stock each year to take care of our 
plants. 

