4 E. W. TOWNSEND SONS : 
SALISBURY - MARYLAND 







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THIS TRADE MARK 
IS YOUR PROTECTION FOR 
TRUE TO NAME QUALITY PLANTS 
Townsend’s name for the past thirty-six years 
has represented all that is best in berry growing 
and has become the by-word for true-to-name qual- 
ity plants the country over. Many attempts have 
been made to sell inferior plants to the unsuspecting 
buyer at lower prices than our catalogue list price 
and represent the plants as being products of the Townsend’s Nurseries. 
To protect our customers against such practice we adopted three years 
ago the policy of carefully marking every bundle of plants shipped out j 
from our nurseries by placing our trademark on the label. This is our ~ 
customer’s insurance against any one who by such unfair means are 
trying to capitalize on the Townsend name. When you see this trade- 
mark you can res tassured that you are getting true-to-name plants, 
and Townsend’s Quality. 
MONEY-MAKING OPPORTUNITIES 
GROWING STRAWBERRIES 
There are big profits in growing strawberries. The first step 
is to secure healthy, vigorous plants with yielding qualities 
bred into them. Plants that will produce uniform berries 
of the highest quality; berries that will bring the top price 
on any market. The local and distant markets are usually 
well supplied with small, undersize berries during harvest 
season, bringing the price down on this class of berries to an 
unprofitable basis, while the same markets are glad to get 
berries of superior quality and perfectly willing to pay a 
premium price for them. Our customers often write us that 
their berries have been topping the market from three to 
five cents per quart, this extra price being a very good profit 
and one that no grower of strawberries can afford to pass up. 
LET US HELP YOU GET STARTED 
Our instructions are easily followed; simple enough for the 
average 10-year-old boy to understand. To those of our 
friends with little or no experience in this profitable straw- 
berry field we are most happy to take up your prozblems and 
give you the benefit of the information that we have gained 
through the years we have been in the small fruit plant 
business. We also issue a complete culture guide on small 
fruit growing. This booklet is free for the asking. 

UALIT 
The good name of this firm and good will of its customers have been 
built and preserved by always handling nothing but the highest grade 
stocks available. Every plant we ship is the best we can produce. 
TRUTH 
ola customers know that they will always get the variety they 
order. 
HEALTH 
Every plant we ship is healthy, thrifty, and free from all injurious 
diseases. Diseased plants will produce dividends for neither you 
nor us. 
PRODUCTIVENESS 
Every plant that goes into our propagation fields is selected for its 
heavy fruiting crowns. In this manner we keep our stock bred up 
in productiveness and vitality. They are carefully packed so that 
when they reach you they will grow strongly and produce as you have 
the right to expect from Townsend’s plants. 
Any stock received by you that does not meet these high standards will be replaced. It is also mutually un- 
derstood and agreed that in no case will we be liable for any sum larger than the original purchase price. 
BPewwre 
Every bundle of Plants sent out by Town- 
send’s is labeled true-to-name and Carries 
our Trade Mark 
SATISFIED CUSTOMERS 
Thousands of our customers have grown up with us. They 
started in a small way just as we did. Following our advice 
and instructions, they have made more money year after 
year in growing strawberries and other small fruits than any 
other crop. These thousands of old customers have sent to 
us tens of thousands of new customers. In this way TOWN- 
SEND’S NURSERIES have grown until today we are the 
largest growers and shippers of Strawberry Plants in the 
world. We enjoy the full confidence of the Strawberry 
growers throughout the country. We are mighty proud of 
our business and just as proud of our long list of faithful 
customers who have contributed their share in building our 
business to its present standing. For this faithfulness we are 
giving to each of them the best that is within our power in 
trying each year to grow plants that will please them better 
and to give the best service at our command. 
WHEN YOU BUY TOWNSEND'S PLANTS 
You purchase thirty-six years of practical growing experi- 
ence and plant breeding with them. Plants that are full of 
vitality and will increase your yields as they are doing for 
thousands of our customers thruout the country. Mr. G. G. 
Adams, South Orrington, Maine, writes us: ‘Picked 8,200 
quarts berries from two-thirds of an acre.’ F. D. Rogers, 
Corydon, Pa., average 11,700 quarts off an acre. S. Hartman, 
of Virginia, picked 11,520 quarts from an acre. There is no 
secret in making yields of this kind. You will find that 
Townsend’s Selected Strain of approved varieties will increase 
your yeld also. 


They have faith in us and we will not break it. 






