STRAWBERRIES 





DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES 



It will be my aim in writing the description of varieties which we are listing in this our 27th Annual Cata- 

 logue, to make them as brief as possible and at the same time to make every description as truthful and 

 plain as possible as the variety has behaved on our farms and trial beds together with the reports received 

 from our customers and the Experiment Stations thruout the Country. It will be impossible for me to write 

 descriptions of all that will compare with yours, as but few varieties do the same in all localities. Here I want 

 to insist once more on the importance of every strawberry grower having every year a test plot of New va- 

 rieties to be tested out with the best old standard sorts. No business ever gets beyond an experimental 

 stage, and the Strawberry business is no exception. It is only by planting and testing on our own grounds 

 that we can expect to keep up with the procession. The best investments I have ever made has been by buying 

 and testing new varieties. Although I have spent hundreds of dollars in time for worthless seedlings, and ex- 

 pect to go on doing the same as long as I live and able to do business, as there is no other way for me to know 

 whether I am growing the best or not except as I test them on my own soil. 



TOWNSEND'S SELECT MISSIONARY 



Townsends Select Missionary is the one ideal variety 

 for the Southern Grower. It is early in season, a vari- 

 ety that is adapted to practically all soils. A strong 

 hardy grower and very productive of large fancy ber- 

 ries that has but few equals as a long distance shipper. 

 This variety is shipped every year from the far South by 

 Express and solid cars to every market in the country. 

 In most of the large berry growing sections in the South 

 and East the Missionary has taken the lead over all 

 other early varieties, and as far north as strawberries 

 grow it is a safe variety to plant. For the past nine- 

 teen years The Townsend Nurseries have made this va- 



riety one of their specialties, and our select strain of 

 Missionary plants is known and appreciated by practi- 

 cally all large growers and Associations thruout the 

 country. Our sales on this variety run in to many mil- 

 lions of plants every year. Some Associations alone us- 

 ing regularly every year more than a million plants. 

 For fifteen years the Plant City Growers of Plant City, 

 Fla., have used Townsends Select Missionary, and will 

 have nothing else. Write for special prices on orders 

 for 100,000 and up. Every plant absolutely guaranteed 

 true to name, and to be the very highest in quality that 

 *it is possible to grow. 



A New Ground Field of Townsend's Select Missionary Plants 



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