get the best article for the least money. This is natural and no one 

 should fault any of us for this fact. 



I want you (and especially the New Customer) to read every word of 

 this Catalog. I want you to expect when you make out the order for us, 

 that you are going to receive better plants and better service than you 

 could get elsewhere, that s exactly what we intend on selling you. 



Not only the best plants that it is possible for us to grow in the 

 most favored spot on earth, but at the lowest possible price that good 

 plants can be grown in a wholesale way. Plants fresh from the virgin 

 soil, solid fields of a single variety, where there is absolutely no 

 chance for a mixture of varieties. Grown from the strongest and purest 

 mother plants that it is possible for a strawberry specialist to select. 

 Everything handled in the most scientific manner from the time plants 

 are selected as mother plants and set in the fields until your order is 

 packed for shipment and delivered to the Transportation Co. 



As to varieties we are listing, v/e are trying to grow only those 

 varieties that are pleasing our customers and making them the most 

 money. There are a few back numbers on our list, but these are grown 

 only in a small way and especially for a few of our customers in certain 

 localities where the old time sorts seem to be favorites. You will find 

 our choice leading varieties in BLACK FACE TYPE. These are grown by the 

 Millions. The Premier (Howard 17) stands as the most popular variety on 

 the list of Early sorts. The Missionary, Klondyke, and Aroma are the 

 leading varieties for the South and Southwest. Big Joe, Chesapeake, 

 Ford, Townsends Big Late, are the leaders in late varieties in the 

 Northern half of the country, with "TOWN-KING" as the most promising 

 New Late variety. MASTODON Everbearing is sure to be the leading com- 

 mercial everbearing strawberry. It not only produces a large crop of 

 extra large berries the first year planted, but it produces equal as 

 good as the very best of Spring varieties. We have been two years 

 building up a true strain of this variety. We have now a very fine 

 stock of true-to-name Mastodon plants direct from the Introducer, and 

 will be pleased to furnish any of our customers these plants believing 

 it is the very best buy on the list. At this date, Nov. 1st, we are 

 receiving $18.00 per crate of sixty pints for every crate we are ship- 

 ping to the Philadelphia market. Take my advice, get started quick with 

 Mastodon, and use the Kruegers runner cutter so they will grow in hills 

 and you have a gold mine in a few years. Never will there be enough 

 strawberries grown in September, October, and November to glut the 

 markets. But as I see it more fall berries will create a better market 

 and cause higher prices. 



I' could not close this letter without saying something about our 

 wonderful flowers. I am getting to be a crank on flowers, at least that 

 is what my wife says. Well I just wish that you could have visited us, 

 all of you, this summer and fall. Our Gladioli, Dahlia, and Canna 

 fields were the show grounds for this part of the country. Just acres 

 and acres of the finest show Dahlias, then Decorative, Cactus, Hybrids, 

 of every shade and size from the very highest priced down to the old 

 standards and up again. And then to the "Glad" fields with hundreds of 

 varieties, shades and colors. It just seemed hard for night to come on 

 so I could not see them longer, and last the beautiful Canna field with 

 all its gorgeous glow; it just seemed really too much for one to look at 

 at the same time. And while you will not find them all listed in 

 colors, you will find them all listed (or the best of them) at very 

 reasonable prices, and I want you all to enjoy them with me next summer. 



Come and see us if you can, always glad to meet our friends. If 

 you are too far away and can't come then write us often. Our Dear Old 

 Uncle Sam, has made it possible thru the mail so we are only neighbors 

 after all, and your letters and orders are always welcome. And you are 

 all within the reach of us. Just write it with ink or pencil whichever 

 is the handiest, we will be glad to receive it. 



Sincerely yours, 



E, W. Townsend, Pres. 



