1919 Appreciation 1919 



3 DC 



I take this way of thanking all my friends and customers for all the 

 orders you gave me in 1918. I will say that I was prepared to ship orders 

 promptly and I gave my customers the benefit of my facilities for prompt 

 shipment. 



I am pleased to favor you with one of my 1919 catalogs of about 

 1,000,000 of PERDUE'S BEST QUALITY STRAWBERRY PLANTS which are 

 grown on a well favored soil with liberal applications of fertilizer and given 

 the most scientific methods of cultivation, with the result that my plants are 

 the very best that can be produced. 



I have listed fifteen of the very best varieties suitable for the market or 

 the home garden. 



I would advise all who can to set out some strawberry plants this spring. 

 Kindly note on another page in this catalog "The Strawberry a Money Crop." 

 Now is the opportune time to raise strawberries and I would suggest that you 

 order enough plants to start a strawberry bed in your home garden, also to 

 all who can to plant more extensively for a money crop. 



Please read the testimonials received from a few of my customers and if 

 you have not sent me your order I would be pleased to serve you for I know 

 that you will be one of my regular and satified customers. 



My plants are strictly true to name, well cleaned and tied in bundles of 

 twenty-five plants each, properly labeled and packed in plenty of damp moss 

 and guaranteed to reach my customers in excellent condition if they are deliv- 

 ered by the transportation company in due time and attended to promptly on 

 arrival. 



I have the stock and facilities for prompt shipment. May I have your 

 order for strawberry plants? 



Very respectfully, 



C. S. PERDUE. 



IMPORTANT. I will appreciate it if you will place your order as soon 

 as you receive this catalog. — C. S. P. 



tottfiratp of Nursfrg dlnapertton Nn. 10 



To Whom It May Concern: 



THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That on the 29th day of Aug. 1918, we examined 

 the Nursery Stock of C. S. Perdue, growing in his nurseries at Showell, 

 County of Worcester, State of Maryland, in accordance with the law of Mary- 

 land 1898, Chapter 289, Section 58, and that said nurseries and premises are 

 apparently free, so for as can be determined by inspection, from the San Jose 

 Scale, Peach yellows, Pear Blight and other dangerously injurious insect pests 

 and plant diseases. 



This Certificate is invalid after August 29th, 1919, and does not include 

 nursery stock notgrown within this State, unless such stock is previously covered 

 by certificate and accepted by the State Entomologist and State Pathologist. 



Ernest N. Cory, State Entomologist 

 College Park, Md., Sept. 9, 1918. C. E. Temple State Pathologist 



