Greetings 



Well friends it is time for me to take up my pen again and write greetings for another 

 year, the year 1940. I hope the year just passed has been kind to each one of you. It 

 has not been just what we had hoped, I am sure, and maybe our plans did not work out 

 just as we thought they would but hope it has left us healthier, happier and more deter- 

 mined to do our best thru the coming year and may this year be the happiest and most 

 prosperous one you have ever had. 



I have for this season a nice lot of plants in most varieties, and in somel of the. lead- 

 ing varieties, especially Blakemore, Premier, Chesapeake and Fairfax have the best sup- 

 ply I have had for some years and I am sure will please. Prices this season are very 

 reasonable and have made them as reasonable as I can and believe you will find PRYOR'S 

 'QUALITY" Satisfaction or your Money Back Guaranteed Plants the best buy this sea- 

 son, and am enclosing order blank and return envelope for your convenience. 



I am offering several new varieties this season, in limited quantities, as I want to give 

 my customers the very best in strawberry plants. Some of these have been very outstand- 

 ing in tests made and believe it will pay you to give them a thorough trial. 



The outlook for the strawberry grower, as I see it, is better than for some years. 

 With the increased output in many lines, owing to the war in Europe, and the increasing 

 number of persons being employed should make a demand for strawberries much greater 

 than for several years so let us plan to obtain some of these better prices for berries. 

 Better berries always bring better prices and it will pay us to give a little extra atten- 

 tion to our berry plants for if we grow fancy fruit it will always sell at premium prices. 



I want to thank each one of you for the generous orders you gave me last season ; 

 this is sincerely appreciated I assure you, and frankly, I hope to be favored with your 

 orders again this season, and to those who have never set PRYOR'S "QUALITY" plants 

 I invite you to try them this year and let me prove to you I can fill your order to your 

 entire satisfaction at prices that will mean a saving to you. Remember I guarantee 

 satisfaction or refund your mony. 



Yours for more and better berries, 



M. S. PRYOR 



WHEN MARKETING FRUIT pick and grade carefully as you will in this way create 

 a demand for your product and enable you to have regular customers who will be anxious 

 to get your berries even if they have to pay more for them and when you once get trade 

 established DON'T send them second grade produce. Always fill boxes good and full, 

 set in shade as soon as filled, and market as soon as possible after being picked. By 

 observing these few rules you will have a nice, attractive, fresh looking package that 

 you will be proud to put your name and brand on. 



UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND 



STATE HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT 



CERTIFICATE OF INSPECTION 



THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That on the 5th day of October, 1939, we examined the Nursery 

 stock of M. S. PRYOR NURSERIES, growing in his nurseries at Salisbury, County of Wicomico, 

 State of Maryland, in accordance with the laws of Maryland, 1898, Chapter 298, section 58, and that 

 said nurseries and premises are apparently free, so far 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 valid until Sept. 30, 1940, unless sooner revoked, and does not include nur- 

 sery stock not grown within this State, unless such stock is prevously covered by Certificate and 

 accepted by the State Entomologist and State Pathologist. 



ERNEST N. CORY, State Entomologist 

 -College Park, Oct. 19th, 1939. C. E. TEMPLE, State Pathologist 



