Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
I OUR MONEY-MAKING 
VARIETIES 
PREMIER (Howard 17)—The 
Money Making King of all early 
strawberries. For cither Home 
use. Local Market or a Shipping 
berry. Premier has no equal. Has 
proven to bo almost frost proof. 
And the most productive variety 
ever grown. Size large to extra 
large the season thru. Red to the 
core, with quality good enough for 
a king. 
FORD—Is a second Premier, about 
ten days later. Quality and pro¬ 
ductiveness nearly the same. These 
two varieties will last almost the 
entire season and top the market 
every day. Almost frost proof. 
TOWNSEND’S BIG LATE (Imp.) 
Big Late is the finest imperfect 
late strawberry we have ever grown. 
As to quality, ranks with Premier, 
and Ford, and should be planted 
by the side of every row of Ford. 
We can name no better pair of 
late varieties. Exceedingly produc¬ 
tive and hardy. Almost frost proof. 
PREMIER, FORD, BIG LATE 
are the “BIG 3.” We recommend 
them everywhere, for all purposes. 
DR. BURRILL (Dunlap), is the 
next most profitable berry: a won¬ 
derful producer of medium to large 
good quality berries, early to mid¬ 
season. A good one for beginners. 
BIG JOE (Joe Johnson) is one of 
the old standard medium late va¬ 
rieties. known everywhere as a big 
producer of big berries: quality 
extra fine. 
WORLD’S WONDER—For seven 
years World's Wonder has gone 
unchallenged as the largest straw¬ 
berry grown. Exceedingly produc¬ 
tive, good quality and hardy. 
MISSIONARY (Townsend’s)—One 
of the best known early varieties 
for the South, and is a great fa¬ 
vorite with many growers, from 
Florida to Maine. Especially rec¬ 
ommended for hill culture: a good 
one for the beginner. 
I(LON DYKE -A standard, early to 
medium Southern variety, not rec¬ 
ommended for the North. 
GANDY—A very late standard va¬ 
riety ; does best on low, springy 
soil. Quality the best for a ship¬ 
ping berry. 
CHESAPEAKE is considered by 
many to bo the best late berry. 
We think it third best, ranking 
next to Ford, or Big Late, and 
will make An excellent mate for 
either one. Size large and good 
quality. Does best on springy soil, 
with plenty manure. 
PRES. HARDING—We have grown 
this berry for seven years, intro¬ 
ducing it to the public last season. 
With us it is a fine late variety, 
large size, dark red to center, and 
excellent quality, resembling that 
of the old Brandywine, though a 
much hardier plant with no rust. 
We believe it will prove a winner. 
LUCKY BOY (Everbearing)—in a 
great many sections Lucky Boy is 
the choice, especially in the north¬ 
ern half of the country. Is claimed 
to be the biggest, sweetest and 
most, productive of the everbearing 
strawberries. Recommended for 
hill culture. 
LUCKY STRIKE (Everbearing) — 
Is practically the same as Lucky 
Boy, except is lighter in color. A 
heavy producer of fine quality ber- 
-ies. Is a strong, liardy grower in 
the northern half of the country, 
and recommended either as an 
ever-bearer or 8pring cropper. One 
of the most productive In Spring. 
Many of our customers prefer it to 
any other over bearing. Prices 
greatly reduced. 
PROGRESSIVE. E. B.—Progres¬ 
sive is probably the best known 
of the ever-bearing strawberries; 
was the first good one to be intro¬ 
duced. and is best for the South¬ 
ern States. Is a heavy producer 
of small, good quality fruit for 
home use or local market. 
L UPTON—Late—Lupton is one of 
the coming late varieties for com¬ 
mercial use. Large, extra firm, 
and a beautiful, round - shaped 
berry: a strong, liardy grower. 
Recommended wherever a good late 
commercial variety is wanted. 
PREMIER 
FORD 
TOWNSEND BIG LATE 
Frost Insurance Unnecessary When Townsend’s 
Big 3 Are Planted 
Each one is particularly hardy in bloom. Ordinary frost does 
not affect them. Besides, they are persistent bloomers, and if 
partly killed a new set of blooms and buds follow in a few 
days and the big crop is insured always. Hundreds of growers 
testified to this fact during the last two years. 
Premier, Ford and Townsend Big Late produced heavy crops 
in all sections of the country duriug the last two years, when 
more than ninety per cent of the leading standards were a com¬ 
plete failure, owing to very late freezes and frosts. 
From our own testing, and the thousands of letters received 
from our customers iu every part of the country we have selected 
these three varieties as our big three money makers and recom¬ 
mend them to our friends everywhere. 
Premier begins to ripen early and fruits a long season. Ford 
is medium late to very late. Big Late is a late imperfect 
bloomer. The three cover the entire season from early to late, 
lor home use or local market we know of nothing their equal. 
For commercial use they lead all others, in our opinion. 
Ten thousand to 15,000 quarts per acre is a frequent yield, 
with net profits from $1,000 to $3,000, depending on the advan¬ 
tage of the market. 
Premier was introduced from Michigan, but it has been pretty 
well proven that this is the Howard 17 seedling, and we believe 
that in all fairness to the Howards it should be called Howard’s 
Premier. 
Ford and Townsend’s Big Late are introductions of the Town¬ 
send Plant Farms. 
To show our faith in the big three, we have more than 250 
acres planted to these three varieties. 
TOWNSEND'S That plants wil1 be true to name. Strong, healthy, vigorous, 
pi TAD A TVTXI717 Productive plants. Packed so as to reach you in good growing 
uUAixAlM IHH; condition. SAVE A WEEK —Mail order direct from this Adv. 
Big Berry Profits from Townsend’s Choice High Grade Plants 
WE SAVE YOU MONEY and start you right by selling you a 
grade of plants tiiat will produce from 50% to 100% more and 
better fruit than the average strawberry plants sold. We are 
plant growers, not dealers. Every plant is dug fresh for your 
order from our stock of millions, which are mostly grown on 
new land. All plants are fully selected before setting in our 
propagating fields, and again when they are dug fresh for your 
order. Packed by or under the supervision of one of the Town¬ 
send sons, and it is seldom plants fail to reach destination in 
good order and to produce the Big Crops of Big Red Berries 
which there is always a ready demand for. 
We have selected a list of 36 varieties which we believe to be 
the cream of the strawberry family at this time, sixteen of 
which arc briefly described on this page. 
105 . 
WARNING 
LISTEN! 
The crop of strawberry plants 
is the shortest for years. Owing 
to the unusual dry summer 
many sections of the country 
have practically no plants at 
Notwithstanding we have the 
largest acreage we have ever 
grown, we expect to be sold out 
much sooner than usual. 
BEATEN OUR OWN RECORD 
As to quality plants, we have 
beaten our own record. We 
have the finest plants this year 
we have ever seen. 
Take onr advice and order 
early while we got “ ’EM IN 
STOCK.” 
A beautiful illustrated Catalog mailed on request 
more full^ describing our list. Also lor the convenience of our Orapevinos Iioses et<* If von wwh to innin^A 
PARCEL POST RATES ON 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Zone 
Zone 
Zone 
Zone 
Zone 
Zone 
Zone 
1 and 2—Figure 10c per 100 plants or less. 
“—Figure 15c per 100 plants. 
per 100 plants, 
per 100 plants, 
per 100 plants, 
per 100 plants, 
per 100 plants. 
4— Figur 
5— Figure 
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7— Figure 
8— Figure 
20c 
25c 
30c 
35c 
40c 
OUR RURAL NEW-YORKER 
STRAWBERRY GARDEN 
100 Best Early 100 Best Everbearing 
100 Best Miclseason 100 Best Late 
Delivered to your door for only $5.50 
I^CKy-goy 
NATURAL SIZE 
Price List of Townsend’s High Grade 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Instructions for Determining the Cost of Plants 
Beneath the varieties iu each column below is a complete scale 
• ?, ru l es , applies separately to each individual variety listed 
in that column. _ If plants are wanted of more than one Variety, 
figure each variety separate same as though you were ordering 
only one sort. 
COLUMN 1 
DR. BURRILL 
GANDY 
KLONDIKE 
MISSIONARY 
SEN. DUNLAP 
WARFIELD (Imp.) 
BICv JOE 
25 
50 
100 
200 
300 
400 
500 
1.000 
5,000 
10.000 
Plants. 
Plants. 
Plants.. 
Plants.. 
Plants.. 
Plants.. 
Plants.. 
Plants. 
Plants.. 
Plants. . 
$ .50 
.75 
1.00 
1.50 
2.00 
2.50 
3.00 
5.00 
23.50 
45.00 
COI.FMX 2 
PREMIER 
FORD 
LUPTON 
AROMA 
EARLY JERSEY Gt. 
EARLY OZARK 
FENDALL (Imp.) 
GIBSON 
GLEN MARY 
HOWARD 17 
HAVERI.AND Imp. 
KELLOGG Frize Im 
NIC OIIMER 
PARSONS BEAUTY 
PAUL JONES, Imp. 
SAMPLE (Imp.) 
BIG LATE (Imp. i 
WM. BELT 
COLUMN 3 
BUSHEL BASKET 
CAMPBELL S Early 
PROGRESSIVE 
SUPERB 
WORLD’S WONDER 
TRES. HARDING 
HORSEY 
MASCOT 
2d 
50 
100 
200 
300 
400 
500 
1,000 
5,000 
10,000 
Plants. . 
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Plants. . 
Plants. 
Plants.. 
Plants. . 
Plants.. 
Plants. 
Plants.. 
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.S5 
1.50 
2.15 
2.S5 
3.50 
4.00 
7.00 
33.75 
05.00 
2d 
50 
100 
200 
300 
400 
500 
1,000 
5,000 
10,000 
Plants. 
Plants. 
Plants. 
Plants. 
Plants. 
Plants. 
Plants.. 
Plants. 
Plants. 
$ 1.00 
1.50 
2.50 
4.50 
5.50 
6.50 
7.50 
15.00 
ro.oo 
Plants. .130.0 
From one to five thousand plants the 1,000 rate applies; from 
five thousand plants up to 10.000 the 5,000 rate applies. 
PRICES OF CHESAPEAKE STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
25 Plants. $ .75 250 Plants. $ 3.00 
50 Plants. 1.00 500 Plants. 5.00 
100 Plants. 1.75 1.000 Plants. 10.00 
Special prices on large quantities. 
W; E. Drake, Lewis Creek, Ind., 
writes 
I have got the finest straw¬ 
berry patch in country. Some 
of my neighbors sent to others 
to get their plants. ‘T got 
them beat a block.” I enclose 
a picture of the patch. 
"" TESTIMONIALS 
Townsend’s Plants Best 
I have used your plants for sev¬ 
eral years. Always found them 
satisfactory and the best plants I 
evei bought. Last year they were 
better than ever.—Frank Knowles. 
Ohio, Dec. 20tli, *21. 
Every Plant Lived and Growed 
I set our 800 your Dr. Burrill 
last Spring: every plant lived and 
growed. Many have made remarks 
that it is the finest bed they ever 
saw.—Frank Littlefield. Maine. 
Townsend’s Plants give us best 
satisfaction: always reliable. — 
Levin T. Howe, New York. 
Best Patch He Ever Owned 
Writes Mr. Geo. Welch of Indi¬ 
ana. The plants purchased of you 
last Spring made the best patch I 
ever owned. This is going some. 
For Mr. Welch's net profit from 
one acre of our Dr. Burrill last 
season was $1,815.00. 
Mr. E. L. Boone of Virginia writes 
Your plants were received on 
time in fine • condition and fine 
plants. And notwithstanding the 
very dry Summer made excellent 
growth. 
Mr. J. L. Rush of Pennsylvania 
writes 
Been buying my plants from 
-, Mich. Two years ago con¬ 
cluded to try yours as a test. 
After fruiting both last year will 
say. no more Michigan plants for 
me. You saved me money going 
and coming. 
1 Harry Thorpe. Pennsylvania, writes 
Townsend's plants and Town¬ 
send's service good enough for me. 
Henry C. Sergei. Pennsylvania, 
writes 
I was very well pleased with 
your plants last year. They were 
the best plants I ltave ever re¬ 
ceived. In spite of the dry Sum¬ 
mer I have a fine stand. 
Mr. L. E. See of Rhode Island 
writes 
Just finished my half acre of 
berries; netted me $1,378.00 What 
do you think of this for a starter? 
I expect to double this next Spring 
when my Premier comes into bear¬ 
ing. Townsend’s plants and Town¬ 
send's service for me. 
Mary Thomas of Illinois writes 
From a small Townsend garden 
we picked 320 quarts of berries for 
our grocer. He paid us 40c per 
qt.. and we had all the Delicious 
berrier for four weeks we could 
use. We set only 300 plants. This 
was your Girl’s garden. 
John Figgs, Massachusetts, writes 
Townsend plants have done won¬ 
ders for us. We are Townsend 
"boosters” You ltave received 
many orders we have thrown your 
way. We have tried plants from 
all over the country. But hone as 
good as Townsend's plants here. 
Mr. Clarence Kepple of Pennsyl¬ 
vania writes 
We got an order of 14.000 plants 
from you people: plants were fine 
and we are well pleased. 
Mr. H. J. Shuman of Pennsylvania 
writes 
Gentleman—I take great pleas¬ 
ure in reporting the great success 
from your plants. They are the 
hardiest and most prolific plants I 
have ever grown. I had quite a 
nice crop of berries last Fall from 
the Progressive. X want to try 
.vour Lucky Boy in the Spring. 
Orders booked when one- 
third of amount accom¬ 
panies the order. Balance 
may be sent any time before 
shipment. 
Reference—Any bank or 
commercial agency in T T . S. 
E. W. TOWNSEND & SON: 
Growers of High Grade Strawberry Plants , Grape Vines and other Small Fruit Plants 
25 VINE STREET SALISBURY, MARYLAND 
We recommend Parcel Post shipments on all orders of lOOO plants or less. All orders, large or small, will go just 
about as cheap as by Parcel Post in the 2nd and 3rd Zones. 4th Zone up, it is cheaper by Express on large orders. 
All Express Companies have given us good service for the past two years. For Parcel Post charges see Table above] 
PURCHASERS TO PAY TRANSPORTATION CHARCES 
LUCKY BOY and LUCKY STRIKE (Everbearing) 
12 Plants.$1.50 250 Plants. $ 10.00 
25 Plants. 2.50 500 Plants. 15.00 
50 Plants. 3.50 1.000 Plants. 25.00 
100 Plants. 5.00 5.000 Plants. 100.00 
Late iu season please give second choice. 
