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J. W. JONES & SON, FRANKLIN, VIRGINIA 
“1936 
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For thirty-five years we have been selling strawberry plants by cata¬ 
logue only, filling all orders with strictly fresh dug, true-to-name, high grade 
stock of our own growing. We can sometimes ship during January and 
February, depending on the severity of the winter, but after March first we 
are able to dig and ship daily until May first. After May first we can ship 
out a limited number of orders. 
We do not store plants under any conditions, and will always replace any¬ 
thing that may reach you in bad condition, providing the transportation 
company has given it proper dispatch. If it has been too long on the road 
refuse to receive it. We will then refill your order and get our pay from the 
Express Company. 
We would prefer your check or Bank Draft in payment for plants, for 
please remember that our terms are Cash with Order. We cannot undertake 
to do a credit business at the price at which our plants are sold. To serve 
you at the lowest cash price is, we believe very distinctly to your advantage. 
We will book your order and hold the plants a reasonable time awaiting your 
remittance. 
All our plants are fresh dug, carefully cleaned, tied in bunches of 21 ' 
(counted as 25), labeled with wood labels, neatly packed in slatted crates, 
none of which are more than 12 inches deep, and all of which are 12 inches 
wide. A Certificate of Inspection accompanies each package. We have an 
absolutely clean bill of health. 
Some of our old friends are interested in knowing why we have changed 
our location. It is for the following excellent reasons: 
First: We have an abundance of labor. We can ship promptly. 
Second: Virgin territory. Strawberries have never been grown here, 
even in home gardens. 
Third: Very low production costs. A saving passed on to you. 
Fourth: Unexcelled shipping facilities. Both by express and mail. 
Fifth: An unlimited area of ideal soil. No plants grown twice in the 
same place. 
We believe that our plants have 
both health and vigor, and that they 
will grow as well as any that can be 
had anywhere, at any price. To the 
left is a reproduction of a snap-shot 
made by our Mr. Phoebus Jones of a 
field of Premier plants on the farm 
of Mr. J. F. Shrider, South Zanes¬ 
ville, Ohio. The plants were shipped 
from our Nurseries here on the 4th 
day of April and the view was secur¬ 
ed on the 31st of July, 1935. This 
was just 118 days from the day they 
left here. Of course the soil was 
fertile and the location favorable, 
but the plants had to be good to 
grow with such rapidity. 
Not all our customers have secured 
such favorable results, since weather 
conditions will greatly affect the 
growth, but we do try to send out 
good plants and honestly think that 
we do. 
For this season we have the largest 
stock we have ever grown. Last year 
we had to return some orders, on 
account of not having the plants. 
This year we are in position to sup¬ 
ply a dozen or a million. 
Very respectfully yours, 
J. W. JONES & SON. 
