H. D. Richardson & Co., Willards, Maryland 1) 


The above picture is Catskill strawbcrries. You will also see Bob 
Hall and his compainon and the sweepsteak ribbon which captured the 
$400.00 prize. Bob looks like he is kind of proud of it and we don’t 
blame him. He is no prouder of his prize than we are of his companion 
and him and seeing his berries bid off at $1.25 per quart or $5.00 per 
gallon. 
This is postive proof that Bob has a good idea about where to get 
his plants and he knows what to do with them after he gets them. 
He also knows how to pick and display them. Such affairs as this have 
a great meaning to a community. It shows that the middle-aged people 
still like to win especially when they can apply themselves to the Crea- 
tors nature to such extent that they can deliver the best that there is 
there. This causes us to feel that we have been rewarded for the care- 
ful selections we have been making in our strawberry plant adventures. 
It means a lot to us to have the confidence of these customers and to have 
their good words in the community where they have won the sweepstake 
prize with Richardson plants. It saves us from spending thousands of dol- 
lars advertising in farm papers which we have never been compelled to 
do in order to sell all the plants we could produce. 
