. Townsend's twentieth century catalogue no. 26 : strawberries and other small fruits and how to grow them . d about it I paid $ 1,000 for my stock of plants to start very bad luck in getting them deliveredto me by the Express Company, and lost overone half the lot I purchased. But after this1 consider my purchase the best I ever probably have the largest stock of this va-riety of any plant grower in the country, andI have made the price low, as it was my goodfortune to grow a fine crop this season. Iwant your order if you want Progressive. AndI wish you could see my fi
. Townsend's twentieth century catalogue no. 26 : strawberries and other small fruits and how to grow them . d about it I paid $ 1,000 for my stock of plants to start very bad luck in getting them deliveredto me by the Express Company, and lost overone half the lot I purchased. But after this1 consider my purchase the best I ever probably have the largest stock of this va-riety of any plant grower in the country, andI have made the price low, as it was my goodfortune to grow a fine crop this season. Iwant your order if you want Progressive. AndI wish you could see my fields of them atthis writing, September 17th. No picture Tcould make or anything I can say will fullyexplain the beauty. TOWNSKNDS CUSTOMERS PROSPEROUS. Growers who order my plants year afteryear and practice my methods are in the frontrank of berry growers in the United are making their berry crops profitableinvestments. They find the work a pleasureas well as profitable, and are satisfied cus-tomers. For prices of everbearing varieties, see page 22. E. W. TOWNSEND (Strawberry Specialist) 13. QUEEN <Jl El V—Perfect flower, very late. This isone of our new seedlings that we have beentesting for four years. While I did not sendany plants of this variety to the experiment-ration to be tested out by them. I am of thefirm belief that we have another very goodvariety of late strawberries in the Queen. Inplant growth it cannot be beaten. I havecounted at least four good, strong crowns ona single plant taken from a matted row. Itseems to be a good drought resister, as wehave had three very dry seasons to test also had one very wet one the past sea-son and it stood the rainy weather and still?•owed its firmness. It is not as large as theNew York, Worlds Wonder or Joe Johnson,but for general purposes I think the size in itsfavor. The eating quality is very fine whileit has plenty of acid flavor; color red to cen-ter, and ripens all over at same time. I haveonly a
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