. Townsend's twentieth century catalogue no. 26 : strawberries and other small fruits and how to grow them . -scription long, and, say, if you have not triedthe Joe Johnson yet, try it now. The average s Joe is about 24 to 30 to the quart, but I have seen quart basketsthat were filled piling full with nine quality of the fruit is very fine, and mod-erately firm and, in tact, is the best shippingberry of its size I have yet seen. It is a wellknown fact that extra large berries do notcarry as wrell as the smaller size in mostcases. We have made our price very lowand consider that we
. Townsend's twentieth century catalogue no. 26 : strawberries and other small fruits and how to grow them . -scription long, and, say, if you have not triedthe Joe Johnson yet, try it now. The average s Joe is about 24 to 30 to the quart, but I have seen quart basketsthat were filled piling full with nine quality of the fruit is very fine, and mod-erately firm and, in tact, is the best shippingberry of its size I have yet seen. It is a wellknown fact that extra large berries do notcarry as wrell as the smaller size in mostcases. We have made our price very lowand consider that we could get a larger profitfor the fruit than we will get for the plants,at our low price, but we are growing theplants for our customers, not for fruit, andask you to take advantage of the same bysending in your order as early as season the orders had to be returnedunfilled by the wholesale. We wil sell ourentire stock at price quoted, but should wehave to go out and buy will ha\ a to chargemarket price. For prices of everbearing varieties see page 22. E. W. TOWNSEND (Strawberry Specialist). Photo showing a sectm , of a row of KING OF AU I MN I Evtrbearing Strawberries) Plant set May Lst, L913, photographed September 29tb, 1913. Note che young layer plants loaded with fruit and blossoms. JAMES E.:—Perfect flowering variety; weare giving it our first test this season. Cameto us recommended very highly for a goodmarket sort. JESSIE—Another old standard still grownin great quantities in the Northern States,not a favorite in the South. Klondyke KLONDYKE—in most places of the Southit is called the king berry, and rightly so, butfor one exception, and that is the MISSION-ARY, and probably one should be called theKing and the other the Queen. This is avariety that came to stay; hundreds of new-varieties come out every few years, and mostof them go as fast as they come. But in theKlondyke we have a standard bearer that?will be with us as long as strawberries aregrown
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