Excerpt from Townsend's 20th Century Catalogue, 1914: Number Twenty-Four Many a poor-fellow has tried to get rich in one season and set ten acres when he could only properly cultivate two. His profit would have been far greater if he had only set out the two. A few acres of properly selected plants well arranged for and well cared for will show better returns than any other crop of fruit ever grown. It is the right start that brings the results every time. I am proud of the fact that l have already helped hundreds of berry growers in almost every state to start right; they are finding strawberry growing more profitable than any other occupation. Their many letters, of which I print only a small part, are very encouraging to me, and make me strive each year to try to produce the best it is possible to produce for them. The demand for my plants has grown year by year by leaps and bounds from every corner and it is almost impossible for me to supply the demand, and my small annual catalog is about all the advertising I do. Very little advertising is done by me through the. Farm papers. I leave it to my Customers to do my advertising. I have found to my entire satisfaction that their advertising pays well. I can properly say more than any other plant grower in the business. I received more orders the past season than the number of catalogs I mailed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.