Excerpt from Townsend's Catalog, 1933: Strawberries and How to Grow Them Premier (howard 17) No variety ever introduced to the public has received as much praise as the premier. N o variety has ever been grown in such quantity, and no variety has made anything like as much money for the growers. And while there are now being introduced some marvelous varieties, which are almost sure to take the place of the premier, it is going to be hard parting between growers and their old friend premier. Premier has paid off thousands and thousands of old mortgages; purchased and paid for new homes, new barns, automobiles, and many other needy things too numerous to mention, and we predict that it will be grown in a large way for a great many years to come. For the past (14) four teen years we have made premier plants our specialty. We have grown them in larger quantities than any other nursery. We have shipped them to more than fifty thousand different customers, and over and over year after year these customers come back for more. 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.