Historic, Archive Document Do not assume content reflects current scientific knowledge, policies, or practices. Garroll ^ush ESTABLISHED O ^ J. V K »" L' D O r) ^ • 'W 1“ L b f:". J ' 7^ IT. S. Da^i'wC’iCTit icn]^ BARTON ,^lDTrEtr01T^ - - .1 i 5 FALL OF 1932 SPRING OF 1933 PRICE LIST ORIENTAL PERSIMxMON AT SALEM, OREGON Tree in Bearing Let Us Change Conditions Everything old is being overdone. Changes are now at hand. We need new crops and new varieties. We need to grow crops for which there is a demand and which are imported at the present time. We need new varieties for which we can build a market. We must quit overplanting the old standard varieties. Nuts are making money for growers and they have a greater future in the northwest. Those who have new fruits are finding a market where the old kinds in many cases have not paid picking and marketing costs. Men who have gone into new crops and new enterprises have been the ones who picked off biggest profits. Do not wait for “times to change.” Times are not going to change until progressive people start new movements. Look over the new things and get into them first — and stay with them. This little announcement of our trees shows tested and tried varieties which will be grown to a great extent in the northwest. We also include introductions of plants suitable to many sections of the north, east, and south. PERSIMMONS The Oriental Peisimiiioii . In this fruit we have one that is going to rival the grape fruit in importance as a breakfast fruit. A large fruit when best grown it is often five inches in diameter, seedless and with a wonderful fiavor. It will run about 20 per cent sugar. It ripens late when other fruit is gone, keeps well in ordinary or cold storage. Trees have been grown in Portland and bore heavily for over forty years. People who know the eastern persimmon find them wonderful eating. Others, who try them a few times come to appreciate their exquisite fiavor. Astringent when green they reach their fiavor when ripe. The trees are a beautiful ornamental and you can grow your own breakfast fruit in your own front yard. The persimmon ripens usually only after the heavy frosts of early winter, about Thanksgiving Day in this section. The species comes from north China where temper¬ atures go well below zero so that it is hardy enough in this section though often advertised as a subtropical fruit. All varieties seem to do well here. Tainojiaii. This is the favorite variety in the cold sections of China. Perhaps it is our hardiest. Very large, with an indented ring on the fruit. Soft fiesh, like apricot jelly in appearance. Fiiyii. Greatly planted as a commercial variety in California. Said not to have the famous astringency of the Persimmon when green. We also have other varieties on trial and a few to spare for experimenters. These are Hachiya, Twentieth Century, Saburoza and Honan Red. All trees, 4 year root, one year top, each . $1.50 Amciicaii PeTsiiiiinoiis. To supply people who wish the American persimmon we have grafted a few of the finest of these found in the United States. Fruit of these are higher flavored and have more sugar than the oriental persimmon. They are regarded as the greatest of North Americas native fruits. We have Lambert and Early Golden varieties. Fruit about two inches in diameter. Trees, 3 to 4 feet, each . $1.2*) Seedling American persimmons, 3 to 4 ft., each..r>0(* CHESTNUT TREE Hearing first year set out. CHESTNUTS When I try to tell people that there is one farm product perfectly adaped to northwest conditions with a big unfilled market they show little concern. When I tell them that the crop is chestnuts they usually ask, “What do people do with chestnuts?” For one thing they eat them. The American people import twenty million dollars worth every year and pay good money to foreign countries for them. Trees are sure croppers. They blossom late and escape the frosts. They stand dry weather and poor soil but not low and wet soils. We have American sweet varieties, the finest quality luits. P. ogress. Fullers Hatiiaway, Merribrooke, Roch¬ ester. and Champion. $1.2.). Trees In lots of ten .$1.1.) European tliestimts are large nnts, not so good for eating raw, but much better for cooking. We have 'Quercy, Paragon, Bowman, Marron Combale, and Big Boy. Trees . $1.25. In lots of ten . $1.15 Our budded trees bear early, the finest quality of ;nuts and lieavily. BBglit Resistant Cliestniits* Tlie diinese and Japan¬ ese Chestnuts are resistant and will stand the chestnuts blight toiind in the east. The Japanese is a very large nut, fine for cooking. The Chinese is a sweet nut of high quality. Only seedlings of these species are available. lliincse Cliestiuits. Trees 4 to 6 ft. high, each.. $1.00 In lots of ten, each . 1M)c Japanese I'hestnnts, small 1-year-old trees, about 1 foot high, each . . . 50c In lots of ten, each . 45c (liinqnapin. In Uie eastern part of the United States we have a dwarf chestnut called a Chinquapin which bears small but the very finest nuts of all the chestnuts. We have one variety of this, the Push, and two varieties Chinese Wnlnuls The seeds for these we imported from north China. Trees grown from Chinese seed are growing in Duluth, Minnesota. People in cold states who want an English walnut, so-called, can have it with the Chinese. Trees, 4 to 6 feet, each . $1.(K> Black Waliiiifs The Black Walnut has one of the finest flavored nuts of the world. They are now recognized as the world’s greatest cooking nut as they do not lose flavor when cooked. We have grafted trees from varieties selected by experts from the best discovered in America. Thomas and Stabler varieties. They have fairly thin shells and crack out nicely. Six-foot trees, each . $1.2r> Hickories and Pecans Our grafted hickories and hybrids are almost sold out. We have some Manahan hickories, a fine producer of thin shelled nuts, a fast grower. Six-foot trees . $3.0b Seedling shell bark hickories, large nuts. Three to four foot trees, each . Seedling pecans from Indiana seed known to bear here. Small trees, 3 years old, each . r»0c FIGS We have the Mission fig. It has borne good crops of large black figs in our air-drained location. Small trees . r>0o OTHER NUTS Butternuts. This rich nut from eastern United States is thought by some to be the most nearly perfect nut in flavor ever found. Seedling trees 50 cents each. Grafted 4-foot trees of Deming variety, with a thinner shell than the usual butternut, each . $1.25 Seedling butternut trees, each . Gingko. Sometimes called the maidenhair tree from shape of its leaves. Much planted in the east for an ornamental. It was found in the gardens of China during the Boxer rebellion. Nuts are esteemed when roasted. Trees, 2 to 3 feet . 75e Almonds. As a rule almonds do not bear well in the Willamette valley. However, we have one that has borne well and quite consistently so we have a few trees budded from this variety for customers who wish almonds for their own use. Trees 3 to 4 feet, each . 50c The Redheart Strawberry The Redheart is a new berry introduced by the gov¬ ernment because it did so well on our red hill land. It is a superb canner and those who grew them the past two years were able to sell all of them to home canners. The plant is a very strong grower, and bore crops of seven and a half tons to the acre at the Hood River Experiment station. The berry is firm, stands handling well and “in canning keeps its color and shape. Its flavor when canned is unusually fine. The berry is held up from the ground on the vine and is seldom affected by rot even in our wettest times. Plants per hundred. .. .$1.00, per thousand .... $7.51) Outlook publishing CO.. greSham, ore.