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PEACH anp PLUM TREES

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THE HALE ORGHARD & NURSERY CO.

Mortgage Lifters.

Cotton, cotton everywhere and nota cent for fun. ‘‘The other fel- low’’ gets it all. That’s been the old, old story on far too many planta- tions for years past. Why not wake up to the fact that our sunny South- _ land can produce the choicest of fruits and that the markets of the world are looking to us for a supply of the best.

PLANT A FEW ACRES of our best land in the great ‘‘Mortgage Lifters,”’ PEACHES AND Prums. More profit in them than there would be tn cotton at 25 cents per pound; we have had some crops that beat cotton at $1 .00, but those were exceptions.

In 1884 we planted. 22 acres to peaches; ‘four years after we sold $9,666.00 worth of fruit. This returned all cost of trees, ane and land rent and over 300 per cent. profit. ~~ See

We have since sold $18,716.00 worth of fruit from the same orchard, of OVER $28,000.00 WworTH OF FRUIT FROM 22 ACRES IN TEN YHARS and still have the land and trees left with pee BOR for the future, and also 600 more acres in orchard, Ae SE ESE

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PEACHES.

High, dry lands are best for peaches. Plow deep, check off rows. 15X15 feet, which will take 193 trees to the acre.

Plant trees at any time in November, December, January or early ~ February.

Prune off most of the top, down to a single stem, three feet high at time of planting. Two or three pounds of some good a about her trees after planting will start a quick growth,

Cotton, or some other hoed. crop may occupy the land the first year, after that give the trees full swing. .Plow once each spring, and then with sweeps or harrows keep down the grass up to the middle of August. Trim the trees a little each year, when leaves are off in winter. THE SECOND OR THIRD YEAR you may expect a fair crop of fruit and by the fourth year lots of fruit. A four year old orchard ought to give two crates — of peaches per tree, with net at station $1.00 to $2.00 per crate, or $300. 00 to $500.00 PER ACRE.

he more trees are planted in anv one section, the better the fruit

, MOUNTAIN ROSE. A white fleshed peach of*superb size and color. Creamy white on under side, while sunny side is of richest rosy red, giving it a most tempt- ing appearance. Rich, sweet and delicious. A great bearer; trees always loaded with fruit. The best medium early peach known, Season last of June.

EARLY CRAWFORD. Large, yellow, with red cheek. Rich, sweet and juicy. Rather tender for long shipment. Season first of July.

- CROSBY. Medium to large, round, yellow peach, striped with carmine on sunny

side. The most beautiful yellow peach known. Rich and sweet, of very best quality,

“small pit and THE MOST HARDY AND PRODUCTIVE VARIETY KNOWN. Its fruits; buds and blossoms are FROST PROOF, OFTEN FRUITS WHEN ALL, OTHER VARIETIES FAIL.

‘ LADY INGOLD. Very large rich yellow peach, of highest quality and very re- liable bearer; an improvement on the Early Crawford. Very productive.

OLD MIXON. Large, round, white fleshed peach; creamy white skin with rich blush on sunny side. A sure bearer every year. - One of the best of its season, either for family or market.,

STUMP. Somewhat the same style as the Old Mixon, except not quite as round _ in form, and has rather more color. Ripens a week later and so of great value for. market. Anexcellent keeper. _-. ELBERTA. Very large yellow, with red cheek. One of the great market peaches. As it ships-and keeps well, more of this variety have been planted in the ‘South than all others combined; may overstock the markets for a week or so, so that rs sely, tangy, hettes

THURBE Very large white pe. ‘th bright ‘red d-cheek. I Rich and. sweet.

_A great bearer and one of the best to s LATE CRAWFORD, Extralarge, _ ,at yellow. Great market peach. CHINESE FREE. Very large, roundish oblong, white flesh, red cheek. One of the best market sorts of the season. Can also supply, in limited quantities, Belle of Georgia, Pepily, Fa- vorite, Amelia, Alexander and other leading varieties.

: “Doz. Hund. Thous. res of trees, extra size 4 to 6 ft. high, $2.00 $10.00 $70.00 No. 1, 33 to 43 ft... “ 1.50 7.00 50.00

NG. 2,-24:to34 ft. ; *¢ 1.00 5.00 40.00

A few thousand small but ~vell rooted trees, 4.00 25.00

Crossy wil cost $r.00 per dozen, $3.00 per hundred and $30.00 per thousand in addition to above prices, but it’s a quicker ‘‘MoRTGAGE LIFTER.”

Not the old kinds that won’t fruit, but the new race of plums, now attract- _ ing so much attention the world over, as being practically frée from black knot, other fungus diseases and that worst of all pests, the curculio.

Seeing the GREAT PROFITS that could be made from this fruit we are crowing and planting them by the hundreds of thousands. Not along

Variety and Prices.

ABUNDANCE. (Yellow-fleshed Botan.) Fruit large, round, with pointed apex; skin rich, yellow ground, overlaid with dots and splashes of purplish carmine and a darker cheek; flesh deep yellow, juicy and sweet, with a touch of subacid and slight apricot flavor; cling; quality best; pit small. June 25th to July 5th. A strong grow- ing, upright tree and very prolific. The fruit should be thinned to get the best re- sults..

BERCKMANS. (Sweet Botan.) Fruit medium to large, nearly round (“broadly and obtusely conical and somewhat angular in cross-section’’—Bailey); skin green, nearly or quite covered with dull purple or blood-red and a blue bloom; flesh yellow- ish, a little coarse-grained, firm, sugary, at times slightly subacid, adheres slightly

to the stone; quality excellent. Ripens with panes or just ahead of it. June

20th to July 5th.

BURBANK. The fruit is usually from 5 to 5 1-2 inches in circumference, varying less in size than the other Japanese plums; it is nearly globular; clear cherry red, sometimes showing-yellow dots, or even marbled, with a thin lilac bloom; flesh deep yellow, firm and meaty, rich and sugary, with a peculiar and yery agreeable flavor; cling. Tree usually vigorous, with strong upright shoots, and large, rather broad leaves.. Resembles Abundance both in fruit and tree, and the fruit averages larger and of better quality and is rather handsomer,

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skin bright yellow, witha light creamy | HAT Ygiving the fruit a whitish appearance; flesh thick and very meaty, “but not jus and long-keeping; good, but not of the best quality; free. About the middit~ -, me. Tree only moderately productive.

SATSUMA. Fruit large, nearly globular (‘‘broadly conical, with a blunt short point, suture very deep.’’—Bailey ); skin very dark and dull red all ov er, with green- ish dots and an under-color of brown-red; fleshblood-red, firm. rather juicy, some- what coarse, of fairly good quality; cling. Matures middle of July. Flesh so firm and solid as to enable it to BE kept in fine condition after being, picked. A grand market sort.

YELLOW JAPAN. Fruit large, nearly round; skin yellow, washed with red on sunny side; flesh yellow, juicy-and of good quality. Early in July. Tree vigorous, tesembling Kelsey in growth, but with larger leaves.

ROBINSON. A native variety of great vigor and productiyveness. Not of high quality, but of beautiful rich, bright red and yellow, that commands for it a ready price in market.

PRICE OF TREES,

Each, Doz. Hund. | Thous,

Extra 6 feet size 25 cents. $2.50 $15.00 ~ $125.00 No. ana =f 20%, 26 2.00 12,00 100.00 INO: Brot ee isha 1.50 8.00 75.00

KIEFFER AND GARBER PEARS. Thetwo great Southern market varieties, ten times as profitable as LeConte.. $2.00 per dozen. $10.00 per hundred. RED ASTRACHAN, and other BEST APPLES for the South. $2.00 per dozen, $10.00 per hundred. ‘Terwe. Cash with arda+ Rawit Ker remictared dattar =< sas ss

YELLOW CROSBY PEACH IS. FROST PROOF. — FURTHER FACTS OF GREAT VALUE. By

Extreme climatic changes the past six weeks, have killed 97 per cent. ae of the fruit buds in our peach orchards, on most varieties except Crosby, this proves to be iron-clad as usual, trees all loaded with live buds, with

promises of an abundant harvest, while such standard varieties as Mt. Rose,

Stump, Oldmixon, Crawfords, etc., have only dead buds to show. So once again we are reminded that CRosBy IS FROsT PROOF, and will fruit insea- sons, when all others fail. It would be at least $10,000 to our profit this present season, if all the trees in our orchard were CRosBy. DO YOU SEE THE POINT? Don’t waste time and money on other varieties, plant only ~ THE Crospy, and plant now. Order of 2 i GA & Joe South Glastonbury, Conn., March 30, 1894.

*=="SOLD OUT. +=

Spring trade has been excellent, and we are now practically sold out on North Star Currants, Dayton Strawberries, Aganam Blackberries, 1 and 2 foot Crosby Peach and Japan Plunis.

WE STILL HAVE IN STOCK

Crosby Peach in all medium and large sizes. Champion Peach June Buds. A general list of all Trees, Roses and Shrubbery, and millions of small Fruit Plants, undoubtedly the best and most complete stock in America. If for any reason you catnot plant this spring, look up the Japan Plums, and Crosby Peach this summer, and if you plan to plant an orchard, remember that for the Fall of 94 and Spring of ’95, we shall be able to show a stock, and make prices that will attract your trade. Electric cars from Hartford every half-hour, land customers right at our office door. G. H&J -oAHAnE:

South Glastonbury, Conn,, March 30, 1894.

CHOICE SMALL FRUIT PLANTS. 16

SANDERSON’S APHOIAL FORMULA

FERTILIZERS !

THE LEADING CROP PRODUCERS,

Sold direct to consumers, saving all

INTERMEDIATE PROFITS.

This way of selling Plant Food has, by every possible test, in field and laboratory, proved to be the most economical and satisfactory of any ever devised.

Agricultural chemicals of high grade and fine dry condition constantly on hand.

Shipments made promptly to all parts of the United States.

LUCIEN SANDERSON,

Sole Proprictor, Importer, and Manufacturer of Fertilizing Materials of High Grade.

114 Church Street, New Haven, Conn.

Send for Circular.

16 Gd. H. & J. H. HALE’S CATALOGUE.

and, on account of its beautiful color, will command a ready sale alongside of the best standard sorts, in a season of abundance; however, when it is considered that its fruit buds are so hardy as to withstand the frosts of winter and spring that often kill all other good varieties, its special value is apparent; A FINE YELLOW PEACH TO SUPPLY THE MARKET WHEN THERE ARE NO OTHERS.

Prof. S. T. Maynard, Horticulturist of the Massachusetts Experiment Station, says: “The Crosbey peach was brought to my attention many years ago, and from the few buds sent me trees were grown, part of which were sent to New Hampshire, some planted in North Hadley and others on the college grounds, before we knew its full value; the REMARKABLE THING ABOUT THE PEACH IS THAT IT HAS BORNE FRUIT FOR THREE OR FOUR SEASONS WHEN ALL OTHER VA- RIETIES HAVE FAILED.

W. D. Hinds, writing to the Mew England Homestead, of Springfield, Mass., says:

“‘The Crosbey peach is proving to be remarkably hardy and prolific. IT HAs BORNE FULL GROPS FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS HERE, VERY NEAR THE NEW HAMPSHIRE LINE, ALSO IN GREEN- VILLE AND GorrsTOWN, N. H. IT HAS sTOOD TWELVE DEGREES BELOW ZERO AND BORNE IM- MENSE CROPS, WHILE ALL OTHER KINDS WERE KILLED IN THE SAME ORCHARD. One orchard of one hundred trees was set seven years last spring of Stumps, Crawfords, and twenty-five Crosbeys. The Crosbeys have given four full crops, the Crawfords have given none until this year, and the Stumps gave only two crops in the same time.

The foregoing is condensed from our catalogue of a year ago, since which time Crosbey has again produced full crops all over the North where trees are of bearing age; thus MAINTAINING ITS REPUTATION as the only variety of peach in America that has never failed to produce a full crop annually, since the year of its origin ; and in our great Georgia orchard, only one-year old from June-bud trees, Crosbey produced from two to twenty specimens per“tree, while others gave nothing; while the size, color, and shipping qualities of the Crosbey for southern production proved to be equally valuable there as at the north, J our Connecticut orchard, season of 1893, Crosbey gave enormous crops om two and three-year old trees; fruit of larger size, brighter, and more attractive color, and superb flavor; far better in every way than we had ever before claimed for it. Our colored plate is a reproduction from a photograph of a three-year-old tree as fruited in one of our orchards. ‘

CROSBEY IS AN ENORMOUS BEARER; FRUITS EVERY YEAR SURE; is the BRIGHTEST COLORED, RICHEST, AND SWEETEST OF ANY PEACH KNOWN; perfection for the family or market.

Note the following testimony of parties who tested the fruit in 1893:

HAVERHILL, Mass., September 30, 1893.

I was very much delighted with the peach; it is the finest I ever tasted. I shall want trees

enough to set six or seven acres in the spring. Yours respectfully, P. W, TENNANT. September 30, 1893.

THE CROSBEY PEACH.—Samples of this fine peach have been received by us from Messrs. G. H, & J. H. Hale, of South Glastonbury, Conn., and have been fully tested. In appearance it is very handsome, being a clear orange yellow, beautifully marked with bright crimson. The flesh is of a bright yellow color, firm and juicy, while the pit, which is entirely free, is remarkably small for the size of the peach, much smaller than that of the Crawford, with which it was compared. The flavor is delicious, entirely free from any suspicion of bitterness or sourness which so often spoils the flavor of a yellow peach. The fact that it is hardy, well meriting its name,“ frost proof,” makes it a valuable variety for culture in New England. ‘ Me

NEW ENGLAND FARMER, : RAVENNA, OHIO, September 30, 1893.

The beautiful Crosbeys came last Monday morning in excellent shape for so long a ride; we have some yet in good condition, showing that they are not only good shippers but good, keepers. We took one basket of them to town and gave them out {o the dealers and growers wh¢ were in with peaches; all said it was the best peach they had seen this year; in fact, all who hayeseen and - tasted them pronounce them extra fine. We are so much better pleased with them that we want you to enter our order for 1,000 first class June-bud trees, to be shipped from Georgia, in proper -season in the spring (1894). Very respectfully, FRANK FORD & SON,

The American Agriculturist of November, 1893, says of the Crosbey: ‘* The more we see of the Crosbey peach, recently introduced by G. H. & J. H. Hale, South Glastonbury, Conn., the more we become impressed with its excellent qualities. The samples received from Messrs. Hale were of superior quality, and had a sweet, delicious flavor for a yellow peach, It is principally remarkable for the smallness of ils pit.’?

Marcus Ansley, one of the most successful fruit growers of Geneva, New York, says: ‘¢ Peaches received in good shape; it is the finest peach I ever ate. The appearance is even better than all else.”

Prof. L. H. Bailey, the highest horticultural authority in America, says: ‘‘ The Crosbey peaches came to us some days ago in good condition. They were much enjoyed by those who saw and sampled them, not only for their beautiful appearance, but for their good quality as well. I have been much pleased with the Crosbey wherever I have seen it on exhibition.”

Wilmer Atkinson, editor of Farm Fournal, Philadelphia, writes: “I think you are public benefactors to bring so persistently to the notice of the public this iron-clad variety of peaches. I note the exceedingly small pit which the fruit contains, and the coloring and fine size.”

G. H. & J, H. HALE, South Glastonbury, Hartford County, Conn.