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-& BARNES BROS.
NURSERY CO.

apes eg YALESVILLE,CONNECTICUM

Apple

“GROWERS OF GUARANTEED NURSERY STOCK”

We Want You to Read This
[—————} Carefully KK

Many persons will wait until they are all ready to set plants or trees and then send
in their orders, expecting that we can fill them immediately. When we receive an order
we immediately deduct the number of trees called for in each variety from our supply of
stock in these varieties in the nursery and we consider them sold and late orders have to
take what is left. By having orders in early we can give them better attention, plan the
packing and shipping to better advantage, and with less liability of any mistakes being
made. Write your name, post office and state distinctly, and be sure that you do this
every time you write. If purchasers choose, they can leave selection with us, merely stating
the proportion of summer, fall and winter, or early, medium or late fruit wanted, as our
experience enables us to select such sorts as are adapted to the locality.

ERRORS. Immediate notice should be given us of any error in filling out an order,
so that we may rectify the mistake, or give a satisfactory explanation, which is cheerfully
done in all cases. We disclaim liability for losses arising from defective planting or sub-
sequent cultivation and treatment. A continuation by the purchaser of the careful hand-
ling and earnest effort given the stock up to the time of its leaving our hands will ordi-
narily leave no room for losses or complaints.

GUARANTEE. While we exercise the greatest care to have all trees, shrubs and
plants true to name and healthy, and hold ourselyes prepared to replace, on proper proof, all
that may prove otherwise, we do not give any warranty, express or implied, and in ease
of an error on our part it is mutually understood and agreed between the purchaser and
ourselves that we shall not, at any time, be held responsible for a greater amount than the
original price of the goods.

Care of Trees on Arrival and Best Methods of Planting, is explained fully in our
booklet, ‘‘How to plant Trees and Plants,’’? which we intend to send to each customer, If
you do not receive one, write us.

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Showing Our Office and a Portion of Our Buildings

We are on the main line of the N. Y., N. H. & I. R. R, about twenty miles from
Hartford, fifteen miles from New Haven and three miles from Meriden, and are also con-
nected by trolley with these cities. We have a long side-track next to our packing-house
which we use to great advantage in shipping. We are equipped to handle, and do much of
our packing under cover, and if the planter does his part faithfully when he receives his
stock, success is certainly assured.

Oe BARNES BROS. NURSERY CO.

ESTABLISHED 1889-INCORPORATED 1904

YALESVILLE, CONN.

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To Our Patrons

Again we thank you for the orders you have
entrusted to our care, for the many expres-
sions of confidence in our trees and plants
and methods of dealing. In no other business
is the responsibility to the customer so great,
the opportunities for error so many. The
close supervision necessary to prevent mis-
takes in filling orders, seeing that they are
properly packed and shipped—and at the same
time write a few hundred letters a day, plant
out hundreds of thousands of seedlings and
small plants, give older trees and plants the
attention they need at the proper time—
makes the life of the nursery man and his
assistants a pretty strenuous one for a few
mouths during a shipping season.

If your letters are not answered promptly
or as fully as usual at this time, remember
we are working fifteen to eighteen hours a day
and do not have time to write long letters,
give directions for fruit culture, or give such
information as may be asked in regard to eul-
tivation of trees and plants that we otherwise
would be glad to.

To enable us to do our shipping more
rapidly and better, we have built this
season at the cost of many thousand dol-
lars, a frost proof storage, assembling and
packing building, with a capacity, 150 per
cent greater than our former large storage
buildings.

This new building is most modern and up-
to-date for the purpose intended and is
equipped with complete water, electric light-
ing, and ventilating systems and mechanical
means of handling heavy packages easily and
rapidly.

We have increased our office room in as
great a proportion as we have our packing
and shipping facilities, so that we can do that
work with greater comfort and convenience.
This growth in our business is the best proof
of the quality of our stock and the trust-
worthiness of our methods.

[THE BARNES BROS

J. NORRIS BARNES

The above is a good picture of J. Norris
Barnes, Treasurer of our Company. He was
one of the pioneers in peach growing in New
England, and has always been actively inter-
ested in anything tending to promote the
fruitgrowing interests of Connecticut. He is
now President of the Connecticut Pomological
Society, an organization of 1,000 Fruit Grow-
ers in Southern New England.

Our New Packing and Storage Building Looking from the Northwest

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How to Grow Peaches

HOW TO GROW THE PEACH SUCCESSFULLY. The growing of peach trees has
been a specialty with us for many years, and we use every care and precaution to have
these trees healthy and true to name. We spare no expense to get the best seed obtainable
and to renew our buds every two or three years from bearing trees in a section free from
**vellows.’’

HINTS ON SOIL AND CARE OF TREES. Peaches can be grown on a great variety
of soils with varying success; but in selecting an orchard site we prefer one that has laid
idle for years with soil both dry and strong. If the soil is not fertile to start with, it
ean be enriched as the trees grow. Land that will produce fifty bushels of corn per acre
would, with thorough cultivation, bring a peach orchard to a bearing age in vigorous con-
dition. Worn-out land can be made profitable peach land, if a liberal use is made of wood
ashes, or a mixture of ground animal bone and muriate of potash. Land of intermediate
fertility should be treated as the condition requires, using more or less fertilizer as may
be needed to induce a moderate wood growth.

DISTANCE OF PLANTING must be governed by local conditions. On rich, heavy
soil, trees should be planted 18 feet apart; on average land, 16 to 18 feet is about right,
while on light land 16 by 16 feet will not be too close. A few orchard men are planting
10 by 18 and 10 by 20, and after getting one or two crops, cutting out every other 10 foot
tree, this leaving the maturing trees ample space to develop in as well as doubling the
yield of first crops.

IT IS IMPORTANT that the young trees should be properly pruned at the time of
planting. All side branches should be cut back to within a half-inch of the main stem,
this stem itself being cut back at about two-thirds the distance from the ground. Small
trees should be pruned to a whip, cutting back the stem very nearly one-half the way to the
ground. Afterward all sprouts should be removed except just what are wanted for the new
top of the tree. After this it will be necessary to prevent the tops getting too dense, as
a result from using too much manure or too severe pruning, by thinning out part of the
new growth.

THOROUGH CULTIVATION is of much more importance than fertilization, and is
indispensable to success. After an orchard has reached bearing age its condition must be
an index to after treatment. A moderate growth only is required. An excessive growth of
wood and foliage should be avoided, and this can usually be regulated by withholding
fertilizer and cultivation. The beginner will soon discover that on rich land trees with
excessively dense foliage will not produce brilliant colored fruit of fine flavor; but on poor
land some of this luxuriant growth will be desirable and can be induced by liberal broad-
cast application of fertilizer. Phosphoric acid, potash and clover are best for light or
sandy land, which is usually deficient in potash. We have found wood ashes to be a most
complete fertilizer for peach trees, but if some nitrogen is needed to induce more wood
growth, a good grade of bone or tankage is always in order to use, giving both nitrogen
and phosphoric acid. Avoid the use of dissolved rock in combination with wood ashes,
but otherwise its use gives a cheap source of phosphorie acid and with muriate of potash
gives a very low priced fertilizer.

Beginning to Load Cars With Peaches from Our Durham Orchards
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HOW TO GROW PEACHES—Continued

BORERS. The best method of caring for the borers is as follows:

earth to the height of
eight or ten inches the
first of June, and leave in
this condition till after
October 1st, then with-
draw the mound and if
any borers are present
(which may be known by
the gummy exudation
filled with sawdust), dig
them out with a knife or

other sharp pointed in-
strument. Coating bark
with lime-sulphur wash

before mounding will also
help. .

MUCH MIGHT BE
SAID about the fruit and
marketing, but this would
require a volume. The most
important point is not to
allow a tree to overbear.
Thin the fruit to make
it better and the trees
live longer.

SMALL TREES. It is
not always that the larg-
est trees are the best.
Medium sized’ trees are
taken up with plenty of
roots—nearly all the roots
the trees ever had—and
are not seriously -checked
when transplanted.

LARGE PLANTERS,
and those at a distance, will
find that there is a great
economy in medium sized
trees, Of course they do
not look so large when
first planted, but when
bearing time comes the
little fellows will be found
ready for work, and a
large saving is made in
first cost and in labor in
planting.

We wish to particularly emphasize this one point:

Mound up with

This photograph illustrates the way we grade and bunch our

Peach Trees. Beginning at the left, Fig. 5 shows our 2 to 3 ft. grade
tied in bunch of 25. Fig. 4, our 8 to 4 ft., light, calipering just under

_7-16th inch, tied in bunch of 25. Fig. 8, our 3 to 4 ft. regular grade,

calipering 7-16 to % inch tied in, bunch of ten.
9-16 inch grade in bunch of ten. Fig. 1, our 9-16 inch and up grade
in bunch of ten. Our two grades of 3 to 4 ft. trees are fully as good
as the ‘‘seconds’’ of other firms. Notice how evenly each grade runs.
We grade our trees almost entirely by caliper instead of height.

Fig. 2, our % to

Get good stock, whatever it costs.

it is cheaper in the end than any amount of trash given you.

Twenty-five years ago the great ery was ‘‘you will overdo the business.’’

The same

prediction has been made many times since, but largely by people who neglected to plant,
or those who after planting, failed to care for their orchards intelligently.

Tt is not too much to expect a peach orchard to have paid for itself at five years of

age,
proposition.

An investment yielding ten per cent. dividends, and safe, is considered, a gilt-edge
An investment in a peach orchard, according to now well-known conditions,

is a proposition many times better than ten per cent. stock.

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Nectar

The Earliest Yellow Peach Known—One of the Very Best in Quality

We found this peach in a lot of trees we
received from Texas. Whether it is a new
variety or some sort that is known in the
southwest, we don’t know, but we have
fruited it for a number of years and the fruit
has always sold at good prices. The fact that
the Nectar is so extremely early, ripening as
it does in this latitude about August Ist (or a
few days in advance of Greensboro), that it is
a beautiful yellow peach, the earliest yellow
peach known—that it is extremely hardy in
bud and has never failed to produce_a crop
even when other varieties adjoining were a
total failure—that no peach in the entire list
is of higher quality—all these combine to
make Nectar one of the most valuable varie-
ties, and one that will be largely planted
when known.

The tree is a thrifty, healthy grower and
very hardy in bud—the blossoms are large—
Fruit is medium in size, and should be thinned
to obtain the largest size—skin is yellow, with
side exposed to sun covered with red,
striped and splashed with darker red
—flesh is yellowand of very high :
quality. It is nearly free

when ripe, as free as any of the early peaches,
There is very little fuzz. The Nectar should
not be compared, either in looks or quality,
with such varieties as Triumph or Admiral
Dewey which ripen a week or ten days later.

Another valuable point is its freedom from
rot. We have kept the fruit in good condi-
tion for 10 days after picking, but it is so
juicy that it should be picked when hard and
let ripen in the basket. Even when compara-
tively green will color up beautifully. So far
we have needed all the trees of this variety

* we grew for our own planting, but for fall of

1913 and spring of 1914, we shall have trees
of this variety for our customers.

We don’t expect to charge an extra price
for these trees, but we want our customers
who buy other nursery stock of us to have
first opportunity to get trees of Nectar.
Therefore, we shall only sell trees of this va-
riety in assortment of other varieties, peach
trees or other nursery stock and at prices
charged for other peach trees, so far as our

stock permits. First come first served

. will beour rule. Therefore order early

i, if you want trees of this valuable
variety.

The Nectar

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A Good Force of Men Hoeing Peach Seedlings

Not in years have we grown so fine a lot
of peach trees as we have this season—
straight, smooth and clean. The roots are
better than the tops—all dug with our tree
digger drawn by 6 large horses. This takes
out more roots (and in better shape) than
can possibly be taken out with spades.

Many of the following varieties have not
been fruited by us so we are unable person-
ally to judge of their value. There is a great
deal of pleasure in testing unknown varieties
of fruit and oftentimes one finds some variety
which does particularly well under their spe-
cial conditions.

' ‘Tree Digger in Operation

Apex—We have not fruited this variety, but
it is said to be a good-sized yellow Peach
with mottled cheek; flesh yellow and of good
quality; ripens about August first.

Berenice—Large to very large; yellow, mot-
tled with dark crimson; flesh yellow, melting,
juicy and rich. In point of excellent qualities
it is superior to any yellow Peach of its

season. It is most showy and an excellent
shipper. Its good quality also commends it
to the planter. Ripens two weeks after El-
berta.

Banner—This variety, originated in Can-
ada; is very hardy and said to bear large
erops of very fine fruit farther north than
any other variety; yellow with crimson blush.
Fruit on young trees is medium in size, but as
trees attain age, size of fruit is larger; ripens
last of September. Not fruited by us.

Dr. Burton—This is one of the North China
type of Peaches from Texas; very hardy in
bud as are all of this type; skin creamy white,
one-half covered with rich Crimson. A free-
stone, ripening between Greensboro and Car-
man. Not fruited by us.

Early Wheeler—We have not fruited this
variety, but it is said to be a large showy
peach, six weeks earlier than Elberta. Color
creamy white, overspread with a beautiful
bright red.

Goldfinch (Harly Elberta)—This is a seed-
ling of Elberta with very much the same
characteristics as Elberta, but ripens a week
earlier. Not fruited by us.

Gov. Lanham—This is a very large yellow
Peach, immediately following Elberta in ripen-
ing. With us it is superior to that variety in
size, color and quality and its equal in hardi-
ness. It is indeed a beauty, but it is a cling.

Tiebout—This is a roundish, yellow, free-
stone peach, ripening ten days or so after
Elberta. It is a good bearer of peaches of
fair quality. .

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General List of Peaches

Arranged as nearly as possible in order of ripening. Differences in seasons, soil,

location, culture, and age of trees,
different varieties.

Mayflower—This is the earliest peach to
ripen and among the earliest to bear. Color,
red all over. Medium to large in size. The
beautiful solid red and the fact that it is
the earliest of all peaches to ripen makes it
sell well on the market. It sets so much fruit
that it should be thinned.

Greensboro—A hardy, early peach ripening
the latter part of July. It is beautiful in
appearance; a large white peach, one side
covered with light and dark crimson, and
freestone when fully ripe. We regard this
a valuable market variety.

‘Tts large size, attractive appearance and
reliability in bearing combine to make it one
of the best of its season.’’—Ohio Ex. Sta.
Bull. 170.

‘‘Largest of all early peaches, beautifully
colored with light and dark red, shaded with
yellow, which makes it a great beauty.’’—
J. Van Lindley Nursery Co.

Triumph—An early yellow peach subject
to rot in some seasons, otherwise a nice peach.

Waddell—Fruit medium, oblong; color,
creamy white, with bright blush on sunny
side, often covering two-thirds of the peach;
freestone; ripening two weeks before Mt.
Rose.

“*An excellent medium early variety for
home and market, stands sh.pping well, even
long distances.’’—Ohio Ex. Station.

Carman

Carman—This variety is almost as large as
Elberta, of nearly same shape; white with
beautiful red cheek, one of the most hardy
and reliable bearers. We recommend it for
commercial planting. One week before Moun-
tain Rose.

all have their influence on the time of ripening of the

‘* Quality extra good, well worth planting.’’
—H. E. Van Demian.

‘Tn some respects the most profitable and
valuable peach in America.’’—J. H. Hale.

Mayflower Peach

Hieley—This seedling of Belle of Georgia,
one of the best of all peaches of North China
type, the.kind that are among our-most hardy,
is white, nearly covered in red, is of good size
and quality, and a perfect freestone. We rec-
ommend it for commercial planting; ripens
just before Mountain Rose.

**Take my word for it, don’t miss planting
Hieley, it is a money maker, sure.’’—J. H.
Hale.

Mountain Rose—Iruit large, roundish;
skin whitish, nearly covered with light and
dark rich red; and extra fine quality; perfect
freestone. August 25th to September Ist.

Champion—l'ruit large, flavor delicious,
rich, sweet, juicy; skin creamy white, with
red cheeks. The peculiarity of this handsome
peach is the hardiness of its fruit buds. Is
largely planted by commercial growers, Sep-
tember Ist to 5th.

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PEACHES—Continued

Crawford’s Early—lIt is a
low fleshed fruit, of large size and highly
colored. Tree a moderate grower and ex-
tremely productive. September 5th.

magnificent, yel-

Crawford’s Early

Belle of Georgia—A large white peach with
beautiful red cheeks, one of our best hardy
and reliable bearers. ‘Tree a rapid grower
and comes into bearing early. Sept. 10th.

Old Mixon—This is a fine, large, exceed-
ingly productive variety. Skin, white with a
red cheek; flesh white, tender, rich and ex-
cellent.

Fitzgerald— ‘A productive yellow peach
ripening after Early Crawford. A peach of
fine quality, but its fruit is uneven in size.

Reeve’s Favorite—A very large yellow
Peach of the highest quality—unexcelled as a
faney Peach—not a heavy bearer.

Elberta—Here is the King of Market
Peaches! An exceedingly large, light-colored
yellow peach with red cheek. Flesh yellow.
A perfect freestone. Commercial growers
have made more money on this variety than
on all others. September 10th to 15th.

Elberta

Foster—A fine yellow peach of the Harly
Crawford type, ripening at about same time,
but superior to that variety in the coloring,
being brighter.

Niagara—This is a nice yellow peach of the
Crawford type, but too shy a bearer to be
profitable in this section.

Crosby—A medium sized yellow peach with
a remarkably small pit. Splendid quality.
The strongest claims for it is the frost proof
character of its fruit buds.

Belle of Georgia

Late Crawfords

Stump—aA large, roundish white peach with
red cheek. September 10th to 15th.

Crawford’s Late—A standard sort, of large
size, considered by some the best of its sea-
son, and as a yellow- -fleshed peach, unequaled
in quality. September 15th to 20th.

Chair’s Choice—Much like Late Crawford,
but a week later in ripening; generally un-
profitable in this section.

Globe—A variety of great size and beauty;
all the fruit uniformly large and of the best
flavor; yellow, shaded with red. Like all
extra large peaches, it is a shy bearer and
would not be profitable as a commercial va-
riety. Ripens after Crawford’s Late.

Frances—A large yellow peach ripening
just after Elberta. It is a very handsome
peach. September 15th to 20th.

Fox’s Seedling—Medium to large; white
flesh; skin creamy white, with bright red
cheek; a very heavy bearer. September 25th
to October 1st.

Willett—A very large yellow peach of the
Late Crawford type.

Bray’s Rareripe—White with red on sunny
side; freestone, flesh fine grained. Heavy
bearer. October Ist to 5th.

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PEACHES—

Continued

Iron Mountain—Size large, shape oblong or
egg shape, color pure white, sometimes hay-
ing a slight blush. September 20th to_Octo-
ber 10th.

Smock—Medium to large, light orange yel-
low, with red cheek; flesh yellow. Rather dry.
Used for canning.

Mathew’s Beauty—We omitted this variety
from our catalogue last year as we did not
consider it profitable. but some of our cus-
tomers in other sections wish to plant it so
we have grown a limited supply. It is a
large yellow peach, ripening two weeks or so
after Elberta. Shy and of poor color with us.

Steven’s Rareripe—Large, white peach with
red cheek. Tree hardy in bud and a good
bearer. It was certainly best in quality of
any peach we ever saw of its season. Septem-
ber 25th to 30th.

‘High quality, heavy and regular bearer.’’
—L. E. Covert, New York.

Salway—aA large, round, deep yellow peach
with dull red cheek; flesh firm and rich. Octo-
ber Ist to Sth.

Stevens Rareripe

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Apples for Profit and Use

APPLES FOR PROFIT—Although large
quantities of apple trees have been planted the
last few years, we see no danger of over pro-
duction of first-class fruit. Prices may not be
so high as they have been sometimes in the
past, but there will always be a demand at

good paying prices. Remember the population
of the country is growing rapidly and the de-
mand from foreign countries increasing very
fast.

The amount ‘of apples sold at $4.00 or more
per bushel in our eastern cities in the last
few years is something wonderful. At these
prices apples are prohibitive to the working
man and his family, who are the greatest
consumers of apples. When they are within
his reach—at a price of $3.00 to $4.00 per
barrel—it is not necessary that they be fancy.
They must be reasonable in price. ‘They ean
be grown with profit almost any where in our
eastern states.

AS AN INVESTMENT there is nothing
better than an apple orchard intelligently
handled. After 10 years or so it insures its
owners a generous income. We know of sey-
eral instances where trees 14 or 15 yrs. of
age have produced apples that sold for $25.00
per tree or at the rate of $1,000 per acre. An
income of $200 or more per acre from a well
cared for apple orchard is very common and
10 or 20 acres may be eared for by most any
farmer. Each acre may be made to yield a
better net income than $2,000 in the bank.

It Will Pay You to Plant Our
Apple Trees

One-year trees will stand the shock of trans-
planting better than older trees. They grow
immediately and in two or three years time,
will be as large or larger than the older tree.
The reason is that we are able to get a
greater proportion of roots to the top than we
can with older trees. Then they do not get
broken or mutilated in digging and packing
as they are smaller and more pliable.

1t should be borne in mind that the roots of
a one-year apple tree are three years old, the
top only one year, which is as it should be for
you have an abundance of the best roots,
while the top may be started high or low as
desired.

One-year apple trees are being planted more
and more by experienced growers, many of
whom have planted them for several years and
the fact that they repeat their orders, causes
us to believe that they consider them the best
for them to plant.

Every home should have a full supply of
apples and by selecting a succession of varie-
ties a supply may be had the entire year. If
your grounds are not large enough for a va-
riety of standard trees, plant dwarfs.

Fortunes Made in Apple Orchards Proven Daily bysReports

of Large Apple Growers.

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APPLES—Continued

The Boiken Apple

This Boiken apple tree was purchased with
four others of the same kind of The Barnes
Bros. Nursery Company in the spring of 1906.
The picture was taken the last of October,
1912. After taking the picture the fruit was
picked and from this tree four bushels and
three pecks were taken. Every apple was
easily picked by a short man standing on the
ground. One other tree of the four had a
larger amount of fruit and the four trees to-
gether yielded between fifteen and sixteen
bushels. The tree yielding the most has stood

Big Money is Made in Evaporated Fruit.

in the border of a grass plot for the past four
years, being spaded around and mulched the
first two years after it was set. For the last
four years the land has been plowed on one
side of it up to within about five feet and
this year (1912) had early cabbage and late
stone turnips taken off the ground. The trees
are good growers and the wood withey, the
limbs a8 you can see in the picture laying
their ends on the ground, and only one small
limb broken on the four trees and that for
the reason of improper pruning.

The Demand for

it is Enormous and is Increasing Daily. This One Demand

Will Draw Heavily on Apple Raisers.

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Apples—Summer, Autumn, Winter

Paradise Stock Dwarf Apple

Dwarf Apples

There are two species of dwarf apples, those
grafted upon Doucin roots and those upon
Trench Paradise roots. Those upon Doucin
grow to the size of a good large peach tree,
they bear earlier than the standard trees and,
while they may not produce so much fruit
per acre as standards, the size of the trees
enables the grower to care for the trees and
fruit in a manner not possible with standards
and grow a strictly fancy grade that is always
in demand at faney prices.

Trees upon French Paradise are very much
more dwarf in habit than those upon Doucin,
and are valuable only for those who have
limited space and want a variety of fancy
fruit in a short time. They may be planted
6 or 8 ft. apart, and frequently begin to bear
the second year from bud in nursery or the
second year from transplanting. They require
liberal culture which they repay by produc-
ing bountiful crops.

* tender, juicy, sub-acid.

Summer Apples

Yellow Transparent—Medium, pale yellow,
Bears very young,
often the third or fourth year.

Early Harvest—Large, pale yellow, fine
flavor. Good bearer.

Red Astrachan—Large, crimson, rather acid,
juicy, fine for cooking. Tree hardy, free
grower and good bearer. Highly esteemed for
its fine appearance, earliness and hardiness.

Sweet Bough—Large, pale yellow, sweet
juicy. An abundant bearer.

Golden Sweet—A yellow apple, very sweet
juicy. An abundant bearer.

Golden Sweet—A yellow apple, very sweet
and good. A strong grower and good bearer.

Duchess of Oldenburg—Large, streaked red
and yellow, juicy, sub-acid. ‘Tree a vigorous
grower and a young and abundant bearer.

Starr—This apple is much grown and is a
very profitable market variety in Central New
Jersey. Very large; pale green, sometimes
with blush on sunny side; very good in qual-
ity. Tree a good grower. Comes to fruiting
young and produces abundant crops annually.
Ripens in August.

Autumn Apples

Gravenstein—Large, striped red.
ular variety.

Fall Pippin—Large, yellow, tender, one of
the most valuable. Excellent for cooking.
Succeeds in nearly all sections.

Alexander—Large, deep erimson, sub-acid;
hardy and productive; poor quality. Fall.

Hurlbut—Fruit large, yellow, nearly covy-
ered with brownish red stripes; flesh juicy,
erisp with a spicy flavor; October; tree a
strong grower.

Wolf River—Large, handsome red; flesh
white and fine quality, sub-acid. Tree very
hardy and productive. :

McIntosh Red—Large, dark red, of Fa-
meuse type. A handsome apple of fine qual.
ity. Tree vigorous and hardy.

Pound Sweet—Large,
rich; valuable.

A pop-

yellow, sweet and

Rambo—Medium to large in size, greenish
yellow, mottled and striped with red; season
fall or early winter.

Wealthy—An American apple that is be-
coming very popular on account of its hand-
some appearance and early fruiting. Hardy
and productive. Fruit large size, roundish,
skin smooth, splashed with dark red; flesh
white, tender. : ’

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Pride of Hudson (Barringer)—This apple
originated in Germantown, N. Y., fifty years
ago and is worthy of a place in the commer-
cial orchard. Tree very thrifty, productive
and long-lived. Fruit is large, showy, un-
usually attractive and of splendid quality.
It is a light red, striped with dark red. This
variety has been largely shipped abroad and
always sold at top prices.

The above is an illustration of four grades of
our one-year apple trees; the bundle on the
right is our 5-6 ft. grade, the next 4-5 ft., the
third, 3-4 ft. and the small one on the left is our

2-3 ft. Notice particularly the enormous mass
of roots the tree possesses in proportion to the
tops. This is the secret of the success of the
one-year apple trees.

Chenango Strawberry—lruit beautiful in
appearance, yellowish white, striped with red
and of excellent dessert quality. Tree is an
early and abundant bearer. Ripens in Sep-
tember.

Walter Pease—Fruit large, pale green,
striped and nearly covered with red; of ex-
cellent dessert quality. Tree is a good grower
and comes into bearing moderately young.
Season October to December.

The above illustration shows three grades of
two-year apple trees. The bunch on the right
illustrates the 44, 5 to 7 ft. and up grade, the
next ;';, 5 to 6 ft., the bunch on the left repre-
sents the % to 7, 4 to 5 ft. grade. We wish to
call your attention to the magnificent root sys-
tem our soil produces on trees. ‘This is what
makes our trees so hardy, vigorous and fruitful,”

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Baldwin .

Winter Apples

Baldwin—Too well known and popular to
‘need description.

Bellflower—Large, yellow, with pale blush,
very tender and juicy. November to April.

Fallawater—Very large, handsome, yellow
with red cheek, mild, sub-acid. Tree a strong
grower, young and abundant bearer.

Ben Davis—Fruit medium to large; skin
striped and almost covered with red. :

Bismarck—Tree short, stocky growth, with
thick, healthy foliage, hardy and productive
Fruit large, handsome, yellow shaded and cor -
ered with red. Late fall and early winter.

Gano—Very hardy. A half-brother to Ben
Davis, though of: better quality. Very richly
colored, uniform in size; keeps until March.

Gravenstein Winesap

Early Harvest

Sweet Bough

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Golden Russet—Medium dull russet, juicy
and high flavored. Hardy and good bearer.

Grimes’ Golden—An apple of the highest
quality, medium to large size. Rich golden
yellow.

Hubbardston Nonsuch—Large, striped yel-
low and red. Good grower and bearer.

Jacob’s Sweet—A large, handsome, round-
ish apple; yellow with red cheek. One of the
best sweet apples.

Jonathan—Perfectly hardy and is produc-
tive in all soils. Fruit of medium size, very
regularly formed. Skin thin and smooth;
yellow ground almost covered with lively red
stripes deepening into dark red in the sun.
October to January.

King—A fine apple, of largest size and best
quality; red, showy. November to January.

Newtown Pippin—Of medium size, greenish
yellow; of fine quality and a good keeper.
December to May.

Northern Spy—tLarge, striped red, juicy,
rich. Tree a rapid grower and a good bearer.

Opalescent—Color light, shading to very
dark crimson with many yellow dots; skin
smooth, susceptible of a very high polish. It
not only a beauty, but all right for size, qual-
ity and productiveness, qualities rarely com-
bined in one variety. Season December to
March.

Paragon—A large, dark red apple of the
Winesap type, better adapted to the apple
growing regions of the south than New Eng-
land.

Rhode Island Greening—Large, greenish yel-
low, tender, juicy and rich, with rather an
acid flavor.

Jonathan Apple

Peck’s Pleasant—Large, pale yellow, very
rich, with flavor like a Newton Pippin.

Roxbury Russet—Popular on account of
productiveness and long keeping.

Rome Beauty—Large, yellow, bright red,

handsome, first quality, moderate. grower,
early bearer.
Stark—This is an edrly and abundant

bearer of apples; medium to large in size,
color greenish yellow nearly covered with red.
January to May.

Stayman Winesap—tTree is vigorous, comes
into bearing young, and is an annual cropper;
fruit medium to large in size, yellow, nearly
covered with red. December.

Talman Sweet—A medium size, yellow
sweet apple, in season from November to Feb-
ruary; tree very hardy and heavy bearer.

Wagner—Medium to large, light red and
of good quality. Tree is a good grower when
young, but is of dwarf habit and becomes
weak with age. Used a great deal as fillers
for orchards as it bears very young.

York Imperial—Medium in size, oval, angu-
lar, skin greenish yellow, nearly covered with
bright red, flesh crisp, tender and juicy, aro-
matic; an enormous bearer and hangs well on
the tree, also a good keeper.

Crab Apples

Transcendant—Medium to large, roundish,
oblong, slightly ribbed, golden yellow with
red cheek, with thin white bloom; flesh yel-
low, crisp, sub-acid, pleasant. arly fall.

Best of its class.
Hyslop—Large, dark red, flesh yellow, sub-
acid; productive, hardy and popular. October.

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Standard Pears

Pears are so delicious that they certainly
should have a prominent place in the home
orchard. They are also rather an important
consideration as a market crop so that any
one who has the room for them can well afford
to plant a few extra trees. As a commercial

proposition they may be made very profitable.

Bartlett

Beurre Clairgeau—Large, melting. Tree a
stout grower, regular and reliable in bearing.
October and November.

Beurre D’Anjou—Large, juicy, melting.
Tree vigorous, productive; a regular and an-
nual bearer. WHarly winter. :

Koonce—A very popular early variety.
Fruit medium to large, yellow, one-half nearly
covered with red. ‘Tree vigorous, free from
blight, upright, handsome grower. Early Au-
gust.

Kieffer—Tree vigorous, blight-proof, an
early, profuse and regular bearer. Fruit large,
rich yellow, tinged with red, flesh whitish,
a little coarse, juicy, with a marked musky
aroma. Excellent for canning and market.
Best when house-ripened. October to Decem-
ber.
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Wherever we find a fruit farm that is

well managed and cared for by up-to-

date methods, there we find a happy and
contented family and a farm which is
not for sale.

Worden-Seckel—A seedling of the Seckel,
only larger. Fully equal to it in quality, and
more juicy, equally luscious and with the same
rich and inviting aroma, while in size, color
and form it is decidedly superior. Color golden
yellow with bright red side. Skin smooth
and waxy with russet dots. Season October to
December.

Bartlett — Large; buttery, rich-flavored,
melting; good grower; flesh white, fine-
grained, luscious. More generally popular

than any other pear. August and September.

Bosc—We are unable to furnish trees of
this variety. They are such a poor, crooked
grower in the nursery that customers are
usually dissatisfied with the trees. The best
way to get this variety is to get some other
ae growing variety and graft over to

ose.

Duchesse D’Angouleme—Large, greenish
yellow, with patches of russet and a dark red
cheek. Strong grower and a good bearer.
Attains greatest perfection when dwarfed on
quince root. October.

Clapp’s Favorite—Large, attractive, red-
cheeked, good. Resembles Bartlett, but is
earlier and without its musty flavor. Very
desirable, August.

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Louise Bonne de Jersey—Tree especially Seckel—Small, rich, yellowish; one of the
desirable as a dwarf; vigorous, fruit medium best and highest flavored pears known, Very
size, skin smooth, glossy, pale green in shade, productive. September and October.
but brownish red in the sun; flesh greenish
white, very juicy, with a rich, excellent flavor.
September and October.

Sheldon—Medium to large, yellow and some-
what russet, a fine grower and productive.
One of the best. October.

Vermont Beauty—This beautiful and valu-
able pear is of full medium size, yellow,
covered on the sunny side with bright car-
mine-red, making it exceedingly attractive
and handsome; flesh melting, rich, juicy, aro-
matic. Ripens with and after Seckel.

Wilder Early—A good growing, good keep-
ing, good shipping, superior flavored, very,
early, handsome pear. It holds its foliage
well, and thus far has been free from blight
or other disease. Medium size, handsome, of Lawrence—Medium sized, light yellow,

high quality; solid and does not rot at the sugary, good; reliable and productive. De-
core. Tree bears young. cember to January.

Lawrence

Seckel Pears

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Dwarf Pears

Duchess Pear

Japan

We regard the varieties listed the cream of
the Japanese varieties. In many respects
these species resemble peach trees as they are
rapid growers, come into bearing at two or
three years of age and produce so heavily
that they are usually short lived.

Abundance—I'rnit large and beautiful;
amber turning to bright cherry red; flesh
yellow, tender, juicy, rich. Vigorous and pro-
ductive. Valuable for market. August.

Burbank—The best and most profitable
among growers for market; ripens seven to
ten days after Abundance. Tree hardy,
sprawling, vigorous grower, unequaled in pro-
ductiveness, bears young. Fruit large, ex-
cellent quality, cherry red, with lilac bloom.
August.

Red June—A vigorous, hardy, upright,
spreading tree, as productive as Abundance;
fruit medium to large, deep vermillion-red,
with handsome bloom, very showy; flesh light
lemon-yellow, slightly sub-acid, of good and
pleasant quality, half cling, pit small, and is
the best in quality of any of the early varie-
ties.

Satsuma—A purple-fleshed plum of very
vigorous growth, enormously productive of
fruit, large, skin dark purplish red, flesh firm,
juicy, dark red or blood color, well flavored.
Pit very little larger than a cherry stone. Un-
excelled for canning and preserving. Mid-
season to late.

DWARF PEARS should be planted 12 feet
apart. At time of planting, and every spring
thereafter, they should be thoroughly pruned,
shortening in the current’ year’s growth
about one-half, aiming to form a round and
well-proportioned head. The ground should
be well cultivated, enriched by a top-dressing
of manure in the autumn, and well mulched
in the spring. Pears grown on standards or
dwarfs should never be allowed to ripen on
the tree. Summer and autumn varieties
should be gathered about ten days before
they are ripe, and winter pears before frost
sets in,

We can furnish the following varieties of
Dwarf Pears: Wilder, (lapp’s, Bartlett,
Seckel," Duchesse d’Angouleme, Vermont
Leauty, Louise Bonne and Lawrence. We
recommend Duchesse as the most successful
as Dwarf.

Plums

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European Plums

A rich, strong soil best suits the plum.
Good cultivation and regular fertilizing are
required. If ‘‘black-knot’’? should appear,
cut it out at once.

For CURCULIO, spray thoroughly with
Arsenate of Lead several times, beginning as
soon as blosoms fall.

Fellemberg (French or Italian Prune)—
Large, oval; purple; juicy and delicious; parts
from the stone; fine for drying. September.

German Prune—Fruit oval, nearly two
inches long, of good quality; hangs well on
tree and is firm and sweet.

Lombard—Violet-red, of medium to large,
oval, green, inclined to yellow when ripe, rich,
juicy, excellent in quality.

German Prune

Niagara—Fruit large, oval, often with a
slight neck, skin reddish purple, flesh yellow,
juicy and good.

Bradshaw—A very large and fine early
plum, dark violet-red, juicy and good; very
productive. August.

Grand Duke

Grand Duke—A yaluable addition to late
plums; as large as the Bradshaw, of same
color, free from rot, ripening latter part of
September.

Shropshire Damson—A plum of fine quality,
as free from the attacks of the curculio as
the common Damson, and of same color. The
flesh is amber-colored, juicy and sprightly.

Reine Claude— Large, greenish yellow,
spotted with red, firm, juicy, sugary, of fine
quality, very productive. September.

Imperial Gage—Fruit medium to large,
oval, green, inclined to yellow when ripe,
rich, juicy, excellent in quality. Bradshaw

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There is no tree fruit more profitable, for the person willing to
give the necessary care, than the European Plum. They bear as

early as peach trees and are far more hardy. There are very few

to be had in the markets except those from the far west.

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Cherries

Montmorency

There are few more desirable fruits than
cherries. Of the sweet varieties, the Napo-
leon and Windsor are among the best for
market purposes, and of the sour varieties
the Montmorency is most profitable. Cherries
require warm, dry soil. No other fruit is so
injured by excessive moisture.

Black Eagle—Large, black, very tender,
juicy, rich and high flavored; tree vigorous,
productive. July 1st to 15th.

Black Heart—Black Ox-heart. Fruit me-
dium-sized, heart-shaped; skin glossy, deep
black, flesh tender, juicy, sweet. Early July.

Black Tartarian—Very large, bright purp-
lish black; half tender, juicy, very rich, excel-
lent. Vigorous and productive. Last of June
or July. A general favorite.

Governor Wood—Very large; rich light
yellow, with red cheek, juicy, sweet, one of
the very best. Late June.

Napoleon Bigarreau—Very large, pale yel-
low or red, very firm, juicy and sweet, vigor-
ous and very productive. One of the best.
Early July.

Schmidt’s Bigarreau—Iruit of immense
size, rich, deep black; flesh dark, tender, very
juicy, with a fine flavor; bears abundantly.

Windsor—New, originated in Canada. Fruit
large, liver-colored; flesh remarkably firm and
fine. Tree hardy and very prolific. A valu-
able late variety for market and family use.

English Morello—Medium to large, blackish
red, rich acid, juicy, good, very productive.

Early Richmond—This is a hardy cherry,
fruiting on young trees soon after planting
and bearing regularly every year enormous
loads of dark red fruit that does not rot upon
the trees, can be left without picking longer
than most varieties. Unsurpassed for can-
ning and profitable for market. Ripens
through June.

Large Montmorency—The most popular of
all hardy cherries for market and home use.
This cherry is planted largely. The fruit is
in great demand. It is of large size, light
red in color; stem rather short. The trees
bear fruit soon after planting.

The Cherry is the most
profitable fruit grown.
There is a large demand
for them.

An Early Richmond Cherry Orchard in Bloom

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Quinces

The Quince is of late attracting a good
deal of attention as a market fruit. Scarcely
any fruit will pay better in the orchard.
The tree is hardy and compact im growth,
requiring but little space, is productive, gives
regular crops and is much sought after for
zanning for winter use. When put up in the
proportion of about one quart of quinces to
four quarts of other fruit, it imparts a deli-
cious flavor.

Quinces do best in deep, cool soil, though
in dryish places they will do fairly well if
mulched. To have the roots cool is a great
step towards success. If by themselves in
rows they can be planted about twelve feet
apart. There need be no fear of overfeeding
the quince. They like lots of rich food.
Kitchen washings and materials like this they
delight to get, and when well fed in this way
and rich food is spread about the surface of
the ground the borer is not at all troublesome
to them. When the quince is suited in this
way, and grows as it should do, it begins to
bear in three years, and afterwards it never
fails of a crop, and seventy-five to one hun-
dred quinces can be had from full-grown trees.
A quince orchard should be cultivated very
shallow and the ground never plowed so far
as the roots of the trees extend, where it is
possible to keep the ground free from weeds
with the shallow tooth cultivator. Since
dwarf pear trees are on quince roots, a dwarf
pear orchard should be treated the same as a
quince orchard as regards cultivation.

Apple or Orange

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Apple or Orange—Large, roundish, bright
golden yellow, cooks tender and excellent,
valuable for preserves or flavoring. Very
productive; the most popular and extensively
cultivated of the old varieties.

Bourgeat—A golden prolific variety of the
best quality, ripening shortly after Orange
and keeping until midwinter. Tree a remark-
ably strong grower, surpassing all others and ©
yielding immense crops, fruiting at three or
four years in nursery rows; leaves large,
thick, glossy, so far free from blight and
disease. Fruit of largest size, round; rich,
golden yellow, smooth, very tender when
cooked, has been kept till February in good
condition.

Champion—Fruit very large, fair and
showy; cooks as tender as an apple, and with-
out hard spots or cores; flavor delicate, im-
parting an exquisite taste and odor to any
fruit with which it is cooked. Tree hand-
some, surpassing other varieties in this re-
spect; bears abundantly while young.

Mulberries

The Mulberry is valuable not only on ac-
count of its fruit, but as a desirable shade
tree. It is of easy culture, requiring little or
no pruning.

Downing’s Everbearing—Fruit large, blue
black, juicy, rich, sugary, with a sprightly
vinous flavor. Tree vigorous and productive,
continuing in bearing about three months. A
large growing and desirable shade tree.

Russian—Very hardy, vigorous grower.
Much used for hedges and windbreaks; valu-
able for feeding silk worms. Fruit of small
size.

For a steady annual bearer, no
fruit tree exceeds the Quince.
It never suffers from late frosts.
As it blooms so late there is
no danger from that source.

You can figure on an annual
income of $300 to $500 per acre
for a Quince orchard, 6-7 years
old—and well cared for.

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Grapes

No grounds are so small but that the owner
can grow at least a few grapes. Grapes
should be planted in a dry, warm soil, where
they will have a free circulation of air, an
eastern or southern exposure is preferable.
Where the formation of the land will permit,
it is well to plant rows so that they will be
parallel with the direction of prevailing
winds. Grapes may be trained to buildings
or any cheap and simple arbor or even on
single poles or stakes,

agara

Niagara—One of the best known white
grapes. A splendid table grape. Mid-season.

Worden—A seedling of Concord, ripens a
few days earlier, has a larger berry, and a
larger and more compact bunch; hardy and
healthy; black, of fine quality and very de-
sirable.

Wyoming Red—A decidedly fine, early red
grape. Bunch and berry double size of Dela-
ware, of same color, with similar flavor,
Ripens a week or ten days before Concord.

Brighton—In color, form of bunch and
berry, resembles .Catawba, combining the
sprightliness of that variety with the rich-
ness and sweetness of Delaware; vine vigor-
ous, hardy, productive.

Campbell’s Early—Seedling of Moore’s
Early. A vigorous, hardy grower, with
healthy and abundant foliage which resists
mildew. Bears profusely, large clusters of
fruit, usually shouldered and compact. Ber-
ries nearly round, black, with blue bloom;
skin thin but tenacious, flesh rather firm, ten-
der, rich, sweet, slightly vinous, with no foxi-
ness or acidity. Ripens early, and hangs on
the vine six weeks after ripening. We believe
it has come to stay.

Concord—Black, bunch large, shouldered,
compact; berries large, tender-skinned, juicy,
sweet; vine strong growing, hardy, produc-
tive. The standard market grape of America.

Delaware—Small, light-red, thin-skinned;
very juicy, sweet and sprightly. Slow grow-
ing and tender; requires a rich soil and a
favorable situation on the south side of a
building to succeed well; of the highest qual-
ity when properly grown.

Eaton—Bunch and berries very large, cov-
ered with a heavy blue bloom; pulp tender,
separating freely from the seeds, very juicy;
vine healthy, hardy and productive.

Moore’s Early—One of the best very early
grapes. A seedling of Concord, which it
equals in vigor and harainess of vine, but
ripens ten days or two weeks earlier than
that variety. Bunch large; berry round and
large, black, with a heavy blue bloom; quality
good. ,

Green Mountain—New. Found growing in
a garden on the side of the Green Mountains
in Vermont, at an altitude of 1,400 feet,
where it ripened its fruit perfeetly. Vine
strong, vigorous,- healthy, very Hardy and
productive. Bunel long, compact, shouldered.
Color green or grenish white; skin thin, pulp
exceedingly tender and sweet. Very early,
being three weeks earlier than Concord.

Moore’s Diamond—Vine vigorous, with
large, dark, healthy foliage, prolific, produe-
ing large, handsome, compact, slightly should-
ered bunches, of delicate greenish white, with
rich yellow tinge. Its desirable characteris-
ties are earliness, hardiness, healthfulness and
good quality.

The quality of our Stock is
guaranteed and the price will be

accordingly no higher than what you
should pay for true-sure-growing
stock,

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Currants

CURRANTS properly dug and shipped should
be planted on good soil, which must be kept
rich and well worked. Few plants will live
under such neglect as these generally receive,
and very few so thoroughly repay good and
proper treatment. Trim out the old wood as
soon as it begins to decline, and shorten all
the young shoots to keep the bushes in good
shape. The currant worm may be destroyed
by sprinkling the bushes with powdered white
hellebore while they are wet with dew. In
some instances it may be necessary to repeat
this process, but the trouble and expense of
exterminating the worms is trifling if the
powder is applied- as soon as the worms ap-
pear.

Champion Black—A new variety from Eng-
land; pronounced the finest black currant ever
brought to notice. The bushes are very large
and the flavor of the fruit excellent.

Fay's Prolific

Fay’s Prolific—The most popular of all
the older varieties of currants. It is early,
large, of good color and very productive. It
succeeds better on lighter soils than other va-
rieties,

Wilder

Wilder—A remarkable variety of great
popularity both for table and market. One of
the strongest growers and most productive.
Bunch and berries very large, bright, attrac-
tive red color, even when dead ripe; hangs on
bushes in fine condition for handling as late
as any known variety.

Perfection—A fine new currant of superior
merit. Berry very large, larger than Fay’s;
clusters averaging longer, color a beautiful
bright red, flavor of rich, mild sub-acid. A
great bearer; less acid and of better quality
than any other large currant in cultivation.
The Perfection was awarded the Barry Gold
Medal of the Western New York Horticultural
Society. Receiving highest award at Pan-
American and St. Louis Expositions.

White Grape—Very large, yellowish white;
sweet or very mild acid; of excellent quality
and valuable for the table. The finest of the
white sorts. Very productive.

Cherry—The largest of all red currants;
berries are some times more than half an inch
in diameter, bunches short, plant very vigor-
ous and productive when grown on good soils
and well cultivated.

Industry

Gooseberries

The Gooseberry when well cared for pro-
duces tremendous crops, often 400 to 500
bushels per acre, and at $3.00 per bushel
would sell for $1200.00 to $1500.00 per acre.

The Gooseberry requires the same cultiva-
tion and treatment for worms as the currant.
The worms attack the gooseberry before the
currant bushes, and should be closely watched
as soon as the growth gets a few inches long.
Dust or sprinkle the leaves with hellebore
as soon as the first worm is discovered, or
about the 10th or 12th of May. These worms

come three times during the season, and should

be closely watched through the summer,

Downing—Fruit smooth, larger than Hough-
ton, roundish, light-green with distinct veins;
flesh rather soft, juicy and very good. The
most valuable American variety.

Pearl—A very productive and perfectly
healthy variety, quite rree from mildew.
Pearl is a favorite and hard to beat; bushes
planted but one year are said to yield three
quarts of berries. A robust, vigorous grower,
with berries larger than Downing, and of ex-
cellent quality.

Josselyn (Red Jacket)—A new American
variety, for which the introducer claims great
productiveness, hardiness, excellence of qual-
ity and freedom from mildew, it having been
tested seven years beside other sorts, all of
which, except Red Jacket, were badly af-
fected.. Berry large and smooth.

Industry—A variety of foreign origin
which, in most northern portions of the United
States, does well, and, under favorable condi-
tions, is exceptionally free from mildew.

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Asparagus

Asparagus usually sells at a good price, and,
being ready for market in April and May,
the income derived from it is especially ap-

preciated at that time of the year. It is
usually planted on light soil to have it early,
though it can be easily grown on all good
garden soils. The sprouts are not usually cut
until the second or third year after planting,.
except to mow down the canes in the fall.
The roots will give good crops for from 15
to 20 years, selling at $100 to $200 per acre.

Plant the roots in the spring or fall, from
4 to 6 inches deep, covering with only 3 ‘inches
of soil at first, and filling in the trenches as
the plants grow.

Barr’s Mammoth— Very large, tender
stalks, light color and very early.
Conover’s Colossal—Very large, makes

rapid growth; planted mostly by market-
gardeners; very productive.

Giant Argenteuil—The finest and most
profitable of all. Stalks of immense size,
very bright and attractive, sweet and tender.
Comes into cutting condition much earlier
than others. Very reliable and a sure money-
getter.

Moore’s Cross-Bred—This originated with
J. B. Moore, of Massachusetts, who exhibited
at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society a
bunch of this variety containing 12 stalks
weighing 4 lbs. 64% ozs. It retains the heads
until the stalks are quite long, while for ten-
derness and eating quality it is excelled by
none, It is particularly recommended for
New England.

Palmetto—Of Southern origin, a variety of
excellent quality, early, very large, very pro-
lifie; all who have used it pronounce it ahead
of any other.

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Strawberries

Stevens Late Champion

We give decided preference to April and
May for planting strawberries, and confine our
transplanting and sales to those months. The
earlier they are planted in the spring the
better, keeping the roots from being dried
by the wind or sun. To produce large berries,
the runners must be pinched off, thereby
throwing the strength of the plant into the
fruit.

Those varieties marked ‘‘Imp.’’ are pistil-
late or imperfect flowering. These varieties
are among the best in quality and produc-
tiveness, but they must be planted with the
perfect ‘flowering varieties so that the blos-
soms will mix and fertilize. Plant the pistil-
late varieties between the perfect flowering,
having one row of the perfect to every two
or three of the pistillate.

One who has never tried it will be aston-
ished to find how large a crop of berries can
be produced on a few square yards in the
garden. It is not at all unusual to get two
or three bushels from a plot of ground one rod
square.

Brandywine (Perfect)—Season medium to
late. One of the heaviest fruiters and a
splendid shipper. Berries very large, deep

_red to center; stem short and stout, holds its
great load of berries well up from the ground.
One of the strongest pollenizers for pistillates
of the season.

Chipman—This is a perfect flowering, mid-
season variety that is one of the leading vari-
eties planted for market purposes in the great
strawberry growing districts of Delaware.

Berries are large in size, bright red in color
and regular in shape. Plants large in size,
The foliage is healthy and vigorous.

Abington (Perfect)—We have fruited this
several seasons and are greatly pleased with
it, it is a great cropper. Take Abington and
Sample and you have a whole team and a
strong one. It is fully as productive as Sam-
ple, and larger.

Abington

Clyde (Perfect)—One of the best of the
early, large-fruited varieties, yielding abund-
antly, and is very profitable. The berries are
bright in color, hold up well( being moderately
firm, and owing to their quality, good size,
earliness and fresh color, sell quickly and
bring in good returns.

Chesapeake (Perfect)—This variety is as
Jate as Gandy, more productive on lighter
soils and equal to it in size; its shipping qual-
ity far excels that popular standard variety;
in eating quality it ranks among the best.

Gandy (Perfect)—This superb late variety
is second to none as a fine, handsome, beau-
tiful, firm, fine-flavored late berry. The fruit
always brings the highest market price. This
is one of the most profitable berries to grow
for a fancy market or for home use, where
quality is the first consideration.

Glen Mary (Perfect)—A choice variety that
will well repay extra care and culture, delight-
ing the amateur; and one that is profitable,
also, in a fancy market. The berrries are
large, bright glossy crimson, and so hand-
some as to bring the highest price; moderately
firm and fine in flavor. The plant is vigor-
ous and healthy, very productive, and the
berries mantain their large size until the close
of the season, Season medium to late.

Haverland (Imp)—The smallest plants of
the Haverland bear abundantly. The fruit is
long and large, light red, very attractive,
moderately firm; season early. A valuable
berry for home use.

Marshall (Perfect)—The plant is large and
strong. The fruit is handsome and attractive,
very large. Of perfect form, dark crimson
when ripe, but covers all over a light crimson
before ripe.

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Strawberry
Prolific

Prolific—This enor-
mously productive vari-
ety was produced by
The New York Experi-
ment and named Prolific
on account of its heavy
yield. It was distributed
among fruit growersas a
valuable variety (which
itis). On account of
its not having been ad-
vertised or boomed, it is
little known, compared
with some less valuable
varieties.

New York (Perfect)—This variety is fast
becoming a favorite. It is a cross of Bubach
and Jessie. Mr. Kellogg says: ‘‘New York is
a fancy berry for faney trade. Very large,
bright red, strong foliage, and heavy fruiter.’’

Sample (Imp)—This new berry originated
in Massachusetts. It is of large size, quite
firm, commences to ripen mid-season and con-
tinues till very late, keeping up a continual
supply of large berries to the end. The foliage
is large and healthy, blossom imperfect, fruit
of good quality. It is truly a marvel of pro-
ductiveness and a variety which will yield
dollars to those who plant it.

Stevens Late Champion (Perfect)—This is
one of the most profitable and productive late
berries we know of, and seems to do well in
almost all soils and locations. Berries large in
size, dark red, and firm.

Success (Perfect)—This is the largest and
best extra early berry we have ever fruited;
would not be a good shipper, but for a nearby
market can’t be beaten for its reason.

William Belt (Perfect)—Large size, bright,
glossy red. Jn productiveness, size and qual-
ity, William Belt will scale high.

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Raspberries

Any ground capable of raising good gen-
eral crops is suitable for raspberries, or they
may be grown at a profit in young orchards.
Red raspberries, for field culture, should be
planted in rows 7 feet apart and 2 feet apart
in the rows; for garden culture, 4 x 5 feet.
The canes should be cut back within two
inches of the ground immediately after plant-
ing. In pruning the bearing canes, cut back,
on an average, half their length. Old canes
should be cut out after the freeze of winter.
There is seldom enough red raspberries grown
to supply the market demands. With good
culture the average yield is 75 bushels per
acre, and usually sell for an average of $5.00
per bushel, making a return of about $375.00
per acre.

Blackeaps are raised similarly to the Red
varieties, they may be raised on lighter soil
than the Red. In pruning the bearing canes,
cut back about three feet. The average yield
of Black Raspberries is about $300 per acre.

Plum Farmer—The best raspberry in the
list; very large and productive, finest flavor
and a heavy yielder.

Gregg—An old variety, the standard of size
and productiveness by which other varieties
are compared. Its late ripening, large size,
make this variety a favorite.

Cumberland—The fruit is simply enormous;
the berries measure nearly an inch in diam-
eter, but, in spite of this, are unusually firm
and thus well adapted for standing long ship-
ments. In time of ripening it precedes Gregg.
The bush is extremely vigorous and remark-
ably free from disease.

Kansas—Strong, vigorous grower, standing
extremes of drought and cold, and bearing
immense crops; jet black, and almost free
from bloom; firm, of best quality; early.

RED AND YELLOW VARIETIES

Columbian—This variety will, under the
right conditions, produce more fruit than any
other raspberry in cultivation. It is a ram-.
pant grower. The originator trained a bush
to grow 13 feet high, which produced one
bushel of fruit. L. J. Farmer of New York
says be has picked at the rate of 5,000 bas-
kets to the acre at one picking. The fruit
is large, purple in color, and splendid for
canning.

Herbert—This new raspberry originated
near Ottawa, Canada. It has undergone a
thorough test beside the old varieties, as well
as later introductions, and outclassed them
all. It is very hardy, has stood 30 degrees
below zero at its home in Canada without
injuring a tip. Jt is a heavy bearer of extra
large, firm, fine-colored fruit that holds its
size well to end of season.

Cuthbert—Very large and handsome, of
good quality; ripens a little late and continues
a long time in fruit; hardy and productive.

A bed of % acre of

Raspberries with a small
amount of care will bring

you a good tidy sum.
Besides they are a_ deli-

cious food for table use.

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St. Regis—This variety, we consider, is one
of the most valuable red raspberries that has
ever been introduced and it is our prediction
that a few years more will see it as exten-
sively grown as any of the old standard varie-
And there is no reason why it shouldn’t

ties.

St. Regis

be for it has all of the good qualities of any
of the old sorts and a great many that none
of them possess. Here are a few of the rea-
sous why we can so strongly recommend the
St. Regis: The fruit is of good size, a beauti-
ful brilliant crimson color, of delicious flavor,
and so firm that it will carry to distant
markets in excellent condition. It is among
the first red raspberries to ripen in the spring,
coming at the close of the strawberry season.
The first crop to ripen is the main crop and
is a bumper. Not excelled by any of the other
varieties and equalled by few. But, like other
varieties, they do not stop bearing as soon as
this first crop is produced. Instead they keep
right on bearing, in small quantities, of course,
all summer and autumn, By the last of Au-

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gust the new growth of wood, which has been
produced during the summer, is ready to bear
fruit and continues to bear in inereasing quan-
tities until the severe frosts stop them. An-
other unusual quality of the St. Regis is that
they will produce fruit the first season planted.
Not in large quantities, of course, but enough
to keep the table well supplied and at a time
when other raspberries have been gone for
weeks. It has never been our custom to urge
our customers to try new and expensive varie-
ties, but we have become so thoroughly con-
vineed of the merits of this berry that we can
honestly advise you to buy the St. Regis
whether you want only a few dozen for the
garden or several thousand for commercial
purposes. Our supply of plants is not large,
so you should send in your order early and
not run the risk of going another season with-
out getting a start of this grand new berry.

In its home in New Jersey it has superseded
all other varieties, as many as three carloads
having been shipped from this station in one
day. They commenced to ripen there June 20
and continue till October 20th.

The King—Mr. Charles E. Chapman, of Con-
necticut, the raspberry specialist, says the
King Raspberry is the earliest, the brightest
in color, the firmest, the most productive and
the hardiest red raspberry in cultivation. It
ripens here in Connecticut before strawberries
are gone and the fruiting season continues for
a month. Mr. Chapman says he is familiar
with every variety of raspberry in cultivation,
red and black, grown commercially in the
United States, and has discarded all except
King in red and Plum Farmer in black. He
says King will turn more money per acre than
any other variety of raspberry in cultivation.
He has had an acre of King bring an income
of $500.00 per acre.

Send in your orders now
for small fruits. Our stock is
healthy, clean, and will grow

quickly after transplanting.
Our plants will give you per-
fect satisfaction.

Blackberries

Rathbun

In garden culture, blackberries should be
planted in rows 6 feet apart, and the plants
about 4 feet apart in the rows; in field eul-
ture plant in rows 8 feet apart, and the plants

3 feet apart in the rows. The tops should
not be cut off till about 314 feet high, and
should not be so closely pruned in the spring;
otherwise their culture should be the same as
for raspberries.

Blackberries produce about $350.00 worth
of fruit per acre on the average.

Eldorado—Eldorado now stands high above
any other blackberry, and all agree that it
has never winter-killed or failed to produce
a full crop of the finest fruit. While it is
of superior flavor and very large, the vines
will also stand the winters of the far north-
west without injury. The yield is enormous,
the fruit being jet black, in large clusters,
ripening well together. Very sweet and with-
out core.

Rathbun—Fruit is of enormous size, far
surpassing that of any other variety, 45 ber-
Ties fillimg a quart box, single specimens
measure 1% inches in length, and the whole
crop is very uniform, Fruit is quite firm,
sweet, with no core, and ships well. Plant is
not very hardy.

Snyder—An old, well-known variety. Very
hardy, will endure severe cold without injury.
Medium size.

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The Ward Blackberry—The plant is re-
markably vigorous and healthy, free from
rust, well branched yet making strong, erect
fruiting canes enabling them to carry and
develop their immense loads of fruit.

Merserau—This variety has been well
tested and found to be perfectly hardy. It
makes very large canes, is very productive,
of large size, delicious quality, hangs on the
bushes till fully ripe, does not turn red in the
baskets, has an unusually long season.

Lucretia Dewberry—The best of the ‘black-
berry family and decidedly the. most produc-
tive. The berries are far Jarger and incom-
parably better than any blackberry, and of
unequaled excellence;* sweet and luscious
throughout. Should be covered like straw-
berries in winter... —

Rhubarb 3

Myatt’s Linnaeus—Those who have never
grown this variety,’which is*of superior qual-
ity, will hardly re¢ognize the old ‘‘Pie-
Plant.’’? It is an early, tender variety, not in
the least tough or stringy, with a mild, sub-
acid flavor,

Nut Trees

Walnut, Black—A native tree of large size,
beautiful foliage. Very valuable for its tim-
ber. A rapid growing tree, producing a large,
round nut of excellent quality.

Walnut, Japan—A tree of great vigor, per-
fectly hardy. Handsome form, immense green
leaves, bearing heart-shaped, pointed nuts in
clusters of twelve or fifteen each at tips of
previous season’s branches. Meat sweet and
of superior quality. Tree commences bearing
when young.

Chestnut, Japanese—These are among the
most valuable and begin to bear at two or
three years of age, the nuts measuring 4 to 5
inches in circumference, and running three
to seven in a burr. They ripen very early and
do not require frost to open the burrs.

Chestnut, Spanish—Seedling. A handsome,
round-headed tree of rapid growth, yielding
abundantly, large nuts of good quality.

Chestnut, Paragon—Grafted. Tree very
vigorous, and upright grower, hardy and pro-
ductive. Nuts large, kernel fine-grained,
sweet and of good quality.

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Ornamental Department

Everywhere people are beginning to fully appreciate the great value in dollars of the

well ornamented property whether private or public.
of ornamentation is by planting trees, shrubs, vines, and plants.

The surest and most permanent way
Besides the pecuniary

value attached to tree and shrub planting about a place is the influence and refinement
upon the lives of the individuals who are daily permitted to enjoy the beauties of the

rich

colorings of flowers and foliage and fruit during the four seasons of the year.

European Beech—A large and beautiful
lawn tree resembling American Beech, but
more compact in habit.

Weeping Beech—A strong growing variety

with fairly straight, upright trunk from
which spread straggling and crooked branches.

Purple or Copper Beech—Foliage red, pur-
ple in early summer.

River’s Purple Beech—A variety with
large, smooth, very dark leaves. The best
purple lawn tree known.

Weeping Purple Beech—A variety with
large, purple leaves and drooping branches.
A very rare and beautiful tree.

Fern-Leaved Beech—Has finely divided
fern-like foliage and well formed growth. A
very popular ornamental tree.

European White Weeping Birch—A grace-
ful tree, with silvery bark and _ slender
branches, Quite erect when young, but after
four or five years’ growth assumes an elegant,
drooping habit, rendering the tree very ef-
fective in landscapes.

Pyramidal Birch—Of elegant pyramidal
habit, like the Lombardy Poplar. Bark sil-
very white. Very distinct and ornamental.

Purple-Leaved Birch—A variety possessing
the vigorous habit of the birches and having
purple foliage.

Cut-Leaved Weeping Birch—Beyond ques-
tion one of the most popular of all weeping
or pendulous trees. Its tall, slender, yet vig-
orous growth, graceful drooping branches,
silvery-white bark, and delicately cut foliage,
present a combination of attractive character-
istics rarely met with in a single tree.

Paper or Canoe Birch—Native of America;
forms a large tree; bark brilliant ‘white,
leaves large and handsome.

Catalpa Speciosa—An exceedingly rapid
grower. Heart-shaped leaves, and clusters of
white and purplish flowers in midsummer;
very attractive.

Crab, Double-Flowering American—New.
A sturdy grower, hardy and of medium size,
blooms while very young. The flowers re-
semble delicate pink roses. When in bloom
looks like a mammoth rose bush.

_ American White Elm—The noble, spread-
ing, drooping tree of our own woods.

Camperdown Weeping Elm—A vigorous
grower; large, dark green, glossy leaves;
splendid for specimen planting.

Horse Chestnut, White—Beautiful creamy
white, fragrant flowers. A fine, symmetrical
tree, with large, rich foliage.

Linden—The American and European Lin-

-dens are our best large-leaved shade trees.

Specially adapted to lawn planting. Foliage
is dense, and when in bloom their fragrance
is delightful.

Magnolia—A class of valuable and beauti-
ful trees, because of their fine foliage, lux-
uriant appearance and fragrant flowers. They
are the best lawn trees in our collection.

Magnolia, Chinese Varieties—These are the
dwarf growing, large flowering varieties of
which the best are Speciosa and Soulangeana,
white with red-purple centres, and Conspicua,
pure white.

ORNAMENTAL DEPA

Maple, Norway—Round, spreading head;
leaves large, thin, green on both sides, dark
and shining.

Maple, Sugar—For most purposes the most
desirable shade tree in cultivation.

Maple, Silver—For producing a quick shade,
and especially for street planting, there are
few trees superior.

Maple, Wier’s Cut-Leaf—Graceful, impos-
ing, and of extremely rapid growth, with foli-
age exquisitely cut.

Maple, Schwedlers—Foliage of this variety
is of a bright crimson in early spring.

Maple, Japanese—Handsome small trees or
shrubs, on account of the varied shades of
red, green and gold, and the wonderful out-
line of their leaves. No garden or lawn is
complete without them.

Mountain Ash, American—Erect-growing,
producing white flowers early in spring, fol-
lowed by clusters of bright scarlet berries,
which remain on the tree through the winter.

Palustris or Pin Oak—A tall, upright grow-
ing variety when young, but with age the
branches droop. Foliage bright and glossy.
One of the best oaks for street planting, and
becoming very popular.

Plum, Purple-Leaved (Prunus Pissardi).—
Black bark and dark purple leaves, remain-
ing very constant in color till late in the fall.
Red fruit, which is said tu be good.

Poplar, Carolina—Desirable where quick
shade is wanted, as it is one of the most
rapid growing trees, and will thrive where
most other sorts will fail.

Poplar, Lombardy—A well-known, tall,
erect-growing tree of rapid growth and spire-
like outline; very essential in landscape gar-
dening to give variety of form, and destroy
the appearance of sameness produced by other
trees.

Peach, Japanese Flowering—Double flowers
in pink, red, and in white.

Thorn, Double Rose—Double rose-colored,
fragrant flowers, with white tips.

Thorn, Double White—Small, double white
flowers of great beauty. Makes a fine con-
trast when planted with the scarlet.

Thorn, Scarlet—Flowers large and double,
bright scarlet.

Tulip Tree—Among the largest and hand-
somest of our native trees, forming broad,
spreading specimens, and one of the best for
any situation where it has room to grow.
Bark smooth, leaves glossy and fiddle shaped,
flowers resemble tulips and appear in June.

To be sure—buy direct from
the growers. It will pay you
at the end.

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Evergreens

The sap of most Evergreen trees, being of
a resinous nature, is not so active in early
spring as that of deciduous trees, and, as a
rule, all Evergreens and coniferous trees suc-
ceed better planted later in spring and earlier

in autumn than deciduous trees. The latter
part of April, or during May, and the latter
part of summer, say in August, are the best
times, in ordinary seasons, for transplanting
in this latitude. August planting is not re-
comended, however, unless the season is favor-
able,

In handling and planting Evergreens never
allow the roots to become dry for an instant.
Their roots being resinous, when once dry,
water has no power to restore them. Dip
the roots in ‘‘grout’’ or very thin mud, and
plant quickly. Cover the roots with fresh
soil, and with a heavy piece of wood beat
the earth solid over them, fill up, pound again,
and finish by bringing fresh loose soil about
the tree with a hoe. If trees are planted
when the ground is very wet, the pounding
must be omitted until it is in working order
to prevent baking, Planted in this way, and
thoroughly cultivated with plow and hoe
every week, Evergreens seldom fail to give
abundant satisfaction.

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Arbor Vitae, American—One of the finest
Evergreens for single planting or hedges.

Arbor Vitae, Globe—Dense and dwarf,
forming a round ball without any training.

Arbor Vitae, Siberian—Similar to Ameri-
can, but retains its green color better.

Arbor Vitae, Hovey’s Golden—Dwarf, dense
little Evergreen with golden tinted foliage.

Arbor Vitae, Pyramidal—Very dense and
pyramidal tree, the narrowest and most colum-
nar of the arbor vitaes.

Balsam Fir—A very erect, regular, pyra-
midal tree, with dark green sombre foliage.
Grows rapidly and is very hardy.

Pine, White—Foliage white silvery green.
Well known tree.

Pine, Austrian—A large, vigorous, compact-
growing Pine, with long, dark green needles
on grayish brown branches. Exceedingly
decorative.

Umbrella Pine—A quite hardy, odd, Jap-
anese tree of pyramidal character, grows
slowly to large size. Each branch and shoot
terminated by a whorl of umbrella-like tufts
of needles,

Retinospora, Filifera—Elegant formed tree
with slender drooping branches.

Retinospora, Plumosa—Graceful habit with
delicate glaucous foliage.

Retinospora, Plumosa Aurea—Foliage tip-
ped with golden yellow.

Retinospora, Pisifera—20 to 25 ft. An ever-
green of tree-like character when mature.
The underside of foliage is silvery.

Retinospora, pisifera aurea—l15 to 20 ft.
Grows to large size, and makes a nice tree
of pyramidal outline. It is beautifully golden-
tinted and of nice habit. It is a great sh
ite.

Retinospora squarrosa Veitchi—A very
pretty glaucous or silvery green tree, strik-
ing in appearance and in color. contrasting
most effectively with the several green and
yellow varieties of Retinospora, and other

trees, and retaining its peculiar shade
throughout the year. One of the best faney
evergreens.

Spruce, White—A native medium sized tree
of pyramidal form.

Spruce, Douglas—From the mountains of
Colorado. A rapid grower; foliage somewhat
resembles Hemlock, leaves light green above,
glaucous below. Conical form, branches
spreading, light and graceful.

Spruce, Norway Weeping—A variety of the
Norway with larger foliage, lateral branches
drooping like a willow.

Spruce, Norway—Similar to the White, but
more rapid grower, and coarser foliage.

Spruce, Colorado Blue—This magnificent
tree is a native of the Rocky Mountains, and
very hardy. It is of fine, compact habit and
of very symmetrical growth. The rich blue
of its foliage makes a marked contrast to the
green of other trees.

Hemlock—A graceful and beautiful tree,
with drooping branches, and delicate dark
foliage.

Deciduous Shrubs

They are very valuable planted as single
specimens in the door yard, or in groups or
masses, and a little planning in setting the
kinds in the group will readily bring out the
greatest individual beauty of the different
kinds.

Hardy shrubs like the Weigelas, Deutzias,
Spireas, Hydrangeas, ete., when planted in
masses produce a magnificent effect. What
grand masses of bloom can be had through-
out the season by proper use of the various
families! Then the purple and variegated-
leaved trees and shrubs may also be planted
in such a manner as to afford a rich and
striking contrast. Highly effective groups
ean be formed of trees and shrubs possessing
bright-colored bark in winter.

Deciduous trees, shrubs and vines can be
planted either in spring or fall. By the proper
use of the pruning knife or shears, the plants
may be kept in handsome shape and proper
size.

While our energies have been largely de-
voted to growing fruit stock, we are increas-
ing yearly our ornamental stock and are pre-

pared to meet the increasing demand in this
line. We have much land well suited for the
propagation of ornamental stocks which we
are utilizing, and all those who are thinking
of beautifying their home grounds will do
well to correspond with us, submit their lists
or let us advise, and we can quote special
terms on large orders.

Azalea (Mollis)—lew classes of plants give
a greater range of colors. These are espe-
cially atractive when planted in _ groups.
Flowers appear in great profusion before the
leaves in spring.

Almond, Double Pink—Small, rose-like flow-
ers in May, before leaves appear.

Almond, Double White—Similar to the pink,
but flowers are pure white.

Althea in variety, blooming in August and
September. Double and single red, white,
purple and combinations of these colors, also
with variegated foliage.

Barberry Perpurea—Purple foliage.

Barberry Thunbergii—Beantiful foliage and
berries in autumn.

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DECIDUOUS TREES—Continued

Caragana (Siberian Pea Tree) — May.
Bright yellow pea-shaped flowers and grace-
ful pinnate leaves. Well adapted to shrub-
beries.

Ceanothus (New Jersey Tea)—A _ small
shrub, with a profusion of white flowers,
which are in crowded panicles and appear in
June. One of the best shrubs for shady
places, the borders of woods or similar sit-
uations.

Calycanthus Floridus—Fragrant, chocolate-
colored flowers in August.

Dogwood—Red branched. White flowers in
June.

Deutzia Crenata—Pink flowers in June.

Deutzia, Pride of Rochester—White flowers
in June.

Deutzia Gracilis—Dwarf shrub with white
flowers in June.

Eleagnus Longipes—Cherry-like edible ber-
ries in July.

Elder, Golden—Yellow foliage.

Forsythia in variety. Yellow flowers early
in spring.

Fringe, Purple or Smoke Tree—Has curious
bloom resembling smoke.

Fringe, White—White flowers in May and
June.

Honeysuckle, Red Tartarian—Upright shrub
with red flowers in June.

Honeysuckle, White Tartarian—Same as
above but with white flowers in June.

Hydrangea Paniculata Grandiflora — Im-
mense white flowers changing to pink. Au-
gust and September.

Hydrangea, ‘‘Hills
hardy variety, large
very prolific bloomer.

Japan Quince—Scarlet flowers
spring.

Kerria Japonica (Japan Corchorus)—A
slender, green-branched shrub, 5 or 6 feet
high, with globular, yellow flowers from July
to October.

Lilac, Persian—Bluish purple flowers.

Lilac, White Persian—White flowers.

Lilac, Chas. X—Reddish purple flowers.

Lilac, Marie le Gray—Best white flowering.

Plum, Double Flowering—Double pink flow-
ers in May.

Plum (Prunus Pissardii)—Purple foliage.

Peonia—Tree. Low shrub with flowers of
gorgeous colors.

Rhododendrons—Magnificent flowering ever-
green shrubs.

Spirea Billardii—Spikes of rosy pink flow-
ers from June through the summer.

Spirea, Anthony Waterex—Broad beads of
deep pink flowers.

Spirea, Prunifolia—Double white dowers in
bunches.

Snowball, Japanese—Deep rich green foli-
age with globular heads of pure white sterile
flowers.

of Snow’’—A new
snow-white blossoms,

early in

Snowball, Guelder Rose—Globular clusters
of pure white sterile flowers.

Spirea, Thunbergii—Single white flowers in
bunches; very graceful.

Spirea, Van Houtte—Finest of the Spireas.
White flowers.

S. Racemosus (Snowberry)—A well known
shrub, with small pink flowers, and large
white berries that hang on the plant through
part of the winter.

S. Vulgaris (Red-Fruited or Indian Cur-
rant)—A shrub of very pretty habit. Foliage,
flowers and fruit small; fruit purple, hangs
all winter.

Syringa or Mock Orange (Coronarius)—
Pure white highly scented flowers.

Syringa Aurea—Golden yellow foliage.

Wiegela Candida—Pure white flowers
June.

Wiegela Rosea—Pink flowers in June.

Wiegela Amabilis—Robust grower,
flowers.

Wiegela,
flowers.

Wiegela, Variegated—White flowers, silvery
variegated foliage.

Tamarix—These are very beautiful shrubs,
with small leaves, somewhat like those of the
Juniper, and delicate small flowers in spikes.
They are invaluable for planting by the sea-
side, where scarcely anything else will grow.

Tamarix Africana—Handsome foliage, up-
right habit, flowers in May.

pink

Eva Rathke—Brilliant crimson

Tamarix Odessana—July to September. Of
lower growth. Pink flowers.
Tamarix Gallica—May to July. Lighter

green foliage, and later in flower than variety
Africana.

Ampelopsis Veitchii, Boston Ivy—For cov-
ering walls or the ornamentation of brick
and stone structures, no plant is so useful.

Birthwort, Dutchman’s Pipe—A native
species, of climbing habit and rapid growth,
with magnificent light green foliage, ten or
twelve inches in diameter and curious pipe-
shaped, yellowish brown flowers.

Clematis Paniculata—Vine with fragrant
white flowers.

Clematis Hybrids—Vines with large flowers
purple, white, blue and red.

Honeysuckle, Hall’s Japan—Vine with fra-
grant white flowers.

Honeysuckle, Japan Gold Veined—Vine
with yellow variegated foliage.

Virginia Creeper—One of the finest vines
for covering walls, verandas, or trunks of
trees; affords shade quickly.

Wistaria (Chinese Purple)—Hardy climber
with racemes of pale purple flowers.

Chinese White—Differing from above only
in color, being pure white.

Wisteria Multijuga—White and _ purple.
This bears racemes of flowers two or three
feet in length.

Standard Roses

All Roses in this climate will give better
results if protected in winter. The best way
is to cover the plant with dry leaves kept
down with
should be removed early in spring. The Moss,
Hybrid Perpetuals and the Climbing Roses are

evergreen boughs, all of which

hardy. The Tea Roses are most beautiful,
fragrant, constant bloomers, but are not hardy
and will not live outside in our climate. The
Hybrid Teas are also free bloomers and will
live outside with good protection and are
marked H. T.

Alfred Colomb—Brilliant carmine crimson.

Anne de Diesbach—Brilliant carmine.

Baron de Bonstetten—Velvety maroon.

Baroness Rothchild—Clear pink, cup-shaped
flower, free bloomer.

Captain Christy (H. T.)—Shell pink.

Clio—Flesh color, shaded with rosy pink.

Fisher Holmes—Deep glowing crimson.

Frau Karl Druschki—Pure snow
large, full flowers. The best white.

General Jacqueminot—Brilliant crimson.

Gruss An Tuplitz (H. T.)—Brightest scar-
let-crimson, very free.

Gloire Lyonaise—White, tinted yellow.

John Hopper—Bright rose.

La France (H. T.)—Silvery Pink.

Louis Van Houtte—Crimson, maroon, fra-
grant.

Mabel Morrison—White tinged with blush.

Madam Gabriel Luizet—Silvery pink.

Margaret Dickson—White, flesh center.

white,

Marshall P, Wilder—Cherry carmine.

Magna Charta—Clear, rosy red.

Mrs. John Laing—Soft pink.

Paul Neyron—Deep rose.

Prince Camille de Rohan—Deep
crimson,

Ulrich Brunner—Brilliant cherry red.

Victor Verdier—Bright rose, carmine cen-
ter.

Baltimore Belle—White.

Queen of Prairie—Bright rosy red.

Crimson Rambler—Crimson.

Yellow Rambler—Yellow in bud.

White Rambler—Small white flowers.

Dorothy Perkins—Shell pink, scented.

Blanche Moreau—White.

Crimson Globe—Red.

Salet—Light rose.

Baby Rambler—Deep
and constant in bloom.

Coquette des Alps—White, tinged with car-
mine.

Clothilde Soupert—White, rosy center, free
bloomer,

Harrison Yellow—Light sulphur yellow.

Madam Plantier—Pure white, free bloomer.

Persian Yellow—Yellow.

Rugosa Red and White—Large single flow-
ers, followed by searlet fruit.

Soleil D’Or—yYellow
hardy.

White Baby Rambler—Creamy white, small
flowers, constantly in bloom.

velvety

crimson, perpetual

and reddish gold,

Hedges

Hedges are valuable as a defense against
animals, as windbreaks to protect orchards,
gardens or farms unduly exposed, and as or-
namental fences or sereens to mark the bound-
aries of a lawn or cemetery lot.

The usefulness of suitable hedges for both
ornament and defense is now everywhere ap-
preciated,

Evergreen Hedge Plants—American Arbor
Vitae, Norway Spruce, Hemlock and Pines are
See description of each

used for hedges.
under Evergreens.

California Privet—This is the most glossy
leaved and rapid growing of all the half-ever-
green plants used for low hedges around pri-
vate lawns, and is the universal favorite at

Newport and other fashionable seaside re-

sorts. The plant has light green stems and
white flowers in June. ‘Transplants easily,

grows in almost any soil and location, even
where quite shaded and can be trimmed to
any desired form.

Barberry Thunbergii—A comparatively new
shrub of low growing habit, seldom over four
feet, unrivalled for beauty. Foliage a bright
green until autumn when it changes to bril-
liant tints of crimson and yellow. The con-
spicuous crimson berries remain on through-
out the winter, giving a very pleasing effect.

Japan Quince, Spireas, Lilacs and
shrubs are used effectively as hedges,

other

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