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CHARLES Cot IOWA a

To the Public

E take pleasure in presenting herewith a carefully revised edition of
our Descriptive Catalogue. We have taken great pains in the revision
of our list to cull out all worthless varieties, and to catalogue only
such varieties as we consider of special merit.

We are constantly on the watch for new things, both in the
fruit and ornamental line, and we are adding such to our list as fast as their
behavior proves beyond reasonable doubt that they are of value, and we believe the
list which follows contains, with but few exceptions, all the fruit and ornamental
trees, plants and shrubs which are of value throughout the Northwest.

LOCATION.—Our grounds are located on the open prairie land where the winds
have an unbroken sweep for twenty or twenty-five miles from the northwest, and
stock which is sent out by us has been thoroughly tested by as severe exposure as
they are likely to meet when given their permanent planting.

PURITY OF STOCK.—We take every precaution to keep our stock free from
mixture, and we are very careful that everything we send out shall be true to name.
If, however, by any error the stock received should be found to be untrue to name,
we stand ready to replace such stock free of charge.

PACKING.—Our packing and shipping facilities are unsurpassed. We have a
band of trained men, many of whom have been in the nursery business nearly all of
their mature years, and we believe we are as well prepared to handle stock in a first-
class manner as any firm in the United States.

We take great pains in our packing, using only the very best of materials. Our
packing-houses are large, covering approximately one and one-half acres, and all our
packing is done under cover where the stock is not exposed to the sun and wind, and we
can promise our patrons that the stock will be put into the hands of the railroad com-
panies here in prime condition.

ERRORS.—We shall take every pains to get the goods to our customers in the
best condition, and we believe few firms fail in this respect as seldom as we. If on
the arrival of the goods any mistake should be found in the filling of the order, our
patrons are requested to notify us at once, and, if possible, return the shipping tag
which accompanied the goods with such notification, and all errors will cheerfully be
made right.

SHIPPING SEASON.—Our shipping season usually opens in this section about
the 1st of April and continues until some time in the menth of May, and in the fall
our shipments are made during the month of October and the early part of Novem-
ber. Please bear in mind that the planting season is not regulated by the day of the
month nor by the state of vegetation where the planting is to be done, but the proper
season for planting trees should be determined by the condition of the trees to be
planted. It is better that these trees be started a little. Trees that have burst their
buds will do better than those planted when perfectly dormant. It matters but little
if the trees in the locality where the stock is being set are in full leaf if the trees that
are being planted are not started to any great extent; they will be none the worse
for having been planted a little late. As a rule, we have found that deciduous trees,
as well as evergreens, do better if planted after the ground has begun to warm up.
Frequently the time for planting corn is the best time for planting trees.

Hints on Transplanting, Etc.

We cannot attempt to give complete directions on all points connected with tree-
planting, but simply a few hints on the more important operations. Every man who
purchases a bill of trees should put himself in possession of some treatise on tree cul-
ture, that will furnish him with full and reliable instructions on the routine of manage-
ment. Transplanting is to be considered under the following heads:

__ Ist. Selection of Orchard Site——The best site for an orchard is on high land
with a north or northeasterly exposure; such locations are usually found best, for the
reasons that high land is not as subject to frost in blossoming season, and northerly

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exposures are not so subject as others to the freezing and thawing of ground in early
spring, ground thaws a little slower, and as a consequence, trees do not start quite
so early.

2d. The Preparation of the Soil.—For fruit trees the soil should be dry, either
naturally or made so by thorough drainage, as they will not live or thrive on a soil
constantly saturated with stagnant moisture. It should also be well prepared. On new,
fresh lands, manuring will be unnecessary, but on lands exhausted by cropping, fer-
tilizers must be applied, either by turning in heavy crops of clover, or well-decomposed
manure or compost. To ensure a good growth of fruit trees, land should be in as good
condition as for a cron of corn or potatoes.

3d. The Preparation of the Trees.—There are more fatal errors committed in
regard to this important operation than in any other. As a general thing, trees are
planted in the ground precisely as they are sent irom the nursery. In removing a
tree, no matter how carefully it may be done, portions of the roots are broken and
destroyed, and consequently the balance that existed in the structure of the tree is
deranged. This must be restored by a proper pruning, adapted to the size, form and
condition of the tree. :

4th. Planting.—Dig holes in the first place large enough to permit the roots ot
the tree to spread out in their natural position, thus having the tree pruned as before
directed; let one person hold the tree, placing the heavier portion of the top to the
southwest, and with the trunk slanting a little in that direction, while the other shovels
in fine dirt about the roots, taking pains to fill all interstices, and bringing every root
in contact with the soil. When the hole is nearly filled, if the ground is dry, it is a good
plan to apply a pail of water to moisten the ground and wash the dirt in about the
roots. This is unnecessary, however, if the ground is fairly moist. In this latitude,
and especially north and west of here in dry lands, it is good practice to plant fruit
trees about 6 inches deeper in the ground than they stood in the nursery row, but where
land is inclined to be wet, they should be planted about the same depth as they stood
in nursery. In dry, gravelly ground, the hole should be dug about twice the usual
size and depth, and filled with rich, loamy soil.

sth. If trees are large and planted in exposed locations, they should be staked,
and, if this is found necessary, the trunk should be wrapped with something to keep
the stake from chafing the tree.

6th. Cultivation and Mulching.—When trees are planted, keep the orchard well
cultivated up to about July 1 to 10, and for this purpose there is no better practice
than to grow a crop of corn in the orchard, leaving the stalks to stand for winter pro-
tection; but where this is not practicable, cultivate the land to above date and then
sow to some cover crop. Do not seed down an orchard so long as it can be avoided,
but keep it cultivated as above indicated, and keep the soil well fertilized; but when
the time comes that the orchard must be seeded down, sow to red clover and mulch
the trees heavily so that grass will not grow within 6 or 8 feet of them. It is also good
practice to spade up this mulched space about the tree each spring.

7th. Treatment of Trees Frozen in the Packages or Received During Freezing
Weather.—Place the package in some cool place, a damp, cool cellar preferred, where
the temperature is just a little above freezing, and allow it to remain there for several
days until all frost is removed before opening the package. If stock is properly packed
and handled as above directed, it will not be injured in the least by freezing.

8th. Directions for Wintering.—When trees are procured in the fall, select a
dry place where water will be well drained off during the winter months; then dig
a trench a little longer than the trees to be heeled-in, with the lower end about 2 feet
deep. Dig the trench broad enough to contain the trees when spread in a single layer;
then remove all packing material from about the trees and spread them out in the
trench. When this is done, sift in fine dirt until all the open spaces are filled among
the trees and roots and they are covered several inches deep, then tramp firmly and
fill up the trench, mounding up the dirt so that the tops will be covered at least 4 inches
deep and the roots about 2 feet. Care should be taken to remove all material from
the trench and its vicinity which might serve as nests for mice.

Remarks.—We have not aimed in the above to give full directions for handling
trees, but only a few of the main outlines. The above directions will also apply to
the handling of pear, apricot, peach, nectarine, quince, plum, cherry, grape-vines, cur-

rant, gooseberry, mulberry, high-bush cranberry, Juneberry, weeping trees, shade
and ornamental trees, shrubs, roses and vines.

Apples

sections subject to blight.
in size, roundish conical in form;
smooth, transparent, surface clear white
becoming pale yellow when matured;

SUMMER APPLES

Charlimauff. A tree of German origin.
Fruit large and strongly resembling the
Duchess of Oldenburg, but more conical
and of better flavor. Tree very hardy.
Fruit ripens in August and September.

Duchess of Oldenburg. A large, beauti-
ful Apple; roundish, streaked red and
yellow; tender, juicy and pleasant. A
kitchen Apple of best quality, and es-
teemed by many for dessert. Tree very
hardy, a fair grower, and a young and
abundant bearer. Season, August and
September.

Summer Pear. Having stood a most
severe test of over thirty-three years,
always doing credit to itself, we take
pleasure in offering this delicious Apple to
our patrons. As hardy as the Duchess of
Oldenburg; a heavy and early bearer; fine-
grained, witha distinct pear flavor. With-
out doubt the finest eating Apple of its
season. No family orchard should be
without it. Season, August.

Tetofsky. A slow, upright grower, with
few branches. Tree one of the very
hardiest; leaf very large and glossy;
fruit yellow, somewhat splashed with red
and covered with a white bloom; juicy,
sprightly acid and ripens early in August.

Yellow Transparent. Tree introduced
from Russia by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. A good grower and
an annual bearer; hardy, but in some

Fruit medium
skin

flesh white, tender, fine-grained, juicy
and subacid. One of the best of our early
summer Apples.

FALL APPLES

Fameuse, or Snow. A medium grower,
rather spreading as an orchard tree; me-
dium hardy, injuring badly in some sec-
tions, but has plenty of vitality, and will
stand and bear many years after being
badly injured. Fruit dark red, with flesh
snow-white; one of the finest dessert
Apples. Season, .from November _ to
January.

Gideon. This tree originated with Peter
M. Gideon, of Excelsior, near St. Paul,
Minn. It is a cross between the Blue
Pearmain and our common crab-apple.
Mr. Gideon says: ‘‘The tree seems to be
as hardy with us as any of the crabs.”
Fruit medium to large, with blush on
sunny side. Season, Nov. and Dec.

Iowa Beauty. A seedling of Golden
Russett. Tree a strong, vigorous grower,
very hardy, and more beautiful in form
than Whitney No. 20. Fruit nearly white,
splashed and striped with red. Season,
September and October.

Longfield. Mr. I. S. Freeborn, of Rich-

land county, Wisconsin, says:“‘It will

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FALL APPLES, continued
bear a bushel of Apples sooner than any
tree that I ever planted.’’ Medium hardy,
fair size, red, blush on sunny side. One
of the best of the Russians in quality.
October to December.

Plumb’s Cider. A variety introduced by
J. C. Plumb, of Milton, Wisconsin. The
tree came originally from Ohio, probably
mn -wo44. tis vigorous... any neatly,
bearer, and very productive in alternate
years. The fruit is medium in size, rather
oblong in form, greenish yellow splashed
with light rede a ihe flesh: is iereenish
white, fine-grained, firm, juicy, subacid,
of very good quality. On limestone lands
this tree is regarded very highly through
northern Iowa. Season, fall.

Wolf River. A large, showy red Apple
of Wisconsin origin; a remarkably good
market Apple in some sections, but not
quite hardy in northern Jowa, except in
favorable locations. Nov. and Dec.

WINTER APPLES

Arkansas Black. One of the most beau-
tiful of Apples. It is a good keeper and
commands a good price in market. The
color is a lively red, deepening on the
exposed side to purplish red or nearly
black. Flesh decidedly tinged with yel-
low, very firm; rather fine-grained; crisp,
moderately juicy, subacid; good to very
good. Season, December to April or
later.

Ben Davis. Large, smooth, often pol-
ished, nearly covered with red; subacid
and one of the most profitable market
Apples south. Tree vigorous, productive,
and bears early.

Gano. Originated in Missouri. Similar
but superior to Ben Davis. It has all the
good qualities in a higher degree, more
brilliant coloring, runs more even in size
and keeps fully as late. The tree is vigor-
ous and hardy; is a rapid grower; bears
while young; color bright red, without
stripes or blotches and large and even in
size. February to March.

Golden Russett. Medium size; dull rus-
set, with a tinge of red on the exposed
side; flesh greenish, crisp, juicy and
highly flavored; a slender grower, with
light-colored speckled shoots, by which
it is easily known; hardy, bears well, and
is extensively grown in western New
York and Wisconsin. November to April.

Grimes’ Golden. Tree vigorous, upright
spreading, and a good annual bearer. It
is considered the standard of excellence
throughout the West. Fruit medium size,
regular, waxy golden yellow in color,
flesh yellow, firm, compact, crisp, spicy,
quality of the very best. Dec. to March.

Hibernal. (Russian.) Very hardy, rug-
ged, spreading grower;. fruit of large size,
striped, quite acid; a good cooking Ap-
ple. Very valuable for the extreme North
and for top-working to less hardy varie-
ties. A winter Apple in the North.

Iowa Blush. Tree very productive, a
strong grower in nursery and orchard.
Fruit slightly roundish conical, yellow
with bright mottled red blush, washed
with bronze on the sunny side; flesh
white, juicy, mild, subacid. Season, ear-
ly winter.

Jonathan. Medium size; yellow, nearly
covered with red; flesh tender, juicy and
rich. A moderate grower; shoots light-
colored, slender and spreading; very pro-
ductive; one of the best varieties for
either table or market. This sort is too
tender for the North, but much esteemed
in the West, East and South. November
to March.

McIntosh. This Apple is adapted to a
wide range of localities, having been first
raised in Canada, but now being success-
fully raised all over the north and north-
west. The fruit is very attractive in
appearance, of a bright deep red color,
blotched and streaked with white and of
good size. The flesh is very tender, per-
fumed and delicious. The tree is a vig-
orous grower and very hardy. Season,
October to late winter.

McMahon. A very large, white winter
Apple of Wisconsin origin. Tree a vig-
orous grower and very hardy.

Northwestern Greening. A strong, vig-
orous tree of Wisconsin origin. The tree
bears young, and big crops of large,
smooth, green Apples. The fruit is rather
fine-grained, mild, subacid in flavor, and
is a late-keeping winter Apple. It has
been regarded by many of the horticul-
turists as not hardy enough for northern
Iowa and Southern Minnesota, but in
spite of this the tree seems to be standing
our hard winters and bearing enormous
crops of fruit that will sell as A No. 1
Apple in the best markets. The tree is
very productive.

Okabena. Originated in southwestern
Minnesota. Claimed to be a seedling of
the Duchess, fertilized by the Wealthy.
Tree an annual bearer of good fruit;
hardy. Large; yellow, striped and splashed
with red; flavor subacid; very good. Sea-
son, December.

Pewaukee. Origin, Pewaukee, Wiscon-
sin. Raised from the seed of Oldenburg.
Fruit medium to large, roundish oblate,
skin bright yellow, striped and splashed
with dark red; flesh white, tender, juicy,
subacid. Tree vigorous. January to
March.

EASTMAN

An early winter apple of large size and attractive appearance. Though a seedling of
Fameuse, it is much hardier. Fruit large, striped with red, with yellow dots; of an agreeable
acid flavor, hangs well to the tree, which is hardy, vigorous and an early, constant and
heavy bearer. Fills a profitable place in market, being at its best just after the early and
before the late sorts. Season, October to December.

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WINTER APPLES, continued
Rawle’s Janet. Medium, roundish,
ovate; greenish yellow, striped with red;
crisp, rich and juicy. One of the best and
longest keepers in the South and South-
west.
Roman Stem. A moderate-growing tree

and one of the hardiest winter Apples of
first quality that can be grown in this

section. Fruit of medium size, whitish
yellow, sprinkled with russet; flesh
tender, juicy, rich; a very fine dessert
Apple. Season, January to May.

Rome Beauty. Fruit of good size, uni-
form, fair, smooth and handsome; color
yellow, striped and splashed with red.
Stands handling remarkably well and is a
good keeper. Has an established reputa-
tion in market and sells at good prices.
Tree is a good orchard grower, attaining
a good size. Flesh nearly white, firm,
rather crisp, juicy and slightly aromatic.
Season, November to May.

Salome. A vigorous, upright grower in
the nursery; in the orchard it becomes
large. Fruit uniform in size and shape.
Flesh firm, crisp, tender and juicy. Season,
November to March.

Scott’s Winter. A tree of Vermont
origin. A strong, upright grower and an
annual bearer. This tree is considered
promising at the North. Fruit rather
small, oblate, yellow, mottled with red
and russet; flesh yellow, fine-grained,
juicy, crisp and pleasant; sprightly acid.
Season, late winter.

Spitzenburg. Tree rather a slow grower.
Fruit tinged with yellow; firm, moderately
fine, crisp, rather .*terider, juicy and
aromatic. Season, November to February.

Stayman’s Winesap. The best variety
of Winesap for. general cultivation. The
tree comes into bearing young and is a
reliable annual cropper. Very attractive
in appearance, being of a reddish cast
with splotches of yellow. Fruit large and
shapely. Flesh very juicy, pleasant sub-
acid. Season, December to May.

Tallman Sweet. One of the hardiest
sweet Apples; a good bearer. Fruit of
medium size, light green and very sweet.
An excellent baking Apple. Season, De-
cember to March.

University. Originated in 1881, a seed-
ling of Perry Russett and as large as

Patten’s Greening. A rich golden yellow
when ripe. Has been highly recommended
by leading horticulturists in Minnesota.
Absolutely hardy; a young, constant and
prolific bearer. Tree a beautiful spreading
grower; one of the most magnificent of
the Apple trees. October to January.

Wagener. Tree not a vigorous grower,
but a fair bearer. An apple of superior
excellence. Color a beautiful bright red
with some contrasting pale yellow. Espec-
ially fine for dessert. Fruit rather large,
roundish oblate in form. Flesh fine-
grained, tender and juicy. Season October
to spring.

Walbridge. The worst fault with this
tree is that it is a tardy bearer. When it
arrives at bearing age it bears well and
the fruit is highly prized, as it keeps late
in the spring. Fruit medium size, sub-
acid, striped with red and yellow. Sea-
son, March to May.

Wealthy. Originated near St. Paul,
Minnesota. A_ vigorous-growing tree,
very hardy and an abundant bearer.
Fruit large, nearly red, subacid and of
first quality. G. W. Wheaton, one of the
oldest fruit-growers in northern Iowa,
said of this tree that if he were to plant a
market orchard of 1,000 trees, he would
plant 999 Wealthy, and when asked what
the other would be, he said he would
plant that Wealthy also. All things
considered, it is a hard tree to beat. Sea-
son, early winter.

Winesap. An old variety, supposed to
have originated in New Jersey. Tree
moderately vigorous, with rather open
spreading habit, very productive and an
early bearer. Fruit rather above the
medium size, conical in form, rich yellow
color, mostly covered with fine lively
dark red, sometimes slightly striped;
flesh .yellow, firm, fine-grained, rich sub-
acid. This variety is very popular
throughout the South and West, but is not
hardy.enough for this latitude, except in
sheltered situations, where it is protected
from extremes of weather. Season,
December to May.

Winter Banana. Tree medium in size;
vigorous. Fruit large to very large, not
very uniform in size or shape. Very fine
for dessert. Flesh whitish. tinged with
pale yellow; tender, juicy and very good.
Season, November to April.

NEW WINTER APPLES

ANISIM. This, without doubt, is the most valuable of Russian Apples.

Tree

bears very young and regularly enormous crops of beautiful fruit; is hardy, free from
blight, of good quality. Fruit roundish, medium size, color sreenish yellow, covered
almost wholly with a heavy dark crimson bloom, thickly dotted with minute white

specks; flesh greenish white, with green veins; flavor subacid, pleasant.

Season, early

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NEW WINTER APPLES, continued

winter. The Anisim is a variety which has, perhaps, been better known as ‘‘Good
Peasant.” The tree is wonderfully productive, and while the Russian Apples, as a
class, we think have been overestimated, still there can hardly be too much said of
this variety. The tree bears very young, and is very productive. In fact, few trees
excel it in this particular, and the fruit is so beautiful in appearance that it would
sell in any market regardless of quality. But, in addition to this, it is among the best
in quality of any of the late fall and early winter Apples that can be raised in this
latitude. A man can not err in buying this tree. Orchards of it will pay, and pay well.

EASTMAN. A seedling of the Fameuse, or Snow, decidedly more hardy than its
parent, in fact, can favorably be compared with the Wealthy. It is now bearing 150
miles north and south, and 300 miles east and west of here and in all cases has received
the highest praise from those fruiting it.

As a market fruit, it fills a place where such an Apple is in great demand, namely,
just after the early and just previous to the late ones. This magnificent Apple has
been bringing $1 more per barrel on the Minneapolis market than the Wealthy, and we
consider it one of the coming commercial varieties.

We are so confident of its success that we have planted more than five acres of
them. Fruit large, fine colored, striped with red, hangs well to the tree; agreeably acid,
and of fine quality; very young, constant and heavy bearer. An excellent dessert and
cooking Apple; we unhesitatingly recommend it. Season, October to December.

IOWA BRILLIANT. Another seedling of the Fameuse, resembling its parent
in many of its characteristics, having very white, tender flesh and, as its name implies,
is a most brilliant red. Same size as Wealthy, and at this date (October 28), is still
hanging to the tree. This fine variety has stood the test as far north as Minneapolis,
Minn., and bears fine crops of splendid fruit, which keeps until March. Minneapolis
fruit-buyers have offered $7 per barrel for this Apple in car lots, when Talman Sweet,
Grimes Golden and Greenings were selling on the market for $4.50 per barrel. There
is not an Apple on our testing list of over three hundred varieties which has the flavor,
tenderness of flesh, color, and selling qualities of this Apple, and we recommend it as
one of the very best. Season, January to May.

MALINDA. Tree originated from seed sown in northern Vermont. It is a moderate-
growing, crooked, scrubby nursery tree, but does better in northern Iowa than almost
any other late-keeping winter Apple. Tree is perfectly hardy here and bears extremely
well; fruit about the same size and color as the old yellow Bellflower; flavor very mild
acid; one of the very best baking Apples. Season, February to July.

Mr. Joun Q. RIcHARDSON, of Elgin, Minn., says: “I have a Malinda tree on my place that
has been planted thirty-five years. It survived the winter of 1873, when the thermometer
registered 52° below zero, and has since withstood a temperature of 42° below zero. This
tree bore eight bushels of Apples last year. I have several times kept the fruit until the
4th of July, and have known it to keep as late as August 1. The Malinda bears young and
well with us.”

*T have two dozen Malinda trees growing in my orchard, and I prize them higher than
any Apple I have, for the reason that they are as hardy as Duchess and very prolific. My trees
paid me over one hundred dollars last fall. They are the finest eating or cooking Apples I
ever tasted. I can heartily recommend it to those wishing to plant an Apple tree that will be
a lasting pleasure as well as profit.” —-A. K. Bay Ley, Platteville, Wis.

NEWELL’S WINTER. Originated in Wisconsin about 60 miles north of Madison.
It is a seedling of the Perry Russet. The fruit is large, roundish oblate, and of a rich
yellow color; flesh firm, juicy, yellowish, rich, sprightly and subacid. This Apple is
one that will rate A No. 1 with any of the eastern Apples. It is a fruit that will keep
all winter. Tree hardy and free from blight.

Patten’s Greening

This variety originated from seed of the Duchess of Oldenburg. As a nursery
tree it grows very crooked, but makes a fine spreading orchard tree; it is a better bearer
than the Duchess and quite as hardy; fruit about the same shape and much: larger,
but green in color; a fair eating and an excellent cooking Apple. Season, November
to January.

We think this variety will bear more bushels of Apples in a given length of time
than any other tree we know. The fruit is large and showy, brings better prices in
the St. Paul market than any other fruit during its season. There cannot be too much

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PATTEN’S GREENING APPLE, continued

said for this variety. Remember it is the southern trees that grow straight. This is
not a southern tree. The Patten’s Greening, though vigorous and strong in its growth,
is never straight, but it has been reported hardy by the keepers of the State Experi-
mental Stations as far north as Manitoba. This variety originated with Mr. C. G.
Patten, of this place, from the seed of the Duchess of Oldenburg. The tree is a tremen-
dous bearer. No variety stands higher than this, or has had more good words said for
it by the horticulturists of the Northwest.

The following are a few of the good words that have been spoken for the Patten’s
Greening.

I have taken much interest in watching the growth and fruiting of a seedling Apple
originated at Charles City, and known as Patten’s Greening. The tree at different stages,
from blooming to fruiting, has been closely examined, and has never shown a trace of blight.
I regard it as perfectly hardy—tough as bur oak. The tree is a good bearer of handsome,
fair-flavored fruit of good size. As a cooking Apple it has no superior. It comes the near-
est to a winter Apple of anything yet produced which will do well in northern Iowa, and I
should no more hesitate to plant it than I would box, alders or soft maples as to hardiness
and freedom from blight.—J. S. Trice, editor of the Rockford Register, Rockford, Iowa:

J. S. Harris, of La Crescent, Minn., says of the Patten’s Greening: ‘‘This variety of
Apple is now so well disseminated, and is doing so well in every locality where ‘it has been
tried, that I feel safe in recommending it. It is a seedling of the Duchess of. Oldenburg,
originated from seed planted at Charles City, Iowa, seed grown near Portage, Wis., in 1869.
The tree appears to have inherited the hardiness and fruitfulness of the mother parent, and
has derived an improved flavor and keeping qualities from some other source. The original
tree has produced fifteen crops of fruit. It is a somewhat stronger grower than the Olden-
burg, has large, thick foliage, and the limbs are stronger shouldered, capable of resisting
strong winds and sustaining a great weight of fruit. The variety is doing well in Iowa, Wis-
consin, South Dakota, and wherever planted in Minnesota. The fruit is fair for eating from
the hand, and is unsurpassed for cooking. Have kept this Apple through January and
February.”

SAMUEL B. GREEN, Professor of Horticulture in the University of Minnesota, says of
Patten’s Greening: ‘‘It is, perhaps, the most fully satisfactory tree in health, hardiness
and bearing habit for this section of any on the list; keeps as long, or nearly as long, as
Wealthy, and does well in cold storage. A variety that has proved to be very profitable in
the home orchard, or for market, and deserves the fullest confidence of our planters.”

Considering the size, quality and season of fruit, as also the pedigree and known hardi-
ness of tree, it seems to me worthy of general planting in northern Iowa and adjacent
territory.—C. L. Watrus, Des Moines, Iowa.

Mr. A. PETERSON of Waconia, Minnesota, says: ‘‘I do not consider there is any place
where the blight is as bad as on my grounds. All of the Russians blight badly, but the Pat-
ten’s Greening is all right. It is hardy and a good bearer.”’’

A crooked nursery tree, but one of the finest large Apples, and should be in every collec-
tion.—Geo. J. KELLocc & Sons, Janesville, Wis.

The Patten’s Greening is apparently as hardy as a forest tree. It is the coming winter
Apple-—D. Cook, Vice President Minnesota State Horticultural Society, Windom, Minn.

J. A. Howarp, of Hammond, Minnesota, has picked ten bushels of Apples from one tree
of Patten’s Greening that had been planted six years, and sixteen trees of this same planting
averaged from five to six bushels per tree.

L. G. CLute, of Greeley, Iowa, says: ‘‘I have 104 of the Patten’s Greening in bearing.
I will further state that last year they gave me more and better apples than all the other
trees put together. I have over 1,000 trees in bearing. This year is an off year, and the
Patten’s Greening is far ahead of all other varieties as far as fruit is concerned. I have
trees nine years old that measure 22 inches in circumference and are 25 feet from tip to tip
of limb. I had trees seven years old that picked eight bushels of apples; 100 averaged over
four bushels of apples per tree. The Patten’s Greening is the very best tree in northern
Iowa. Its commercial value is very great.’’

I have an orchard of near 2,000 trees, and more than 100 varieties of Apples, and I con-
sider the Patten’s Greening among the best I have, if not the very best, considering the
hardiness of tree and the fruitfulness thereof. I consider it safe for farmers to plant in Min-
nesota. If they cannot raise fruit from Patten’s Greening, they had better give up the job.—
Wm. SOMERVILLE.

PEERLESS. Tree originated in central Minnesota in 1864 or 1865. It is a strong,
vigorous grower. Bark very dark. Apple very large, splashed and striped with dull
red; of a pleasant subacid flavor. Ripens in late fall or early winter.

PETER. This variety was originated by Peter M. Gideon, Excelsior (near St.
Paul), Minn. He says of it: ‘‘We take pleasure in calling attention of all lovers of
fine fruit to what we consider the best Apple grown. Origin, Wealthy seed, and in
form, size, and color an exact duplicate of the parent, but differing in flavor and sea-

IOWA BRILLIANT

A Fameuse seedling of exceptional hardiness, beauty, flavor and keeping quality. The
brilliant red fruit resembles McIntosh Red in color but is far superior in flavor. Fruit about
size of Wealthy with fine-grained, white, tender flesh. Hangs late on tree, and keeps well
through winter. Tree hardy and vigorous, and an abundant bearer. The high flavor and
brilliant color have made it sell in market at unusuai prices. Season, January to May.

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PETER APPLE. continued

son, keeping from four to six weeks longer. It is what, after tasting, Col. John H.
Stevens pronounced ‘the best Apple ever introduced since Adam and’ Eve left the
Garden of Eden.’ The fruit adheres well to the tree, which is a little hardier than
the Duchess and Wealthy. At the Iowa State Fair the Peter Apple was pronounced
by the judges to be superior to the Wealthy in every respect. It appears to be one of
the hardiest trees on our place.”’ This variety, like all others of value in this section,
originated in the Northwest. It has not been largely planted, for the reason that the
fruit so closely resembles the Wealthy that many growers had considered it iden-
tical with it. The tree is more vigorous than the Wealthy, and while the fruit closely
resembles it, still we consider it a better Apple. Mr. Gideon considered it superior to
the Wealthy, and we believe that his estimate of it will prove true in the Northwest.
We consider that there can not be too much good said of this variety.

CRAB APPLES

Briar Sweet. Fruit large, pale yellow,
with carmine cheek, very sweet, good for
preserving and best of all for sweet
pickles. Tree vigorous and productive.
September.

Florence. A seedling of the Duchess of
Oldenburg. Tree rather slow, spreading
grower; bears very young and profusely;
when in full fruit, very ornamental; very
hardy. Color light yellow, thickly splashed
with bright red. About the same size and
season as Transcendent.

Hyslop. A very late-keeping, dark red
Crab of large size; tree an abundant
bearer, vigorous grower and_ perfectly
hardy. Season, November to April.

Minnesota. A very bushy growing tree,
but free from blight and perfectly hardy.
Fruit nearly as large as Fameuse, light
yellowish green, with tinge of red on
sunny side. Season, Nov. and Dec.

Soulard. This is a hybrid with our
native wild Crab, Pyrus Coronaria, or

Hyslop Crab Apples

possibly a sprout from the wild Crab. It
is about the size of Fameuse or Snow
Apple. Light yellowish green in color and
keeps until spring. Its chief value is for
preserves, and it is valued by many as
highly as the quince for this purpose. The
tree is a strong, vigorous grower, and very
hardy. Bears well.

Strawberry. Fruit medium, highly
colored, exceedingly tender, mild acid,
fine eating or cooking; tree hardy, fine
grower. Two weeks earlier than Whitney
No. 20.

Sweet Russet. Very large hybrid; ex-
tremely hardy. Fruit oblong, conical,
light russet, very rich and sweet. One
of the best either for eating or cooking.
August and September.

Transcendent. A vigorous grower and
abundant bearer, but blights badly. Fruit
medium size. Season, early August.

Virginia. Size of Transcendent; a month
later; light red, sprightly, juicy, crisp.
Great bearer; fine market sort.
Valuable tree on which to top-
work large Apples.

Whitney No. 20. A beautiful
growing tree, and one which
bears young and abundantly.
Fruit of good size, conical, in
shape, red and yellow striped;
flesh crisp, subacid,and very fine
eating; no Crab taste whatever.
It is really a small Apple and
should be classed as_ such.
Season, September.

Yellow Siberian. Tree a vig-
orous grower. Fruit small, coni-
cal-shaped, yellow. Ripens in
} ~ September.

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A Few Facts with Regard to Orchard Returns. What These Men Have
Done, You Can Do
Mr. C. W. Levens, of Albert Lea, Minn., says¥that from an orchard of less than half an

acre he sold a car-load of Apples in 1892, for which he received $300.

He says the same

trees produced over $200 worth of Apples this last season.

The ten-acre orchard of Mr. Holly’s, of Winnebago City, Minn., all of Wealthy Apple
trees, and situated on the high, open prairie, he says produced goo bushels of Apples in 1893,

Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Etc. 11

ORCHARD RETURNS, continued

and he sold them on the trees for $900, and the following season the same orchard produced
over 700 bushels, and sold at 75 cents per bushel.

Three thousand five hundred bushels at $1 a bushel were raised and sold by Mr. R. C.
Keel, of Rochester, Minn., in one year.

Of fifty Duchess of Oldenburg planted in 1862 by Mr. Sommerville, of Viola, Minn., 49
are still living, healthy and sound. Mr. Sommerville says he has not had a failure in fruit
for twenty-five years, and they have given him a larger net profit during that time than
the best 40 acres of his farm.

Mr. Lord, of Minnesota City, Minn., says he has picked 53 bushels of plums in one sea-
son from 25 trees and sold them at $2.10 a bushel, and has missed but two crops in 30 years.

Mr. Cook, of Cottonwood county, Minn., says he sold $60 worth of plums from 15 trees
in 1894.

In the fall of 1903 Elias Long, of Stilson, Iowa, gathered 12 bushels of apples from four
trees of Northwestern Greening purchased of us in 1897. Six of these apples placed side
by side measured 20 inches, and ten of them weighed 61% pounds.

Nine years ago we sold C. P. Warner, of Bassett, Iowa, two trees of Malinda from which
he has this season (1903) gathered 17 bushels of apples.

In tg02 C. G. Patten & Son, of Charles City, Iowa, gathered 333 barrels of first-class
apples from 293 trees of Duchess of Oldenburg, occupying a little less than three acres of
land; they sold this crop for $2.10 per barrel; from the same trees in 1903 they gathered 443
barrels of first-class fruit, which brought $2.65 per barrel. They also tell us that from their
orchard of Patten Greening, which had been planted six years in 1903, they gathered on
an average a little better than one barrel per tree, some yielding 1% barrels per tree.

In the above statement no account has been made of windfalls and second-class fruit,
which was gathered and disposed of at retail, and the prices named are those received for
goods at wholesale delivered f. 0. b. Charles City. You will notice by the above figures that
their orchard of Duchess of Oldenburg is yielding them an annual income from $242 to
$382.50 per acre.

Do Orchards Pay?

We have given above a few facts with regard to the profit of orcharding in this section,
and these facts are given merely as suggestions. If you will investigate matters carefully in
any neighborhood we believe you will be able to pick up information with regard to the yield
of fruit that will surprise you. Visit the leading fruit-growers and ascertain from them
what they have planted, when it was planted, and what they have been able to get in the way
of crops. Usually you will be compelled to pick up this information in small items; fre-
quently you can get at accurate figures with regard to the yields of perhaps but a few trees
in a place, but from these you can quickly figure what the yield would have been on an
orchard of 10 acres, and the returns that could have been realized, figuring the crop at usual
market prices. Such investigation, we believe, will readily convince any thoughtful per-
son that there is far more profit in commercial orcharding in the North today than there is in
any other use to which good lands can be put.

Beyond any question, there is good money today an a good commercial orchard in the
Northwest. Where varieties are well chosen, planted in good soil, and given intelligent care,
we believe a person can make dollars in Iowa or any of its adjoining states, raising apples or
plums, to dimes that can be made in California raising oranges, lemons or prunes.

¥ We urge you to plant a few varieties for this purpose. Four is a big plenty, and one or two
is better still, for the reason that, when one has a large number of trees loaded with one
variety, he will always find plenty of wholesale fruit dealers in the cities who will come to
his place and buy the fruit in the orchard, paying the best market price, and giving him a
sure and ready market; whereas, if many varieties are planted, one is confined to local markets
and to a peddling trade, which is never satisfactory and often unprofitable.

Apples have been sold in the orchards here this season at prices ranging upward of $2.50
per barrel in car lots, when the same varieties were begging for sale on the street in small lots
at 25 cents per bushel.

Apricot

Alexis. Large to very large; yellow { red, flavor sweet and delicious. Tree
with red cheek; slightly acid, but rich | hardy. One of the best. July 1.
and luscious.. Tree hardy and abundant J. L. Budd. Of large size, white with

bearer. July ts. red cheek; flavor sweet, juicy, extra fine.

Alexander. An immense bearer; fruit | A hardy strong grower and _ profuse
of large size, oblong, yellow, flecked with ) bearer. The best late variety. August 1.

We have over half a million Apple Trees and hundreds of thousands of Evergreens

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A Branch of Elberta Peaches

Peaches

Alexander. Medium to large size; skin
greenish white, nearly covered with deep,
rich’ sed; flesh> melting] juicy, sweet:
The tree is vigorous and _ productive;
ripens two weeks before Hale’s Early.
This is one of the largest and best of
the extra-early varieties. It is very
valuable for market as well as for home
use.

Bokhara. Twenty-eight degrees below
zero and a crop. One of the hardiest
Peaches yet brought out. Seed was im-
ported from Bokhara, Asia, by American
missionaries. The report of the Iowa
exhibit at Chicago has this paragraph by
Professor Hansen: “In the Iowa exhibit
were shown a number of plates of new
Bokhara Peaches. One measured 7 inches
in circumference. It did not rot easily,
being inclined to shrivel rather than to rot.
I saw one plate in good condition Septem-
ber 26, which had been exhibited at the
Iowa State Fair the first week in Septem-
ber. Fruit yellow, with red cheek, skin
tough, flesh good quality. A perfect free-
stone.”

Champion. A large, handsome early
variety, creamy white, with red cheek,
sweet, rich and juicy. Hardy and pro-
ductive. August.

Coolidge’s Favorite. A most beautiful
and excellent Peach, of medium size; skin
white, delicately mottled with red; flesh
pale, juicy and rich. Tree vigorous, hardy
and productive. A valuable variety. End
of August.

Crawford’s Early. A magnificent, large,
yellow Peach, of good quality. Its size
and beauty make it one of the most popu-
lar orchard varieties. Fore part of Sept.

Crawford’s Late. Very large, roundish;
skin yellow, with a beautiful dark red
cheek; flesh rich, yellow, melting, with
sweet luscious flavor; worthy of universal
cultivation as table and market sort.
Latter part of September.

Crosby. Originated at Billerica, Mas-
sachusetts, about 1875, and _ recently
brought to general notice on account of
its extreme hardiness, bearing full crops
of choice, attractive fruit when all other
sorts have been blasted by frost. The
fruit is of medium size, roundish, slightly
flattened, with a distinct seam, bright
orange-yellow, streaked with red on the
sunny side; flesh yellow, of a mild, pleas-
ant flavor. Tree of low, spreading growth,
similar to Hill’s Chili. Promises to be
very valuable for general cultivation. In
season about with the Oldmixon.

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PEACHES, continued

Elberta. Originated in Georgia, and is | MHale’s Early. Raised in Ohio. Medium
being planted most largely in the South, | size; flesh white, first quality. Ripens
where it is regarded as the best market | middle of August.
variety. Fruit large, yellow, with red Heath Cling. Very large; flesh white,
cheek; flesh yellow, firm, juicy, fine | juicy and melting. Good keeper and
quality. Tree very hardy and exceed- | shipper. October.
ingly productive. It is equally valuable | Hill’s Chili. Large, downy, tame yel-
in the North, and is one of the best gen- | Jow, with slight blush; flesh yellow, lus-
eral sorts for all sections. Ripens with | cious and well flavored; pit small. Tree
Crawford’s Early. During the past sea- | hardy and productive. Bears large crops
son this variety has become very popular. | when most other sorts fail. Late Sept.
Exceptionally large and fine. Salway. An English Peach. Large,

Fitzgerald. A chance seedling found in | roundish; skin creamy yellow; flesh deep
Ontario, Canada, outside the Peach belt, | yellow, juicy, melting rich.
where it has borne regularly—fruit very Wager. Medium, yellow, good quality.
large, pit small. Very hardy and pro- | Tree hardy, healthy, long-lived, pro-
ductive. Season, early September. ductive. Early September.

PEACHES IN THE NORTH

It is generally considered that this class of fruit can be raised only in the far South,
but some oi our best horticulturists have demonstrated that this is not true.

By planting small trees and leaning them in the direction that you wish to lay
them down in the winter, and then in the fall digging out a few spadefuls of dirt on
the side that it is desired to bend your trees down, you will find that you can easily
bend them down and pin them to the ground. They should then be covered with
coarse straw, cornstalks, leaves or any other similar materials. It is better to have
some mulch under the tree before it is laid down, so that the branches will not come
to the ground, and under the mulch and scattered through it there should be plenty
of poisoned bait for mice, as they are the worst enemy to trees protected in this way.
Common corn bread, in small pieces, and covered with arsenic, is as good a bait as can
be used.

When spring comes, remove the litter and straighten the trees up; fill in the dirt,
and you will find in a few years that you will be able to raise good crops of Peaches
even where the mercury often goes as low as 35° to 40° below zero. You will also
find that the fruit raised in this way will be even more beautiful in appearance and
much finer in flavor than that raised in the South.

Pears

Bartlett. One of the most popular | vigorous and fruitful; succeeds well in
Pears; large, buttery and melting, with a | most parts of the country. September
rich musky flavor. A vigorous, erect | and October.

grower; bears young and abundantly. | Kieffer (Kieffer’s Hybrid). Said to have
es | been raised from at of the Chinese

Bessemianka. A small Russian Pear, | Sand Pear, accidentally crossed with Bart-
imported by Professor Budd. Tree a | lett or some other kind. Large; skin
slow grower and hardy, but subject to | rich golden yellow, sprinkled thickly with
blight; fruit of good quality, small and | small dots, and often tinged with red on
much thicker at the stem end than the | one side; flesh slightly coarse, juicy,
ordinary Pear. melting, with a pronounced quince flavor.

Duchesse d’Angouleme. Very large, | Tree very vigorous, and an early and
buttery. rich, juicy, excellent. It succeeds | great bearer. October and November.

to perfection and is the most popular Seckel. Medium size, yellowish brown,
market variety as a dwarf. Season, October | with a red cheek; melting, sweet, spicy,
and November. _ very rich and delicious. The standard of

Flemish Beauty. A large, beautiful, Excellence. Tree a slow but stout, erect
melting, sweet Pear. Tree very hardy, ' grower; hardy and productive. October.

We take every pains to get the goods to our customers in the best condition
and without delay, if possible.

14 Sherman Nursery Company, Charles City, Iowa

Plums

Cheney. A _ strong, upright-growing
tree, very hardy, and one of the very best
varieties for the extreme North. Fruit
large, of fair quality. Tree an early and
abundant bearer.

Damson. Large, dark purple, very
showy, often measuring two inches in
diameter; fine, juicy and sweet. Season,
September.

De Soto. Tree perfectly hardy, a regu-
lar and abundant bearer; fruit medium
size and of fine quality; color light red;
ripens very early. This tree is liable to
overbear, and, if very heavily loaded,
fruit should be thinned.

Forest Garden. Hardy; bears profusely;
one of the earliest Plums; large, being
1 to 1% inches in diameter, oblong, color
mottled red and yellow; skin thin; juicy,
sweet and rich. Ripens from August 1
to 25.

Green Gage.
standard of excellence;

Small; considered the
slow grower,

Middle of August.

Hawkeye. This variety is a native of
Towa, perfectly hardy, and fruit is as
large as Lombard. Season, September.

Mooney. A good grower and regular
producer, Fruit fair size and good quality.

Burbank Plums (see page 15)

Stoddard. Large, round and red; very
productive. Tree and fruit closely re-
sembles the Hawkeye, but of somewhat
better quality and a good market sort.

Surprise. A variety introduced at
Sleepy Eye, Minn. Tree a beautiful, sym-
metrical grower, with fine foliage. Best
Plum yet introduced in that state; meaty,
fine flavor, very large and red, with many
light dots on the skin, hangs well to the
tree, a good bearer and a good keeper;
fine for culinary purposes.

Wild Goose. Fruit large, round, oblate,
light “red;-iskin’ thine’. Chis Pit: vise
clingstone. The leaf of this variety is
peach-like in shape, margin finely toothed.
Ripens early, but is of poor quality, but
on account of its productiveness and
beauty is the most popular of native
Plums.

Willard. Size medium, color red and
attractive; vigorous, hardy and productive
very early, about July 15. Will keep in
good condition a long time after picking.

Wolf. Tree vigorous and hardy. Fruit
of good size and fair quality for eating from
hand, and hard to equal for cooking pur-
poses.

Wyant. Tree a spreading grower, fine
foliage, very prolific; superior to Weaver
in quality, and much more beautiful.
Fruit medium to large, slightly oblong
and distinctly flattened; purplish red in
color, inclined to orange on the shady
side; skin thick; flesh rich yellow. This
variety is reported by Professor Goff as
one of the most productive at the Wiscon-
sin State Experiment Station.

Yellow Egg. A very large and beautiful
egg-shaped yellow Plum. Excellent for
cooking. Tree a free-grower and good
producer. End of August.

EUROPEAN AND JAPANESE
PLUMS

Abundance. Large to very large, ob-
long, amber, nearly covered with bright
red and overspread with a thick bloom;
flesh orange-yellow, juicy, melting, and
of delicious sweetness; stone small and
flesh readily parts from it. Tree strong
grower and an early and profuse bearer.
Ripens in advance of other Plums. Val-
uable for canning and market. This
variety has attracted much attention
throughout tthe country, and is very
highly recommended.

Burbank. It is claimed by many that
the Burbank Plum stands at the head of
the celebrated Japanese varieties. It is
proving remarkably successful the country

Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Etc. 15

European and Japanese Plums, continued
over. No other Plum ever became so
popular in so short a time. This is be-
cause it is practically curculio-proof, and
is very free from black-knot. It has been
fruited from seven to nine years in this
country, and is said to stand 30° below
zero. Ripens in August. It seems to
succeed on any soil—sand, clay or loam.
It can be picked green, and will ripen
and color up perfectly, and will not lose
its flavor. Will keep fully two weeks in
perfect condition after ripening. Abun-
danty early bearer. Fruit large, roundish,
dark red or purplish, with thin lilac
bloom; flesh amber-yellow, melting,
juicy, with rich sugary flavor; stone
small and free. Bears very young.

Grand Duke. Fruit oval with a short
neck. Skin almost black, but reddish when
shaded and covered with bloom; flesh yel-
low, adhering closely to the stone; with a
sweet, rich flavor whea fully ripe. Leading

Plum growers state that it is one of the
most profitable Plums for market. Sept.

German Prune. Medium, oval; purple
or blue; juicy, rich, fine. Tree vigorous
and very productive. September.

Lombard. Medium, oval, violet-red;
juicy, pleasant and good; adheres to the
stone. Tree vigorous and very productive.
A valuable market variety; one of the most
hardy and popular. Middle to last ‘of
August.

Satsuma (Blood). Large, globular with
sharp point. Color, purple and red with
bloom; flesh firm, juicy, dark red or blood
color; fine quality; pit very small. August.

Wickson. Originated by Burbank. A
sturdy, upright grower. Fruit remarkably
handsome, deep maroon-red, covered with
white bloom; stone small; flesh fine tex-
ture, firm, sugary and delicious. Excel-
lent keeper and shipper; will keep two
weeks after ripening.

Why Does the Plum Fail?

One of the principal reasons for the failure of Plums throughout the Northwest is
that they have been propagated on tender roots. Throughout the East and South the
Plum is usually propagated on Myrobalan, a native plum of France, or on Marianna,
the wild Plum of the South. These roots will not stand the severe cold of our north-
ern winters, and when the root dies the tree, of course, is a failure. Our trees are all

worked on our native wild Plum, which. is perfectly hardy.

In planting Plums it is

well to plant several varieties in a group, as some sorts seem not to fertilize their own

blossoms.

Cherries

Bing. A native of Oregon, fruit very
large, bright and glossy. Color very dark
crimson, one of the largest Cherries ever
produced, and of the most excellent qual-
ity. Season, July.

Black Tartarian. Very large, bright
purple, glossy black; juicy, rich and fine.
Tree a rapid, vigorous, upright grower,
and great bearer. One of the popular
kinds. Ripens last of June and beginning
of July.

Compass. Originated by H. Knudson,
Springfield, Minn. A cross between the
Miner plum and the Sand cherry. Fruit
a little larger than a medium cherry; color
red; round; skin moderately thick; flesh
firm, juicy, coarse; stone medium; flavor
subacid; quality good; good bearer; very
hardy; leaves resemble the Sand Cherry,
as does the twig and the color of the bark.
It is at present being widely distributed
by the nurserymen. Of value in sec-
tions of the Northwest. Plum type in
general appearance, but in quality of
fruit resembles the Cherry. Season, July
20 to 30.

Dyehouse. Partakes of both the Duke

and Morello in wood and fruit; a very
early and sure bearer; ripens a week before
the Early Richmond, of better quality and
quite as productive. June.

Early Richmond. Fruit fair size, red,
sour. Tree a good bearer.

English Morello. Large, dark red, acid,
tender, juicy and rich; tree dwarfish,
and in this section one of the hardiest of
the old sorts.

Lambert. One of the largest of all;
heart-shaped; dark purplish red, turning
to almost jet-black when fully ripe. Flesh
firm, solid, rich and juicy, with sprightly
flavor. Seed very small for so large a fruit.
Tree rugged, strong-grower, hardy. Enor-
mous bearer. Late July. ,

Lewelling (Black Republican). Seed-
ling raised by Seth Lewelling of Oregon;
large size, black, sweet, with purplish
flesh; late and a good shipper. Tree a
moderate grower; an early and profuse
bearer. July.

Montmorency, Large. A fruit much
larger than Early Richmond; red, acid,
and an extremely fine canning fruit. Tree
very vigorous.

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CHERRIES, continued it as perfectly hardy as far north as Minne-

Ostheim. A tree said to be of Russian | apolis. Where the varieties of culti-
or German origin; very hardy, having | vated .Cherries can be grown, however,
stood the test well up into Minnesota. | we would not recommend its planting.
Fruit of good size, very dark red, acid.
This promises to be a success in all of
our northern states.

Rocky Mountain Dwarf. This Cherry is
practically the same thing as the Sand
Cherry of Nebraska.) The fruit, when
well grown, is about the size of Early
Richmond; dark red in color and sweet.
It is a very slow-growing plant, and is
more properly described as a shrub than
a tree. It is peculiarly well adapted to Wragg. Rather a dwarfish tree; a good
dry sections and dry locations. .We regard _ bearer; fruit light red, and late.

Royal Ann. (Napoleon Bigarreau.) A
magnificent Cherry of the largest size;
_ pale yellow, becoming amber in the shade,
richly dotted and spotted with deep red,
' and with a bright red cheek; flesh very
firm, juicy and sweet; tree a rapid grower
and immense bearer. The most popular
all-round cherry for canning, preserving
and shipping. Late June.

Quinces

Orange. Fruit large, bright yellow, of
excellent flavor.

Anger’s. A free bearer of good-sized
fruit, which keeps well, but not equal in
quality to some other sorts.

Grape- Vines

We grow our vines on open prairie land and believe them far superior to vines grown
in the moist lake climate and gravelly soil of western New York. They are also free
from the exposure to insects and diseases such as are common among the vineyards of
the East. They also have the added advantage of having been tested in this climate.

Agawam (Rogers’ No. 15). One of the Champion. A large Grape, of medium
most reliable of the hybrid Grapes. | quality. Its chief value consists in vigor
Bunches large, berries very large, dark | of plant and earliness, rendering it a
red. Ripens with or soon after Concord, | valuable sort to plant where the season is
and is of peculiar, aromatic flavor. short.

Beta. A cross between Carver and Con- Clinton. Bunches small to medium,
cord; perfectly hardy, productive; fruit | compact, long and not usually shouldered;
of medium size; early. The principal | berries small and black; skin thin, but
value of this Grape is in the extreme North | tough; flesh juicy, spicy and acid. The
where it will stand without protection. chief value of this Grape lies in its ex-
treme hardiness. It is nearly, if not
Rochester, N. Y. Is a cross between quite as hardy as the wild Grape. Its

Cond Gan Wiens Tumabume Buacla fruit is unsurpassed for canning.

medium to large, compact, shouldered; | , Concord. A large, handsome Grape,
berries medium, dark red; skin thin; | Tipening in latter part of September;
flesh tender, sweet; quality best. Vine | Very hardy, productive and reliable; suc-
a vigorous grower, healthy, with no more | ceeds well over a great extent of country.
tendency to leaf-blight in unfavorable | One of the most popular market Grapes.
seasons that Rogers’ Nos. 4, 15, I9, or Delaware. Bunch small to medium,
Salem. Is productive and ripens early, | compact, usually shouldered; _ berries
about with Delaware. Is of fine quality, | medium, red; skin thin, but firm; flesh
but not so good if allowed to remain on | juicy, very sweet and refreshing. Vine
vine till fully ripe. It then becomes | hardy, moderate grower and productive.
nearly black, and to some extent insipid. | Ripens with Concord. Requires rich soil

Campbell’s Early. Strong grower, with | and good culture. Fruit of best quality
large, healthy foliage; productive; its for table. It is esteemed in many locali-
keeping and shipping qualities are equaled | ties as the best American Grape, all
by no other early Grape. Ripens with | things considered. Should be in every
Moore’s Early. Bunch and berry, large garden and vineyard.
glossy black with blue bloom, sweet and Elvira. Very vigorous, strong, healthy
juicy; seeds few and small, part readily | grower. White; bunch and berries me-
from the pulp. Stands at the head of early | dium size, very compact and very pro-
black grapes for quality. ductive, often growing four or five clusters

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GRAPES, continued

Ripens about with
Liable to

on a single cane.
Catawba. Very hardy Grape.
crack.

Janesville. First produced at Janes-
ville, Wis. Very hardy; fruits success-
fully in far northern localities. Ripens
early and is the hardiest northern Grape

grown.

Martha. A seedling of the Concord,
which it resembles in growth and _ hardi-
ness. Bunch of good size and berry
large, of pale green or light color; sweet,
juicy, sprightly. Ripens with the Concord.

Moore’s Early. Cluster medium size,
berry quite large and dark. Season about
two weeks earlier than Concord. A vigor-
ous grower and abundant bearer. Vine
very hardy. Highly prized for its earli-
ness and hardiness.

Moore’s Diamond. Color white; bunch
and berries large. Healthy, strong grower,
hardy, and where known is very popular.
Quality excellent. This new Grape has
evidently come to stay. Ripens with
Delaware.

Niagara. Said to be a cross of Concord
and Cassidy. Bunch medium to large,

Moore’s Diamond

compact, occasionally shouldered; berry
large, roundish, uniform; skin thin but
tough, pale green at first, changing to pale
yellow when fully ripe, with a thin, whit-
ish bloom; flesh slightly pulpy, tender,
sweet, not quite equal to the Concord.
Before it is fully matured it has a very
foxy odor, which disappears, to a great
extent, later. Vine vigorous, healthy and
productive; foliage thick and leathery.
Ripens with the Concord. All things con-
sidered, probably the most valuable white
Grape in cultivation.

Pocklington. A seedling of the Concord.
Bunch medium to large, generally shoul-
dered; berry large, roundish, light golden
yellow when fully mature; flesh pulpy,
juicy, of fair quality. Vine very hardy,
healthy, vigorous and productive; leaves
large, tough and downy. Ripens after
Concord. It will require favorable sea-
sons and good locations to ripen it satis-
factorily in this region.

Worden. This is, beyond question, the
best black Grape known. It is a seedling
of Concord, ripens about ten days to two
weeks earlier, and is fully equal to it in
quality. It is a vigorous grower and much
better bearer; in some places said
to outyield Concord two to one.

Remarks

The soil for the Grape should
be dry; when not naturally so,
should be thoroughly drained. It
should be deeply worked and well
manured, always bearing in mind
that it is an essential point to
secure a warm, sunny exposure.

The best grape-vine trellis is
probably the wire trellis. This is
constructed by planting posts as
far apart as you choose to have
the length of your trellis; stretch
the wires, four in number, about
eighteen inches apart, letting them
pass through stakes at proper dis-
tances from each other to support
the wire. As the wires are con-
contracted by the cold, and are
likely to break or sway the posts
from their places, they should be
loosened as cold weather ap-
proaches.

To secure the best results, annual
and careful pruning is essential. The
following is regarded as the best
method. Commencing with a good
strong vine, permit it to grow the
first season without pruning. In
November following cut back the
growth, allowing but three or four

We shall take great pains to get goods to our customers in the best condition

Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Etc.

GRAPES, continued

buds to remain. The following
spring allow but two of the strong-
est buds to throw out shoots. These,
in the fall, will be from seven to
ten feet long, and should be cut
back within four or five feet of
the root. The next spring the vine
should be fastened to the lower
wire of the trellis. When growth
commences, pinch the buds so that
the shoots will be from ten to twelve
inches apart. As these grow, train
them up perpendicularly to the
second, third and fourth wires. No
fruit should be allowed to set above
the second wire of the trellis.

During the season, when the
shoots have reached the upper part
of the trellis, they may be pinched
to prevent further growth. After
the fruit is gathered and the vine
has shed its foliage, the cane should
be cut back to two buds of the old
wood. The following spring allow
but one bud to throw out a shoot,
and treat as in the previous year.
This system of pruning should be
followed each year. After the vine
has undergone the fall pruning, it
should be laid upon the ground and
covered to protect it through the
winter. Grape-vines should be top-
dressed in the spring.

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Niagara (see page 18)

Gooseberries

Plant Gooseberries on good, strong land, and keep them well cultivated or heavily

mulched.

The fruit is useful for cooking when green or ripe, and may be canned with such
facility that it is being cultivated more extensively every year for home use and market.

Downing. A _ seedling of Houghton.
Fruit large, two to three times the size
of Houghton; whitish green; flesh soft,
juicy, good; plant vigorous and prolific;,
excellent for family use, and very prof-
itable for market. Planted more exten-
sively than any other.

Houghton. Vigorous grower; branches
rather slender; very productive; not
subject to mildew; fruit of medium
size; skin smooth, pale red; flesh ten-
der and good.

Industry. Bush a strong grower, and
the most productive of European varieties;
fruit large, dark red, mild, sub-acid, sweet
and good-flavored; one of the best for
market either green or ripe. This variety
is not good in sections where mildew is
prevalent.

Pearl. The most prolific Gooseberry
known. One bush produced 2,500 berries.
It is free from mildew and is larger than

the Downing. The color is light green and
quality first-class. Being thoroughly
tested, it promises to be the most valu-
able variety of recent introduction and
the best of its class.

Red Jacket (Joslyn). A most prolific
and valuable Gooseberry; as large as
the largest; berry smooth; very hardy;
quality and foliage best of any Goose-
berry known. The introducer says of
it: “‘For ten years it has stood close to
Triumph, Crown Bob, Whitesmith,
Smith’s Improved, Downing, and more
than a dozen other sorts; and while
these others have all mildewed in leaf

and fruit, mildew has never appeared
on Red Jacket.”
Smith (Smith’s Improved). Grown

from the seed of Houghton; the fruit is
large, oval, light green in color; flesh
moderately firm, sweet and very good;
the plant iS a vigorous grower, hardy
and productive.

Sherman Nursery Company, Charles City, Iowa

Currants

Black Naples. A vigorous plant; fruit
very large.

Cherry. A very large, red Currant, with
short clusters; a vigorous plant and one
that bears well if planted on strong land
and well cultivated.

London Market. For many years this
variety has been fruiting in Michigan,
where it is now planted extensively and
regarded as the best market variety of
that great fruit state. Plant is extremely
vigorous, with perfect foliage, which it
retains through the season; an enormous
cropper. Ripens with Victoria, is larger
in both bunch and berry; a better bearer.
Red in color, this is regarded as the best
Currant in North Dakota. For any use
—home garden or market—one of the best.

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Long Bunch Holland Currants

Plant in well-drained land,
and mulch heavily

Long Bunch Holland. A strong, stumpy
growing plant which grows to an im-
mense size. The plant does not bear
young, but yields enormous crops; berry
large; clusters long; color red.

Perfection. A cross between Fay’s and
White Grape, retaining the valuable
characteristics of both parents. Beautiful,
bright red, as large or larger than Fay’s, -
holding its size to-end of bunch; easy to
pick; a great bearer, superior to any
other large sort; less acid and of better
quality than any other large Currant in
cultivation; large, healthy foliage; inter-
mediate in growth between Fay’sand White
Grape. Kept well cultivated and fertilized
they will regularly produce heavy crops of
extra-size fruit of the very best quality.

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A Dish of Cuthbert Raspberries

CURRANTS, continued

President Wilder. One of the strongest
growers and most productive. Bunch and
berries very large, bright, attractive red
color, even when dead ripe; hangs on
bushes in fine condition for handling as
late as any known variety. Compared

Victoria. Fruit medium size and bright
red; clusters long; season late; a vig-
orous grower.

White Dutch. This is probably better
known than any other white Currant;
bears well.

with the celebrated Fay’s, is equal in size,
with longer bunch, better in quality, with
much less acidity, ripens at same time,
continues on bush longer, fully as prolific,
in some trials largely outyielding it.

Red Dutch. This is one of the best of
the old standard sorts. A vigorous plant;
bears well.

White Grape. A very large berry, and
of the best quality; highly esteemed for
table use. The best of all white kinds.
Plant on rich soil.

TREE CURRANTS
This is an upright tree form of any
variety mentioned herein.

Raspberries

Our Raspberries are not the usual tip plants which are so commonly sent out
through the West, and which are so easily destroyed by a little exposure, but have
been transplanted and grown one year from the tip. This gives our customers a strong,
woody plant which will better stand transplanting, and will make stronger growth
when planted.

CuLtTuRAL Notes.—Raspberries may be planted either in the fall or spring, but
when planted in the former season it is a good plan to mulch the ground heavily with
manure; when plants have fruited the old canes which have borne a crop of fruit should
be removed in the fall; it is also best to thin out the weaker canes, leaving only five
or six strong stalks in a hill. These should be laid down and covered lightly with leaves,
straw or dirt; the latter is the best, as it lessens the liability of injury from mice. In
the summer season, when canes have grown to about three feet, pinch off the tip;
this will make them branch and increase the bearing surface.

Black Diamond. A very large variety,
and ripens early; the fruit is very sweet
and of fine flavor. Pulpy, and has few
seeds.

Cardinal. The best of the purple Rasp-
berries and a most desirable variety for
home use. Vigorous in growth, ornamental
in appearance and enormously productive.

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RASPBERRIES, continued

Columbian. New. Purple; very vig-
orous grower; canes often ten to sixteen
feet in length and more than one inch in
diameter; very hardy. Fruit large and
delicious for table or canning. Excellent
shipper. Grown from tips or sprouts.

Cuthbert (Queen of the Market). Me-
dium to large, conical, deep rich crimson;
very firm, sweet and good; hardy. Sea-
son medium to late. Unquestionably one
of the best varieties for market on account
of its prolific-bearing quality.

Gregg. One of the most valuable va-
rieties of the blackcap family; fruit very
much larger than the Mammoth Cluster,

but not quite so good in quality; ripens .

some days later; hardy. A _ vigorous
grower and great yielder.

Hilborn. A _ strong, vigorous plant;
growing taller than the Older. Berry
large, black and of fine quality. This
variety has done best of all on our grounds.
Its blossoms mature late and are seldom
caught by the frost.

Kansas (Blackcap). A valuable early
variety; very large, handsome, firm and
of excellent quality; very hardy and
productive. One of the best blackcaps.

King. Pronounced the best early red
Raspberry by many of the leading horti-
culturists. Plant a strong grower, very
hardy and productive. Berry is firm, a
good shipper; large size; beautiful bright
scarlet color; ripens with the earliest.
Prof. W. J. Green, of Ohio Experiment
Station, says: ‘‘King has proved the best
early red Raspberry. It is large, bright
red, quite firm, and of good quality.”

Loudon. This variety originated at
Janesville, Wisconsin, and is usually
considered the best of all red Raspberries
for the extreme North. It is reported
perfectly hardy at St. Paul. Fruit large,
good color and of fine quality. Very
productive.

Older. A new blackcap of large size,
which originated in Buchanan county,
Iowa. Thought by some who know it,
to be the best of the black varieties.

Shaffer’s Colossal. This variety re-
sembles the Columbian in fruit and is
one that has been highly esteemed, but
of late years the canes have been so in-
fested with fungus and insect pests that
the variety has been practically dis-
carded. The Columbian is practically
the same in fruit, and better in every
other way.

Sunbeam. The first of our many thou-
sands of Raspberry seedlings to be named.
First sent out, spring 1906. Female parent
a wild red Raspberry, from Cavalier
county, North Dakota, near the Mani-
toba line. Male parent, Shaffer’s Colossal,
from New York. Plant extremely vigor-
ous, productive, purple-caned, sprouts
freely. Fruit of fair size and quality.
Worthy of trial where Raspberries winter-
kill as it has endured 41° below zero
without protection. It endured last winter
perfectly at Bismarck, North Dakota,
without protection, and other good re-
ports have been received.

Turner. One of the sweetest of berries;
bright crimson in color, and _ perfectly
hardy. A good bearer.

Blackberries

We grow our Blackberry plants from root-cuttings, and in this way get plants
with plenty of fibrous roots, which make sure the growing of the plant. In fruiting
patches of Blackberries there will spring up many plants from the root; and these are
the plants that are usually dug up and sent out to the trade. They have but few, if
any, fibrous roots, and are much more apt to die when planted, and will not make
the growth after planting that the plants will when grown from root-cuttings. Valu-
able for market purposes.

Ancient Briton. This has been much planted for many years in Wisconsin, and
has proved one of the most profitable fruits for market growing. Plant hardy and
very productive; fruit large and sweet.

Rathbun. A strong, erect grower, with strong stem branching freely; will root
from tip of branches like a raspberry. Forms a neat, compact bush, four to five feet
high, producing its immense fruit abundantly. Fruit is sweet and luscious, without
hard core; of extra-high flavor; jet-black, small seeds; firm enough to ship and handle
well. Very large size, resembling the Wilson and fully equal to that grand variety.

Snyder. One of the hardiest and best known sorts grown in the West. Fruit
large and of good quality when fully ripe; very vigorous and productive. Ripens but
little later than Early Harvest.

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Miscellaneous Fruits

Dewberry, Lucretia

Iruit much resembles the blackberry,
but very much larger; an enormous bearer.
Plant runs on the ground and needs same
winter protection as blackberry.

Dwarf Juneberry

l‘ruit hard to distinguish from blueberry
or huckleberry. The shrub grows about
four feet high, and bears annually an
abundant crop of fruit, which ripens in
June.

Elderberry

A bush hardy nearly everywhere in the
Northwest; fruit desirable for culinary
purposes, as well as a good wine maker.

High-Bush Cranberry

Bush closely resembles the snowball;
perfectly hardy in northern Minnesota.
This shrub bears extremely well; color of
fruit bright scarlet; hangs in clusters;
ripens in fall and will hang on all winter.
It makes a very fine jelly of beautiful
color. The plant is highly esteemed both
for fruit and ornamental purposes.

Loganberry

This berry is unlike any other in exist-
ence, being a hybrid between the rasp-
berry and the blackberry. The fruit is
sometimes an inch and one-quarter long,
dark red, as large as the largest black-
berry, and produced in immense clusters.
It partakes of the flavor of both the black-
berry and raspberry, a mild, pleasant,
vinous flavor, delicious and peculiar to
this berry alone; seeds small, soft and few;
fruit ripens early, just after strawberries,
and before blackberries or raspberries.
The vine or cane of the Loganberry grows
entirely unlike either the blackberry or
raspberry. It trails or grows upon the
ground more like a Dewberry. It is
excellent for the table, eaten raw or stewed,
and for jelly or jam it is without an equal.

Ripe in May. This fruit originated on the
Pacific slope and is of value only in the
Rocky Mountain regions or in a mild
climate.

Russian Mulberry

A very rapid-growing plant; bears well;
fruit sweet, variable in size and color;
leaf dark green and of very different
shapes; some are birch-shaped, others cut
and notched as much as any of our oaks,
and in as many different shapes as all the
varieties put together. Will stand almost
any amount of drought.

Strawberry -Raspberry

One of the remarkable recent intro-
ductions from Japan. A beautiful dwarf
Raspberry, seeming to be a hybrid between
the raspberry and strawberry. Fruit is
early, stands well out from the foliage, size
and shape of a strawberry; color, brilliant
crimson. Most highly esteemed for its
hardiness. The fruit is used principally
in jams -and jellies flavored with other
fruits.

Senator Dunlap Strawberry

A well-tested, wonderfully productive
variety, one of the safe sorts to plant
everywhere and sure to take a high place
among the prominent standard sorts.
Plant resembles Warfield; rampant runner,
should be restricted in its production of
plants; fully equal to Crescent and War-
field in its ability to succeed under all
circumstances. Fruit good size, regular
form, beautiful bright red, glossy, firm;
splendid keeper and shipper, excellent
quality, one of the best for canning.
Ripens early and continues a long time.
It promises to stand at the head in its
wonderful ability to ripen a good crop
under almost any condition of drought or
neglect.

This variety bears both pistils and sta-
mens and therefore needs no fertilizer.

Vegetables
Asparagus

Columbian Mammoth White. This variety produces very large white shoots and is

more valuable for canning than any other.

Conover’s Colossal.

It is a very rapid-growing plant.
Shoots deep green and often over an inch in diameter are

thrown up very rapidly from this variety. One of the best.

Rhubarb, Linnaeus

The very finest variety of Pie Plant; very large, early, tender and fine.

Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Etc. 25

WEEPING TREES

Mountain Ash

A pendulous weeper of irregular, rapid |
growth; sometimes planted in the center
of small arbors and trained about them
as a vine.

Cut-leaved Birch

Tree tall and slender, with pendulous
branches. The bark of this tree is sil-
very white when tree is mature; foliage
dark green, glossy and beautifully cut.
We regard this as the most attractive of
all upright-g growing weeping trees. Have
seen branches cut from this tree 5 feet
long and only 7 of an inch in diameter at
the base. This tree will stand any kind
of exposure; it is perfectly hardy.

Camperdown
Elm

Grafted 6 to 8 feet
high, this forms one
of the most pic-
turesque drooping
trees. Itis of rank
growth; the shoots
often making a
zigzag growth out-
wardand downward
of several feet in a
single season. The
leaves are large and
dark green, and
cover the tree with
a luxuriant mass of
verdure.

,

Teas’ Weeping
Mulberry

This tree is sim-
ilar in general ap-
pearance and habit
of growth to the
Kilmarnock Weep-
ing Willow, but it
grows much more
rapidly and_ the
branches are more
drooping. This va-
riety will frequently
grow from 5 to 6 feet
in a season, and it is
nothing uncommon
to see the branches
trailing on the
ground. The leaf is
of the same general
formas the Russian
Mulberry, of which
it is a variety. We
regard this as the
hardiest of all dwarf
weepers.

Willows

Kilmarnock. A variety of the Goat Wil-
| low, or common Willow. Grafted 5 to 7
feet high upon the Comewell stock, it
forms, without any training, an exceed-
ingly graceful tree, with glossy foliage
and perfect umbrella head; unique in form.
Vigorous and thrives in all soils. Not
quite hardy here.

Niobe. Perfectly hardy and very beau-
tiful; a new golden variety introduced by
Prof. Hansen, of South Dakota.

Wisconsin. The hardiest of all weeping
Willows; grows very large, with long, slen-
der, drooping shoots; a magnificent tree
in the mountain region of the West.

Teas’ Weeping Mulberry

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SHADE AND ORNAMENTAL TREES

Green Ash

Known in the West as White Ash. A
native tree of rather slow growth, but of
hard, tough fiber. One of the best of
timber trees. This tree thrives better than
almost any other tree in dry sections,
such as North and South Dakota.

Basswood American Linden)

This is one of our strongest-growing
native trees, and one of the most desir-
able trees we have for shade purposes.
It grows rapidly to immense size, and
forms a round, compact top; this, with
its broad deep green leaves, makes a dense
shade.

European White Birch

A rapid-growing tree, and when fully
developed has snow-white bark. This
tree is practically of the same form as the
Cut-leaved Birch, but lacks the pendulous
habit of the latter, and also its cut leaves.
It is a very desirable tree.

Catalpa speciosa
A very rapid-growing tree, highly rec-
ommended for post timber; leaf heart-
shaped, light green and very large. Some
specimens are not entirely hardy in this

American Linden

latitude. We consider that its principal
value here is as an ornamental tree. It
bears large trusses of beautiful flowers of
light lilac color, sprinkled with brown;
very fragrant.

American Sweet Chestnut

The nuts of this tree form quite an
item in our commerce. Although smaller
than some other sorts, they are sweeter
and more delicately flavored. This Chest-
nut is also a grand timber and ornamental
Shade tree, spreading in midsummer,
billowy masses of creamy, fragrant cat-
kins above its large, deep green leaves,
making a most beautiful specimen on the
lawn.

Hackberry

A rare native tree with numerous slender
branches which spread horizontally, and
thick, rough bark; apple-like foliage, but
more pointed and a bright shiny green; a
very desirable tree for street planting.

Horse-Chestnut

This tree has an elegant pyramidal form,
with large, deep-lobed leaves and showy
upright panicles of red or white flowers.
Tree hardy, vigorous and free from insect
pests. This is among the first trees to
unfold its leaves in spring.

Black Cherry

This is the common black Cherry of
our forests. A tree of rapid growth. The
lumber of this tree, we are told by parties
well posted, is of more value than that of
mahogany. It is a tree that should be
much more cultivated than it is.

Cottonwood
A native tree of much value in the

West.
Box Elder

A low-spreading tree of rapid growth,
well adapted to dry and cold climates.
One of the best trees for the Northwest.

White Elm

The native white or water Elm of our
forests is too well known to require des-
cription. The most beautiful of all shade
trees for this climate.

Hop Tree, or Wafer Ash

A small tree, seldom growing over 12
feet high; perfectly hardy; leaf three-
lobed, dark green and glossy; seed en-
closed in a circular wing, which hang in
clusters. It has a very peculiar strong
hop smell.

Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Etc. 27

European Larch

This is one of the most rapid-growing
of the coniferous trees, frequently making
a growth of 3 or 4 feet ina year. The wood
is hard, and when the trees are mature
makes a very durable post timber. In
Europe trees have been grown slowly. The
timber has been used for piling along
wharves, and has been known to have
lasted for hundreds of years. This tree
closely resembles the American Tamarack,
but differs from it in being of more rapid
growth, and cones of much larger size.

Black Locust

This is the common form of Locust
grown through the central West. Rather
a slow-growing, hard-wooded tree, with
yellow or white flowers borne in long, pen-
dulous racemes. Flowers fragrant, and
the wood durable as post timber.

Kentucky Coffee Tree

A very ornamental, hardy tree of up-
right, rapid growth with rough bark and
coarse branches; foliage of a bluish green
color; flowers white followed by long pods.
The name coffee tree comes from the fact
of the seeds in the pods having been used
by early settlers as a substitute for coffee.

Magnolia acuminata
(Cucumber Magnolia)
A beautiful pyramidal-growing tree,
attaining from 60 to oo feet in height.
Leaves 6 to g inches long.

Maple
Hard (Sugar Maple). A well-known
native tree, valuable both for the _ pro-
duction of sugar and wood; very desirable
as an ornamental shade tree.

Norway. A handsome tree, of fairly
rapid growth, forming a dense, rounded
head of strong branches and broad, deep
green leaves. Sturdy, compact, vigorous.
It is one of the very best trees for lawns,
parks and gardens.

Soft, or Silver. The common soft Maple
west of the Mississippi, with red bark.

Wier’s Cut-leaved Silver. A variety
of the Silver-leaved Maple, and one of
the most remarkable of trees, with cut or
dissected foliage. Its growth is rapid,
shoots slender and drooping, giving it a
habit almost as graceful as the Cut-leaved
Birch. The foliage is abundant, silvery
underneath, and on the young wood
especially deeply and delicately cut. The
leaf-stalks are long and tinted with red on
the upper surface. Easily adapted to small
places by an occasional cutting back,
which it will bear to any degree.

Mountain Ash

American. A tree of coarser growth and
foliage than the European, and producing
larger and lighter colored berries.

European. A fine, hardy tree; head
dense and regular; covered from July
till winter with great clusters of scarlet
berries.

Oak-leaved. A hardy tree of fine py-
ramidal habit. Foliage simple and deeply
lobed, resembling the oak; bright green
above and downy beneath. One of the
finest lawn trees.

Poplar

Carolina. One of the most rapid-grow-
ing of our native shade trees. Leaves
very large, deep green and glossy. Tree
hardy and of much value where a quick
screen or shade is wanted.

Russian. This tree closely resembles
the Carolina Poplar, but is of slower
growth, and is claimed by good authority
to have no advantage over it.

Silver-leaf. This tree is valued highly
in the dry sectionsof the Northwest, where
it is found to be one of the most hardy of
trees. The foliage is very dark on the
upper side and silvery white beneath. The
tree forms a dense top of moderate size.
It is valuable for both shade and wind-
break purposes.

Silver Maple

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Double-flowering Plum
(Prunus triloba)

A native of China. The flowers re-
semble our Flowering Almond, but are
much larger. The clusters of the flowers
are also similar, but the tree grows much
larger and is hardy.

Tulip Tree

A rapid-growing native tree of pyram-
idal form, resembling the hard maple,
but with less rounded top. Flowers
closely resemble the tulip; yellow in
color, with deep orange at the base of
petals, about 2 inches in length. It can
hardly be classed as hardy in this latitude.

Wiid Crab

This is our native Crab, Pyrus Coronaria.
Tree seldom grows more than 12 feet
high, with rounded top and bright pink
blossoms.

Willow
Golden. A rapid-growing Willow, with

bright yellow bark; very attractive where
planted in masses for winter decoration.

Laurel-leaved. Leaves in color, texture
and shape resembling the laurel. Tree
round-topped and of rapid growth; per-
fectly hardy.

White. A fine tree for windbreaks and extensively planted in the North and
Northwest. Leaves silky on under side. Trees sometimes attain a height of 80 feet,
with a trunk 3 or 4 feet in diameter and ascending branches.

EVERGREENS

The only trouble in handling evergreens is allowing the roots to get dry. The
sap of these trees is resinous, and if allowed to dry it hardens and closes the pores
of the wood and thus stops the circulation and kills the tree. Very little exposure to
hot sun or drying winds will sometimes do this. Great care should be taken in planting
to keep goods from exposure to either sun or wind, and they must be kept moist.

Arborvitae _ Cedar Bacay ris

American, or White Cedar. This tree is Colorado Silver. This variety is mid-
very unique in its habits of growth, the | way between our native Cedar and the
leaf gradually hardening and forming the | Irish Juniper in form, but far more silvery
wood of the tree; habit upright; much | than either. More beautiful in color than
inclined to branch and form more than | the Colorado Blue Spruce.
one trunk; one of the best trees for orna- é
mental hedging. Fir

Globosa. Round, compact form and Balsam. Tree conical in form; foliage
dense foliage. Foliage stands fan-shaped | deep green on upper surface and silvery
form around trunk; it is a beautiful tree. | on lower surface. A very symmetrical

Golden. Same form and habit as the | tree and very beautiful while young, but
American Arborvite, but with bright | inclined to shed its small branches and
yellow foliage on new growth. become scrubby and naked.

Pyramidal. A densely branched variety Concolor. A very beautiful species with
forming a perfect column; holds its shape | silvery gray bark on the young branches;
without trimming or pruning; hardy, and | leaves long and_ beautifully silvered,
will succeed anywhere the American Arbor- | arranged in double rows, equal in color
vite does; a very ornamental type for | and beauty to the Colorado Blue Spruce.
many kinds of planting. | The most beautiful of all Evergreens.

Weeping Willow

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Hemlock

Sometimes called Weeping Spruce. This
is the native Hemlock of the North and
East. Where grown in sheltered places,
there is nothing finer than this for a
clipped hedge; it will not stand expo-
sure, however, to dry winds of extreme
temperature.

Irish Juniper

Foliage same as red cedar; top very
narrow and symmetrical; color silvery
green; one of the most beautiful of ever-
greens, but tender in this latitude and not
recommended for planting in exposed
situations.

Pine

Austrian. It is one of the best foreign
species for this country. Its growth,
even when young, is characteristically
stout and sturdy. A remarkably robust,
hardy, spreading tree of grand size; very
dark and massive in effect, and when
planted in an appropriate location is
distinct and unique. One of the hardiest
in dry sections.

Jack. The most northern of all Amer-
ican Pines; valued for its extreme hardi-
ness and vigor; withstands long droughts
and hot, dry winds; of rather irregular and
shrubby growth; foliage bright green;
needles short and stiff.

Mugho. This is the most beautiful of
all dwarf Pines. It forms a low top with

ascending branches, and the breadth of

the tree is frequently double its height.
Foliage bright green. A valuable tree for
ornamental planting.

Ponderosa, or Bull Pine. A very rapid-
growing Pine of the Rocky Mountains.
The leaves of this Pine are very long and
silvery, hence the name. It is highly
prized through some sections of Nebraska
and Dakota where evergreens are hard to
grow.

Scotch. One of the most rugged of all
evergreens; a very rapid-growing tree
and one which will stand almost any cli-
mate. We know of no tree that will
compare with it for windbreak purposes
on our open prairies.

White. A rapid, upright-growing tree;
foliage fine and soft to the touch. The
most ornamental of Pine trees and ex-
celled by none for timber purposes.
Not hardy in dry and wind-swept places.

Spruce

Black Hill. This is a western type of
the American White Spruce, dwarfed by
growing for centuries in the dry, arid
climate of the Black Hills. It closely resem-
bles the eastern type of the White Spruce,
but is slower in growth, more compact in
form and more silvery in color. It is one
of the best of all of the evergreens for
planting for ornamental purposes in dry,
arid sections.

Colorado Blue. A slow-growing tree
with branches broad and fan-shaped. This
species varies greatly in color, from pale
green to a beautiful silvery green. Speci-
mens of the latter color are hard to obtain,
and for that reason are very expensive.

Douglas. A native of Colorado; large
conical form; branches spreading, hori-
zontal; leaves light green above, silvery
white below.

Engelmann’s. Resembles the Colorado
Blue Spruce in general effect; foliage color-
ing from bluish-green to __ steel-blue;
needles are not so long and are more soft
and flexible.

Norway. Conical in form; color bright
green; foliage sharp-pointed. Stands
crowding well; an excellent tree for wind-
breaks and ornamental purposes.

White. We consider this the most beau-
tiful of all the Spruce family. In shape
it differs but little from the balsam fir
while young, but is broader at the base
when large. The foliage is finer than
that of the Norway Spruce and of a sil-
very green. Tree extremely hardy, of
moderate growth, and holds its beauty
longer than any other evergreen known
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HEDGE PLANTS

Arborvitae
For description, see Evergreens, page 28.

Barberry

A perfectly hardy shrub, much used
where a low-clipped hedge is wanted.
The stalks are covered with three-pronged
thorns; the framework of the leaf also
terminates in thorns, which extend a lit-
tle beyond the leaf. In June the shrub
is loaded with very pretty, though small,
yellow flowers, and in fall with bright
red berries, which are very attractive.
The fruit in quality much resembles the
cranberry and is highly prized for jelly.

Purple-leaved. This variety is identical
with the Barberry described above, with
the exception of the color of the leaves
and flowers. The leaves are dark purple
and the flowers a purplish yellow. It is
very hardy, and with a background of
deep green is very effective for lawn
decorations.

Thunberg’s (B. Thunbergii). This va-
riety is very unique, and forms a com-
pact, round-headed shrub about 3 to 34%
feet high. The foliage is peculiar in form;
branches very thorny. It is greatly
admired.

Buckthorn

This, beyond question, is the hardiest
of all our hedge plants. It is rather
slow-growing; foliage very dark; blos-
soms white; fruit black; berries clinging
to branches until late in the winter. For
hedge purposes it should be kept clipped.

Caragana (Siberian Pea Tree)

A shrub or low tree with pea-shaped
yellow flowers; hardy and useful for mass-
ing. Very valuable as a border hedge and
hardy in the extreme North and Northwest.

Elaeagnus angustifolia
(Russian Olive)

This variety is better known in some
sections as Russian Olive. The foliage is
covered with white down, which gives the
tree a white appearance when in full leaf.
The blossoms are small and very fragrant,
in fact so fragrant that the odor will fre-
quently be detected even a quarter of a
mile away. The berries are light silvery,
dotted thickly with fine brown specks.
This tree should be clipped for hedge
purposes, as it grows to a moderate-sized
tree if given its own course. It should
be in every yard.

Privet

The use of Privet as a hedge plant is
well-nigh universal. It takes kindly to the
severe trimming necessary for this purpose.

California. A vigorous and hardy varie-
ty, with fine habit and foliage.

Regel’s. A fine, hardy variety, desir-
able in growing singly as a specimen or in
mass planting. This is one of the berry
varieties.

Honey Locust

A magnificent shade tree, with com-
pound leaves and long, deep brown seed-
pods, frequently ro or 12 inches in length.
It is usually very thorny; thorns with
two or more branches and from 1 to 6
inches long.

Osage Orange

This is the common hedge plant of
southern Illinois, Ohio and Missouri.
Where kept thoroughly clipped it makes
a good fence.

Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Etc. 33

NUT-BEARING TREES

Butternut

A most valuable nut tree; we have
known them to bear at seven years from
the seed. The nuts are long; kernel of a
rich flavor. Plant in deep, moist soil for
best results.

Chestnut
Sweet. See Shade and Ornamental
Trees.
Horse. See shade and Ornamental
Trees.
Hazelnut

The common native nut-bearing shrub
of our woods.

Hickory

Bitter. This tree closely resembles the
shellbark, but with a bitter nut instead
of a sweet one. The wood also is less
valuable.

Shellbark. In flavor and quality of
kernel this is generally esteemed the
choicest of our native nuts,—of all nuts,
some experts have said. The tree is a
handsome, stately shade tree, with tough
white wood of great strength and elas-
ticity. Marketable at high prices.

Oak

Pin. Almost pyramidal in habit, and
sometimes described as half-weeping when
old, because its lower branches touch the
ground. It grows faster and develops the
family characteristics earlier than most
Oaks, as may be seen from some fine
avenues planted within the last score of
years. The leaves are deep green, glossy
and finely divided. Orange-scarlet in fall.

Red. A large tree, unusually large in
leaf and quick in growth. The young
shoots and leaf-stems are red, the foliage
purplish crimson in autumn. A most
beautiful, majestic object on the lawn;
acorns very large.

White. Grandest of its genus and of
our American trees. A spreading, towering
species, with rugged, massive trunk and
branches. The deeply-lobed leaves change
to dark crimson in fall.

Black Walnut

Too well known to need description.
The lumber of this tree is becoming im-
mensely valuable. We were informed
by one of the leading furniture manu-
facturers of this state, a short time since,
that the best grades of black walnut lum-
ber could not be bought for less than
$250 per thousand feet.

FLOWERING SHRUBS

Althea, or Rose of Sharon

Double-flowering. There are many
varieties of these plants with a great va-
riety of habit. They belong to the Hibiscus
family, and are not hardy in this section,
except where well protected. They bloom
very freely in August and September, and
flowers vary much in color among the
different varieties.

Flowering Almond

A low shrub with leaves similar in
shape to our wild plum, but a little more
pointed; flowers very double. We grow
two kinds, one with red and the other
with white flowers.

Bechtel’s Double-Flowering Crab

Most beautiful of all the fine varieties
of Flowering Crabs. At a distance the
pretty medium-sized tree seems to be
covered with dainty little roses of a deli-
cate pink color. Blooms when quite
young. Is very fragrant. This is a va-
riety of our native wild Crab, Pyrus
coronaria Ionensis.

Barberry
Purple-leaved. See Hedge Plants.
Thunberg’s. See Hedge Plants.

Buffalo Berry

A native shrub in the dry sections of
both North and South Dakota, and it is
also found throughout the Rocky moun-
tains from Canada to Mexico. The flow-
ers are small and yellow. The berries
are a bright red and very sour. The
leaves are a downy white on both sides.
A peculiar shrub and should be much more
grown than it is for ornamental purposes.

Calycanthus floridus
(Caroline Allspice, Sweet Shrub)

This unique shrub grows rapidly up-
right, clothing its straight, strong, red-
dish brown shoots with large, glossy
leaves, from the axils of which spring odd,
double, spicily fragrant flowers of choco-
late-red. The wood also has a peculiar
fragrance. It is a hardy native shrub
that deserves much wider planting.

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Cornus
Sanguinea. The leaves are elegantly
marked with white, contrasting finely
with the deep blood-red bark; hardy.

Red-Branched. (Dogwood.) A rare and
remarkable variety with bright red bark in
winter.

High-Bush Cranberry

We have been trying for years past to
save from total destruction some of our
native shrubs and plants. Among these
we class the High-Bush Cranberry as one
of the most desirable. It resembles the
snowball, both in form of plant and leaf.
This shrub will grow to a height of from
8 to 15 feet, and is not troubled with
insect pests. It is most highly appreciated
in winter when it is covered with large
clusters of scarlet berries, which, if not
disturbed, will hang on until spring. The
fruit is prized by many for the brilliantly
colored and highly flavored jelly which
is made from the berries. The shrub is
perfectly hardy. It succeeds best in a
moist, rich soil.

Double-flowering Currant
An American species, with deep red
flowers, produced in great abundance in
early spring.

Deutzia

D. crenata. The beautiful white single-
flowered species that is a mass of bloom
in early June. Often preferred to the
double sorts.

D. crenata fl. pl. A double form of the
type. Handsome and effective. White

flowers, delicately flushed with pink.

Deutzia crenata

Deutzia crenata, Pride of Rochester. A
showy early and large-flowering sort that
blooms in May before the others. The
flowers are large, double, white, tinted with
rose on the outer edges.

D. gracilis. Slender-branched Deutzia.
A neat, dense little bush of low habit,
that blooms in May, wreathing its droop-
ing branches with pure white flowers.
Equally valuable for shrubberies and
forcing.

Cut-Leaved Elder

The leaves of this variety are fern-like
in formation, and the shrub is of half-
drooping habit. One of the finest in cul-
tivation, being especially effective in
masses.

Elaeagnus

See Hedge Plants.

Euonymus
(Wahoo, or Strawberry Tree)

One of our native shrubs; it seldom
grows over 6 feet high; symmetrical;
leaves oblong, dark green and glossy;
fruit similar to bittersweet.

Fringe
Purple. Smoke Tree. From the south
of Europe. Much-admired shrub for its

curious fringe, or hair-like flowers, that
covers the whole surface of the plant in
midsummer.

White. This shrub belongs to the Ash
family; is very slow-growing and perfectly
hardy. Blossoms white, with long, nar-
row petals, giving the shrub a fringe-like
appearance when in full bloom. The

leaves are very large and glossy. A very
desirable shrub.

Tartarian Honeysuckle
A woody, upright-growing shrub, with
pink flowers and deep green leaves; blos-
soms in June; blooms profusely.

Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora

Very hardy; grows from 6 to to feet
high; loaded in August and September
with large spikes of flowers, ranging in
size from 6 to 12 inches; color white.

Tree-form Hydrangea
Same as above, except that it is grown
in standard or tree form.

Lilac

The common white Lilac.

Purple. Also very common.

Persian. A native of Persia; rather a
small plant, seldom growing over 6 feet;
foliage small; flowers bright purple. A
profuse bloomer.

White.

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Lilac, continued
M. Buchner. Plant dwarf; panicle erect
and very large; very double, color pale
lilac; distinct and fine.

Villosa. A new Japanese variety; flowers
small, but borne in large clusters. Light
purple in bud, white when open. Foliage
large and shaped like a. plum leaf. This
shrub is principally valued for its late
flowering, coming some three weeks after
the other lilacs, and for the fragrance of
its flowers, which is peculiar and very
penetrating.

Japan Tree Lilac

A species from Japan. Leaves thick,
pointed, leathery and dark; flowers in very
large panicles; creamy white and privet-
like. Makes a small tree and is desirable
because of its distinct foliage and ‘late
blooming, and tree form.

Double-Flowering Plum
(Prunus triloba)

A native of China. The flowers re-
semble our Flowering Almond, but are
much larger. The .clustering of the
flowers is also similar, but the tree grows
much larger and is hardy.

Prunus Pissardi
One of the best and finest purple-leaved
small trees or shrubs; foliage and young
shoots are of a rich reddish purple, which
they retain throughout the season; flowers
small, white, single, covering the tree.

Spirea Van Houttei

Japan Quince
Has bright scarlet-crimson flowers in
great profusion in the early spring. One
of the best shrubs in the Catalogue. Not
quite hardy here.

Japan Snowball
Of better habit than the familiar older
form, with handsome plicate leaves and
more delicately formed; whiter flowers.

Snowball
A well-known favorite shrub of large
size, with globular clusters of pure white,
sterile flowers the latter part of May.

Snowberry
A slow-growing plant, covered in the
latter part of the summer and early fall
with white berries about % inch in
diameter. Perfectly hardy.

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Spirzea
Billardi. Rose-colored flowers in spikes.
In bloom nearly all summer.

Van Houttei. A beautiful shrub, grow-
ing 4 to 6 feet high. Blossoms in clus-
ters about 1% to 2 inches in diame-
ter; flowers white and borne in great
profusion, frequently covering the plant
when in bloom. It is one of the finest
shrubs we have for cemetery use, and
also makes a beautiful ornamental hedge.
It is perfectly hardy as far north as
northern Minnesota.

Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Etc. 37

Spirza, continued
Anthony Waterer. Dwarfish shrub, sel-
dom growing more than 2 feet high.
Flowers bright rose color, and borne in
great profusion. It begins blooming in
June and continues until frost kills the

flowers. Very desirable for a_ border
plant.
Aurea. The principal value of this

shrub comes from the color of its foliage.
It is the most desirable yellow-leaved plant
for this latitude. Blossoms white and

borne in flat clusters about 2 inches in

diameter.
Staghorn Sumac
A large shrub or small tree, sometimes
growing to the height of 20 feet. This
differs from the common Sumac in that

the wood is covered with a fine thorny |

substance closely resembling the moss on
the horns of a stag soon after molting.
hence the name.

Syringa, or Mock Orange

A vigorous-growing, hardy shrub, from
6 to ro feet high; blossoms pure white; a
very profuse bloomer; have seen this
shrub 12 feet high, so loaded with bloom
that its branches were bent to the ground;
leaf large and dark green.

Garland Syringa. Very similar to the
Syringa, or Mock Orange, but a stronger
plant, and flowers nearly twice as large;
have seen them measure 2) inches in
diameter. Blossoms in early summer.

Grandiflorus. Has very showy, large
flowers, often 3 inches in diameter. Bran-
ches long and frequently loaded to the
ground with weight of flowers.

Lemoine. A small shrub rarely attain-
ing a height of more than four feet.
Branches slender and bearing in June a
profusion of flowers closely resembling the
orange blossoms in size, form and _ fra-
grance, which is very desirable.

Common Lilac

Tamarix

Graceful shrubs with feathery foliage
and large panicles of showy pink flowers.
Relatively hardy. A moist, loamy soil is
best for them.

Weigela rosea

An elegant shrub, with fine rose-colored
flowers. Introduced from China by Mr.
Fortune, and considered one of the finest
plants he has discovered. Of erect, com-
pact growth; blossoms in June.

White Thorn

A small native tree, with flat-topped
white flowers and red fruit. It was
originally quite common in this section,
but is now almost extinct. Very desirable
where a small tree is wanted.

Roses

All Roses in this latitude need winter protection, and in this list where Roses are
classed as hardy, we mean hardy with winter protection.

African Black, or Black Prince. A mod-
erate-growing, hardy, profuse-blooming
plant; flowers very dark purplish red,
almost black.

American Beauty. Large globular; deep
pink, shaded with carmine; delicious odor;
especially desirable for forcing.

Baby Rambler. A most attractive novelty
in hardy Roses. The round, bushy Baby
Rambler tops at all times a perfect mass
of crimson bloom. The most florescent of
all the Tree Roses.

Baron de Bonstettin. A fine Rose, vel-
vety maroon in color, shaded with deep
crimson.

Baltimore Belle. A climbing Rose, a
little more slender in habit than Prairie
Queen; flowers freely; color light pink,
fading to white. A very beautiful and
fragrant Climbing Rose.

Blanche Moreau (White Moss). One of
the remontant type of Roses, white in
color, and very desirable. One of the best

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American Beauty Roses

ROSES, continued

The Bride. Most beautiful of the white
Tea Roses, and forced in numberless
quantities every year. The great, solid
flowers remain perfect long after cutting;
the stems are long and stiff, the foliage
large and glossy; tender.

Bridesmaid. Clear bright pink, of an
exquisite shade. Grown chiefly for its
large, solid and handsome buds; the
stems are good; the foliage glossy. Ex-
cellent also for bedding. Not hardy in
this latitude.

Crimson Rambler. The famous crimson-
clustered climber, so extremely effective
when grown on pillars and trellises. The
plant is a vigorous grower, making shoots
8 to ro feet long in a season. The foli-
age is large and glossy; the plant looks
like a mass of double crimson flowers
when in bloom. The panicles are large
and remain perfect for several weeks.
Hardy anywhere.

Coquette des Alpes. A free-blooming
Rose of medium size; white, tinged with

pale rose. Exceedingly dainty and at-

tractive.

Clothilde Soupert. A grand free-flower-
ing Rose; fine for bedding out or pot
culture. The flowers are very double
and handsomely formed, borne in sprays
Outer petals pearl-white, shading to a
center of rosy pink.

Crested Moss. Deep pink-colored buds,
surrounded with a mossy fringe and crest;
free from mildew. A fragrant, very beau-
tiful Rose.

Dorothy Perkins. Of the same strong
habit of growth as the Crimson Rambler.
Large for a Rose of this class, very double,
of a beautiful shell-pink color; sweetly
scented, and borne in clusters of thirty
or forty. One of the best.

Duke of Edinburgh. A seedling of Gen-
eral Jacqueminot; large, double flowers
with little fragrance, bright crimson in
color; foliage large and attractive. Blos-
soms very early in the season. A hand-
some Rose.

Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Etc. 39

ROSES, continued

General Jacqueminot. A probable seed-
ling from the Hybrid China, Gloire des
Rosamanes. Brilliant crimson; not full,
but large and extremely effective; fra-
grant and of excellent hardy habit; forces
well.

Gem of the Prairie. A cross between
Prairie Queen and Hybrid Perpetual; a
half climber and hardy; a little lighter
than Prairie Queen, and very beautiful;
blooms freely.

Harrison’s Yellow. The old yellow
Scotch Rose, well known by all; very hardy
and a profuse bloomer.

John Hopper. A seedling from Jules
Margottin, fertilized by Mme. Vidot.
Bright rose with carmine center; large
and full. A profuse bloomer; standard
sort; hardy.

Killarney. Color flesh, shaded white,
suffused pale pink flowers; large buds, long
and pointed, and blooms profusely through-
out the season.

Madame Charles Wood. Brilliant red;
large and full; of fine form; a fine autumn
bloomer.

Magna Charta. A hybrid that is very |

fine early in the season; color bright | °T¢
uniformly long, fine flower stems.

rose; large and full.

Marshall P. Wilder. Raised from the
seed of General Jacqueminot. It is of
vigorous growth, with healthy foliage;
flowers large, semi-globular, full, well
formed; color cherry-carmine, much like
a light-colored Marie Baumann, or a
shade deeper than Marie Rady, and very
fragrant. In wood, foliage and form of
flower it resembles Alfred Colomb, but
the seedling excels that famous variety
in vigor, hardiness and freedom of bloom.

It continues to bloom profusely long after |

the other remontants are out of flower. In
brief, it may be described as an improved
Alfred Colomb, and as good a Rose as
has been raised by anyone. It is undoubt-
edly the finest of its color.

Mrs. John Laing. An exceptionally
handsome and free-blooming Rose, of vig-

orous growth and fine habit. The color is |
a soft and delicate shade of pink; the |

flower is large and well formed, very frag-
rant and produced on good stems. A
variety of especial value, as it blooms
continuously in the open ground, and is

also excellent for forcing, the buds selling |

at high prices.

Madame Plantier. One of the hardiest
of white Roses and a rank-growing plant;
a profuse bloomer; flowers medium size.

Paul Neyron. The largest Rose in cul-

tivation, sometimes called the Peony Rose; |
color bright, fresh cerise-red. The plant

makes a strong, healthy growth, and has
clean, glossy foliage; blooms almost with-
out intermission from June until late
October.

Pink Moss. Deep pink buds, sur-
rounded with delicate fringe-like moss.
The most beautiful of all the Moss Roses.

Perle des Jardins. Probably better
known than any other yellow Rose grown.
Beautiful clear yellow, distinct from all
other Tea Roses. Very double.

Prince Camille de Rohan. A velvety,
blackish crimson Rose, of deep distinct
shade; large, full, very handsome.

Prairie Queen. A well-known and much
admired climbing Rose; a rank grower
and profuse bloomer; flowers large, dou-
ble and red. Have known plants of this
variety to have over a thousand blossoms
on at one time. Probably the best climb-
ing Rose for this latitude.

Red Moss. Stalks, flowers and buds
covered with fine thorns, much resem-
bling moss.

Richmond. An exceptionally clean and
strong-growing variety, requiring only
ordinary care and treatment, producing
The
flowers are borne freely —as free as Bride,
Bridesmaid, Golden Gate and other old
standbys—lasting in quality, beautifully
shaped and
brightly colored
in pure, dark

} scarlet-crimson.

Killarney Rose

40 Sherman Nursery Company, Charles City, lowa

A Garden of Hardy Roses ;

ROSES, continued

Rosa rugosa. MHardiest of all Roses.
This Japanese Rose forms a sturdy bush,
2 to 3 feet high, covered with large, dark
green, glossy foliage, crowned with ter-
minal clusters of 10 to 20 flowers, each 3

Tree Rose

inches in diameter. Perfectly hardy. A
valuable plant for the hardy border, or
shrubberies, its large, handsome, scarlet
fruits being very ornamental all through
the autumn and early winter months. It
also makes a splendid hedge, its foliage
being impervious to the attacks of in-
sects of all kinds.

Rosa rugosa alba. Same as above, ex-
cept in color.

Seven Sisters. Named from clusters of
flowers which it bears; flowers medium-
size, light rose color, double. A climb-
ing Rose of medium growth.

Vick’s Caprice. A novel striped Rose,
with ground-color of soft satiny pink;
distinctly marked with white and car-
mine. It is large and full, with beauti-
ful long buds that show the stripes to
advantage.

Victor Verdier. Bright rose, with car-
mine center, a very fresh shade of color;
not fragrant; free-bloomer; wood very
nearly smooth.

White Moss (Blanche Moreau).

as red moss, except in color.

White Rambler (Thalia). Similar to the
Yellow Rambler in every way except
color, which is pure white.

Same

Tree Roses

The Tree Roses are grafted on hardy
Rose stalks 4 to 5 feet high, and when in
full bloom are objects of beauty, making
handsome plants for the lawn or Rose
border. Fine, strong trees, that will
bloom nicely the first year.

Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Etc. 4]

Clematis paniculata

Vines

Ampelopsis

Engelmanni. A clinging form of Ameri-
can Ivy, but shorter jointed than Quinque-
folia. A rapid grower, often climbing 10
feet in a single season. The best vine
known for covering stone or brick work.

A. Quinquefolia( American Ivy, or Vir-
ginia Creeper). The common Five-
leaved Ivy, or Virginia Creeper.

Veitchii. Japan Creeper; Boston
Ivy. Leaves smaller than those of
the American, and overlap one
another, forming a dense sheet of
green. The plant is a little tender
while young, and requires protection
the first winter; but onceestablished
there is no further risk. It grows
rapidly and clings to wall or fence
with the tenacity of ivy; the foliage
is very handsome in summer, and
changes tocrimson-scarlet inautumn.
For covering walls, stumps of trees,
rockeries, etc., no plant is so useful.
For the ornamentation of brick
and stone structures, it can be
specially recommended.

Bittersweet
A twining vine of very rapid
growth; waxy green, _ single-

lobed leaves; bright scarlet berries.
Perfectly hardy and very beautiful.

Clematis

Paniculata. A great novelty
from Japan, It has proved to be
one of the most desirable, useful

and beautiful of hardy vines, being a
luxuriant grower, profuse bloomer, and
possessing fine foliage. It is particularly
useful for covering verandas, pillars and
fences, where a trellis or support can be
provided for it to climb on. The flowers

are of medium size, very pretty and fra-
grant, and produced in greatest profusion

Trumpet Flowers (see page 42)

42

Clematis. continued
in latesummer. We can recommend this
novelty in the strongest manner as one of
the best vines to grow near the house.
It makes a growth of from 25 to 30 feet
in a single season, and should be cut back
to the ground each spring.

C. Virginica. A remarkably vig r us
plant, and one of the finest for covering
arbors, porches, and the like. This vine
has been known to grow at the rate of 3
inches per day, and frequently makes a
growth of 20 feet in a season. It is per-
fectly hardy. Flowers small, greenish
white, and seed-pods very conspicuous
and light gray in color.

C. coccinea. Small, bright coral-red;
inverted bell-shaped; open but little. Very
peculiar. Hardy and attractive.

C. Jackmani. Large, intense violet-
purple; remarkable for its velvety rich-
ness; free in its growth and an abundant
and successive bloomer.

C. Jackmani alba. Differs from above
in color of flower, which is a clear white;
the vine is a more slender grower.

Dutchman’s Pipe (Aristolochia Sipho)

A magnificent hardy vine of rapid
growth, with very large, heart-shaped
leaves and brownish flowers, resembling
in shape a miniature pipe.

Trumpet Honeysuckle

One of the most desirable of our native
twining plants. Foliage glossy and a

little on the sage-green order

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SpA

Trumpet Honeysuckle

Sherman Nursery Company, Charles City, Iowa

trumpet-shaped, about 1/4 inches long,
with a salmon shade, with red on the
inner side of trumpet. Flowers borne in
clusters, and continue all summer.

Chinese Matrimony Vine

Sometimes trained as a shrub. Purple-
flowered and showy-fruited. Extra -vig-
orous in growth, bearing prodigious crops
of large scarlet berries.

Moonseed

A native twining vine, of very rapid
growth, with large deep green glossy
leaves, closely resembling the English Ivy.
The seed-pods are shaped like a new moon,
hence the name. For covering stumps,
stones or any low object, we know of no
finer vine.

Trumpet Flower (Bignonia radicans)

A vine closely resembling the Wistaria.
Flowers borne in small clusters; blossoms
2 inches in length by 34 inch in diameter.
Very showy, but not quite hardy enough
for our climate here. Needs good pro-
tection over winter.

Wistaria

Purple. One of the most attractive and
rapid-growing of all climbing plants;
attains an immense size. Has long, pen-
dulous clusters of dark blue flowers in
May and June and in autumn.

White American. The flowers are clear

Flowers | white; bunches short; free bloomer.

Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Etc.

43

Bulbs

| Gladiolus

Gladioli

Common Red. This is the common
Gladiolus so irequently seen in our gardens;
flowers borne in one-sided spikes; bright
red.

Mixed Colors. Under the above head-
ing we are selling a very fine lot of plants
of our own origination from se-
lected seed. Among them are
some oi the finest we have ever
seen, ranging in colorfrom almost
white to nearly black.

Lemoine’s Seedling. Of the
seedling Gladioli grown by Mr.
Lemoine, we have some I0 or 12
varieties. These varieties range
in shades from white with dee
velvety red throats, to deep
purple with throatsalmost black.
The characteristic feature of the
Lemoine’s Seedling is the deep
mottling of dark color in the
throat of the flower, and the
plants are a little irregular in
their habits of growth. Desirable.

Iris

German. This group blooms
early and with wonderful com-
binations of coloring. Easily
distinguished from other Iris by
their broad, sword-like leaves.
We offer eight named varieties.
Likes a drier soil than the Japan.

|
|

_ Iris in being broad and flat.

Japan. Flowers differ from the German
They exhibit
a wonderful variety of colors and shades
and appear later than the others. They

_rank among the most desirable of hardy

plants; succeed best in a moist soil.

Siberian. We regard this as one of the
most desirable plants for a border, or for
marking lines, etc., known to us. It is
very persistent, and will hold its own in
blue-grass sod. Foliage long, slender
and graceful; flowers borne on slender
stems about 18 inches to 2 feet high, usu-
ally two or three flowers on a stem. The
flowers are a deep, clear purple and very
graceful. It is perfectly hardy, and we
consider it one of the most desirable of
the Iris family.

Lilies (Lilium)

Lilies are among the most beautiful of
flowers, but they need planting on well-
drained soil, and if fertilizers are used
they must be well decomposed.

L. auratum. Very large, with gold band
along the center of petals, much spotted
with brown; very fragrant. Blooms in
August.

L. lancifolium album. Same as Lilium
lancifolium rubrum, with the exception
that the plant is not quite so rank a grower.
The flower is a pure waxy white. Per-
fectly hardy in this latitude.

Iris Kempferi

44 Sherman Nursery Company, Charles City, Iowa

Lilium Auratum (see page 43)

Lilies, continued

Lilium lancifolium rubrum. This we
think beyond question the hardiest of all
of the Japanese Lilies. The plant grows
to the height of about 18 to 24 inches.
Foliage dark green and lanceolate, hence
the name. Flowers borne in clusters of

from five to twenty, pink at margin of
petal, deep rose color in center, thickly
dotted with brown; petals curling back
like petals of the Tiger Lily. We regard
it as perfectly hardy.

Lily-of-the-Valley

L. tigrinum (Tiger Lily). Very common;
color orange-salmon, spotted dark brown.

Corn Lily

Foliage pale green, very long, slender
and pointed. Flowers borne in clusters,
and the individual flowers last but for
one day. The Lily is salmon color, tinged
with red. Perfectly hardy.

Day Lily (Funkia alba)

This is the common white Day Lily
which we see so often in
house culture. The blos-
soms are trumpet-shaped,
glossy white in color, and
borne in clusters. The
plant is hardy here in open
ground with but little
protection.

Lemon Lily
A pretty plant, with
long, narrow leaves, and
flower stalks 2 to 3 feet
high, crowned by beautiful
lemon-colored flowers, 3 to
4 in. in diameter; fragrant.

Lily-of-the-Valley

Low plant; flower-stalks
about 6 inches high, with
small, cup-shaped white
flowers along the stalk.

A Field of Festiva Maxima Peonies

Miscellaneous

Aquilegia caerulea (Rocky Mountain Columbine)

A fine Rocky Mountain species, with large flowers, often 4 inches across. The

sepals are deep blue; petals pure white;
flowers retaining their freshnessa long-time.

Bleeding-Heart

A hardy perennial with heart-shaped,
rose-colored flowers in drooping spikes.
One of the best border plants; perfectly
hardy and easily cultivated; 2 feet high.
Flowers in April or May.

Dahlia

This is the well-known plant so com-
mon in all old gardens. Flowers borne
on stems from 3 to 5 feet high, varying
in color from white to deep red, and from
single to very double.

Peony
Pink. Light fresh pink; fragrant; early.
Red. This is the common red Peony
so well known that it needs no introduc-
tion. Perfectly hardy; blooms well under
almost any circumstances.
White. Same as above, except in color.
Caroline Mather. Purple-crimson; very
large, double and very dark.
Festiva maxima. Flowers large, creamy
white, with small center of carmine; round,

a strong vigorous plant bearing an abun-
dance of flowers.

spurs recurved. Splendid for cutting, the

Aquilegia czerulea

46 Sherman Nursery Company,

Charles City, Iowa

Hardy Phlox

Peony, continued

Francis Ortegal. Dark purple-crimson,
very large, fine, deep, double and sweet.

Humei. Rose, full, large, late; one of
the best.
La Martine. Bright red, full, good.

Phlox

This is a class of plants which are much
neglected. We have them ranging in color
from white to deep blue. We regard them

as very desirable for border planting
No perennial is more worthy of culture,
more satisfactory in every situation or
more effective, either as individual plants
or grouped in masses.

Rudbeckia laciniata fl. pl., *‘“Golden
Glow”’

A distinct, tall-growing hardy perennial,
from 6 to 7 feet high. Foliage deeply cut,
handsome bright green; flowers very dou-
ble, rich golden yellow, 2 to 3 inches in
diameter, borne on long smooth stems,
forming for the tall plant a solid head
of bloom. Excellent for cutting. Hardy.

Vinca (Myrtle, or Periwinkle)

A small evergreen vine, with broad
leaves, and pale blue flowers which are
scattered over the plant from the time
the snow begins to leave until late in
summer. The plant is a rank grower and
is highly valued for covering mounds,
graves, and so on.

Yucca filamentosa

This variety is distinguished from the
other Yuccas in that it has threads or
filaments along the margins of the leaves.
This plant throws up flower-stalks which
grow to the height of about 5 to 6 feet,
branching in tree form, and when in full
bloom are loaded with tulip-shaped, pen-
dulent, white flowers. In this latitude
the plant should have a light covering of
straw, or some light material, to give the
best results. It is better planted on rather
dry land.

Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Etc. 47

The Home People Who Have Known Us for
the Past Twenty-eight Years

Co Whom st IWap Concert: The undersigned cheerfully recommend
The Sherman Nursery Company, of Charles City, Iowa, to all parties desiring to
plant nursery stock that is hardy and well adapted to cultivation in the great North-
west.

They are the most extensive growers of trees in the North, having in cultivation
on their grounds, near the city, two million apple trees, twenty-five million
evergreens, and also large quantities of small fruit, ornamental trees, vines,
shrubs, etc.

We believe the parties having charge of their work to be good business men,
giving careful attention to the various details of their work, and that any contracts
made by them will be faithfully performed.

Hon. P. W. Burr, Ex-Judge 12th Judi-
cial District, Charles City, lowa.

Prof. F. E. Hirsch, President Charles
City College, Charles City, Iowa.

Hon. H. C. Baldwin, Mayor and Presi- _ HH. A. Schlick, Music Dealer, Charles

dent of Citizens National Bank, Charles | City, Iowa.

City, lowa. _ Agent Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
F. B. Miner, Cashier Citizens National | Ry. Co.

Bank, Charles City, lowa. _ W. 4H. Burns, Agent American Express
George E. May, President Commercial | Co.

National Bank. _ Pastor of M. E. Church.
John Kuck, Harness Maker. | E. A. Barnes, Cashier First National
A. L. Dodd, Manager Charles City _ Bank, Nashua, Iowa.

Electric Light Co., Charles City, Iowa. Hecht Bros., Charles City, Iowa.

Geo. P. Morris, Agent Wells Fargo L. H. Henry, Editor ‘“‘Herald,”’ Charles
Express Co., Charles City, Iowa. City, Iowa.

Morton Wilbur, Cashier Security Trust Samuel Phelps Leland, Lecturer.

and Savings Bank. V. Rev. J. J. Garland, V. F., Catholic
H. M. Walleser, Cashier, First National Priest.

Bank. Rhinesmith & Dodge, Editors Daily and
Frank Korinke, Agent of Illinois Central Weekly Intelligencer.

Ry. Co.

Rev. E. H. Cassel : roe Ellis & Ellis, Attorneys at Law.

ev. EK. H. Casselman, Pastor Lutheran i

Church and President of Lutheran Synod, ae AEE ES A ee

Charles City, Iowa. Hart-Parr Co., Manufacturers of Gas
W. C. Hering & Co., Furniture Manu- Tractors (By C. W: Hart, President).

facturers, Charles City, Iowa. Charles City Western Ry. Co. (By

Waller Bros., Stock Dealers and Impor- H. E. Bennett, Assistant General Manager.

ters, Charles City, Iowa. J. R. Caffyn, Pastor M. E. Church.
Rev. T. M. Evans, District Superin- R. J. Taylor, Agent Chicago, Milwaukee
tendent, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. | & St. Paul Ry. Co.

Sherman Nursery Company, Charles City, Iowa

Suitable Distances for Planting

Gooseberries........... 3
Raspberries, Red....... 3
Raspberries, Black..... 3
Blackberries and Dew-
DEFEICS..cins. 1 eer ae 3
Strawberries, rows....... I
AS DARA QUIS. cee ee I
Ritubatos 2 yey see 3

Number of Trees or Plants on an Acre

48
Apples DAD A DY24 a deel
REATSH 4-2 Pe naan. sone 13/0! 20 ~
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Purnis Sis sana 8 cera LOM SEONZO 5
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To ascertain the number of plants required to the acre at any given distance,
divide the number of square feet (43,560) in an acre by the number of square feet

you desire to devote to each plant.

feet, each hill will occupy 6 square feet, making 7,260 plants to the acre.

INDEX

For instance, in strawberries planted 1% by 4

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Allspice, Carolina......... 33 | Elderberry........ UDA CATSi\. 8 28a) oe ee 13
Almond, Flowering....... Sue dere sBiOm gis. as ene 20S lw Comes bean ee ee 45, 46
AE Oa et eee ramen, at are 233) Ea Eines Selene pe mec eae eae 25; 26") Periwinkle] set eee 46
Ampelopsis > Alive. eks oe ATA SE UOT yAMNUSH ae ania nee 24° V PAO ane oe ee 46
Ap pleshie rte, abet: BUS) | MOVES s 250g oo sos 233) PIMe 08 ee hy ore ee 30
IA DEICOE eae iwc tccn eae ORE ON | REL To) SR 2 20 lee aieacgeaenenees hea pea 28 | Plum, Flowering 28, 36
ANGuMe gia cs er a Meee Oe AISI he Os feet Hy cok a ees aN 34 RE TOMS Glace be eee TASES
ATDOEVICE OA 5 fulkicheeeas 28 | Fruits, Miscellaneous..... 24 ApPOpIar 122 sia pee 27
NGISEOLO CMa eee Fees Aa giaBruUitw ee este seem eae Baan | worst meh
AS eee ica eae PNAS 2 One 77S La diiol ing Smears ange etee enone 43 | Prunus 2 Ne Re OEE
NS PAT AS USE Lae eure ae a 2A Goldens Glow. ... .12 a sae AO) QUPNCES «phen es ae ee ee 16
Bar becry:s tee. aoniwiethca Be 32) }Gooseberriesi soe... she TO Own ces a) aantess ele 36
BasswOOdee aca itt .5.ts ae 2OnlG Rape ell espe as eee 16=tq | Raspberries: . 5.25. 995. 21, 22
Bie MOM SNe. Let eaee et 42) black Derive: sey. sean 20m IR buibairb ig ope eee 24
dB ict! oli Se neta le aH gee DE LUZO | EuazZe ini tea cee ae skeen 23 Rose OL Sharont oo eee 33
Bittersweet. con oe ee ant. |“Efedge (Plamts: seas ones abies 2 OWN IROSES nt «Minos Aa eee 37-40
Blaeckberess7. saves acne 22 ss EleimlOc k samen plage ete 30:4) Rudbeckra.< 45 sn. an eee 46
Bleeding Heart........... 45 | Hickory.. ...33 | Shrubs, Flowering..... 33-37
Buckthorn. . na Honeysuckle. PARE as oe 24,42 | siberian, Pea, frees: see 32
Buffalo Berry. PIR 2 MEO ph lat CONE Meck oon teae omen 26) Smoke ree: hi See 34
Bulbs.. Os, Ae AUS Onsen @ ie Stilts jim eats om 20 I4SnOw ballig cio ate aan 36
Butternut. Rhy eas EMRE BN oh eT vaWl e Lair binreMnKerer nO. aire mys ge. 2A SNOWDerE ERC: eee ee 36
Calycanthus.... ai Regal TTT Sea Ret, Seo AN eee ee ABZ SPIE Mt as: eae ee 36, 37
Garacanant oo; ae a ese TV AV a edeeet nS cere tn nia AE\ SPrucey eek ee bene ee 30
Catalpat errant 2 ee ot ae 26s UINEWEREY s <i eos es eee ees Pad tla Ww DELL ye eer. eee eae 24
Cedaren. ec akae eee 23\| Juniper. ....02. 0.8. 2.820530 | Straw berry-k aspperky.. ee
Cherriessee eer see Kt We Om, 2 One| SAC Vuh. ches ee ied 8 eet 27 | Strawberry: Pree yo. .5 See 34
Chestnut.. . 26, 33 | Lilac Z4=36)| Sweet Shrub. ss). eee 33
Clematis.Goro epee AT AD ol MEMES, w.0 poss etek. ak eae ae A'S, AA SYTINEAicA) ao eee 37
Coffee Tree, vane 2 27s Det CHEMIP) Acces de nat tas eer ese 2.6.1) aM 1k Seek co eee 37
Columbine.. 4 Bo Sane Lily-of-the-Valley......... 44) Thorn, Whites. selene eee 37
COEnUShs. 2. Wotan eee SAV OCU eshte: a keane Peiteloee 27 | Trees, Shade and Orna-

Cottonwood i757.5.. hee ZAG WM OCUSt ay LOM Clyiss2- a eerie eae 32 mienGaks i 26g sien 26-28
CrabrApplesive... inion 10 Farah Dad sca Re A ae 24 | Trees, Weeping... ..... oe 25
Crab, Flowering: ..... .. 1.383 \sMagnolia.* 27 \i rumipeb EP lowervuea. scene 42
Crab; SWald: is ee ere 28 | Maple.. ; wvssa ite etek 25 | RG EU Sa br Cah ete eeu” Reena 28
Cranberry, High-bush. 24, 34 Matrimony SVae.CAPen wren A2 | Wegetabless, 2 nc nerke ceo 24
Currants ae 3ces ee BON2T MOCKOGAIIZC. warcsmee. wey 37 | VamiCaxiow «acer eee 46
Currant, Flowering eg Ab WO OMSCEC tutus eeats «arene A2' | IV TOS Sol Soe ene eee 41, 42
Dai ia itr Weis 5 oe ten ee team 45 | Mulberry..... 24; 2:55 |Mirginia Creepers ss. see 41
DevtZianncacu. see eee Bed. NISC ia, ak ROR te ss wiO"'|. Wialtoo: eco oe ae re ee au
Dewberry 8 york sheesh 24 lN TGGES 282 ved Sono ee 33 | Walnut “33
Dorwoodintey wenn. oat ote BeAr NOVAK aie cteiant once aire sa eth com ee ee 33..| Weimella., yovssei. sna eee 37
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