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GROWING APPLES

We, all of us, like to go back to the Gar-
den of Eden, as it were, and I know that one
time a Garden of Eden existed for why should
aman want to go back to a place that never
did exist. And if you lived in town when you
were a boy you may have forgotten many
things but you have never forgotten the old
fruit peddler who came around mornings.
Well, I was not raised in town. Just the same
I can remember the apple merchant who was
in Stephenville some fifty-five years ago. Ap-
ple Walker, as we called him, climbed the
last hill many years ago; but there is not a
man around Stephenville whose hair is get-
ting white who does not remember the jolly
old fellow, and to me a boy, his apples also
looked jolly. He furnished many apples to
go in Christmas stockings and made Santa
Claus a reality instead of an imagination. But
I have gotten off on this and I am not writing
what I aimed to write. Some one wrote me
a letter the other day and asked why I do
not discuss apple growing for Texas. Many
years ago there were apple orchards planted
in this county and in many other counties.
But at that time no one had thought that ap-
ples were like men; some liked one place and
some another and most of the apples planted
forty years ago just did not like Texas. They
were born to live in a celder climate. But we
have found apples that simply glory in our
deep sand here in the South and our sun-
shiny weather. Some of these are Yellow
Delicious, Delicious, Jonathan, King David
and Smokehouse. Apples like deep sand here
in the South. They will grow on the cold
dead sand. They have a way of getting all
there is in land out of it.

Appkes require different treatment to peach
trees. They do not like being pruned much
here in the South and they do not like a long
shank for the body of the tree. They want
to grow down close to the ground and that
helps them to shade the ground and keep it
cool under the trees. And they like plenty of
room, say thirty or forty feet apart. But they,
like many other creatures, like company. It
is seldom a Delicious tree or any other apple
tree will bear if alone. It must have some
other kind of apple tree near it, one that
blooms out the same time. They do not like
to grow on land where cotton dies and they
do not like drouthy land. But what they do
like is good deep sand and good cultivation.
They will grow much farther South than here.
Some of the finest apples in the whole nation
are grown on the Colorado River near Gold-

thwaite and in sand that was washed there
centuries ago by the river. You know a river
constantly changes its bed and moves eastward
all the time though it may take it many years
to go far. And where it was a thousand years
ago is an ideal place for an apple orchard.
I believe such land is called delta land. But
on the sand hills where the wind has piled
up the sand is a good place for apples. I have
one place in my field where at some date
many years ago the sand was piled up and on
top of this place and around it the apples are
growing good. Apples need more spraying
than other fruits. While they are thrifty they
are like a strong man and may have several
diseases but keep on going. Where good thrifty
oaks have once grown is a nice place for an
apple orchard. Down here in the South we
need to plant apples that get ripe from about
the fifteenth of August until the fifteenth of
October. That gives us a chance to sell our
crop before the apples from the North are
shipped in. There is only one kind of apple
shipped in at that time. It comes from Cali-
fornia and it is the Gravestein, a very poor
apple, and the yellow Delicious grown in
Texas makes the California apple go back and
sit down. ;

Apple trees get along fine with many other
farm crops and if the rows are thirty feet
apart (and they ought to be) cotton, peanuts
and vegetables can be grown between the
rows. The trees do not like sweet potatoes
and watermelons seem to sap them too much
if planted too close to them. But if the melon
vine is fifteen feet from the apple tree it will
be fine. In our country, the cost of the tree
and the planting is about all the cost of bring-
ing an apple orchard to bearing, for enough
crops can be grown between the rows to take
care of all other expenses. A few rows of
blackberries can be grown between the rows.
Some people plant peach trees among them,
but it seems to me an apple tree does not like
a peach tree any too well. Our new varieties
of apples come into bearing nearly as quick
as peaches and if the land suits them an apple
tree will live many years. And they bear
from five to twenty bushels per tree. A much
larger apple tree can be planted from the
nursery than is the case with peach trees and
the planter of apples can gain a year or two
by setting large trees, often getting a few
apples the second year after planting.

—J. E. FITZGERALD.
Stephenville, Texas

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Plant 48 Apple Trees to the Acre—30 by 30 feet apart.

Jonathan

One ef the leading market apples of the country.
Originated in northern New York but does extra
well in Texas. The trees are rather slow growing
with light green leaves and rather light bark.
Comes into bearing quickly and makes a hardy
long life tree. The apples are red and of the very
finest quality. I have been growing this apple in
my orchard for forty years and can assure my
customers it is a good one. Makes fine pollenizer
for other varieties. I have the bright red strain
and it is a beauty.

Anoka

Likely the quickest bearing apple on earth. Trees
will nearly always bear second year planted and
two year trees bear first year. Average size, striped.
fine for market and home use. July.

Holland

This is not a new apple. It must have been sold
in this country fifty years ago under the name
Summer Queen. Back then nurserymen claimed it
was one of the best apples. It has one advantage
over Smoke House as it is a beautiful red. But so
far it has not borne as well as Smoke House.

The apple is very large, red, rather flat and
fine quality. It sells on the market but does not
keep well. My stock of Holland trees is limited
and if sold out will put in either King Dav’ or
Smoke House unless forbidden.

PRICES ON APPLE TREES

2 to 3 foot, 55 cents each, $50.00 per 100
3 to 4 foot, 75 cents each, $70.00 per 100
4 to 5 foot, $1.00 each, $90.00 per 1060
5 to 6 foot, $1.50 each, $135.00 per 100
Big Bearing size............. F $3.25 each

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Yellow Delicious

Looks something like Delicious in shape but a gold-
en color with a red cheek. I have received samples
of this apple from as far south as San Antonio
and at Goldthwaite, Texas, it bears the most beau-
tiful of all apples. It does well im this country,
at Paris and many other places in Texas. One
grower reports that he gathered twenty bushels
of the golden apples from a single tree. Brings the
highest price on the market and gets ready for
market just before apples are shipped from the
north.

King David

A flaming red apple that gets ripe at exactly the
right time when apples are scarce in the south.
Here in our orchard we have gathered ten bushels
per tree. Very much inclined to overbear and
must be thinned.

Smoke House

The fruit is very large and if gathered and
wrapped it puts the California apples out of the
market, usually ripens just after all the Elberta
peaches are gone. Large and fine.

YELLOW TRANSPARENT. Large yellow apple.
Ripens in June. Trees rather slow growers.

Ruby Red

An early Delicious, looks just like the regular
Delicious only the trees bear younger and ripen
about two weeks before the regular Delicious.
Will sell on amy market. Fall.

Red June

A good ‘June apple for home use.
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_ Delicious Apples

The tree of this apple is a very vigorous grower
and is such a pretty tree it is often used for or-
namental planting. The Delicious apple is too
well known to need much description, but I want
to say one of my customers at Hawley, Texas grew
apples this season so large that it took only y-
six to make a bushel. This is too large for market
of course but it shows what can be done.
paying well around Clyde and Paris, Texas. I can
give you the names of growers if you desire. This
is a wonderful apple and where apples do well is
a success in Texas.

Lodi

Lodi. Very early big white apple. We have only
had this apple a few years and can not say for
certain what it will do. Seems to be a cross be-
tween Delicious and Yellow Transparent. If it
lives up to its first years bearing in my orchard
it will supplant the yellow transparent.

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Lockhart. Also called Hackworth. We got our first
start of this from South Texas. The man who sent
it says it does fine for him and he got his first
trees from Alabama. We have had this in the
orchard for more than fifteen years or long enough
to tell what it will do. May be one of the best. A
good tree, a big red apple, good bearer. Fine for
market and cooking. Gets good and ripe on the
trees.

Crab Apples for Jelly
Florence

Gets ripe in June. Bears very abundantly. Trees

bear second year after setting. The best of all —

crabs. For Preserves and jelly.

Hyslop

Extra large crab apple. Fine for market, cooking.
Tree a beauty, ornamental. Grows anywhere.

It is

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GROWING PEACHES

It is, of course, a fact that a person can get all
kinds of bulletins on peach growing from the
government. These bulletins are often made up of
the experience of actual peach growers. Likely I
have had a little different experience to any of
them. My father before me liked to grow peaches
He had a place where the trees would live good
for a few years and then all die. I find just such
places all over the country. They are everywhere.
About forty years ago I bought a new place and
planted several hundred peach trees. That was be-
fore we had any kind of cars and aside from hav-
ing plenty of fine peaches for home use all my
fruit wasted. There was at that time a market for

it; in fact, there were thousands of people in a few
dozen miles doing without peaches but there was
no way to get em to them except by railroad
and the commission merchant. Then came the
truck and the demand for peaches: True to my
form, I had dug out many of my peach trees and
did not have over fifty in my orchard.

It is funny to me that when things are a good
price I never do have them. However, it is dif-
ferent this time. I have had hogs by the acres; I
have had a bunch in my peach orchard and it has
helped the hogs and the peaches both. I have tried
the big hogs for a peach orchard but they are no
good. I got a small breed of hog and find they are
just about the right size to bring the top price on
the market. I have tried various times ox the win-
ter for setting peach trees. Some times you can
wait until April to set but as a rule just as soon
as the trees shed their leaves is the best time to
set. If peach trees are dug too early in the season
a big proportion often die. Sometimes nurserymen
have June buds, these never mature until Decem-
ber and if dug before then they do not grow off
good and about half will often die. The so-called
June bud is a fine tree to set if not dug too early.
A few years ago I went to Georgia to see the
famous peach-growing district. I found people
differed about tree setting like they do in this
country. But they all seemed to agree on one thing,
that is, to keep the peach trees low. The trees were
set about seventeen feet apart. Then the trees
were never allowed to get higher than a man
could reach. The trees I saw had been cut back
until the orchard was flat on top like a broom.
I asked them why they did not let their trees grow
like they do in Texas and the fellow said he could
not gather them. Trees cut back this way become
dwarfed and are short lived. About seven years
is as long as a Georgia peach grower keeps a peach
tree. When they begin to show signs of old age
they are pulled out and new trees set. Some
growers plant little trees and occasionally you
find one that thinks the big tree is best to set.
They figure to bring their orchards in bearing and
get three or four crops. The trees I saw with
peaches on them had about two bushels per tree.
They are set in squares and it does not take much
to work them and if they can get a dollar a tree
for four years it is pretty good profit. They must
think so for they told me goed peach land sold for
two hundred dollars per acre. I set out fifty acres
of peaches eight years ago. I terraced my land
putting the terraces forty-five feet apart and set
the trees on top of the terraces fifteen feet apart
in the row. The trees made fine growth, came ey
bearing quickly, but I let my trees get too high.
Some of them got fifteen feet high. You can

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imagine what a job it was to gather peaches from
such high trees. Fact is, we did not gather them
all. Just too hard work to climb a ladder up to
them. In future, I expect to keep them cut back
and gather all peaches without ladders. The peach
is about the only tree you can do this way. If you
cut back an apple or pear you will not get much
ee} peters the cutting back will cause the tree
to fail.

If you are setting a home orchard you can
plant your trees a long distance apart and let them
grow into large trees. A fellow can chunk the
peaches out of the high tree where he aims to use
them at once. But in selling peaches nothing
knocks on the price like bruises. The big tales
about how much a tree will bear often comes
about in this way. One time I helped to gather
fifteen bushels from an Elberta that did not have
another tree in a hundred feet of it. The owner
said if I had an acre of trees like that with about
a hundred trees on it look at the peaches I would
get and at a dollar per bushel it would amount to
something. If he had an acre each tree would have
had a lighter crop because they would be more
crowded.

Peach trees like good fertile soil or to be well
fertilized. Barnyard manure is good fertilizer. If
your trees are wing and not bearing good try
some acid phosphate around them. This will cause
the fruit to be harder to kill by frost and be of
higher flavor.

In using fertilizer around peach trees or any
other kind of tree, it is better to put the fertilizer
three or four feet from the tree and plow it under.
This will cause the tree to stand the drouth better;
it will do the tree just as much good and, above all,
if the fertilizer happens to have weed seeds you
will get them too close to your tree if you put the
fertilizer close, and it makes the weeds mean to
get rid of. Even commercial fertilizer makes the
weeds grow faster and harder to get rid of if too
close to your trees.

And now as to varieties. I have many varieties
in my orchard; too many, I often think, but I
have lots of such kinds as Early Rose. I have about
five hundred each of South Haven and Hale
Haven. I have decided that if I were planting
again I would plant more of two kinds, Golden
Jubilee and Elberta.

As to cultivation, a peach orchard responds
in a great way to cultivation. With a disk
harrow you can cultivate several acres of orchard
in a day. If you have them set in squares there is
no use for hoe hands. If they are on a terrace you
may have to hoe some. But some of the new
tractors have cultivators that will take care of the
terraces. The fellow who has a young orchard
coming on may hit it exactly right. e¢ worst
pest we have to deal with in orchards is nemetodes
and the best way to deal with them is to not get
them on your land. It will pay any one to learn
to look for nemetodes and see that you do not get
them. But cabbage and tomato plants have neme-
todes and pepper and egg plants are especially
subject. If they once get on land they may stay
a lifetime.

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PEACH TREES GUARANTEED QUICK BEARING AND TRUE TO NAME

MAYFLOWER. A medium sized red peach. Good
for local market and fresh eating. May 20.

EARLY WHEELER. A big white clingstone with a
red cheek. Good for truck and long distant haul-
ing. June 15.

EARLY ROSE. A medium sized red peach. Good
for sand. Hauls well and is also good for home
use. June 20.

GOLDEN JUBILEE. A four-star peach for the
past three years. A yellow freestone. Ripe when
no other freestone is on the market. Good to eat,
good to sell. A peach you will be proud of. Last
of June.

SOUTH HAVEN. A big yellow freestone. Good
for market or home planting. Very similar to
Eiberta only ripens earlier. First of July.

HALE HAVEN. A good peach to plant for any
purpese. About the size of South Haven only has
more red. An outstanding peach on any market.
July 5.

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BEAUTY. A hardy semi-cling until completely
ripe, making it a good hauling peach. Sell good
on any market. First of July.

ELBERTA. A big yellow freestone peach with lots
of red next to the seed. My strain of Elberta bears
every year that we have peaches. Ripens last of
July.

GOLDEN GEM. A ffirst-class yellow clingstone.
Ripens the middle of August. If your wife ever
cans any Golden Gem she won’t use any other
kind.

SALBERTA. We have been listing this peach for
years, but recently it has been renamed. It is a
large yellow freestone peach, gets ripe about Au-
gust 15. Now claimed to be one of the Steuben-
rauch peaches and may be. It is very much like
the Frank but a freestone.

INDIAN. A peach known and loved by all as it
is the only peach we can remember from childhood
days. Clingstone. Ripens ,ast of July.

SURPRISE. A truly great Octeber peach. White
clingstone that will always sell.

PRICES ON PEACH TREES

2 to 3 foot, 55c each, $50.00 per 100

3 to 4 foot, 75c each, $70.00 per 100

4 to 5 foot, $1.00 each, $90,00 per 100

5 to 6 foot, $1.50 each, $135.00 per 100
Big bearing size, $3.25 each

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Arkansas Traveler. A peach
we used to have fifty years
ago. Always in the pretty
books carried around by
fruit tree agents. Off at a
distance the peaches look
like Wheeler but a much
better peach I think. Some
years a freestone, other
years a cling. Bears very
abundantly and is a good
market peach.

Elberta Cling. Usually ripe
fifteenth of August. Very
large, brilliant yellow and
red, Likely the finest cling
peach we have for this sea-
son. Out bears and out sells
all others. We have two to
three and three to four
foot trees this year of this
peach,

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Can't blame you son, we know they are good!

Red Haven

Most remarkable peach known. Ripens
a month before Elberta. As large as El-
berta, Yellow overcovered with bril-
liant red. Sure bearer. We can only sell
these trees assorted with other trees.
If you order Red Haven alone the trees
will be twice the price of other peaches.

Frank

Yellow cling, inclined to overbear, likes
good deep moist soil. When grown on
the right soil it takes on a brilliant yel-
low. Inclined to be very acid some
years.

Cumberland
Very large, white freestone, ripe last of
June. One of our very best. A new
peach.

J. H. Hale

Also called Giant Hale and the Million dollar
peach. This is a peach that has been much whoop-
ed by promotors. It is often described as sixteen
inches around. They forget that a peach sixteen
inches around would be five inches thick and
would weigh four pounds. Of course there is no
such peach on this earth. The real J. H. Hale is
some bigger than Elberta Yellow Freestone, very

It does well
A nice peach

round and often bears a second crop.
in some places but fails in others.

if you can grow it. Very finicky.

Golden Jubilee

Refering again to this peach we wish to say it
was the finest peach in our orchard this year. It,
South Haven and Hale Haven were our banner
peaches.

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GROWING PEARS

Comes several letters asking about pear growing.
To me, growing pears has always been interesting
work. The pear tree is one of the most fzithful of
all trees. They will grow on more different soils than
most any other tree. Today, someone asked about
planting a pear orchard where it was too wet for
peach trees. They will grow fine in deep sand and
bear enormous pears if the trees are not allowed
te overbear. On the other hand, the very first pear
orchard I ever saw in my life was planted on the
prairie. And some of the trees are still bearing
though they must have been there sixty years.
And there are pear trees in existence four hundred
years old. But that is not discussing pear culture.
For many years it was recommended that pear
trees be set about eighteen feet apart. That has
proved entirely teo close for them. The Kieffer
and Garber trees ought to be at least thirty feet
apart. The Douglas, of course, is considered a
dwarf and can be planted eighteen or twenty feet.
The LeConte makes as large a tree as Kieffer and
Garber and it is one of our very best pears. If 1
were setting a pear orchard I would, I think, set
plenty of Kieffer, Garber and LaConte. And to get
pears real quick, set a few Douglas. But if the right
kind of Kieffer trees are set they will bear nearly
as quickly as the Douglas. In setting pear trees,
I do not want to set trees that have made an ex-
cessive growth in the nursery. For instance, I saw
some year-old pear trees that were seven feet
high. Such trees will be five or six years in bear-
ing. If you can get trees from the nursery that
have put in about three years growing seven feet
they will come into bearing much quicker. And I
find this im a way applies to all kinds of trees.
The ones that grow too fast forget to bear. After
you have set your pear orchard you want the trees
headed lew say eighteen inches above ground.
Nursery trees are now mostly started that way
unless they are straight one year trees.

I do not know any way getting by with pears
better than to give the trees good cultivation
until they get about ten feet high then keep down
the grass and weeds with sheep. Sheep will skin
the trees in the winter time if they are hungry.
But they will keep down all grass and weeds in
the summer. We thin our pears and the sheep
eat the thinned pears. In this way we have bigger
pears that sell for twice as much money and the
sheep get a lot of fun eating the thinnings. A few
years ago we found a strain of the Kieffer pear
_ that if kept thinned they developed a beautiful
red cheek. You can sell these pears when no one
will even look at the Kieffer as usually grown.

Pears will grow on poorer land than most any
other kind of fruit. There are many acres of dead
sand over Central Texas that will grow good pears.
The trees can be cultivated so cheaply that if you

can get fifty cents per bushel for the fruit they
are a good fruit to set. Pear trees are not bothered
by nemetodes and if you have land where your
peach trees have been killed by nemetodes the
pear will grow there. Pears do not like alkali in
the soil but after the trees once get to be large
they seem to stand alkali better than the young
ones, This also applies to peach trees. The roots
go deeper in the soil than many other trees and
seem to have the ability to get a living where
many other trees will starve. I know of pear trees
planted not far from where I now live that were
set long ago that bear fruit every year. These
trees, I would guess, are not less than fifty years
old. On this same plot of land there are a few
trees of peaches left but they have just about
played out. I can remember the time they were
planted. Then we did not get nursery catalogs, all
dressed up, but a man came around in a buggy
with pretty pictures of the fruit; we gave him our
order and, in due time, the trees came. Usually
the salesman made it a point to reach a farm at
night so he could stay all night.

After the trees have been set a couple of years
they should not be pruned any more except in
June and very little then. Pruning pear trees in
the winter has a tendency te throw them into
rapid growth and they might blight; and they, at
least, do not bear. Some people argue not to culti-
vate a pear orchard, but if you want to grow real
fancy fruit it pays to cultivate them. I think from
personal observation that cultivation in the pear
orchard should not start until about the first of
June. They will stand more oats or wheat planted
among the trees than most any other tree. Pears
ripen late in the season and a wheat crop can be
plowed under. Then if you begin cultivating in
May or June it is nearly sure to rain enough
to make good pears. During the last few years we

have raised a good many Bartlet pears, but for —

some peculiar reason the Bartlett gets too big on
my place. The fruit does not look like Bartlett
they get so big. I have tried many new pears.
There is one that must have come from England;
it is an espalier pear. It will grow on a wall like
a vine or if planted in the orchard will grow into
a fine tree, though the young trees are as crook-
ed as grapevines. It has borne here for several
years and does not show a particle of blight. It
is about the size of the Bartlett shipped in from the
West and when it comes to quality, go away! The
pear is claimed to be a neutral fruit; that is, it
does not have too much sugar nor too much acid
and it is said that if a man is unable to eat any
other fruit he can always eat pears. Pears canned
without sugar are ideal for the dyspeptic and I
have often thought that if half the money spent
for physic could be spent for good pears the
world would be healthier and in a better humor.

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Keiffer

The Keiffer, to my way of thinking, is the most
profitable pear on the market. Trees vigorous,
heavy bearers, a big rather long pear, yellow with
a red cheek when ripe. Ripens in September and
can be wrapped in paper and kept for weeks.
Truly a fine pear.

Lincoln

A big green and yellow pear that ripens in August,
doesn’t have to be gathered and stored to ripen
out, but is good right off the tree. Late blooming
and sure bearing. Free from blight.

Bartlett

The pear of quality. The trees sometimes blight
even under the best conditions, but if you are
willing to fight the blight here is the pear supreme.

Garber

The trees grow very large. Have long willowy
branches, pretty for a yard tree. The pears are
large, rather short or nearly round. Fine quality.
Ripens in August.

Pineapple Pear

Very large pear that grows good along the coast.
Does no good north of San Antonio, We have a few
dozen trees.

Leconte
Makes a fine thrifty growing tree.

Never fails to

bear. Trees do not blight. Pears fine for eating

raw. Ripening in August.

Duchess d’Angouleme

Very large fall pear. The trees are dwarf and
should be planted four inches deeper than they
come out of the nursery. Comes into bearing early
and does not blight. Blooms out very late.

Espalier Pear Trees

Most remarkable pear tree. Can be trailed up on
a wall like a vine or if set out in the open will
grow into a fine tree. Blooms out late and never
caught by frost. Pears are as fine as can be grown
and the trees never blight. When we send the
trees to you they are extremely crooked. Surprise
your friends and grow pears on a wall or trellis,
or in tree form.

PRICE ON PEARS

1 to 2 foot, 70c each, $60.00 per 100
2 to 3 foot, 85c each, $80.00 per 100
3 to 4 foot, $1.10 each, $100.00 per 100
4 to 5 foot, $1.35 each, $117.00 per 100
5 to 6 foot, $2.00 each
Bearing size $3.25

Douglas

Blight proof. The Douglas pear in most cases will

bear the next year after planting. The quality
extra good. Main objection overloading.

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LANDSCAPING IS EASY WITH OUR BIG SELECTION OF STOCK

As you will notice this is the same picture of myself and family I had in
my catalog last season. One lady wrote to me and said I was a peculiar look-
ing fellow. What would you think of letter like that. I can not figure out
whether she meant to compliment me or was just laughing. Anyhow I was
raised here in the country where I now operate. Some people often asked me
how I found the place, but I likely found it easier than anyone that has ever come
to see me because I was born here. Ninety years ago my father was an Irish
paddy. He sold silk handkerchiefs, towels, cuff buttons and other things all
over the country. In this way he found this place and when he got a few dol-
lars he bought a small sandy land farm. He must have inherited liking fruit
from his folks back home in Erin. Anyhow there was never a fruit tree agent
visited our little home and went away without an order. I inherited liking to
peddle for even after my father had gotten a nice farm and a competance ahead
he went back to peddling. The lady in the picture says there never is anyone
comes along with something to seli that I do not buy it.

Oh, Well! I have never made a fortune but I have had a good time and you
know I often think the money a man has when he joins the immortal throng repre-
sents the fun he has missed during life.

Some how I have never liked to be called a businessman, I am just a plain
old farmer and that is all I will ever be.

Thank you for reading this.

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GROWING APRICOTS and PLUMS

These two fruits require about the same
cultivation as peaches except that they can
not be cut back like peaches. They will grow
on thinner soil than peaches and the apricots
like the south side of a hill or building. When
I was in Colorado a few years ago I found
great apricot orchards planted south of moun-
tains. The apricot does not make any tap
root but grows right on top of the ground.
For this reason, it is hard to cultivate them
shallow enough. This caused the idea that
they will grow better in a yard than any
where else but they will make large trees
out in the field if cultivated real shallow.
The plums are hardier than apricots and can
stand a little deeper cultivation. The trees
should be set twenty feet apart for the plums
and about twenty-five feet for the apricots.
I get a great many letters from people stating
that they have apricot trees fifteen years old
that have never borne a cot. I once had about
fifty trees that did this very thing. They were
trees entirely unsuited for our Southern cli-
mate. The buds on such trees are tender and
often are killed in the winter time so the tree
never even blooms. If the tree is not desir-
able for shade such trees should be dug up
for they never will bear.

During the last few years we have found
apricots that are reasonably sure bearers here
in the South. As to plums it seems we have
some well established varieties that will bear
and unless a man has time to experiment he
had best set these varieties. A few years ago
in some way the Burbank plums all over the
country got the canker and quit bearing but
for the last ten years it has been a good
bearer and is fine for market. The America
is about our next best and Bruce runs them
a race every year. The Hanska for late is
fine and for the latest the Supreme. Out in
West Texas they still set a lot of Golden
Beauty and August Red. Forty years ago

we had a plum called Gold that would bear
in great loads. What happened that this tree
does not do well any more I can not tell, but
I have not had a real crop of Gold now in
five years. Years ago it was one of the finest
in the orchard. The Sapa plum out-bears
them ail and if it was good for market it
would be one of the greatest. There is not a
better cooking fruit known than the Sapa
plum but it does not look good enough to
sell in competition with such kinds as Bruce.
Where a market is established for Sapa it is
simply fine. The Munson is too soft to haul
to market and one much whooped now called
Elephant Heart is simply not worth its room
and this holds good with all the red leaved
kinds though there are about a dozen of them
sold. The old Wild-goose, a variety we had
when we were boys, is still good to have in
thickets. The Endicott and Black Beauty are
good though the trees never have been set
much in the South.

I have had Nona, Excelsior and McCartney
plums in my orchard a long time and never
did get much of a crop. This must be too far
North for them. The market for plums is
more limited than the market for peaches.
They are mostly used for jelly and preserves
and it does not take so many to supply the
demand. But when it comes to apricots, I
defy any one to produce a better tasting fruit
than the apricots we can grow here in Texas.
I doubt that the market will be supplied with
them. One trouble with apricots they begin
to get ripe before people are expecting fruit
and right at first do not sell so well but there
is a demand at the wind up. They usually
bring three dollars per bushel in bushel bas-
kets and in gallon baskets may bring as high
as fifty cents per basket. The worst enemy
to both fruits is the Curculio and to combat
this pest requires careful spraying but cur-
culio is only bad about one year in ten.

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BURBANK xxxx

A big purplish-red plum
with yellow flesh. Ripe

about June 15. Trees
vigorous.
SAPA xxxx

A hardy plum originat-
ed by Professor Hansen.
Adapted to the northern
plains but will do good
anywhere planted. Me-
dium sized, red with
deep red meat. Makes
a shrubby tree. Ripens
in June.

METHLEY xxx

A purple plum with
pink meat. Very de-
lightful quality. Only
objection tree not so
healthy. Medium to
large in size. Ripens
in June.

AMERICA xxxx

The America plum is a yellow plum unless allowed
to stay on the tree until dead ripe then it turns
red. But would be classed a yellow plum. A large
plum. Ripe about June 1.

WANETA xxxx

A fine growing tree. Frost resistant. Nice fruit,
bright red and heart-shaped. Ripe June 1.

HANSKA xxxx

A medium sized red plum with a heavy blue bloom.
Flesh is firm, yellow with good keeping qualities.
Very fragrant. Ripens last of June. Tree hardy

ENDICOTT

A good plum to plant for eating fresh, fruit large
yellow, turning deep red when completely ripe.
Trees make large trees and resistant to disease.

THE SUPREME xxxx

Large heart-shaped plum that gets ripe in July.
A pretty red plum. Trees vigorous and the plums
are not easily blown off as they grow near the
center of the tree. Bears heavy and is an excel-
lent market plum.

SHIRO PLUM TREES

Shiro. One of the grandest of all plums. Very large
clear yellow. Quality extra good. Trees grow off
fast but inclined to scab for a year or two after
setting. Then they make large long life trees.

BRUCE xxxx

Our most outstanding plum this past spring. Big t tra large red. '
“gre fi like Ae ofd thicket aoe Ripens the 20th of May. If planes

proper stage. Trees grow very much

either for commercial or home use be sure and plant some Bruce.

2 to 1.

Can be hauled if gathered in the
Outsells other plums in fruit stan

Prices for Plum Trees

2 to 3 ft., 55c ea., 100 for $50.00
ie 3 to 4 ft., 75¢ ea., 100 for $70.00
4 to 5 ft., 95c ea., 100 for $90.00
5 to 6 ft., branched, ea., $1.35
\Big bearing size, each $3.25

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FITZGERALD'S APRICOTS ARE PROVED BEST BY EVERY TEST

Little Sam Apricot—the only true Little Sam on the Market. Accept no Substitutes

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Apricots average size, deep yellow. Bear in great clusters on the tree and have
no objectionable fiber of any kind. It makes a pretty tree and worth its room for _
shade but will doubly repay any one with its great loads of golden fruit. Gets
ripe about the middle of June. Excellent for fresh eating and canning.

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Hungarian Best Apricot

The scions of this apricot were brought from Hungaria
about twenty years ago. Likely the largest apricot tree
in the world and one of the thriftiest growing trees.
Proving to be as regular to bear as any peach. High
colored and the finest quality, The worms bother it very
little.

Border Queen

A pale yellow apricot, red cheek, luxuriant growth.
Originated in Western Kansas.

New Moorpark

One of the largest of all apricots and the strain that I
have bears good. This apricot is as large as a peach;
fine quality to can. Gets ripe about June 15.

Hungarian Apricots

Picture at right shows a Tungarian apricot we sold to a
customer in Colorado many years ago. Compare this tree
with the windmill. It bears regular in that country apri-
cots as large as peaches, But it is bearing many places in
Texas. Fine for shade or yard tree.

PRICES ON APRICOTS

2 to 3 foot, each 75c

3 to 4 foot, each $1.00

4 to 5 foot, each $1.25

5 to 6 foot, branched, each $1.75
Bearing size, each $3.25

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GROWING PERSIMMONS AND MULBERRIES

Many years ago we found out that if the
Damio or tame persimmon were budded on
the wild persimmon well above the ground
the tree would put out at least ten days later
and would never miss a crop. This makes a
very crooked tree in the nursery but we fig-
ure that what our customers want is fruit
rather than a pretty tree. After a few years
the trees get straight and live for many many
years. Persimmon trees should be planted
fifteen or twenty feet apart, or about 150 trees
per acre. After they get five years old the
trees will average bearing a bushel to the
tree. Where the fruit is known they can be
sold at $1.50 per bushel ordinary time. This
fall I expect to get at least $4.00 per bushel
for persimmons but this boom, of course, may
not last. The young trees must be cultivated
good for the first 2 years. Then cultivate very
shallow—just enough to keep down the big
weeds. A disk harrow is fine. This fruit,
after the orchard is once established, can be
There

is no spraying to do—just barely keep the

raised cheaper than any other fruit.

weeds down. After the fifth year they can
be kept clean enough with sheep. The sheep
will eat the leaves from the lower branches
and the trees will take on an umbrella shape.

The wild persimmon can be managed about
like the tame persimmon, but the wild per-
simmon will make bigger trees. If you plant
the ungrafted wild trees they will average
about half the trees male trees. These trees
do not bear and should be budded over to the

other trees except about one male tree to an
acre. If you do not have male trees, the
female trees will not bear. A male tree every
one hundred yards is enough. The tame
persimmons, remember, do not have to have
male trees. Every one will bear. A tame tree

alone will bear.

MULBERRIES—You likely never thought —

of it but the mulberry is one of the most
important trees on earth. At no distant date
great orchards of Mulberries may be planted
for growing silk. The leaves make very
excellent cattle feed and every mulberry leaf
is saved in some countries. Every farmer
needs at least half a dozen mulberry trees.
With a little pectin, the berries make very
fine jelly, and they are being mixed with
blackberries for pie filling. The tree should
be set about thirty feet apart and the stock
kept away until they have grown higher than
the stock can reach. This season our Hicks
mulberry trees ripened berries for at least
three months. It is not known but they make
fine chicken and hog feed, and our turkeys
and geese simply grew up under the trees.
We have planted two hundred of these trees
out in an orchard. We expect them to almost
feed a flock of turkeys for at least three
months. And the ones in the hog pasture
will keep the hogs from trying to get out.
The seedling trees only bear a short time.
The budded trees bear bushels of fruit for
many weeks. If you are planting for the
fruit, plant the budded trees by all means.

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Eu aa Persimmon

Originated by J. E. Fitzgerald. No Other Equals It in Quality

This is not the largest persimmon we grow but it is the most profitable. Medium
sized deep red about the shape of a tomato. Hauls well and bears heavily. The
trees do not have to have any extra care after once established. First ripe
ones will be found in September from then by proper handling can be kept un-
til January.

PRICE OF PERSIMMONS

2 to 3 foot, each ; ieee 80c
3 to 4 foot, each i, Apc 90c
4 to 5 foot, each $1.50
5 to 6 foot, each $1.75
Bearing size, each eee: POLS
Tamopan

Tamopan. One of the leading fruits of China. Trees
in that country grow seventy-five feet high and
bears wagon loads of fruit. They bid fair to do that
here. The fruit is four-sided, has a ring or wrinkle
around it and on land that suits it well it gets
bright red. A very ornamental tree, Simply grand.

Fuyu

The Fuyu is large bright red, tomato-shaped. Heavy
bearer and the fruit can be eaten before soft.
Soft, non-astringent. A profitable variety to plant.

Tane Nashi

A large acorn-shaped persimmon, pale yellow and
very productive. This is the persimmon you see
in most stores selling for 5 cents each.

Improved Wild Persimmon

I have two wild persimmons that I have been grow-
ing and cultivating and show a decided improve-
ment over the others scattered around over my
place. One of these I call _Early Golden, ripening
in August, then the Golden, ripening in October.

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GROWING FIGS

For many years people thought that figs
could not be grown this far north. We are mis-
taken about many things. I have a loquat tree on
my place several years old and some strawberry
Guavas. These are thought to be tropical plants,
and this all goes to show that it pays to try some
of these new plants. But I started out to tell
you about figs. I have been growing figs so long
I can hardly remember when I planted the first
plant. I do remember that an Uncle many years
ago moved from Southern Georgia and brought
along some plants of the Celeste fig. This grew
into a large tree and bore small blue figs. But it
haf a drawback. If a hard winter came and killed
the limbs-on the tree it would take it two years
to recover and bear more figs. I saw a fig ad-
vertised called the Magnolia, and bought a few
plants. These were planted on the side of a clay
hill and came into bearing promptly. It proved
a very profitable crop for, in some way, the
growing of figs had never been promoted in this
country and my Magnolia fig plants made on an
average two gallons per plant and I sold the fresh
figs for fifty cents per gallon. However, I found
the Magnolia fig had a drawback. Some years
when we had cotton flies the fly ruined all the
last ripening fruit. But if the cotton fly is not
present the plants will bear from July until frost.
I also tried the Green Ischia, the Hirtu Japan,
the Brunswick; and at last, found the now famous
Harrison fig. It was found in Tarrant county and
I was delighted with it, for a single plant had a
bushel of figs and the trees were vigorous and no
insect bothered them very much. I got a lot of
the cuttings and now have about five hundred
of the plants in bearing on my place and they

have paid me every year notwithstanding some
bad drouths.

Figs need to be planted on just reasonably
good soil. If the land gets too rich, like a chicken
yard, the plants will grow very fast and rank and
forget to bear. This is especially true of the
Harrison. And right here let me say the Harrison
has been renamed a dozen times or more. Some
call it Ramsey, some Texas Everbearing and so
on. Since I found it several large orchards have
been planted. If it happens to get cold and kil)
the plants it pays to cut them back to the ground
and Jet them come again. If the soil is right these
young plants will begin to put on figs by the time
they are a foot high. If they insist on just growing
you have your soil too rich. But after a year or
two they will begin to adapt themselves to this
rich soil. If the plants do not get killed from cold
for a year or two they get hardier and stand

more, cold and these old plants will often be
covered with ripe figs by June and continue to
bear until frost. If you have the candle flies
some of them will be ruined if they are not gath-
ered promptly when ripe enough to preserve.
They can be preserved in that case by the time
they are well colored. The plants should be set
any time during the winter and should be planted
about fifteen feet apart or about two hundred
plants per acre. If you have a terrace you will
find they hold the land and do extra well on a
terrace. I plant them on a terrace half-way between
my apple trees. In that way, you soon begin to
realize from an orchard. The best fertilizer for
them is acid phosphate or wood ashes. But do not
put the ashes too close to the plants. Three or
four feet from them. Figs make about the best
preserves of all fruits and all you have to do
is to sell a few in a town or let people know
you have them. We formerly sold them in gallon
measures but now we sell in half-gallon tills at
35 cents per till. We found that people do not
complain at this price. Of course, after a family
has made all the fig preserves it wants that family
is supplied, but you will soon find by taking
them along with vegetables you can sell nearly
every family in a town. Or if you run a roadside
stand it will pay to have a few dozen trees. You
can always sell the fruit. They will grow as far
north as Oklahoma and all over the southern part
of Arkansas. They often do well on valley land.
Since if one crop is killed by frost another starts
at once they are practically sure to bear. The
reason I advise acid phosphate as a fertilizer for
them is because it seems to hasten the ripening
period.

But no matter how many figs you pick from
a tree there will be plenty of green figs in the

fall when frost comes. When I had more time
than I do now I would bend these plants over
and cover with straw or any litter to keep the figs
still on the trees from freezing. As soon as this
litter is removed in the spring the green figs will
begin to ripen and you can in that way have figs
ripe with blackberries. But, of course, that is a
lot of trouble. Around the eaves of a house is a
good place for figs and if you live in town you
can have a dozen trees in odd corners. In some
peculiar way, they seem to do nearly as well on
the north side of the house as the south side. If
you can have a plant near a well or drain they
will bear an enormous crop. Remember, it is
easy to get the ground too rich for the Harrison
fig. The Magnolia will stand more fertilizer and
make fruit as big as peaches. Figs are the oldest
of all fruits and likely as healthful as any other.

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Crees for Welicious (Pies

SWEET CHERRY. I do not
know just what particular va-
riety of sweet cherry this is
but it is the only sweet cherry
I have found that will bear in
this section. Makes a hardy
tree and comes into bearing
early.

NEW CENTURY xxxx. Nearly
black, fair quality, productive.
EARLY RICHMOND. Medium,

dark red, juicy, acid. A good
bearer.

ENGLISH MORELLO. Fair size
Blackish red. Juicy. Good.
MONTMORENCY. Large red,
productive. Later than Rich-
mond. A fine cherry to plant.

WRAGG. Hardy vigorous and
productive. Dark red, Prov-
ing to be a good bearer here
where we thought we would
never grow cherries.

PRICE ON CHERRIES

2 to 3 foot, each 80c
3 to 4 foot, each $1.00
4 to 5 foot, each $1.45

\fitzgerald's igs Bear the Girst ‘Lear Set

CELESTE

A very hardy fig. Stand lots of cold. One of the
first figs to be planted in the South. Fruit me-
dium size.

BROWN TURKEY

Fruit is brown, almost black and very sweet. Will
stand near zero weather. Doesn’t bear on first
year shoots like the Harrison.

MAGNOLIA

A large straw colored fig and very profitable.
Rapid growing and the leaves are forked. New
set plants will bear the first year.

HARRISON

Found in Tarrant County many years ago and now
widely acclaimed as the best fig on the market,
but bearing many different names. The plants will
put on figs when twelve inches high and even
if killed by frost will come up and bear abundantly.

Fruit very large, straw colored. Extra quality.

PRICE ON FIGS

1 to 2 foot, each 45c
2 to 3 foot, each 60c «4

CROTALARIA—Great soil building plant and recognized by

the Government.

Planted in Early Spring will get six feet high.

Can be sowed at last plowing of corn. Has increased corn yield
ten bushels per acre. Nothing eats the plant, therefore only good
as leguminous soil builder. Pound 50c; 10 Pounds $3.50.

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FOR ORDERS OF LESS THAN $5 ADD 15c TO EACH DOLLAR
TO PAY PACKING AND POSTAGE CHARGES.

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SHADE TREES ADD VALUE AND BEAUTY TO YOUR HOME!

GROWING PECANS

Not only do I have good fruit trees I am now
growing geod pecan trees. You know there used
to be lots of pecan nurseries. But the owners
decided that they could not make money fast
enough. Growing pecan trees is a slow particular
business. It takes from three to four years to grow
a good pecan tree. We plant our pecan seed in beds
that we bud our trees on and grow them a year.
Then are taken up and the ones that show good
vigor and have good root systems are set out in the
field. After they have grown a year we bud them
and this process produces a tree that is easily trans-
planted and will come into bearing quickly. Did
you ever pass a nice lawn with a pecan tree in
the middle of it. It is a thing of beauty. I know
one tree that was pianted on a lawn some thirty
years ago. I would like to show you a picture of
it, but you know how it is now one is lucky to get
any kind of catalog printed. This tree was planted
by a lawyer and is just a seedling. It has born as
high as fifteen bushels of nuts in a single season.

The man who planted it said he valued the
ae when he went to sell the lot at five hundred
ollars.

I asked him what he would have valued it at
if it had of been such a tree as Madam X. He said
a thousand or fifteen hundred dollars. The owner
of this tree would not take one thousand dollars
for it at this time she says it would damage her
lot that much if it were moved. A few days ago
( looked over the tree and I thought HOW FINE
IT WOULD BE TO MAKE A SPECIAL offer of
say six good trees in my catalog. Real select trees
and let the buyer plant them over his place and
if he did not have room for all of them give a few
to neighbors. And I have made a selection of six
real select trees and offer them for $38.00 prepaid
(o you. My intentions are to put in four Madam X
and two Burkett. These trees are well branched
and will be bearing in three years. In ten years
money would hardly buy them. I expect to sell
a lot of these special offers and it will pay you
to send your order right now for them. We can
hold them until you are ready to plant them if
preferred but I would advise you to order them at
once. It is going to be very difficult to buy good
budded pecan trees in the future.

A friend takes advantage of pecans on the
creek bearing a big crop and then nearly failing
two years. He buys one hundred thousand pounds
{hese big crop years. He stores them in a real dry
building until they dry out all they will. Then
along when the weather begins to get warm he
puts them on cold storage. These dry pecans ab-
sorb enough moisture to pay the storage on them
for six months. One year he gave seven cents per
pound actually gained several pounds in weight
and sold the whole thing for twelve cents per
pound. I merely mention this to show you just
what can be done with pecans.

I need not to go inte what a pecan orchard is
wortlh. We hear reperts about the Eastern pecan
orchards g five hundred dollars r acre.
They have big power sprayers at all the big pecan

orchards and get a crop every year. With a crop
every year and such varieties as Burkett, Madam
X and Western Schley I think a pecan orchard
is very profitable. Any how after the first shout-
ing is over I am growing good pecan trees and
advising everyone to plant a few trees if you can-
not afford to plant a hundred then just a few.

HOW TO SET PECAN TREES

Dig a hole be enough and deep enough to
take the roots and no bigger. The less the soil
down deep is disturbed the better, for your trees
will grow out slowly in loosened up soil. The pe-
can nut falls on hard soil a few leaves blow over
it and it sends its roots down in this firm soil.
It has been doing this for hundreds of years. When
your tree is set and the soil firmed around it,
wrap the body with news papers nearly to the
top or within a foot of the top. This is to keep
moisture from evaporating from the body of the
tree. If this is not done it makes the tree have a
tendency to die down and come out from the
root. After the tree is growing good these papers
can be taken off or left on but be sure there is
no strings left to cut the tree. How to plant pecan
trees in a pasture. Very often people have branehes
through a pasture or a tank and would like to
plant pecan trees in these places. And they make
fine pecan trees. I have several pecan trees in
such places now bearing that never were cultivated.
Set your pecan tree as above. Then build a brush
pile around them seven feet wide and to within
a foot of the top of the tree. The brush pile should
be at least four feet high and piled good and close.
This keeps the cattle from eating the tree and is
a delight to a pecan to get to grow up through a
brush pile and the brush begins to rot in a few
months and furnishes just the fertilizer the tree
needs. Goats can be run in the pasture. I have
yet to see a goat bite a pecan tree. By the time
the brush is rotten the tree is too big for the cattle
to hurt and you have saved the cultivation.

HOW TO HAVE A NICE PECAN CROP WHEN
OTHERS FAIL.

Wild pecans on the creek are not often killed
by frost but they have a big crop, then a lighter
one then a failure. This is all on account of the
case bearer. On a few dozen trees you can over-
come this with even a barrel sprayer. Just as the
little pecans shed the blooms they should be spray-
ed with three pounds arsenate lead to fifty gal-
lons of water. Then in ten days spray them again
and at the end of another ten days spray again.
Be sure and do not use over three pounds of the
Arsenate of lead to fifty gallons. By having a
fine crop of such pecans as Madam X you will get
a fancy price for them in off years. I am devoting
a lot of space to pecans because they are a profi-
table. crop.

Thank you,

J. E. FITZGERALD.

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YOU CAN MAKE MONEY IN YOUR BACK YARD WITH THESE PECANS

BURKETT

A large round pecan; fine flavor; trees vigorous
and hardy. Nuts are always full of meat. Easily
Shelled. A great pecan for any man’s orchard.

PECAN TREE PRICES

3 foot, $2.10 each, 10 for $17.85
4 foot, $2.80 each, 10 for $26.15
5 foot, $3.50 each, 10 for $31.50
6 foot, each $6.00
7 foot, each $7.50

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EASTERN SCHLEY

Grows best on low land and rather tardy coming
into bearing. The nuts are long, thin shelled,
pretty and a winner if you happen to have the land
that will produce them.

WESTERN SCHLEY

Medium large long nut. We sell a lot of trees
of these. It is a pity they are not of such quality
as the Eastern Schley. :

MADAM X
A TRULY GREAT PECAN
The largest pecan on the market. Long, well flavored. Trees bear young
and abundantly. Nuts will sell for 50c per pound anywhere.
this statement unless it were true.

a good stand by setting our trees.
quicker than most any other trees you can buy.

A few years ago J. E. Fitzgerald discovered, by
treating pecan seedlings that pecans were grafted
on would make the trees easier transplanted and
the astonishing thing was they would grow more
vigorously and come into bearing quicker. A man
with Joe Fitzgerald’s reputation would not make

You will get
They will bear

Make a test. NO ONE CAN SELL YOU TREES
THAT WILL BEAR QUICKER THAN OURS. Also
have Stuart and Success.

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TREES GROWN TO STAND COLD AND PRODUCE PAYING CROPS

WALNUTS

2 to 3 foot, each $2.00
3 to 4 foot, each $2.60
4 to 5 foot, each $3.60

CARPATHIAN WALNUT

The seed of these walnuts came from the Car-
pathian mountains in Poland and are very hardy.
I can furnish a limited number. They run about
three feet high.

JUJUBE “

Fruit resembles the date. Good for preserves, pickles
EUREKA WALNUT and the delight of children for eating fresh. Nice
Tree is remarkably vigorous, upright grower; plant, 50c. .

leaves and blooms fully three weeks late. Nuts
large, elongated, smooth and tightly sealed.

WALNUT FRANQUETTE THOMAS BLACK WALNUT

Nuts very large, long and _ pointed; kernel full The best black walnut so far found. Nuts large,

fleshed, sweet and rich. This is probably my . 5 i ;
favorite of the English walnuts tried. easily peeled; bears abundantly. Trees vigorous

MAYETTE (Grande) WALNUT

Tree hardy, buds out late and bears abundantly.
Nuts large and uniform, shells light colored. Doing
extremely well in this section.

HANSEN BUSH CHERRIES

Price, 30c each or $2.00 per dozen. A very popular
fruit among the Indians of South Dakota.

The little trees bear the second year set. A tree
two feet high will be loaded with fruit. The
cherries are a little larger than the ordinary cherry
and make the very best sauce and pies and we
like them right off the plants. Some of them will
be yellow but even from the seed they are all good.
Plant them along a fence or in any small place.
Stand frost and drouth likely better than any other
fruit. Originated in the deserts of South Dakota.

JONES PATCH BUDDER

Cuts a patch 1% by 1 inch. Razor
steel blades. Aluminum handles.

Full directions furnished.

$2.00 Each

REMEMBER—

We pay the express or postage on orders of

five dollars or more. If a package under five dol- 2
lars is wanted by mail send 15c for each dollar. WE PAY TRANSPORTATION ON ORDERS OF $5

Pecan trees cannot be sent by mail. Any kind of OR MORE. FOR ORDERS OF LESS TRAN $5
tree over four feet is better sent by express. ADD 15¢c TO EACH DOLLAR.

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Jujube. A tall growing tree, originally from China.

FITZGERALD'S GRAPES ARE HARDY AND EASY TO GROW

THE CARMAN GRAPE

Vines very thrifty; in fact, just hardy as vines

can be. The grapes are large, black and thick
on the cluster. A cluster of these is nearly as
solid as a ball. Bears from one to two bushels
per vine and the best eating grape I have ever
seen. If you have been planting grapes that would
not sell, plant some Carman. They outsell any-
thing else on the market.

CHAMPANEL GRAPE

Large, black, very popular. Grows on any kind of
soil, either sand or blackland. A cross between
the Concord and Champini, giving it the highest
vitality of all grapes. ood to graft other grapes
on. Good quality when well ripened and fine for
juice and wine.

CONCORD GRAPE

This grape is proving a better grape for the South
than I thought it would. It gets ripe very late,
though there will be a few black grapes on a bunch
by July 1. Really ripe from August 15 until Sep-
tember. Large black, thick hull.

MOORES EARLY GRAPE

One of the very earliest of all black grapes. Me-
Sioa to large. Good quality and a wonderful
earer.

BETA

Black, early medium size. Came from the north
fo proving very fine in Texas, Hardy and pro-
c;

BLACK SPANISH

Medium size, at home all over the south. Con-
sidered by all the best for wine, juice or jelly.
Little sour for fresh eating.

QUINCE

A fruit that dates back to the ancients, probably
2,000 years. Makes a small growing tree and the
limbs come out near the ground. Quinces can be
grown any place pears will grow. The fruits are
large yellow when ripe. A very beautiful and
attractive fruit, and brings the highest price on the
market. Makes the best preserves and good for
baking like apples. Many nurseries report sold out
of quince trees.

2 to 3 foot, each 75¢
3 to 4 foot, each $1.25

BIG EXTRA

An extra large black grape, very prolific. Bears
in large bunches, taking prizes at fairs wherever
shown.

NIAGARA

One of our best grapes. Big, white, with a de-
licious flavor. I saw Niagara grapes grown in this
section this year that would compete with any
California-grown grape.

GOETHE GRAPE

Very large, pink, oblong grape. Gets ripe in the
fall. My father raised this grape forty years ago.
Never rots.

PRICE ON GRAPES

One year field grown, each 30c
Two year field grown. each 75c¢

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HERE IS QUALITY NURSERY STOCK AT ITS BEST!

GROWING BERRIES

During the last few days at least two parties
have written and asked the best way to grow
blackberries and dewberries.

I have been growing these berries now for
many years and some years they are one of the
most profitable crops. They are like every thing
else. Some years there is a good demand for them.
I can not figure this out unless, as often happens,
a few people have a back yard patch and begin
to sell them too cheap. Last season one man near
a town had three or four rows. His kids and wife
picked them and sold them at fifteen cents per
gallon. That almost ruined the price until later in
the season. My berries were a little late and the
price finally got up to thirty-five cents per gallon
and we could not supply the demand. If there are
a lot of early berries around town you are lucky
to have a late patch, for there is seldom enough
of this fruit grown to satisfy the demand. Black-
berries are one of the easiest fruits grown, you
can find kinds that suit all kinds of soil and
climates. We have the Haupt that does well in
South Texas and it also seems the Young and
Boysen do well far South. The Austin thornless
dewberry will likely make more than any other
berry but they should be set about a foot apart
and the rows four feet apart. If the land is sandy
they have to be mulched to keep them off the
ground, but they have no thorns and that makes
them easily gathered. The Thorny Austin makes a
big vine and not so inclined to get sandy. I find
the Early Wonder blackberry is about the only one
recommended in Oklahoma. And it is fine every-
where. It originated here on my place, but it has
been sold under more different names than any
other berry on earth. It is called Dew Black, Ozark
Wonder, Arkansas Beauty and many other names.
But all these aliases do not make it a bad fruit
though some of them do not fit it.

Berries like all other fruit act better if you
treat them good. Give them good rich deep moist
soil and they will certainly produce the fruit.
However, some people plant them on poor soil,
then fertilize them to build up the soil. Such kinds
as Early Wonder should be planted in rows say
nine feet apart and the plants two feet apart in
the rows. I recommend nine feet because lots of
people have tractors and disk harrows and they
can go between the rows with the disc harrow,
making them easier to cultivate. I saw a man who
had two rows on the way to his field. In this way
he can go between the rows and keep them well
cultivated and not miss the time. If you have good
soil an upright berry like Early Wonder can be
planted nine feet each way and this will reduce
the cost of cultivation a great deal. However, the
first year the Early Wonder runs on the ground
and loeks exactly like a dewberry. The vines

that come out the second year are upright and
keep the berries well off the ground. There are a
dozen ways to set the plants. If we are in a hurry
we often take a spade and stick it in the ground,
then the operator pulls the handle towards him
and lets some one set the plant in the place made
by the spade. The plant should be set so the tep
part is a little under the ground. The plant when
it is dug is usually cut off about an inch or two
above the ground. The plant will dry out if
the cut part is exposed to the air. I often plow
a furrow about three or four inches deep and drop
the plants in the furrow and cover them entirely
up so all parts of the plant will be at least three
inches deep. If the soil is dry it is a good idea to
tramp it a little. They will come up to a perfect
stand if this planting is done just right and I be-
lieve will grow off better.

They are cultivated about like you would cot-
ton though we cultivate the first year until nearly
frost. If you have barn yard manure it will help
them.

After your berry patch is set if they are far
enough apart in the late spring it is a good plan to
plant strong growing peas between them. Say the
clay of whipporwill pea. If peas are fertilized il
will help your berry patch. Acid phosphate is likely
as good a fertilizer as you can use under the peas
and the peas will gather nitrogen and make your
berries grow better. If the land is sandy the pea
vines will keep the sand from blowing. This year
we not only planted peas between the rows, but we
planted peas between the plants in the row. A dry
year this would have a tendency to stunt the berry
plants but it has rained all the year and is raining
at this very minute. The pea plants will prove very
valuable as a mulch next spring. I have planted
cotton between the rows then in the spring let the
old cotton plants stand to knock off the high winds.
And say, what has become of those high winds?
We have not had them now in two years. We also
have not had the old blue whistling northers we
had forty years ago. All of which proves even
climate changes.

It is owing to how much time you have as te
whether you trellis your berries or not. If you
have an acre or two and want to go to extra pains
to cultivate and take care of your dewberries then
trellis them. Any kind of cheap wire will do and
the trellis does not have to be over two feet high.
There is no use trellising a berry like Early Wond-
er. It will stand up alone, but it will pay to
trellis the Austin and Young, Boysen and River-
side. The Riverside is a rather new dewberry and
the biggest of all dewberries. It is a very produe-
tive berry and the seeds are very large. I thought
these large seeds would be bad for them but my
customers say the seeds are easily gotten out and
it makes very fine jam.

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FITZGERALD’S BERRIES ARE THE FINEST MONEY CAN BUY

EARLY

WONDER

Found and Introduced by J. E. FITZGERALD

To my way of thinking,
berry, firm, and the vines are very productive.

the best berry so far found has been renamed many times.

A rather round

So far has done well everywhere planted. If you want a

first class berry, plant Early Wonder. Price, 20c each, $2.00 per doz., $10.00 per 100.

McDONALD BERRY

One of our oldest berries, medium sized, firm
long berry and grows in clusters. Will not bear
planted alone, and so far the Early Wonder has
been the best pollinator for the McDonald in my
patch. If you have berry vines that have been
failing and what berries they did have were just
a seed or two, you have McDonald and they need
something for pollination. The earliest berry we
have. Price for plants, 20c each, $2.00 for 12; $10.00
for 100.

HAUPT BERRY

Makes an immense vine and I think it is the finest
tasting berry on the place. A bowl of them with
a little sugar and cream is hard to beat. The vine
will often bear two gallons of berries in a season
but they are very thorny. Good things are often
well guarded. For best results should be grown near
some other berry blooming at the same time.

Price of plants $2.00 per dozen, $10.00 per hundred.

ALFRED BERRY

A very late berry that bears abundantly large
fine berries. If you want a real fine late berry
here it is. Gets ripe in July. Described as an early
berry in north.

Plants $2.00 per dozen, $10.00 per hundred.

BRAINERD BERRY

The vines are thrifty growers, thorny, the berr
is good quality. Should be set near Alfred, they
it will bear big crops. Ripe in July.

Plants 25c each; $2.25 per dozen.

AULO OR YOUNGBERRY

A cross between the Logan and Austin berry. A
large berry, well flavored and makes a hardy vine.
Ripens a few days before the Boysen,

25c each; $2.25 per 12

RIVERSIDE

Originated down near the Colorado River in Mills
County. A good bearer and fine quality.

AUSTIN BERRY

A very large blackberry, shiny and attractive when
boxed. The plants are vigorous and very produc-
tive. Do not overlook the Austin to furnish »
longer berry period.

BOYSENBERRY

A big luscious berry. A few days later than the
Young; sells good on the market.

MULBERRIES
Fine for the Chicken Yard

Mulberry Prices

3 to 4 foot,
4 to 5 foot,

THE HICKS (Everbearing)

ears for tour months through the spring and laty
into the summer. ‘rhe trees will grow into grea.
size. ‘The mulberries are large and good quality.

THE NEW AMERICAN MULBERRY

Often ripe by the fifteenth of April.
Bears for six weeks.

each $1.00
each $1.25

Keal early.
Tastes extra.

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LANDSCAPING IS EASY WITH OUR BIG SELECTION OF STOCK

CEDRUS DEODORA

I only have a few of these to offer, as my seed
supply was cut off from the foreign countries.
3 to 4 foot. Price $4.00 each.

Ce ee) NANDINA

The most colorful of
all evergreens, leaves
turn a fiery red in the
winter and have red
berries in cluster. Nan-
dina 10 to 12 inches,
$1.00; 12 to 18 inches,
$1.25; 18 to 24 inches,
$1.50 each.

ABELIA

Foliage dark glossy
green with small white
and pink flowers;
leaves turn bronze in
the fall and winter.
One-year plants, 75c
each,

CEDAR OF LEBANON

Comes from the Lebanon mountains in Palestine.
John D. Rockfellow gave ten thousand dollars to
get one of these trees moved. It was a favorite of
Luther Burbank. When small it is a very scragly
plant. But as it gets older it grows in grace and
will become a land mark for miles around. We
have only a few of these trees left and since they
can only be grown from seed and the seed come
from Palestine it may be years before there are
any more. I do not know of any thing finer for a
church yard, or park. (3 foot plants balled not pre-
aera $4.00 each, 4 foot plants balled not prepaid
$5.00.)

Ma

BAKERS ARBOR
VITAE

A pyramidal type of
evergreen, widely used
in landscape planting,
12 to 18 inches $1.00
each.

ROSEDALE
ARBORVITAE

Round, compact and a
very beautiful green
color, 12-inch plants $1

each.

EUONYMOUS

A good evergreen to plant either for hedge or
next to the wall. Broad glossy leaves. One-year
plants; 2 years.

WE PAY TRANSPORTATION ON ORDERS OF $5
OR MORE. FOR ORDERS OF LESS THAN $5
ADD 15c TO EACH DOLLAR FOR PACKING AND
POSTAGE CHARGES.

PFITZERS JUNIPER

A low spreading type of evergreen, bare rooted.
Price $1.00 each.

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YOURS FOR A MORE BEAUTIFUL YARD AND GARDEN.

3 RED LEAF PLUM

Originated by a lady Burbank here in Stephenville.
I hardly know whether to list this among fruit
trees or ornamentals. In this tree you really have
both. Makes a large symmetrical tree. The leaves are
between purple and bright red. It will attract the
attention of all passers. But this is not all. It bears
a large red plum with red meat. The plums are best
quality and so far the tree has shown ability to
bear large crops of fruit and resist frost. We have

only two to three foot trees of this, 75¢ each.

LIGUSTRUMS

Oriental plant and a beauty. Makes a nice spreading
tree or can be grown in a hedge. Leaves large,
shiny. Used as an evergreen shage tree in places.

12-inch plants, 15c, 18-inch, 30c, 30-inch, 50c, each.

MEXICAN DIANTHUS or HARDY
TUBE ROSES PINKS
Easily grown and ver
sweet and fragrant. I can furnish these for
Six strong bulbs, 50c 25¢ each
MIMOSA SEED

See our description of Mimosa on page 26, pkt. of
seed 25 cts.

HORSERADISH ROOTS

"Horseradish can be grown in the south, giving best
results in rich, rather moist partly shaded locations.
Set the roots small end down or flat with tops
two inches below surface. Cultivate well until

leaves cover the ground. May be used in the house

in pots for oriental looking house plants. 50c per

12, 25 roots 90c, 50 roots $1.75.

CANNAS

ity of Portland—
Deep rose, green foli-
age.

Hungaria—Pink.
Eureka—White.
President—Bright red.
Shenandoah — Yellow
with red specks.
Golden Gate—Yellow.

Statue of Lib =
Red. oe

Rose Gigantea—Pink.

Louisiana—Red edged with yellow.
Prices on Cannas, 15c each, $1.00 per dozen.

ANGEL LILY

Looks almost like an
orchid, 15¢ each.

QUEENS CROWN
BULBS

A fast growing vine that nas pmk blossoms.
old plants, 25¢ each.

Year

AMOOR RIVEK
PRIVET

Leading hedge plant
for the South. Small
round leaves that re-
main on the plant all
winter.

12-inch plants 6c, 18-
inch 10c, 30-inch 20c,
each.

LODENSE PRIVET

A dwarf growing
privet. A fine border
plant. 10-inch plants,
7c each; $6.50 per 100.

CALIFORNIA
PRIVET

Has big shining leaves.
Can be sheared or used
as specimen plant. 2
to 3 ft. plants, 15c ea.;
$10.00 per 100.

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SHADE TREES ADD VALUE AND BEAUTY TO YOUR HOME!

WEEPING WILLOW
A well known weeping tree. Nice to plant in back

yard or anywhere you want a tree.
all as very beautiful.
FLOWERING WILLOW
A willow that stands the driest weather. Beautiful
with pink flowers. Blooms all summer.
JUDAS TREE or REDBUD

A long-lifed shade tree; hard wood; large round
leaves, making a dense shade. The first tree to

Regarded by

bloom in spring; has pretty red flowers which last
a few weeks.

CHINESE ELM
I am now listing Chinese Elm trees so cheaply you
can afford to buy them if you live on a rented

place.

SHADE TREES
Shade Trees: Weeping Willow, Flowering Willow,
Red Bud, Chinese Elm, Mimosa, Tamarix, 2 to 3
foot, 50c; 3 to 4 foot, $1.00; and 4 to 5 foot, $1.50
each.

VINES

, WISTERIA—I can furnish either purple or blue

at 75c each.

HALLS HONEYSUCKLE — Yellow and very fra-
grant. 25¢ each.

TARTARIAN HONEYSUCKLE — Pink flowers in
May and June, followed by red berries. “Grows
8 to 10 feet tall, 75c each.

BITTERSWEET — Glossy foliage with cluster of
berries, 75c each. é

TAMARIX-SALT CEDAR

Beautiful Cypress-like blue green foliage produced
in plumes, makes a shrubby picturesque tree in
southern sections. Blooms during the spring and
summer, has rose or orchid colored blossoms.

CRAPE MYRTLE
I can furnish these in
pink, red and orchid.
1 to 2 foot, 35¢ each;
2 to 3 foot, 50c each,
and 3 to 4 foot, $1.00
each,

SPIREA
THUNBERGIA

Has a feathery - like
foliage and a solid
mass of white flow-
ers in early spring.
75c each.

MIMOSA

Accacia Julibrisin. The
great South African
Fern. This is the tree
that you see in the
picture shows when
you see a picture of
South Africa. This
tree not only makes a
specimen tree out on
the lawn but will be
good against the house
if kept cut back. It
can also be grown into
a hedge. It is a le-
gume and gathers fertilizer from the air and this
makes it fine on the lawn. Grass will grow thrift-
ier near this tree than away from it. When I saw
this tree a few years ago I became enthusiastic
about it. I have worked up an immense stock and
will put the price down to where you can afford
to set the trees even in a hedge. Understand these
trees not only add beauty to your yard and lawns,
but make the soil richer.

SS eee

FITZGERALD NURSERY-

-STEPHENVILLE,

TEXAS

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YOU WILL NEVER REGRET A PURCHASE FROM FITZGERALD'S

Golden Bell

The earliest blooming of all shrubs.
Plants are a mass of golden yellow bell
shaped flowers before the leaves ap-
pear. Valuable for early flowers.

75c Each

Kansas Gay Feather

A native wild flower, blooms every
Fall in long spikes, a pure lavender.
Makes a beautiful bed and will grow
any where. I have lots of these on my
place and will send you twelve bulbs
for 50c.

Ginkgo or Maiden Hair

It is claimed this tree existed on earth
long before any other tree existed. Has
three lobed very beautiful leaves and
the tree grows to immense size. If you
like trees in collection you will have to
have this one before your collection is
complete. Bears an edible nut.

Price, 4 foot trees $1.50 each

Chinese Pistachio

This plant is often called a nut tree
and is related to the Pistachio of com-
merce. We will not be able to get any
more seed from China and offer only a
few of these trees. The tree is one of
the strongest growing trees known. It is
a very attractive tree and has crotches
like no other plant. In the fall when the
weather begins to get cold the leaves
become a flaming red and a large tree
is a thing of beauty.

Soto; 4 ithe ele 5 Oneach
4to 5 ft... . $2.00 each
Santolina

A white foliage plant used for bor-
ders and in cemetery lots. Resembles
the lavender but has round leaves in-
stead of flat, very striking if kept pruned.

Plants 10c Each

English Ivy

A very hardy vine clings closely to
wall covering it completely with leaves
overlapping like shingles. Will also
cling to brick or rock.

Plants 15c Each

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COEROPSIS

Flamingo Honeysuckle

(Evergreen)

We called this extraordinary new honeysuckle “The
Flamingo” knowing that when we thought of
anything that resembled this beautiful bird it
must be outstanding. The pets are large
flame-coral lined with gold, and appear in clusters
very fragrant after nightfall. Can be allowed to
grow naturally or will climb a trellis. If pruned
can be made into a specimen plant. Foliage dark
blue-green, very hardy. Blooms from May until
Frost. I only have small plants, $1.00. each.

Jasmine Humile, or Yellow
Jasmine

A semi vine evergreen with yellow blossoms
used extensively in foundation plantings. 75c each.

Cape Jasmine

If you have ever seen one of them you do not
need a description. Has glossy thick leaves with
white blossoms that has a distinctive sweet odor,
one bloom will perfume an entire house.

Use fertilizer from horse lot and give plenty
of water and this plant will bloom from spring
until frost. Hardy variety, $1.00 each.

Red Leaf Barberry

If you need color in your planting use the Red
Leafed Barberry. Low growing anc the leaves are
intensely red. Plants 75¢c each.

Mahonia

A very beautiful evergreen shrub with shining
holly-like leaves, stems are crowned with bright
yellow flowers in March and April. The leaf color
varies throughout the year assuming all shades of
green which changes to a reddish bronze in fall
and winter. 24 inch, $1.00 each,

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Coreopsis

Large yellow darsy-like flower.
One of the hardiest plants we
have good for border or mass
planting. 3 for 25c prepaid.

Scabiosa-

- Perennial
(SOLD OUT)

SCABIOSA-PERENNIAL

scarlet Japan Quince

One of the best flowering shrubs, flowers a bright
scarlet crimson, borne in great profusion in early
spring. Foliage retains its color of glossy green
all summer, hardy, 75c each.

Wax-Leaf Privet

This is a beautiful thick leafed evergreen, the
leaves are glossy and show up in any planting.
They can be pruned for a hedge, are used for
specimen plants. Two foot plants 50c each.

Shrubs

SPIREA FROEBELLI—Deep rose-colored blooms in
the middle of summer. 50c¢ each.

SPIREA VAN HOUTTI or Bridal Wreath—A well
known spirea. Always used. 50c each.

SPJREA ANTHONY WATERER—A dwarf shrub
with red flowers. Good for borders. 50c¢ each.

ALTHEA—IJ can furnish these in white, pink or
orchid. 50c each.

CORAL BERRY—Covered with red berries all win-
ter, 50c each.

IRIS—We have a big assortment of iris but unable
to give any special color. 50c per 12, mixed.

Vitex

To my way of thinking one of the most beautifu.
of all shrubs. Will grow in the driest land and
constantly covered with great bunches of beautiful
blue flowers. I recommend that all bee men
plant this as it is not only ornamental but is
liked by the bees. Makes a nice hedge. 75¢ each
for 2 to 3 foot plants. ;

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Wild Persimmon Seed

We save seeds of wild Persimmon from the best
bearing trees we have in our orchard. About half
the trees will bear the others male trees. The
wild persimmon is one of the most valuable trees
we have on our place. We have single trees that
bear as much as fifteen bushels and are very fine
hog feed. The persimmons sell fairly well on the
market. Should be planted about two inches
deep. Packed about 50 seed 25c

Cactus

This is the prickly pear of the South but without
thorns. Cows and sheep eat it greedily. This plant
is said to have been found in a thicket by a Mexi-
can near Corpus Christi.
far north as any pear.

This pear will grow as
It is not the tender, useless,
Burbank kind. After it is well started tons of
nice green feed can be grown on an acre. Nothing
finer for milch cows in winter. Any waste land
will grow it, no matter how poor. In planting
the leaf should be slightly covered, leaving part
out, or in the spring lay them flat with a small
rock on them. One leaf, 10c; $1.00 per dozen.

Jerusalem Artichokes

Also called Geresol. Grows well on good cotton
and corn land but does not require so much cul-
tivation since the plants grow very fast. The small
tubers planted whole but the large ones can be cut
up like Irish potatoes. Makes as many or more
bushels than Irish potatoes and can be used for
them, The Tubers are often recomended for dia-
betics. This is one of our overlooked plants since
they are fine to fatten hogs and the hogs do their

own digging. One pound postpaid 35c, Ten pounds
$1.25 and fifty pounds $4 by express. We are all
looking for something easily cultivated—try arti-
chokes.

I take this little corner in my catalog
to tell you if there are any short com-
ings I wrote the book myself.

I could have hired a man to write
it for me, he might have not known the
difference between a June bug and a
weed seed, but he could have made
exaggerated claims. So you can know
by reading this catalog a fellow wrote
it who is close to the soil.

Porto-Rica Sweet Potato
Plant

We get so many inquiries for these plants we
decided to quote them, though they often cause a
lot of grief because they can not be shipped on the
dot every time. Per hundred, prepaid 95c; thou-
sand, $6.00.

FITZGERALD NURSERY

- STEPHENVILLE,

TEXAS

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SOIL BUILDING SEED WE GROW HERE ON THE FARM

KUDZU

This is the plant that is being much ad-
vertised at this time. I have, I believe, the
fastest growing strain of all. If planted along
a terrace the terrace will never break, and
they will make a lot of stock feed. One acre

of Kudzu, if properly managed, will keep a

CREAM CROWDER PEAS

Very delicious peas. Vines vigorous. 50c per pound.

BROWN CROWDER

We tried fer years to get this genuine. Peas grow
very close in pod. Good for table, 50c per pound.

BLACKEYED PEAS

Well known, 50c per pound.

LADY PEAS

Very small, but delicious. Makes a big vine. A
few seed go a long way. 50c per pound.

TEXAS VINING PEA

The peas are cream colored and the vines run flat

on the ground for ten feet. Good quality, 50c per
pound,

cow. Hogs and chickens like it. I now have
worked up such an immense stock of plants
that I can make a price so all can afford to
plant it along the terraces. A beautiful vine
for the yard or porch. Strong one year plants.
Ten plants, $1.50; 100 plants, $10.00.

TEXAS LONGHORN BLACKEYED PEA

An extra strong growing blackeyed pea. 50c per
pound.

BLACKEYED CROWDER PEAS

Considered by all about the best quality. 50c per
pound,

POKE SEED

Makes a very excellent greens in the early spring.
Some claim it is good for spring fever. After
once established lives a long time. Packet seed

or dried berries 10c.

GARLIC

Here is something that will be hard to get and
high priced. We have a few small bulbs that will

go a long ways. 50c per pound. Postpaid.

FITZGERALD NURSERY

- STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS

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SALMAGUNDI

1000, postpaid.

18 inch plants at 50c¢ each.

Old-Fashioned Cornfield
Beans

Years ago we raised a bean here in this
country that made more to the acre than any
other bean. I had lost seed of them until a
few years ago I sent to a man in Georgia and
got some of the same seed, These are vine
beans, but will make all right without stakes.
Large, meaty fellows that bring the highest

market price. Why raise poor beans when

you can raise this one, Be sure and get a

start this year. Plant in July. Price per
ounce, 20c; per pound, 75c, postpaid.

SEA CANE

Must be a species of Bamboo but I am unable to
find it described in any reference book. Grows up
in great clumps. The name we have always had it
under gives the impression that it will grow near
the sea. I find it growing on the very poorest land.
Fine for stakes, fishing poles, to make shades, etc.
It will stop ditches and make a wind break to
hold the sand. I have never seen anywhere that it
is good stock feed but I find that mules will eat
this when in green state. I believe it could be made
very valuable on marsh land as stock feed or
around ponds. Tops die back every year and come
out fro mthe roots. Three clumps for 50c.

ASPARAGUS

MARY WASHINGTON—10c each; 35c
per 12; 75c per 50; $1.25 per 100; $8.50 per

RHUBARB

VICTORIA, best of all for South
Strong Plants, 5 for $1.00 or $2.00 per 12.

Rosedale Abor Vitaes

A very beautiful plant. Some people make hedges of them. They do not
hold their shape well when they get older. We have a big surplus of these
and if you order as much as ten dollars worth of other trees and plants
we will put in this Abor Vitaes at 25c each. Plants ten inches high. Or

ELDER

Elder. Famous for elderberry wine in the
north. Grows well in the south but pre-
fers a damp place. A low growing shrub
or bush that has great bunches of white
flowers in the early spring. Suckers
come up from the roots making it a good
plant to stop ditches. Some use on tank
dam to keep the dams from eroding
back into the tanks. Price plants 50c
each,

Thicket Plums

The old fashioned yellow and red thick-
et plums make a good place for chick-
ens and also fine for jelly and preserves

four trees, $1.00.

FITZGERALD NURSERY

- STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS

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A few books that will be of help to
farmers or tree growers. Any orchardist
needs several of these books. They will
also be of help to the general farmer.

MODERN FRUIT PRODUCTION

By Joseph H. Gourley and Freeman S,
Howlett. Here is a full, up-to-date book on the
practical aspects of modern fruit production.
It tells how to select sites and stock, how and
when to prune, how to train vines and bushes
and to make grafts, and gives full analysis of
production costs. Many excellent illustrations,
charts and graphs; 579 pages; 6144 by 91%
inches. $6.00

CYCLOPEDIA OF HARDY FRUITS

By U. P. Hedrick, Revised and enlarged,
this well-known book covers all the hardy fruits
grown in North America. Illustrated with 16
photographs in color and halftone and several
hundred line drawings. It recommends varieties
according to the regions where fruit is to be
grown and gives the history of the many
varieties discussed. 390 pages; 71% x 10%
inches. $6.00

PRINCIPLES OF FRUIT GROWING

By L. H. Bailey. Practical information for
growers of every kind of tree and bush fruits.
Tells where to locate the orchard, how to plant,
cultivate, prune, spray for high production.
Methods of harvesting, grading, and marketing
are described. 186 illustrations; 432 pages; 54
x 71% inches. $3.50

MAGIC GARDENS

A Modern Chronicle of Herbs and Savory
Seeds, by Rosetta E. Clarkson, This delightful
book gives detailed information about more
than 200 herbs; practical suggestions with
charts for the little known phases of herb cul-
ture and planting, recipes, household ‘hints,
other uses and their traditions and legends.
50 illustrations include reproductions from
famous old herbals; 375 pages; 554 x 83%
inches. $3.50

COMMERCIAL APPLE INDUSTRY OF

NORTH AMERICA

By J. C. Folger and S. M. Thomson. A

comprehensive treatment is given of all phases

of apple growing from planting an orchard to
the marketing of the fruit. Illustrated $3.75

PEACH GROWING
By H. P. Gould. Here is a history of the
peach in the U. S. and the development and
extent of the commercial industry. Mlustrat-
ed. $3.00

THE PEAR AND ITS CULTURE

By H. B. Tukey. This book brings together
in compact form the latest and best informa<-
tio. about the pear. For the amatuer and the
home gardener. $1.25

MANUAL OF AMERICAN GRAPE GROWING

By U. P. Hedrick. A wealth of information
for the gardener, and commercial grower of
grapes. Illustrated, $3.50

NUT GROWING

By Robert T. Morris. Complete, practical
directions on the care of nut trees and shrubs.
Mlustrated. $2.75

PRUNING TREES AND SHRUBS

By E. P. Felt. This book presents in con-
cise form and non-technical language the
more important matters in relation to pruning
woody plants. $2.00

WINE MAKERS MANUAL

By P. Boswell. A guide for the home win
maker and the small winery. $1.50

THE NURSERY MANUAL

By L. H. Bailey. Indispensable to everyone
who propogates plants. Contains an alphabeti-
cal list of plants with full indications under
each one for propogation, whether by seeds,
layerings, cuttings, buds, or grafts. Gives an
invaluable account of the main insects and
diseases and how to control them. 240 illustra-

tions; 456 pages; 514 x 714 inches. $2.50
SPRAYING, DUSTING AND FUMIGATING
OF PLANTS

By A. F. Mason. An invaluable hand-
book and _ reference for fruit growers,
vegetable gardeners, nurserymen and home
gardeners. Tells what pests to expect and
how to identify and control] them, how to
choose the right spray materials, how to select
spraying and dusting machinery, and other
details for pest control of fruits, vegetables, and
garden plants. 237 illustrations, 570 pages; 5%
x 8 inches. $3.50

GARDEN MAINTENANCE
By H. Stuart Ortloff and Henry B. Ray-
more. Every gardener wants to know how to
prune, fertilize, spray, and care for flowers,
trees, shrubs, and lawns. This is a book to
answer all such questions, and to bring success
to establish gardens as well as to those newly
planned and planted. It is written for the
home owner who already has a lawn and garden
space. 38 illustrations; 316 pages; 514 x 834
inches. $2.50

HANDBOOK OF FERTILIZERS

By A. F. Gustafson. (Revised) Presents the
subject in as simple a form as possible. Treats
source, character, and composition of fertiliz-
ers. Also their application for different pe

A LIVING FROM BEES

By F. C. Pellett. The fundamental phases
of honey are explained and the reason given
for each manipulation $2.00

THE TOMATO

By P. Work. A practical book for every-
day use. Plant growing, soil management, field
culture, enemies, and marketing. $1.25

THE MAINTENANCE OF SOIL FERTILITY

By C. E. Thorne. Discusses the principles
governing the maintenance of soil fertility. It
will be of service to the student and to the
working farmer on his farm. $3.00

THE GHOST OF THE McDOW

By J. E. Fitzgerald. A story of the long ago
when you used to scrooch down at mother’s
knee when a ghost story was told. The strange
happenings at the McDow were never ex-
plained. $1.50

Aawy of above beoka sent postpaid. Give us a few days to get them from publisher.
FITZGERALD NURSERY

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