MAKES ABSOLUTELY 



SEEDLESS * RAISINS 



The very best for Culinary Use! 



This Grape has been thoroughly tested in California, 

 having been grown and raisins made of it, in Sutter County, 

 for the past fifteen years. 



It is far superior to the Sultana, being much sweeter, 

 a heavier cropper, more easily dried, and ripens earlier. 



For rooted vines, guaranteed true to name, address, 



B. Q. STABLEB, 



TUBA CITY, 



Sutter County, California. 



Prices reasonable ; given on application for both one and two-year old rooted 

 vines. Will also send sample of raisins, if desired. 



Described by Prof. Kiscii. 



In a communication to California, a Journal of Rural Industry, May No., 1890, entitled "With the 

 Fruit Growers in Sutter County," Prof. Eisen thus refers to Mr. Stabler, and his work : "Mr. B. G. 

 Stabler makes a specialty of dried peaches and seedless raisins, and has succeeded well with both. 

 The principal raisin-grape of this vicinity is the little-known seedless grape, I,ady Decoverly, here 

 known as the Thompson Seedless, he being the first to grow it. Years ago, about 1872, this gen- 

 tleman saw advertised in an Eastern Catalogue a seedless grape, said to come from Constantinople, 

 and was called the I/ady Decoverly. It proved to be very different from the common Sultana, being 

 of yellow color, and of oblong shape. It is certainly strange that this singular variety of grape 

 should have existed here so many years, and failed to attract general attention. It is an enormous 

 bearer, heavier even than the Sultana, and ripens early in August. It makes very choice raisins 

 for cooking purposes. The color is similar to that of the Muscatel, and makes a raisin of beautiful 

 color. Among other novelties in the way of fruit, Mr. Stabler has a Chance Seedling Apricot, 

 which promises to be something extraordinary. It is not yet in bearing, * * * but think of 

 apricot leaves six inches in diameter, and limbs many times as long and strong as those of 

 ordinary apricot trees," etc. 



