Twentieth Century Fruits 



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THE TREES offered in this list are absolutely new creations. None 

 like them exist on this earth. All are early bearers! in fact, hun- 

 dreds of the very trees offered you this season, thoAgh generally 

 only one year old, have borne delicious fruit freely dtiring the past sum- 

 mer all along the nursery rows. It took more than twenty years to instill 

 this character of early and perpetual bearing into these trees. 



"How to Judge Novelties, look to their source," and also if possible 

 purchase direct from the originator, as many new trees, plants and seeds 

 are grossly misrepresented by a few dealers who trade on the reputation 

 of reliable firms, often doing a thriving business by selling trees and 

 plants in localities where they very well know that they cannot thrive; 

 this and the substitution of inferior or wholly worthless trees or plants 

 under the name and reputation of good ones has been, and is now being 

 carried on persistently and systematically by several parties who victim- 

 ize, those who deal with them by trading on the reputations of reliable 

 firms and good trees. 



It should be the duty and privilege of every good citizen to aid in 

 exposing and routing all who are obtaining money under these false 

 pretenses. 



Having been in business almost forty years, millions of trees. raised 

 in my establishment are now bearing fruit, not only in the "Western 

 United States, but everywhere on earth where the sun shines and trees 

 can be grown. I have yet to have a customer complain that the variety 

 was not as represented. Does this record mean anything, and is it 

 surprising that such a reputation should be worth trading on? Counter- 

 feit coins are not counterfeited— it is the genuine ones that are 

 misrepresented. 



In presenting this list of fruit trees, I wish to thank the friends and 

 customers who have in some cases been purchasers for forty years or 

 more. It is exceedingly pleasing to know that the trees produced in and 

 introduced from this establishment have now become Standards in every 

 country, bearing fruit by carloads in the Eastern, as well as this 

 Western Hemisphere, and in the Southern as well as in this Northern half 

 of the world. No one who knows them questions their value, and perhaps 

 nothing during the past century has more infiuenced the trend of horti- 

 culture, or has tended more to remove horticulture from a small branch 

 of agriculture to a veritable science by itself. 



