DIRECT FROM GROWER TO PLANTER 



The results of these exhibitions and the wide distribution of our catalogs in 

 which complete description of the apple was given is that we have shipped this won- 

 derful new apple into most every fruit growing section in the United States from 

 the Pacific Coast to New England States. Its comjmercial value has been realized 

 by the commercial planters throughout, being shown by the large amount of orders 

 received calling for large amounts of the Monmouth Beauty apple trees. This is 

 indeed very gratifying to us and admirably sustains the confidence which we have 

 had in this great apple. 



ANOTHER WORD TO YOUR INTEREST. In all probability you will be ap- 

 proached by other nurserymen and read advertisements claiming that they have the 

 Great New Apple we are introducing — The Monmouth Beauty, or our New Peach 

 — but in this we want you to know the truth and brand their statements as false, 

 for we are the only nurserymen in the United States that have these two new 

 fruits for sale, having the sole right to propagate and sell them and we have not re- 

 leased any of this stock to any nurseryman in the United States. So beware of an 

 agent or another nurseryman that approaches you or wishes to sell you stock claim- 

 ing that it is the Monmouth Beauty Apple or the Hope Farm Peach, or claims that it 

 is the same fruit under another name. YOU CAN SECURE THE TRUE STOCK 

 OF OUR NEW APPLE AND PEACH FROM NO ONE BUT US. 



We have no doubt that this continued interest will exhaust our supply of trees 

 of this Great Apple before our spring shipping season is over, so we earnestly urge 

 that your orders be placed soon if you do not want to be disappointed. 



The following is as complete a description of the New MONMOUTH BEAUTY 

 Apple as it is possible for us to give. READ IT CAREFULLY, and should there be 

 anything that you wish to ask regarding it, write to us and we will be glad to give 

 what further information we can. 



Description 



We are about to tell you of a new variety 

 of an apple, and it is only natural that every 

 one should want to know something of the 

 history of this apple, and we are going to tell 

 you of it as near as we possibly can. We feel 

 that we are not going to do the apple justice 

 in all the good things we say about it, but we 

 desire to tell the plain facts about it and let 

 the real fruit growing public pass judgment on 

 this apple in general. 



The origin of this apple as near as we can 

 possibly tell is put forth in the following state- 

 ment from Mr. C. R. Applegate in whose or- 

 chard the apple made its first appearance. Mr. 

 Applegate says: "Referring to the history of 

 the new apple that I have discovered in my or- 

 chard would say that this tree was set in as 

 a filler in a Duchess of Oldenburg block where 

 a tree had died. After this tree was set it 

 died back and a new shoot appeared from the 

 ground. When I pruned the following year I 

 discovered this shoot and my intention at that 

 time was to bud or graft this shoot over later 

 but forgot all about it. The following spring- 

 when I pruned I found that this shoot showed 

 characteristics that I was not familiar with, 

 showing thrift and looking promising otherwise 

 so I decided to let it stand and see what it 

 would amount to. The result was that it has 

 grown to be a fine tree and it has now fruited 

 for several years in succession and I think it is 

 far superior to any other apple of this season 

 that is now in cultivation- 

 Note: Mr. Applegate is a practical orchard- 

 ist, cultivating successfully several hundred 

 acres of orchards in Monmouth County, N. J. 

 ^ Our attention was attracted bv this apple 

 in August, 1924, while in Mr. Applegate's pack- 



ing house near Freehold, N. J., and we were 

 very favorably impressed with the general ap- 

 pearance of the apple and we asked to see the 

 tree from which the fruit was picked J The 

 following is a description of the tree from our 

 first observation and the many times we have 

 seen it since. The tree has semi-dwarf char- 

 acteristics such as the Wealthy, only more 

 spreading, producing a very rugged growth, 

 that is, not long but strong in its general make 

 up, wood very hard and tough, the tree grow- 

 ing thin and spreading, giving the fruit the 

 necessary light and air that is so essential to 

 coloring of the fruit early in the season. The 

 tree showed no signs of blight or cankering or 

 any other defects ^that accompany so many of 

 the good varieties of apples we now have./ It 

 makes its growth early in the year and often 

 sets fruit spurs on the new growth to produce 

 fruit the following year. The fruit spurs are 

 evenly distributed from the base of the limbs 

 to the terminal growth similar to the Mcintosh 

 Red, thereby distributing the fruit well on the 

 tree so as to produce a good crop and good col- 

 or on the fruit. The blossoms are hardy and 

 stand the cold snaps well that we sometimes 

 have during the blossoming time in the spring, 

 the blossoms opening about the same time as 

 the Duchess. 



The original trees have fruited several years 

 in succession now which makes it an annual 

 bearer and now has an abundance of fruit spurs 

 on it for the coming season. The apple is not 

 a tender apple during the growing season and 

 it not subject to spray burn or scab or other 

 injurious diseases that some of the more tender 

 apples are subject to. The apple colors well 

 early in the season and gets good size early, 



