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  OUR 
  SEARCH 
  FOR 
  NEW 
  AND 
  IMPROVED 
  FRUITS 
  

  

  FRUIT 
  DEPARTMENT 
  

  

  ARE 
  YOU 
  PLANTING 
  THE 
  BEST? 
  

  

  New 
  and 
  Improved 
  Apples 
  

  

  OF 
  RECENT 
  

   INTRODUCTION 
  

  

  THE 
  

  

  RED 
  

   YORK 
  

  

  "COLORA" 
  

  

  Granted 
  Plant 
  Patent 
  No. 
  168 
  Mar. 
  10, 
  1936 
  

   SEE 
  FRONT 
  COVER 
  FOR 
  COLOR 
  ILLUSTRATION 
  

  

  POSSIBLY 
  THE 
  MOST 
  VALUABLE 
  APPLE 
  EVER 
  INTRODUCED 
  TO 
  THE 
  FRUIT 
  GROW- 
  

   ERS 
  IN 
  THE 
  GREAT 
  YORK 
  IMPERIAL 
  PRODUCING 
  AREAS 
  

  

  "THE 
  PLANTERS 
  DREAM 
  OF 
  A 
  BRIGHT, 
  SOLID 
  RED, 
  YORK 
  IMPERIAL 
  APPLE 
  

  

  HAS 
  COME 
  TRUE" 
  

  

  Now 
  you 
  can 
  harvest 
  100% 
  U. 
  S. 
  Fancy 
  and 
  No. 
  1 
  York 
  apples 
  by 
  planting 
  the 
  "COL- 
  

   ORA 
  RED 
  YORK." 
  Without 
  question 
  the 
  finest 
  type 
  of 
  RED 
  YORK 
  IMPERIAL 
  apple 
  now 
  

   being 
  offered. 
  

  

  TREES 
  GROWN 
  and 
  FOR 
  SALE 
  EXCLUSIVELY 
  by 
  

  

  BOUNTIFUL 
  RIDGE 
  

   NURSERIES 
  

  

  Since 
  the 
  introduction 
  of 
  the 
  Richared 
  and 
  Blaxtayman, 
  which 
  were 
  decided 
  improvements 
  over 
  the 
  older 
  

   types 
  of 
  Delicious 
  and 
  Staymans 
  Winesap, 
  the 
  growers 
  of 
  the 
  York 
  Imperial 
  variety 
  kept 
  asking 
  us 
  when 
  we 
  

   would 
  be 
  able 
  to 
  offer 
  an 
  improved 
  type 
  of 
  the 
  York 
  Imperial 
  which 
  would 
  give 
  to 
  them 
  a 
  higher" 
  percentage 
  of 
  

   color 
  on 
  the 
  fruit 
  and 
  the 
  apple 
  retaining 
  the 
  same 
  characteristics 
  of 
  the 
  old 
  York 
  Imperial 
  and 
  we 
  continued 
  our 
  

   search 
  for 
  this 
  type 
  of 
  an 
  apple 
  until 
  we 
  found 
  what 
  we 
  believe 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  fulfillment 
  of 
  the 
  grower's 
  require- 
  

   ments 
  in 
  what 
  we 
  have 
  now 
  introduced 
  as 
  the 
  Colora 
  Red 
  York 
  Imperial. 
  A 
  brief 
  History 
  of 
  the 
  Colora 
  Red 
  

   York 
  is 
  given 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  planting 
  season 
  of 
  1908, 
  Lloyd 
  Balderston, 
  Ill's 
  father 
  made 
  a 
  planting 
  of 
  several 
  hundred 
  York 
  

   Imperial 
  Trees 
  on 
  his 
  farm 
  at 
  Colora, 
  Cecil 
  County, 
  Maryland. 
  When 
  these 
  trees 
  came 
  into 
  fruiting, 
  Mr. 
  Balderston 
  

   found 
  among 
  them 
  a 
  tree 
  which 
  seemed 
  to 
  produce 
  fruit 
  which 
  was 
  equally 
  as 
  large 
  as 
  the 
  fruit 
  on 
  the 
  other 
  trees 
  

   in 
  the 
  same 
  orchard 
  and 
  still 
  a 
  typical 
  York 
  Imperial 
  in 
  every 
  respect 
  except 
  that 
  it 
  started 
  coloring 
  earlier 
  and 
  at 
  

   maturity 
  every 
  apple 
  on 
  the 
  tree 
  was 
  very 
  highly 
  colored 
  fruit. 
  He 
  continued 
  to 
  observe 
  this 
  for 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  

   years, 
  the 
  tree 
  never 
  failing 
  to 
  produce 
  this 
  type 
  of 
  fruit 
  according 
  to 
  his 
  observations. 
  During 
  a 
  conversation 
  

   with 
  Mr. 
  Lloyd 
  Balderston, 
  III, 
  during 
  the 
  Winter 
  Meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Maryland 
  Horticultural 
  Society, 
  held 
  in 
  Col- 
  

   lege 
  Park, 
  Maryland, 
  January 
  1933, 
  he 
  told 
  us 
  of 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  York 
  Imperial 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  on 
  his 
  place, 
  and 
  from 
  

   the 
  description 
  which 
  he 
  gave 
  to 
  us 
  we 
  believed 
  this 
  was 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  Red 
  York 
  Imperial 
  that 
  we 
  were 
  looking 
  for 
  

   and 
  which 
  would 
  fulfill 
  the 
  desires 
  of 
  the 
  growers 
  of 
  the 
  York 
  Imperial 
  type 
  of 
  apple. 
  

  

  As 
  soon 
  as 
  we 
  knew 
  definitely 
  where 
  the 
  original 
  tree 
  was, 
  grafts 
  were 
  set 
  from 
  the 
  original 
  tree 
  to 
  repro- 
  

   duce 
  the 
  fruit 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  know 
  whether 
  it 
  would 
  come 
  true 
  to 
  type. 
  We 
  observed 
  this 
  original 
  tree 
  very 
  closely 
  

   during 
  the 
  fruiting 
  seasons 
  of 
  1933, 
  1934, 
  and 
  1935 
  and 
  each 
  year 
  all 
  of 
  the 
  fruit 
  which 
  it 
  bore 
  would 
  be 
  extremely 
  

   highly 
  colored 
  apples 
  attaining 
  this 
  color 
  at 
  least 
  three 
  weeks 
  before 
  the 
  regular 
  York 
  Imperial 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  

   orchard. 
  Our 
  main 
  interest 
  then 
  was 
  to 
  know 
  whether 
  our 
  grafts 
  which 
  we 
  set 
  would 
  produce 
  true 
  to 
  type 
  and 
  

   during 
  the 
  fruiting 
  season 
  of 
  1935 
  some 
  of 
  these 
  grafts 
  bloomed 
  and 
  set 
  fruit 
  and 
  the 
  fruit 
  which 
  they 
  bore 
  

   were 
  identical 
  to 
  the 
  highly 
  colored 
  fruit 
  borne 
  on 
  the 
  original 
  tree. 
  Again 
  in 
  1936 
  more 
  grafts 
  which 
  were 
  

   set 
  came 
  into 
  fruiting 
  and 
  bore 
  this 
  splendid 
  type 
  of 
  fruit, 
  proA'ing 
  to 
  us 
  without 
  question 
  that 
  we 
  had 
  in 
  this 
  tree 
  

   a 
  definite 
  variation 
  from 
  the 
  old 
  type 
  of 
  York 
  and 
  an 
  improved 
  apple 
  which 
  would 
  mean 
  millions 
  of 
  dollars 
  to 
  the 
  

   growers 
  of 
  the 
  York 
  Imperial 
  type 
  of 
  apple. 
  

  

  After 
  these 
  grafts 
  reproduced 
  this 
  splendid 
  type 
  of 
  fruit 
  in 
  1935, 
  we 
  made 
  application 
  during: 
  the 
  month 
  of 
  

   October 
  for 
  a 
  patent 
  on 
  the 
  variety 
  through 
  Mr. 
  Balderston 
  and 
  on 
  March 
  10, 
  1936, 
  the 
  Plant 
  Patent 
  Authorities, 
  

   recognizing 
  the 
  superiority 
  of 
  this 
  type 
  of 
  York 
  to 
  all 
  other 
  types 
  which 
  had 
  come 
  under 
  their 
  observation 
  and 
  

   realizing 
  its 
  commercial 
  importance, 
  granted 
  to 
  us 
  Plant 
  Patent 
  No. 
  168 
  on 
  the 
  Colora 
  Red 
  York 
  Imperial; 
  ex- 
  

  

  