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Fruit Growing Today Is One Of The Most Profitable Branches Of Aqriculture^ 



3Ir. Homer 8. Kemp, Asst. Mgr. of our firm, is standing: amoii^ -. n , ^, ,.j,i Jonathan apple •..- 1 I, ^ 



are specimens of vigor and are ready to give you the best of result-, when planted into an orchard. We have 

 many thousands like these to deliver to our customers this j ear. 



Plum Trees 



The Plum, like the Pear and other finer fruits suc- 

 ceeds best in heavy soil with some clay, and being al- 

 most entirely free from disease, they can be grown very 

 profitably. The finer kinds are excellent desserf fruits, 

 of rich and luscious flavor; for cooking and canning 

 they arc unsurpassed. 



Each 10 100 



Largest size, 2 yr., 5-6 ft $ .85 $7.00 §60.00 



Medium size, 2 yr., 4-5 ft 70 6.00 50.00 



Tery fine, 1 yr. buds, 4-6 ft 60 5.00 40.00 



3Iedium size, 1 yr., 3-4 ft 50 4.00 35.00 



EUROPEAN PLUM 



'RRfir>QHfi\A7 ^^^^y large, dark violet-red, flesh 

 £»ll.rxiy»^J^/^ VV yellowish green: juicy and pleas, 

 ant ; tree vigorotis, erect and productive. 



FELLEMBURG OR ITALIAN PRUNE 



Our most popular Commercial plum. It succeeds under 

 most all climatic and soil conditions. The fruit is 

 dark purple with a dark blue bloom medium to large 

 size, oval, pointed and tapering. The flesh is juicy and 

 delicious and it is very flne for drying and canning. 

 It is fast replacing the German prune in commercial 

 plum orchards. We are glad to say we have a flne lot 

 of one year trees of this splendid variety to offer this 

 year. This plum and the Early Italian prune we are 

 selling make a very profitable combination. 



'GERMAN PRUNE ;^„;,f,'rY„^r 7<:Se.°t' if^f 



most esteemed for drying and preserving. Large, long, 

 oval, purple, with a heavy blue bloom: flesh flrm, sweet 

 and pleasant, separating from the stone. Moderate to 

 vigorous in growth. September. 



TMPFRIAT riAH-F Large, oval, yellowish- 

 llvirHini/^ii Va/1^£. green with marbled 

 green stripes, heavy white bloom, flesh greenish, juicy, 

 melting, rich and best quality; tree upright and vigor- 

 ous. September. 



T OTVTR ARD ^J^^dium, roundish - oval, violet red, 

 ±a\^x ±sjx-i.a.i.i^ juicy and pleasant: adheres to stone: 

 valuable market sort, hardy, and adapted to light soils: 

 a reasonably sure cropper. 



SHROPSHIRE DAMSON rt,o^%J^ 



and enormously productive: fruit of medium size pro- 

 duced in thick clusters or groups, dark purple color, es- 

 teemed for preserving. 



D ATVr^OM "^^^^ old-fashioned blue Damson, known 

 "^■•^* ^'^^^'■^ to every housewife for the fine jelly 

 and preserves they make. Tree very hardv and prolific 

 bearer. 



JAPANESE PLUMS 



ARTTNrjAWr'F one of the best Japan Plums. 

 r\iJKJX.'%l^£\l^\^s:j Tree is very rapid grower, 

 healthy, and comes into bearing quite young and yields 



abundantly : medium size, rich, bright cherrv red with 

 distinct bloom and highly perfumed: flesh light vellow. 

 juicy and tender, and excellent qualitv. Tree vigorous 

 and hardy. 



RTTRRANl?" Medium to large, orange- vellow, dot- 

 uyjxiurxL^ax fed and marbled with red,'flesh meaty 

 yelloAV, sweet and good; valuable for canning and a 

 good market plum. Hardy and most prolific of the 

 Japan varieties. 



NEW PLUMS 



We offer the following new Plums for your approval. 

 All are worthy varieties and surpass other Plums for 

 the orchardist to grow. Our stock is limited and can 

 only supply 1 yr. trees on Plum roots. 



Each 10 



4-5 ft., 1 yr § .75 §6.00 



3-4 ft., 1 yr 60 5.00 



2-3 ft.. 1 yr 50 4.00 



CTHMTPY A cross between Agen and Grand Duke. 

 *^ * '"■■'■^ ■"■" ■*■ The fruit is of the prune type, excel- 

 lent for cooking or eating out of hand. The tree is 

 healthy, vigorous and produces full crop annually. Fruit 

 is large in size, dark-blue with heavy bloom: flesh, 

 greenish-yellow, juicy, fine-grained, tender, flrm. sweet, 

 pleasant : quality, good to very good. Freestone. Mid- 

 season. Stanley and Hall are two of the New York Ex- 

 periment Station's prize plums. One year old trees only. 



EARLY ITALIAN PRUNE i^ Jp^SlVi'^': 



ing about two weeks before the regular Italian nrune, 

 same size, quality and color. Every grower of plums 

 knows how much it would mean to them to be able to 

 have the Italian prune two weeks earlier and that is 

 what you have in this plum. It should prove a money 

 maker. Can supply in one year trees only. 



Apricot Trees 



All Varieties, Fine 4 to 5 Feet Trees 

 60c eat'h; §5.00 for 10 



ALEXANDER (Russian) ?^,^r'o'?anl°e. ^^^ 



flushed with red: flesh tender, juicy, sweet and good 

 quality ; hardy ; very productive. July. 



TV/T^^PP npTT" One of the largest: orange-yellow 

 * ■'•^^^^^■^'•■*' **"'-i-*»- with numerous specks and dots : 

 flesh yellow, sweet, juicy and rich. August. 



PARTY riOT nFM -^ good variety: very large 

 J^z-iiiXjX V^V^XjI^J^IN deep golden yellow, and flne 

 in quality. 



SUPFRR I^ated by many as the best of our older 

 •*'^* ■*-****' and widely planted varieties of apricots. 

 The tree is large, very thrifty and hardy and is ex- 

 tremely productive. Very good qualitv. Fruit is beau- 

 tiful yellow with slight blush; flesh fi'rm and solid. 



