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FRUIT TREES AND PLANTS. 



AVe make a specialty of mediiiiu size, -n-ell rooted ti-ees 

 ami plants by luail, post-paid, whioli in many ways are 

 more desirable than larger trees. They can be transplanted 

 with more certainty of success, make better growth and 

 handsomer trees. Though when preferred we send larger 

 trees and plants by e:^press at same price at purchaser's 

 expen.se. 



CHOICE APPLES. 



Yello^T Transparent. The earliest apple known ; me- 

 dium to large, rich, transparent, handsome yellow, juicy and 

 excellent. Price, 1 year, by mail, 25c. each ; 5 for $1.00 ; 2 

 year, express, 30c. each ; 4 for $1.00. 



STOKES' G-4RDEN GEM. Half size. 



STOKES' GARDEN GEM. The best garden apple ever 

 ■ (fcred and equally valuableformarket. Bears very young; 



I v-is live feet liigh producing fine specimens of fruit. Ripens 

 ,it'u-r Yellow Transparent, and continues through summer. 

 Tree perfectly hardy, having been grown as far North as 

 Maine for several years, and bears full every year. Very 

 compact grower and dwarf habit, making itspecially adapted 

 to the garden or close planting. Think of it, an apple for 

 your garden, bearing large, luscious, hand.some, yellow, red- 

 clieeked fruit of most excellent quality, rich and mellow ; 

 also splendid for cooking. We control the stock of this valu- 

 able apple. Price, by mail, 75c. each; 2 for W.2o. Bearing 

 size, by express, $1.00 each ; 3 for $2.50. 



■WHINNEKY LATE RED. The latest and best of 

 keepers. Ripens in January and keeps until apples come 

 again. Handsome deep red, good quality and excellent ship- 

 per. Tree a strong grower and very heavy cropper, com- 

 mencing to bear young and continuing every year. Price, 3 

 year, only by express, 40c. each ; 3 for $1.00. 



Ben Davis, Baldvrin, Fallwater, K. I. Greening, 

 Wealthy, Delaware AVinter and Gravenstein. Price, 

 1 year, by mail, 15c. each; 7 for SI. 00. Express, 15c. each; 

 $2.5*per dozen. 



NEW PEARS. 



The Idaho Pear originated at or near the latitude of 

 Quebec. It has survived winters when the thermometer 

 ranged from 15° to 30° below zero. Very productive, 

 fruit of largest size, weighing from sixteen to twenty- 

 three ounces; flavor pleasant, equal to Bartlett. Price, 1 

 year, mail or express, 30c. each, or 4 for $1.00; 2 year, ex- 

 press only, 50c. each. 



Lincoln Coreless Winter Pear. A good grower and 

 excellent shipper. Specimens weigh one to one and one-half 

 pounds. High color, absence of seeds and core. Sucli juicy, 

 luscious flesh found in no other variety of canning fruit. 

 Quality the best. Price, 1 year, $1.00 each, by mail ; 3 for $2.00. 



Vermont Beauty. This beautiful pear originated on 

 Grand Isle, Lake Champlain. Is very hardy. An annual 

 abundant bearer. In quality the fruit approaclies the Seckle ; 

 fruit yellow, covered on thesunny side with a bright carmine 

 red. Flesh melting, rich, juicy, aromatic; best. Ripens after 

 the Seckle, though much larger in size and more attractive in 

 appearance ; cannot fail to prove a general favorite and very 

 valuable. Price, 1 year, mail or express, 40c. each; 3 for 

 $1.00. By express, 50c. each. 



Seckle, Bartlett, Keiffer, B. D. Anjou. Price, 1 year, 

 by mail, 30c. each, 4 for $1.00 ; 2 vears, by express, 40c. each, 

 3 for $1.00. 



JAPANESE CURCULIO PROOF 

 PLUMS. 



ABUSDAKCE PLUM. 



ABUNDANCE PLUM. This is the paragon among 

 plums, and is, without exception, the most valuable variety 

 for general planting. As a class, these Japanese Plums are 

 very Tiseful, but the Abundance is far superior to all others. 

 Tree a very strong upright grower, and prodigious bearer of 

 handsome, luscious fruit: and being so thrifty and hardy, it 

 readily resists the attacks of curculio and other enemies. 

 Ripens very early. Price, 1 year, mail, 30c. each ; 4 for $1.00. 

 By express, 40c. each ; 3 for $1.00. 



SATSUMA, BUKBANK and OGON. Same price as 

 above. 



DWARF KOCKY MOUNTAIN CHERRY. 



DWAKF KOCKY MOUNTAIN CHEEKY is a won- 

 derfully productive fruit, sixteen quarts having been picked 

 off a 3-year-old bush. The fruit is jet black when ripe, and 

 in size averages somewhat larger than the English Morello; 

 season of ripening being after all others are gone. In flavor 

 it is akin to the sweet cherries, and when fully ripe, for pre- 

 serves or to eat out of hand, it has mo equal" in the line of 

 pittedfruits, and is conceded superior to any fruit grown in 

 this section. It has the best system of roots of any shrub or 

 tree we have ever planted, which accounts ff r the wonderful 

 productiveness of plants at such an early age. It bears every 

 year, and is as prolific as a currant bush. Grows to a height 

 of four feet, and has never been affected by insects, black 

 knot or other disease. In addition to its immense produc- 

 tiveness of luscious fruits, valuable for pies, sauce or for mar- 

 ket purposes, it makes a handsome flowering bush with it» 

 mass of pure white flowers. Price, mail or express, 40c^ 

 each ; 3 for $1.00. 



