E. W. TOWNSEND SONS 
Head Propagating Foreman and our Mr. 
L. S. Townsend inspecting a bearing age 
apple tree for bud selection 
® JOAN. A sensational apple of large size, beautiful, 
solid red color. Fruits annually and very productive. A 
good storage apple, keeps longer than Jonathan, its 
parent. Agricultural Colleges are recommending this 
variety for trial plantings. 
® SHARON. This variety is being well received by the 
fruit grower in sections of the country where it has been 
fruited. Fruit is well colored and of excellent dessert 
quality. 
@® SECOR. An apple of exceptionally high quality. It’s 
a seedling of Salome and Jonathan. Very productive fruit, 
medium red in color, extra good keeper. Storage analysis 
shows that it will keep two weeks longer than Jonathan 
and be free from spots. 
® ROME BEAUTY. A profitable money-maker year in 
and year out. The fruit is fairly large size and uniform, 
also excellent keeper. The color is red with stripes, and 
fiavor is well above the average. 
® GALLIA BEAUTY (Red Rome). A solid red apple 
of the Rome Beauty family. It is a wonderful apple for 
those who want a high color on their Rome Beauties. 
Has the same characteristics as the Rome, but being a 
solid red can be picked ten days to two weeks earlier. It’s 
an excellent keeper and quality of the very best. Produces 
fruit and sizes up well into top grade. Our trees are 
propagated from one of the finest strains of Gallia Beauty 
to be found anywhere in the country. Order trees from 
this preferred stock. You will be delighted with the re- 
sults. 
® ORLEANS. This is a new Delicious type apple, ripen- 
ing about the same time as Delicious, but keeps longer. 
Very attractive. Trees bear young and annually. Recom- 
mend for trial. 
@ MEDINA. A Delicious type apple, large and attrac- 
tive red, ripening later than the Delicious and an ex- 
cellent variety to prolong the season. 
® LOWRY. New popular commercial variety, being 
grown successfully in Virginia. Fruit has a beautiful 
Ttich-red color. In shape it’s round to oval. mild sub- 
acid flavor. White flesh slightly tinged to yellow. A good 
aah excellent shipper. Has been bringing top of the 
market. 
® RED SAUCE. A beautiful red apple of the highest 
flavor. We recommend this new variety for trial and 
home market. 
© SWEET DELICIOUS. Trees of this variety fruit at 
an early age. A wonderful apple for the home or small 
commercial orchard. A highly colored apple with excel- 
lent qualities. 
@ SMOKEHOUSE. Fine flavored apple when fully ripe. 
Mellow and delicious, lacking in acidity. Trees are vigor- 
ous growers and come into bearing at an early age. 
Planted quite extensively in Pennsylvania. The color of 
fruit is neither distinctly yellaw nor red. 
® NERO. A grand variety that has not been widely 
planted commercially. Its coloring is of deep bright red, 
size medium to large, an excellent flavor, and one of the 
longest Keepers in storage. 
@® MACOUN. A McIntosh type of apple, ripening about 
four weeks later than McIntosh. Hangs well on the trees. 
A heavy producer of rich red apples of the finest quality. 
Fruits annually. A variety we recommend to prolong the 
McIntosh season. 
e YORK IMPERIAL (Xtra-Red Strain). Our strain of 
York was secured from one of the finest all red trees in the 
country. Growers who are looking for a York apple, solid red 
with same quality, size and shape of the Regular York Variety 
should order this strain. It is ready for market three weeks 
ahead of the regular York Variety. We sold 11,000 trees in the 
York Planting section last year. It’s a real money maker. 
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inter VARIETIES 
APPLE ot: 
Varieties Listed in Order of Ripening 
® TURLEY. Originated by the Indiana Horti. Society 
and is of the Winesap family. It is more highly colored 
than the Stayman Winesap, somewhat larger, and about 
the same shape. It is a good keeper and of excellent 
quality, also vigorous grower and consistent yielder. We 
advise planting this variety wherever Winesaps are 
grown. 
® PARAGON (Black Twigg). Large in size, smooth 
skin, yellowish covered with deep red, sub-acid and of 
excellent flavor. It is an important commercial variety. 
We advise planting Red Delicious as pollenizer. 
® GANO (Ben Davis). Is an old favorite in the com- 
mercial orchards. The tree is medium size, grows rapidly, 
skin tough, waxy bright smooth, usually glossy greenish 
or yellow colored with bright red splashed with dark 
carmine. It is a good cooking apple. 
® WINESAP (Old Fashioned). One of the oldest and 
most popular apples in the United States. It is widely 
grown, but has lost ground to the newer varieties. It is 
a good storage apple, color glossy, bright red, very firm, 
rather coarse, juicy, and sub-acid. 
CRAB APPLES 
e DOLGO. Bears very early, is a distinctive and 
splended ornamental fruit tree of great value, extremely 
hardy even in full blossom, has survived frost and 
freezes. Fruit juicy, has a sprightly sweet flavor and 
makes a very fine, bright, clear red jelly of excellent 
flavor. Heavy yielder: ‘45 glasses of jelly and 8 pints 
of jam from one single peck.” (No advance in price for 
this grand new variety.) 
® YOUNG AMERICA. A new variety that is proving 
very popular wherever grown. It is hardy, a reliable 
cropper and its color is bright red. 
e HYSLOP. An old reliable variety that has proven 
seta satisfactory, size large, bright dark red, and very 
ardy. 
© WHITNEY. One of the most popular of the large 
crab apples for the West and North. The skin is light 
yellow striped with red. It is sub-acid, nearly sweet, 
and has a good flavor. 
© TRANSCENDENT. One of the most popular va- 
rieties in the East. 
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