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A WARNING!! 



"Probably the most important lesson that the orchardists of the Northwest have yet to learn is that 

 cheap nursery trees are an exceedingly dangerous foundation on which to start an orchard — that a few 

 cents economy on such trees at the start is many many dollars' loss in the long run." 



Thus spoke one of America's greatest horticulturists on a recent visit to the Northwest. It is a warn- 

 ing that is well merited, for one can visit scarcely any of the newer fruit sections without being appalled by 

 the number of weak, sickly, undersized young trees that stand as incontrovertible proof of his warning. 



Any man who will plant anything but the strongest, most vigorous, healthiest trees — of known ances- 

 try — trees whose breeding for generations past insure prolific bearing and disease resisting qualities is 

 bequeathing a legacy of trouble to posterity. The first cost of a fruit tree is an insignificant cost, but 

 the quality and pedigree of that tree is a powerful, perpetual factor to your success and those after you. 



All of the nursery trees — apple stocks — of the Hood River Standard Nursery Co. have three-year- 

 old root systemiS, with one-year straight tops — big, strong, healthy, vigorous trees that will grow when 

 properly planted, and which will bear from one to three years earlier tlian the so-called "yearling" tree so 

 promiscuously peddled about, and they will cost you little, if any, more. They are all propagated from 

 the highest earning and best trees of the world famous Hood River Valley — trees whose ancestry and 

 past performance is a matter of careful record. They are in every sense a thoroughbred, pedi- 

 greed apple tree. 



For the season of 1910-11 we can offer a limited amount of extra size apple only. Write for catalog and 



price list. 



HOOD RIVER STANDARD NURSERY CO. 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



Do you 

 know 



That it takes a great deal of science 

 and skill to produce the kind of 

 trees that will make the best growth 

 and give the best satisfaction? 



Many people imagine that with a 

 good location one has only to plant 

 the tree in the spring and dig it up 

 in the fall. This may do for some, 

 but not with us. 



We took particular pains to secure 

 the best location here in the Yakima 

 Valley, where the soil is exceedingly 

 rich and well drained, and where the 

 growing season is long. 



By our constant cultivation during 

 the growing season, and otherwise 

 assisting Nature whenever possible, 

 we turn out a fine, stocky tree with 

 a splendid lot of healthy, fibrous 

 roots, unsurpassed anywhere. 



A good root system is the founda- 

 tion of a tree, and without this good 

 root system you cannot secure the 

 best results. 



If you intend to plant now or next 

 season, write for our catalog. It will 

 save you money. 



YAKIMA VALLEY 

 NURSERY COMPANY 



TOPPENISH, WASHINGTON 



More Salesmen Wanted 



the market the bunches are looked at 

 every day, for the slightest speck of 

 imperfection will keep him from dispos- 

 ing of his stock to the best houses. 



'The same care in lesser degree runs 

 through all the French grower does. In 

 certain places, but only in a few, the 

 apricot is treated with all the care 

 shown to the peach. It is less profitable 

 to grow, for it does not keep well, except 

 by an expensive process of coating it 

 with wax. The trees, however, are kept 

 very carefully pruned and the production 

 of each is limited. 



"Growers have a pleasant way with 

 strawberries. This berry's flavor is, as 

 everybody knows, more or less injured 

 by washing, but in this country they 

 sometimes become so dirty that there is 

 no alternative for the careful house- 

 keeper. In France they are never 

 specked with earth, because every grower 

 spreads straw neatly under his vines so 

 that the rain can splash up no dirt, nor 

 the wind blow any dust on the delicate 

 fruit. The result is a strawberry as 

 clean as a cherry on its tree. 



"Gooseberries and raspberries are raised 

 in quantities for the English market, the 

 former trimmed very low, sometimes 

 'cradle-shaped,' and the latter trained on 

 wire fences, facing not the sun, but 

 the north. 



"All these are the common customs 

 of our country, founded on our national 

 love of perfection in detail. There is 

 another form of careful fruit growing, 

 less sensible and much restricted, on 

 which we can hardly pride ourselves, 



SURPLUS STOCK 



We have the following stock in good grades 

 at prices that will please you: 



APPLE 



Baldwin, Bismarck, Black Ben, Delicious, 

 Fall Wine, Gano, Grimes Golden, Hyde King, 

 Jonathan, King David, Ingram, Mcintosh 

 Red, Nonesuch, Red June, Rome Beauty, 

 Spitzenberg, Stayman Winesap, Wagener, 

 Whitney, Winesap, Yellow Bellflower, Yellow 

 Newtown and Yellow Transparent. 



PEAR 



Anjou, Bartlett, Cornice, Idaho and Winter 

 Nelis. PEACH 



Carmen, Champion, Cox Cling, Crawford 

 Early, Crawford Late, Early Charlotte, 

 Elberta, Engalls Mammoth, Fitzgerald, Fore- 

 man, Guin, Muir, November, Orange Cling, 

 Phillips Cling, Salway, Slappy, Smock, Tri- 

 umph and Tuscan Cling. 



CHERRY 



Bing, Black Tartarian, Early Richmond, 

 Eng. Morrilla, Lambert, Late Duke, Oxheart, 

 Royal Ann and Yellow Spanish. 



PLUM 



Bradshaw, Burbank, Damson, Diamond, 

 Grand Duke, Green Gage, Maynard, Wild 

 Goose, Macy and Yellow Egg. 



PRUNE 



Italian, Petite, Silver and Tragedy. 



APRICOT 



Golden, Moorpark, Peacli, Tilton and 

 Yakimini. NECTARINE 



New White and Boston. 



NUT TREES 



English Walnut, Almond, etc. 



ORNAMENTAL 



Catalpa, Black Locust, Mountain Ash, 

 American Elm, Norway and Silver Maple, 

 Mulberry, and Norway Spruce. 



All the above stock clean, hardy and true 

 to name. Write for special spring prices. 



THE SUNNYSIDE NURSERY 

 COMPANY 



SUNNYSIDE, WASHINGTON 



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