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Know what 

 you are 

 planting- 



"Don't buy 



a cat 

 in a bag'' 



Pedigree 



certified 

 vmder 

 affidavit on 

 respective 



dates of 

 cutting and 



delivery 



Important to Planters 

 and Fruit-Growers 



Through the Ballygreen System of selection and certification we make 

 it possible for planters and fruit-growers to secure clean, hardy nursery 

 stock of proven quality and pedigree, propagated from the best trees in the 

 finest orchards of the famous fruit valleys of the West. 



It has been our good fortune to secure for the season 1911-12 scions from the following prize-winning 

 orchards : 



C. H. Sproat, Hood River, Oregon (winner of Sweepstakes prize, Spokane National Apple Show, 1910, 

 and Chicago Apple Show, 1910, best carload of Spitzenbergs). 



O. G. France, Wenatchee, Washington (winner of prize for Winesaps, Spokane Apple Show, 1908 and 

 1910). 



Dick Hart, Toppenish, Washington (winner of prize for carload of mixed apples, Spokane Apple Show, 

 1910). 



We have also secured selected strains and varieties from the orchards of Tedford Brothers and Green 

 Brothers, Wenatchee, Washington (winners of plate prizes at Vancouver, B. C., Apple Show, 1910, and at 

 National Apple Show, 1910) ; J. B. Holt, Pullman, Washington; W. E. Bowes, North Yakima, Washington; 

 Bear Creek Orchards, Medford, Oregon, and others. 



Our trees have the well-balanced roots and tops that skilled horticulturists aim to secure. 



We grow exclusively, and are pleased to offer to planters for 1911-12 Selected Trees of Certified Pedigree. 



BALLYGREEN NURSERIERS 



Please write for price list and pedigree book 



HANFORD. WASHINGTON 



The Best Trees 

 That Grow 



ARE NOT TOO GOOD 

 FOR YOU 



Our stock has given such excel- 

 lent satisfaction wherever planted 

 that you connot afford to do with- 

 out it. 



There's a reason, too: 

 A splendid location with 

 Deep, red soil, well drained 

 A long growing season 

 Moisture under control 



Remember that the recollection 

 of quality remains long after the 

 price is forgotten. 



Yakima Valley 

 Nursery Company 



Toppenish, Washington 



More salesmen wanted. 



could not start in and create a great 

 Oregon apple show. It seems to me 

 that with the wealth we have here and 

 the spirit we have throughout the state, 

 and the energy we have and the experi- 

 ence we have, which produces the finest 

 apples in the world, it ought to be pos- 

 sible for Oregon to put up an Oregon 

 apple show that ought to excel the 

 apple shows held elsewhere. I believe 

 it is entirely possible for Oregon to 

 become identified with the greatest 

 apple show, not necessarily national, but 

 the greatest apple show produced in the 

 world, and simply call it the Oregon 

 apple show. I do not think we should 

 exclude exhibitors from other states; we 

 ought to encourage them to come from 

 everywhere, let them come from all over 

 the nation. If they think, back East, 

 that it is simply in the method of culti- 

 vation rather than in the climate let them 

 bring their apples and carry, away some 

 of the Oregon premiums. Let us invite 

 them to come here and see what they can 

 produce to compare with what we have 

 produced. We certainly want to encour- 

 age Montana, and Idaho, and Washing- 

 ton, and British Columbia to enter their 

 products in the Oregon apple show, and 

 let them take away the Oregon prizes if 

 they can. We have scooped them in 

 Vancouver, British Columbia; we have 

 won the prizes in Spokane, and we don't 

 want to adopt a niggardly policy and 

 exclude any part of the West or of the 

 nation from the Oregon show. We want 

 to invite them in to compete, but let us 

 make it our purpose to set up an Oregon 



show that will be the apple show, and let 

 it be named "The Oregon Apple Show." 



The business men of Portland are 

 beginning to see what is possible in way 

 of an apple show. Sixty of them went 

 to Spokane on one train and saw the 

 National Apple Show, and they saw what 

 was possible, saw how that great attrac- 

 tion was a drawing card from all of the 

 Pacific Northwest, saw what it was 

 worth as an advertising feature to Spo- 

 kane, even though it was called the 

 National Apple Show. It seems to me 

 if Portland business men can be prop- 

 erly enthused they will put their hands 

 in their pockets and enable the Oregon 

 apple show to make a premium offer- 

 ing, which, so far as the value of its 

 ofifering is concerned, will certainly entitle 

 it to rank with Spokane. 



The Spokane exhibits have been trans- 

 planted to Chicago. Chicago is a won- 

 derful center. It is a city rather than 

 a country town, and it has appealed to 

 me that valuable to the Pacific North- 

 west as is the advertising of the Oregon 

 apples and the Washington apples at 

 Chicago — valuable as that is to the 

 Northwest, still more valuable adver- 

 tising could be done in what might be 

 called the country cities. Take Omaha, 

 for instance, the gateway to the great 

 farming regions of Nebraska and Colo- 

 rado, and, further, take St. Paul, Minne- 

 apolis, Kansas City, and even St. Louis, 

 Missouri, which today ranks very, very 

 high — I am not definitely informed, but 

 possibly the highest. I know it did for 

 a great many years rank the best in apple 



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