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BETTER FRUIT 



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Hood River Nurseries 



Have for the coming season a very complete line of 



NURSERY STOCK 



Newtown and Spitzenberg propagated 

 from selected bearing trees. Make no 

 mistake, but start your orchard right. 

 Plant generation trees. Hood River 

 (Clark Seedling) strawberry plants in 

 quantities to suit. Send for prices. 



RAWSON & STANTON, Hood River, Oregon 



ALPINE ORCHARDS 



300 Acres in one-year-old trees of best commercial 

 varieties. Red-shot soil, rolling- in character, g-iving 

 perfect air and soil drainage. Good shipping- facilities, 

 schools, churches, etc. Prices $250 to $300 per acre, 

 cared for one to four years by our horticulturist. Any 

 size tract. 



Also a few 10-acre tracts ready for the plow and 

 some with scattered timber. Prices right. 



Small payment down and easy terms handle any of these. 



OREGON APPLE ORCHARDS CO. 



432 Chamber of Commerce Building Portland, Oregon 



Branches \ Metropolitan Life Building, Minneapolis, Minn. 

 I Bloomington, Illinois 



EXPERIMENTS IN APPLES AND PEARS.— 

 The department of horticulture at the Oregon 

 Agricultural College is doing poUenation work on 

 an extensive scale in apple and pear orchards this 

 year near Medford and Hood River. Four men — 

 R. \V. Reese, assisted by J. M. Spidel of Edmund, 

 Oklahoma, Ray Roberts of Lebannon, Linn County, 

 and C. C. Thompson of Hood River— have been 

 at Medford experimenting on crossing, in the 

 orchards there, and studying various problems 

 concerning the setting of pears and apples. A 

 corps of the college men will shortly go to Hood 

 River to take up the study of some special prob- 

 lems there. For three years work has been done 

 on problems as to sterility and fertility of apples 

 there, and the mutual affinity of all the leading 

 varieties up there. This year special difficulties 

 in handling Spitzenbergs will be taken up. Trees 

 of varying vigor will be studied to learn what 

 influences such conditions as their fertility or 

 sterility. For the first time work will be con- 

 ducted at Freewater and in the Milton district, 

 and a part of the Walla Walla Valley. Tlie prob- 

 lems will be in connection with the special fruits 

 grown in that region to determine whether the 

 climatic conditions there cause any variations from 

 data already collected in other regions. Special 

 studies are to be made of the Jonathan, Rome 

 Beauty and Winesap apples. At the home station 

 at the college E. J. Krause, assisted by others of 

 the horticulture department, is going to conduct 

 elaborate series of studies and experiments. Their 

 work is to be more along the line of bud study, 

 as to the development and ditf erentiation of apple 

 buds. Professor V. R. Gardner has started a series 

 of studies of the blossoms of the prune and 

 cherry along the line of preliminary studies of 

 breeding work he hopes to take up this coming 

 year with these fruits. We shall first determine 

 the fertility or sterility of the leading varieties of 

 cherries and prunes. From the studies obtained 

 we hope to get a certain percentage of seedlings 

 which indicate the stability and unit characters of 

 these varieties. J. D. Griffin of Astoria, Clatsop 

 County, a junior student, will assist Mr. Gardner. 



" Hawkey e 

 Tree Protector" 



I Protects your trees against 

 rabbits, mice and other tree 

 gnawers; also against cut 

 worms, sun scald, and skin- 

 ning by cultivation. Cost 

 is but a trifle. The value 

 of one tree is more than the 

 cost of all the Hawkeye Pro- 

 tectors you will need. Write 

 for prices and full description. 

 Burlington Basket Co. 

 STATE AGENTS 



G. M. Westland, Wenatchee, Wash. 



Fair Oaks Nursery Co., Traverse City, Mich. 



Welch Nursery Co., Madison, Ala. 



Parker Bros. Nursery Co., Fayetteville, Ark. 



C. H. Webster, The Dalles, Oregon 



F. F. Powell, Stevensville, Mont. 



Humphrey Nurseries, Humphrey, Neb. 



Geo. F. Hall, Wendall, Idaho 



Brown Bros. Nursery Co., Rochester, N. Y. 



Elizabeth Nursery Co., Elizabeth, N. J. 



H. C. Baker, Route 2, Tunkhannock, Pa. 

 O. K. Nurseries, Wynnewood, Okla. 

 Jefferson Nursery Co., Monticello, Fla. 

 J. A. Hess, Salt Lake City, Utah 

 Denver Nurseries, Denver, Colo. 



Frank Brown & Son Co., Paynesville, Minn. 

 Elm Brook Farm Co., Hallowell, Me. 

 A. G. Swanson, Miamisburg, Ohio 



Berry Boxes and Crates Tin Top Fruit Baskets 



Folding Berry Boxes at $2.50 per M 



SEND FOR SAMPLES 



Ogden, Utah 



JOHN J. OLSEN & BRO. 



Established 1892 Tacoma, Washington 



NURSERY CATALOG 



New, handsome, instructive, up-to-date, describing 



Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Roses, Berry Plants, etc. 



Free on request. Write now, mentioning this paper. 



J. B. PILKINGTON, Nurseryman, Portland, Oregon 



Lime-Sulphur Hydrometer ''°"y;aTngTr:r' 



By mail, with test jar and instruc- 

 tions, $1.00. Agents wanted 

 everywhere. 



CARBONDALE INSTRUMENT CO., Carbondale, Pennsylvania 



PORTLAND WHOLESALE 

 NURSERY COMPANY 



Rooms 1 and 2 Lambert-Sargeant Building 

 Corner East Alder Street and Grand Avenue 



PORTLAND, OREGON 



MillsCoUege 



NEAR OAKLAND, CAUFORNIA 



The only Woman's College on the Pacific Coast. Chart- 

 ered 1SS5. Ideal climate. Entrance and graduation re- 

 quirements equivalent to those of Standford and University 

 of California. Well equipped laboratories. Grounds com- 

 prise one hundred and fifty acres. Special care for health, out- 

 door life. Pres. l.uc-lla Clay Carson, A. M., Litt. D., LL. D. 

 Vor catalogue address Secretary. Mills College P. O., Calif , 



OUR BOOKLET 



When the Going is Hard 



Contains information that is well worth your 

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 We tell you why a wooden wheel is 

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