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Plant your roadsides with pears, apples and grapes. They will give continual profit and pleasure 



WINTER PEARS 



KIEFFER. Large to very large; skin yellow, with 

 a light vermilion cheek; flash brittle, very juicy, with 

 a marked musky aroma; good quality. It is un- 

 fortunate that the merits of this Pear have been 

 underestimated from the haste in which it is hur- 

 ried to market in an immature condition, and often 

 before it has attained the proper size. When allowed 

 to hang upon the trees until the beginning of Oc- 

 tober, and then carefully ripened in a cool, dark 

 room, there are few Pears which are more attrac- 

 tive. Combines extreme juiciness with a sprightly 

 subacid flavor and the peculiar aroma of the Bart- 



lett. Some praise it very highly, while others do 

 not think so much of it, but large fruit-growers are 

 planting whole orchards of it. Fruits should be 

 thinned. Ninety per cent Kiefifer and ten per cent 

 Le Conte or Garber should always be the arrange- 

 ment, on account of poUenizing. The most practical 

 sort for commercial Pear orchards. 



Lawrence. Trees hardy, healthy and very pro- 

 ductive. Fruit large; skin yellow, covered with 

 brown spots. Flesh whitish, rich, buttery, and aro- 

 matic. One of the quality Pears that has great 

 merit for commercial orchards. 



DWARF PEARS 



As the seasons pass, well-informed orchardists are noticing more and more that dwarf Pears fill a very 

 important place. Heretofore they have been considered as a plaything for those inclined to experiment, but 

 they belong in no such useless class. 



Any dwarf tree will bear its first paying crop years before a standard tree planted at the same time. 

 Trees are small, and are easy to prune and spray. The fruit can be picked from the ground, and thinned from 

 the ground. Because of this superior attention, as well as because dwarf trees naturally grow bigger and 

 finer fruit, the grandest Pears on the market are grown on dwarf trees. 



When you plant your orchard of Kieffers, put the standard trees plenty far enough apart, and fill 

 spaces between with Bartlett dwarfs, till the trees stand not more than 15 feet apart. Then give the orchard 

 the best of cultivation from the year before the trees are put in till time to cut out the fillers. Prune, spray, 

 and watch over your dwarf trees. They will pay you well up to $1,200 an acre net, and you can afford 

 better care than you ever gave any other crop. One man can care for only about six or eight acres of such 

 an orchard, but he dees not need more, for this will buy him his automobile in a few seasons, and keep it 

 going. 



We can furnish Bartlett, Duchess, Clapp's Favorite, Manning's Elizabeth, Seckel, Flemish Beauty 

 and Sheldon on dwarf stock. Bartlett is best. 



Why We Want You to Read "How to Grow and Market Fruit" 



The following quotation from a letter received from The Arkansas College of Agriculture brings out 

 the point: "It seems to me the idea you have embodied in this book should be an excellent one, as so many 

 who purchase trees need coaching up on planting, growing and caring for them." 



That's the thing. We can grow good trees here, the very best it is possible for any one to produce 

 anyv/here. We can plant some of these trees in our own orchards, and make money from them. We can 

 tell YOU about this money-making business, and urge you to go and do Hkewise, But if you don't take as 

 good care of your trees after you get them, you will not have so great a success as we do. 



Fruit-growing is a wonderful thing, and in the East is the coming soil industry. Everything that can 

 be done to develop interest in it is done. Hence when we sell trees we aim to give with them, absolutely 

 free, enough suggestion for their proper care to carry them through. Into our book we have put the prac- 

 tical things that you will have to know and make use of to succeed. If you know them already, it will do 

 no harm to read them again. But if you don't know them, it likely will make all the difTerence between 

 success and failure. Modern orcharding is so entirely different from methods considered correct ten or 

 fifteen or more years ago that no one can count himself up-to-date who has not pursued the subject in all 

 its branches right up to the time he works. 



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