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Luther Burbank, Santa Rosa, Cal. 



The outlines show the forms and sizes of the three crops. The first or 

 main crop is represented by the outside line, and ripens here September 20th 

 to 25th, two weeks or more before Orange and Meech's Prolific, and often 

 weighing, even when grown on small trees, from twenty-five to twenty-six ounces 

 each. The middle line represents the second crop, which ripens November 

 ist, and the inside line the third crop, which ripens December ist. All are of 

 the most superior flavor, texture and quality for all the purposes for which 

 quinces are used, and in addition are as tender and good as apples when baked, 

 and bake as quickly too, and, when dried or canned, retain all the Quince flavor 

 so much admired. This opens a new field, as the demand for these new Quinces, 

 when dried or canned, will increase rapidly as they become known. 



I have growing on my grounds for comparison trees of Angers, Orange, 

 Pear, Reas' Mammoth, Meech's Prolific, Champion, West's Mammoth and 

 others, and not one of them has ever borne any fruit comparable with the Van 

 Deman in size, quality or beauty. 



Stock on hand: Original tree, some five hundred six-foot grafted trees, and 

 about twenty thousand cuttings. Price, $800. 



Outline of average "Santa Rosa" Quince. 



