cN^^ Vlum ''Combination'' s 



N extremely handsome, large, early, light crimson plum of the very best 

 quality, ripening here July 12th, before most of the earliest plums and 

 about as early as Climax. Four years out of five it was pronounced by 

 well known plum growers the best plum they had ever tasted. The test was 



severe, as I had more than twenty- 

 five thousand varieties bearing 

 fruit, including nearly all the most 

 popular standards of the past. One 

 season, however, the fruit came in 

 second in quality, probably from 

 the fact that the trees had been 

 shorn of nearly every bud for prop- 

 agating purposes. The trees, both 

 old and young, are about the best 

 and most symmetrical growers 

 among the plums, making an early, 

 rapid growth, ripening the wood 

 perfectly hard to the tips early in 

 the season, indicating unusual 

 hardiness. The bark, leaves and 

 fruit are all unique. Bark, dark 

 russet bronze. The unusually large, broad, glossy, coriaceous leaves are bronze 

 crimson in the spring and fall. 



Early, regular and abundant bearer of large, nearly globular fruit of uniform 

 size. Flesh, straw color, extremicly sweet, with a very pronounced pineapple 

 flavor. Stone, small and nearly free when fully ripe, and if the best judges may 

 be trusted, "COMBINATIOX" fruit has never been equaled in quality. 



"COMBINATION" trees resemble no other trees in cultivation and are 

 certain to please everybody. Grafting wood, per foot, $5 ; three feet, $9 ; five 

 feet, $12 ; ten feet, $20. 



Ne^ Asparagus '' Quality^^ ^ 



nANY years ago, while experimenting for the improvement of Asparagus, 

 one plant was observed which produced an unusual number of shoots of 

 a light yellowish green color. Other plants often produced larger 

 shoots, but none on the place nearly as many in number or as much in weight. 

 When cooked it was found to have a rich flavor, unlike and very much superior 

 to any other Asparagus. 



Numerous seedlings have been raised from it, and though a certain per cent., 

 as with all other varieties, vary from the original, yet as a large proportion re- 

 semble the parent plant in productiveness and especially in quality, this unusual 

 strain is now offered. For home use it is unequaled. 



Small yearling plants, per doz., 50c ; per hundred, $3. 

 Seed, per packet, 25c; per ounce, -$i.oo. 



"Under the heading, 'The Prunus Simoni Plum,' in 'The Rural New Yorker' of 

 July 29, page 544, second column, you say: 'We are wondering why crossres with it and 

 the native and Japan plums have not been made.' In Burbank's Catalogue of New Crea- 

 tions, page 4, 1898, you will find that he has been experimenting twelve years in this 

 line, and offers the results of such crosses both there and in the 1899 catalogue." — H. L. 

 Fairchilds, Nichols, Conn. 



