PART SECOND 



WHOLESALE ONLY 



Nothin,2^ mentioned on this and the succeeding- pages is for sale at retail this 

 season. Not a tree, 1)ud or graft of any of them can 1)e had this season except hy 

 the purchase of the whole stock. Enter] )rising- Fruit-jsji'owers and Nurserymen 

 will understand the value of the full control of these newest of the new fruits of 

 which none like them are in existence. 



IMPROVED BEACH PLUAI. 



TOU might suppose the above cut represented a Huckleberry branch which had 

 attempted to carry an unusual load, but no! it is a branch three and one-half feet 

 long (reduced about seven times) of our Improved Beach Plum (Prunus mari- 

 tima), a full size fruit being shown at the lower left-hand corner, and one of the original, 

 wild Beach plums below. The Improved Beach plum is larger than Wayland. The 

 Beach plum is as hardy as about anything that grows and as productive every season as 

 any fruit which mother earth produces, growing on dwarf, compact, bush-like trees. 

 It has heretofore been known as a small, dull colored, bitter fruit fit to eat only when 

 cooked. Our new one grows on a compact, handsome tree enlarged in all respects and 

 the fruit is a beautiful deep purple, dotted white, with a white bloom and is rich and 

 delicious to eat fresh from the tree, not having a trace of the original bitter taste. 

 Flesh deep yellow, freestone, stone of the same size and appearance of a cherry stone. 

 Fruit ripens with the common Beach plum. The trees bloom at the very end of the 

 blooming season, later than any other plum. The Beach plum has long been known to 

 horticulturists to possess rare possibilities and now you have it developed beyond the 

 dreams of the most enthusiastic fruit growers, who will plant them in the warm belt, in 

 the frost belt, in the fertile belt, in the barren belt and produce an abundance of plums 

 where plums would not grow before. 



Price for the whole stock and control, $1,000. Grafting wood will be sold this season 

 at $100 per foot, if the whole stock is not purchased by February 15th. No wood de- 

 livered until that date. 



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