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The Elm City Nursery Co., New Haven, Conn. 
From photograph of Meeker Cherries; for description see top of page 61. 
fruit Department- 
FRUIT growing on a large scale is one of the country's profitable in- 
dustries and in old New England large tracts of country are now 
being rapidly put into orchards, which only a few years ago were 
practically abandoned as worthless. It is probably true that no part of our 
country offers an opportunity to grow better flavored or colored fruits, 
especially apples and peaches, than the New England hills. 
The large profits from peach orchards within the last few years are well 
known. In a smaller way the home acre, yes, even the small city garden, 
can be made to return crops of fruit well worth all the labor expended; 
then, too, there is the other side, the genuine pleasure and profit many of 
us get and more would if they only knew what they are missing, in watching 
the trees grow, from the blossoming time, when the orchards rival in beauty 
the flower gardens, then the doubtful time of fruit forming, and on through 
their development until the ripening colors appear and in the full maturity 
we have the actual fruits of our watchfulness and care. One must be in- 
different, indeed, not to find pleasure in the fruit garden and orchard. 
APPLES— Standard. 
Summer — Early Harvest, Red Astrachan, Yellow Transparent, Sweet-bough. 
Autumn— Fall Pippin, Gravenstein, Maiden's Blush, Pound Sweet, Red-Beitigheimer. 
V/inter— Baldwin, Ben Davis, Bismarck, King, Northern Spy, R. I. Greening. 
6 to 9 ft., transplanted Each, $0.50 to $3.00 A „_ ^ 
5 to 6 ft Each, .35 Per 10, $3.00 Per 100, $2o-00 
4 to 5 ft Each, .25 Per 10, 2.00 Per 100, 18.00 
CRABAPPLES. 
Varieties: Hyslop, Transcendent, etc. Prices same as Standard Apples. 
PEARS— Standard. 
Varieties: Summer and Autumn— Clapp's Favorite, Bartlett, Keiffer, Seckel, Sheldon, 
Worden-Seckel (new). 
Winter— Lawrence, Vicar. 
6 to 10 ft, transplanted Each, $0.75 to $3.00 ™ 
5 to 6 ft * Each, 75 Per 10, $6.00 Per 100, $50.00 
See page i for terms and special discounts. 
