Sweet) Cherries are always in deinaiul. 
QUINCES 
THE market for good quinces is never fully 
supplied; the fruit is in great demand for pre- 
serving, jellies, etc., and brings high prices. 
Quinces require deep, rich, moist, well-drained soil, 
and shallow cultivation. Given these requirements 
and proper spraying, there should be no difficulty 
in growing this fruit. We are listing only the two 
best varieties this year — Orange and Champion. 
Orange — Larpe, roundish ; brip:ht iarolden yellow ; cooks tender, 
quality excellent ; valuable for preserves or flavorinjr. Very 
productive ; the mopt popular and extensively cultivated of the 
old varieties. 
Champion — Fruit very larjre. fair and showy, cooks as tender 
as an apple, and without hard spots or cores ; flavor delicate. 
impartinl^ an extiuisite taste and odor to any fruit with which 
it is cooked. Tree handsome, surpassing: other varieties in this 
respect, bears abundantly while young. Later than Orange. 
APRICOTS 
THE apricot is not planted very extensively 
outside of California. Elsewhere the blossoms 
are so apt to be caught by early spring: frosts 
that a crop of fruit is very uncertain, but the tree 
is worth planting as an ornamental because of its 
beautiful dark green, heart-shaped leaves, as well 
as the beautiful pink blossoms, which appear earlier 
than those of any other fruit ti-ee. Occasionally 
you will get fruit as an additional reward. We can 
furnish the following varieties: 
Alexander — Oranpre yellow with sliRht flush. 
Early Golden— Skin oranee, flesh yellow, eood flavor, free from 
stone. 
Moorpark — The fruit is larce. flesh oranee yellow. Sweet and 
rich, freestone, one of the best. 
Peach — An old French variety similar to Moorpark, fruit 
largre, flesh reddish yellow, with rich musky flavor. 
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