LINN COUNTY NURSERY, CENTER POINT, IOWA. 
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SELECT CRAB APPLES— Continued 
WILD RED CRAIi — This is a novelty of recent introduction; it was found 
growing wild in Johnston County, this state. It is a cross of the wild crab 
upon one of our winter apples. Color, red. Fruit will average in size with 
Whitney No. 20. It has but little astringent properties of the wild crab, just 
enough to make it a good cooker and give its J«lly ths most superb flavor; 
it will keep the year round in perfect condition, with only ordinary cellar 
storage. Tree as hardy as our native wild crab, and is a valuable tree for 
the home. The increasing demand for this tree is large; many buy it for 
the sweet fragrance of its bloom. 6 to 7 feet, 35c each. 
No family should be without plenty of fruit for the home table and for 
canning — better have a little surplus than to go a little scant. Send us your 
order and you will soon have an abundance and to spare. 
Select Pears 
We believe the time is not far distant when the Iowa market will be sup- 
plied with home-grown pears. It is merely a matter of time for the selection 
of varieties suited to Iowa soil and conditions. The results of the last few 
years have been very encouraging. We do not advise one to plant pear trees 
extensively until he has found by trial that certain varieties are adapted to 
■his location. Most varieties do best on bluff or clay soil, but Kieffer and 
Seckel are succeeding on a variety of soils. Only such varieties as are con- 
sidered reasonably immune from blight are catalogued below. Blight is best 
controlled by cutting infected twigs a few inches below the infected portion 
and burning them before the disease spreads to others. 
PRICE LIST OF PEAR TREES. 
Bach Ten Per 50 Per 100 
First class, 5 to 7 feet, 2 to 3 years $0.50 $4.50 $20.00 $37.50 
Medium, 4 to 5 feet, 2 to 3 years 40 3.50 15.00 27.50 
Varieties marked with a * can be furnished in dwarfs; these are budded 
upon quince roots, first class, caliper % inch and up. Same price as first class 
standard. 
The following list can be furnished in sizes as priced above. Will only 
describe a few of the leading varieties: 
•Bartlett Garber *Howell 
•Flemish Beauty Golden Russet 
♦Seckel *Kieffer Vermont Beauty 
Sheldon Krull Worden Seckel 
Snyder Mt. Vernon Wilder 
GOLDEN RUSSET PEAR — This unique variety promises to be of great value 
in the south half of Iowa; its peculiar thick, leathery foliage renders it 
free from blight. It is proving a young and heavy bearer of fruit; above 
medium size and good quality. 
GARIIER— Rapid, vigorous grower; young bearer, hardy, productive. Fruit 
very large; excellent for canning. Season, September and October. 
•KIEFFER'S HYBRID PEAR — A cross between the Bartlett and Chinese Sand 
Pear. This has been so widely tested with favorable results that it is now 
regarded as a standard fruit; with us it has never shown any trace of blight. 
Fruit measures ten to twelve inches around; flesh white and firm, juicy and 
rich, with pleasant flavor and good quality. Will keep through November. 
SECKEL — Tree is the healthiest and hardiest of all pear trees, bearing regular 
and abundant crops in clusters at the end of branches. Flesh whitish, but- 
tery, very juicy and melting, with a peculiar rich, spicy flavor and aroma 
pronounced the richest and most exquisitely flavored variety known. Season 
here, September. 
WORDEN SECKEL — This beautiful pear was originated by Mr. Sylvester 
Worden of Minetto, N. Y. A seedling of the Seckel and fully equal to its 
famous parent, which it much resembles in flavor and is equally as luscious, 
more Juicy, and with an aroma equally as rich and inviting, while in size, 
color, form and appearance it is decidedly superior. Will endure any climate 
and is an enormous bearer. Ripens Just after Seckel. 
Hardy Peaches 
The peach belt has gradually extended northward until it now includes 
Central Iowa. In spite of the extremely late freezes this last spring, which 
destroyed the most of the pear and native plum and somewhat shortened the 
apple crop, peaches endured it all and produced a full crop, this making their 
fourth successive crop. 
We do not claim that peach trees are as hardy as plum and apple, but they 
have succeeded in living through our most severe winters. While they may 
be more or less injured by an occasional trying winter yet by proper pruning 
and cutting back they will outgrow their injuries and continue to bear profita- 
ble crops of fruit. 
