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CATALOGUE AND RETAIL PRICK LIST OF 
OUR STOCK is the best and largest we have ever had. It is the product of 
Iowa soil and thoroughly adapted to Iowa conditions. Our method of prop- 
agation is the most approved. Our apple trees are grafted with a long scion 
and a piece root so as to get the tree upon its own roots. Our plums are 
budded or grafted upon native seedlings; cherries are budded upon Mahaleb 
seedlings; and Peaches upon Bailey seedlings. In all cases we propagate only 
from select specimens of bearing trees. 
OCR PRICES are not the lowest. It costs much more to grow trees here than 
farther south, where labor is cheap and the season long. It must be held 
in mind that the cost of the trees is not the cost of the orchard. The pur- 
chase of cheap trees often results in the loss of many dollars' worth of labor 
and the use of the ground for several years. 
ORDER EARLY — That is the way to be sure of getting what you want. Every 
spring by delivering time our stock of certain things is entirely exhausted 
and they are out of the market. That may be the case with something you 
will want next spring; no one can foretell what will be first exhausted. 
Order early and we will save you what you want. 
GUARANTY — We exercise great care to keep our varieties true to name, and 
are ready at any time to replace any stock that may prove untrue, or refund 
the amount paid for the same; but it is mutually agreed that we are 
not to be held liable for any amount greater than the original price of 
the goods. 
CONDITION — We accept all orders on condition that they shall be void should 
any injury befall our stock -from hail, frost, storm, fire or other causes over 
which we have no control. 
Apples 
No family need go without this most wholesome fruit, for any good corn 
soil within our state will produce them in abundance, if intelligently managed. 
Most other fruits are in condition to use only temporarily, but by making a 
judicious selection of summer, fall and winter varieties, one can provide 
himself with apples the whole year through. 
COMMERCIAL ORCHARDING is in its infancy in Iowa. There are thousands 
of acres in our state upon which no more profitable investment could be 
made than to plant a commercial orchard. The enormous quantity of apples 
shipped into our state and consumed at a good price, ought to be incentive 
enough to those possessing suitable soil and location to embark upon such 
enterprise. 
VARIETIES — In planting commercial orchards it is judicious to plant but few 
varieties and they should be selected with reference to securing the best 
pollination. It has been found from experience that large blocks planted to 
a single variety have been more or less barren. For a family orchard a 
few of the best sorts, if judiciously selected, are quite sufficient to afford a 
succession of fruit throughout the year for home and market. 
SIZE TO PLANT — Persons selecting trees for transplanting will find it to 
their interest to choose small, thrifty trees two to three years old, and from 
four to seven feet high, as such are more safely transplanted, and with more 
satisfactory results than older and larger trees. 
CROOKED TREES — People who want only straight, symmetrical trees should 
order only those described as upright growers. Many varieties are crooked 
and gnarly In the nursery although later they make nice, well proportioned 
trees. As a rule such varieties make the strongest and best orchard trees. 
HOW PROPAGATED — Our apple trees are all two and three years old, grafted 
by the best approved method, with the end in view to produce the tree best 
adapted to withstand the rigors of this climate. They are grafted upon 
roots produced from the seed of the hardiest varieties grown in northern 
Vermont; we know these to be much hardier than the ordinary commercial 
seedlings produced from the seed of the French crab; and as we use a long 
scion and plant the grafts very deep in nursery, leaving only the top bud 
above the surface, there is scarcely a tree to be found at digging time that 
has not roots of its own above the point of union of scion and root. Such 
trees will become entirely independent of the seedling root upon which 
they were grafted. 
Prices on Apple Trws Will Be as Follows, Except Where Otherwise Noted! 
Each Doz. Per 50 Per 100 
First class, 2 and 3 vears, 5 to 7 feet J0.30 J3.00 $12.00 $22.50 
Medium, 2 and 3 vears, 4 to 5 feet 25 2.40 9.50 17.60 
First class, 1 and 2 years, 3 to 4 feet 20 1.80 7.00 12.00 
Six at dozen, 25 at 50, and 50 at 100 rates; the above rates apply only 
when the quantity taken is of one variety; six of a variety at dozen rates, and 
lesser quantities at piece rates; orders for 25 to 50 trees containing a long list 
of varieties cannot be filled at 50 or 100 rates. 
