8 
Linn County Nursery 
Peaches 
Hardy Peaches is one of our leading specialties. The list of varieties we 
offer is the result of years of experimenting in endeavoring to find varieties hardy 
enough to endure the trying Iowa winters. Our greatest success has been with 
varities originated here in Iowa. The following list cannot be excelled for hardi- 
ness. We do not claim that Peach trees are as hardy as plum and apple, but 
they have succeeded in living through the most severe winters and quickly outgrow 
their winter injuries. 
Our Peach trees are budded upon the hardiest stock in existence, namely, 
seedlings produced from seed of the Bailey peach grown here In Linn County. 
Plant them about a foot deeper than they stood in the nursery, so that if the 
tree is ever killed back to the ground it will throw up a sprout from above 
where it was budded and thus renew the tree. 
IjetKh. 
Bailey (Friday Seedling) — Medium size; 
whitish with red cheek; flesh white; 
juicy; sweet and good. Pit very small 
and free. September. This variety has 
been grown In Iowa for over seventy 
years and has averaged three crops ev- 
ery Ave years. 
Banner — A Canadian variety; medium to 
large; deep yellow with crimson cheek; 
free stone. Flesh yellow, rich, firm and 
good. September. 
Bokarn No. 3 — Medium to large; free 
stone; yellow with red cheek; flesh yel- 
low. Juicy and good. September. A 
hardy variety from Asia. 
Cbamplon — Large; creamy white with red 
cheek; flesh white, very sweet. Juicy and 
rich. August. One of the best and 
hardiest of the early varieties. 
Elberta — Very large; yellow with red 
blush; free stone; flesh yellow; Juicy 
and good. Vigorous and moderately 
hardy. September. 
Leish — Originated in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, 
Large; white with red blush; free stone. 
Flesh white, very sweet. Juicy, and 
good. August. The original trees have 
produced as many as eight bushels at a 
crop. 
Lone Tree — Originated in Johnson county, 
Iowa. Medium to large, golden yellow; 
flesh yellow. Juicy, rich and of the very 
best quality. Pit very small and free. 
September. 
Kobins — A local variety of much promise. 
Medium size; yellow and red; free stone; 
flesh light yellow, sweet and good. This 
is the earliest variety of the list, ripen- 
ing the last of July or first of August. 
Russell No. 1 — Medium size, whitish with 
red cheek; pit small and free. Flesh 
greenish-white, Juicy and good. Middle 
of August to September. One of the 
very hardiest and most profitable vari- 
eties. 
Sawyer — Large; free stone; flesh yellow, 
rich and Juicy. One of the first peaches 
grown In Iowa. 
Sterns — Originated In Western Michigan. 
Large; round; yellow with brilliant red. 
Pit small and perfectly free; flesh firm, 
yellow and very good. A promising new 
variety. 
Wolf (Wolf's Lone Tree Seedling) — A 
seedling of the Lone Tree; its equal In 
size and quality, but has a red check 
and ripens a week earlier. Tree hardy 
and very oroductive. 
Bnlley. 
