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Lina County Nursery, Center Point, Iowa 
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latroductory, continued 
Money may be sent by post-office or express money order, or bank draft. Cash 
may be sent if enclosed in a strong envelope carefully sealed and registered. Stamps 
accepted for amounts less than one dollar. 
We make no extra charge for packing and delivering to railroad station or express 
office. The greatest care is taken to pack so that stock will arrive in first-class con- 
dition. 
Our excellent packing and shipping facilities. Our large packing-shed and 
cellar, located near the Rock Island Station at Center Point, give us splendid facilities 
for handling orders promptly and accurately. All stock will be delivered from this point 
and not from our farm as formerly. 
As to prices. Our prices are not the lowest — -the care which we devote to growing 
stock increases the cost greatly — but our trees are so vastly superior to those grown 
without particular care that the difference in first cost appears small by com- 
parison. The point to be considered is that of final results, and in this our trees will 
outdistance the cheaper ones many times over. 
Order early. Every spring we are compelled to refuse orders for certain lines of 
stock of which we are entirely sold out. Order early, and you will be sure of getting what 
you want, as well as the pick of the stock. 
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 in- 
jury befall our stock from hail, frost, storm, fire or other causes over which we have no 
control. 
Trees by mail. For the benefit of customers living at a distance we are now supply- 
ing fruit trees of a size that can be sent by mail, thus saving high express charges. 
These are one-year trees of named varieties. Should you order a sort of which the supply 
is exhausted, we reserve the right to substitute a variety equally good and same season. 
All trees will be well w-rapped and packed and sent postpaid at the following prices: 
Each Do2. loo 
PLUM. 2 feet $o 20 $2 00 $10 00 
CHERRY. 2 feet 20 2 00 10 00 
Each Doz. 100 
APPLE. 2 feet $0 20 $2 00 $10 00 
PEACH. 2 feet 10 i 00 
PEAR. 2 feet 20 2 00 10 00 
APPLES 
This wholesome and popular fruit is more widely used year by year and is rapidly 
becoming one of the prominent features of our national products. Grown for market 
purposes, it is one of the most profitable of crops; while for home use, the apple orchard 
is nowadays almost or quite as im[)ortant as the vegetable garden. 
Apples are produced so easily that no one need do without them on account of trouble 
in raismg them. With proper planting and ordinary care they will thrive in any soil 
that produces good corn. While other fruits are available for only a short period, apples 
may be had practically the year through — beginning with those sorts ripening in 
early summer, down to such varieties as, gathered in the late fall, keep perfectly 
through the winter and spring, until the newly ripened fruit is ready again. 
Commercial orcharding is in its infancy in Iowa. There are thousands of acres 
in our State u[)on which no more profitable investment could be made than to plant a 
commerical orchard. The enormous quantity of apples shipped into our State and con- 
sumed 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 i)lanted 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. , , , . 1 • ■ 
Size to plant. Persons selecting trees for transplantmg 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. iMany 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. 
