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Linn County Nurseries, Center Point, Iowa 
HARDY PEACHES 
Hardy Peaches are one of our leading specialties. The list of varieties we offer 
are the result of years of experimenting in endeavoring to find varieties hardy enough 
to endure the trying Iowa winters. Success is found largely in the varieties originating 
here in Iowa. We claim the list here submitted cannot be excelled for hardiness. 
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 projier pruning and cutting back they 
will outgrow their injuries and continue to bear profitable crops of fruit. 
Our Peach trees are budded upon the hardiest stock in existence, namely seed- 
lings produced from native grown seed of the Bailey Peach. We 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 the bud union and thus renew the 
tree. 
PRICES OF PEACH, EXCEPT WOLF ^ach lo lOO 
S to 6 feet $o 30 $2 75 $25 00 
4 to 5 feet 2S 2 00 18 00 
3 to 4 feet 20 I 50 14 00 
Arctic. A large yellow Peach with red cheek. Flesh yellow, melting; excellent 
in quality. Ripens last of September. One of the most hardy in tree and fruit bud. 
Bailey. The Friday seedling or Bailey Peach has a record of seventy years in 
Iowa, and an average of three crops out of every five years during this time. In Cedar 
county it has borne heavy crops for many years in succession. Fruit medium size, 
perfect freestone, small pit; white flesh, sweet and juicy. Season, first to middle of 
September. This variety reproduces true from seed. Get a dozen of these seedlings; 
they will produce fruit in two to three years. Nice stocky 2-foot trees, $1 per doz. 
See list below for budded trees. 
Banner. Originated in Canada, one of the hardiest in bud and wood. Fruit large, 
yellow with crimson cheek; excellent quality. Last of September. 
Bednar. A large oblong, yellow freestone of splendid quality. Tree hardy and 
very productive for four seasons past. OiTe of the most valuable acquisitions to our 
Peach list. 
Bokara No. 3. From central Asia. Fruit freestone, yellow with red cheek; flesh 
yellow; good. September. 
Champion. A large handsome early variety, creamy white with red cheek, sweet, 
rich and juicy. August. 
Elberta. A very large yellow freestone, rich sweet and juicy, vigorous grower and 
moderately hardy. September. 
Leigh. This is of Linn county origin and has a great record for productiveness. 
The original tree produced eight measured bushels of fine fruit at one picking. Some 
one-year-old trees we sold five years ago produced three to four bushels of fruit in 
1908. Fruit large, fine specimens measure 10}4 to inches in circumference 
and weigh loK ounces, handsomely blushed with white flesh, very sweet and juicy 
meat. Ripens last of August. 
