Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, Evergreens and Ornamentals 
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Hardy Peaches, continued 
Lone Tree. The original trees of this variety have stood twenty years in Johnson 
county, Iowa, without protection, having withstood 32° below zero unharmed; has 
produced crops of fruit on an average of every other year for this time; fruit is medium 
size, large specimens having measured 8K and 9 inches in circumference; color, yellow 
inside and out, without anyblush; pit very small; ripens about September 10. We regard 
this variety as most promising for success in Linn county. 
Plerpoint. A Linn county seedling of great promise and apparently hardier than 
the average run of Peaches. A large yellow freestone, with red cheek and white flesh, 
juicy and of excellent quality. Pit very small. Ripe fore part of September. 
Russell No. 1. Fruit medium-sized, roundish or oblong, flesh greenish white; 
tree hardy and productive. Season, September 15. 
Wolf. A seedling of the Lone Tree Peach, its equal in size and quality with the 
addition of a bright red cheek, and ten days earlier in ripening. Tree fully as hardy 
as its parent and very productive. One of the most promising in our list. 5 to 6 feet, 
50 cts.; 4 to 5 feet, 40 cts.; 3 to 4 feet, 25 cts. 
PLUMS 
No other fruit has as great a variety 
of uses or is capable of satisfying as great 
a number of tastes as the Plum. The 
Plum is in its native element in Iowa soil 
and climate, this section having been 
favored with many choice varieties in 
its primitive state. 
Varieties. We are making this fruit 
a S(Tecialty and our experimental orchard 
is our delight. Up to the present we have 
planted in it about 250 varieties, many of 
which have been discarded. It is our 
aim to test all varieties which come well 
recommended and hold fast only those 
which are good, and our customers shall 
have the benefit of our experience. By 
a careful selection of varieties one may 
enjoy fresh Plums from early in July till 
October. 
Cultivation. Do not deceive your- 
self by thinking you can plant a lot of 
Plum trees in an old, dry, soddy patch and make them board themselves, work 
for nothing and yield bountiful crops of luscious fruit; if you do you will most certainly 
be disappointed. Give them your best land and as good and frequent cultivation as 
you would give your corn or garden, and you will succeed. Clean cultivation is one of 
the best remedies against the Plum curculio. 
Crooked Trees. What was said about crooked trees under apples is specially 
applicable to many varieties of Plums. It is practically impossible to grow what many 
people would call a "decent" tree of some varieties, yet these same trees afterward 
develop into well-shaped orchard trees. Some of them will grow crooked in spite of us. 
"It is the nature of the critters." 
PRICE OF PLUM TREES Each 10 50 
5 to 7 feet, 2 to 3 years $0 so $4 so $so 00 $37 50 
4 to 5 feet, 2 to 3 years 40 3 so is 00 27 50 
3 to 4 feet, I and 2 years 30 3 00 lo 00 18 00 
2 to 3 feet, i-year switch IS i so 7 00 12 50 
Five at 10, 2s at 50, and 50 at 100 rates; the above rates to 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 or 50 trees 
containing a long list of varieties cannot be filled at 50 and 100 rates. 
Grouping. In the following descriptions we will group the difTerent families by 
themselves beginning with those varieties belonging to the American group, which 
embraces all varieties native to or descended from varieties originally found in the 
northwestern portion of the United States — Iowa and iVlinnesota, in particular The 
varieties belonging to this group are the hardiest in tree and bud of anything in the 
Plum line. 
WOLF PE.\CH 
