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Select Crab Apples — Continued 
to blight. Flesh yellow, crisp, juicy, and just enough of astringency tp make 
it useful for the purpose for which crabs are grown. An excellent eating 
apple In its season, September. 
GENERAL GRANT CRAB — Tree an erect, vigorous and handsome grower; 
fruit in dense clusters; a regular and profuse bearer; quality good. 
MARTHA CRAB — Said to be a seedling of Duchess of Oldenburg; resembles 
Transcendent in shape and size, but more beautifully colored; bears enor- 
mously, and so far has been perfectly free from blight; a model tree in every 
way; makes the finest jelly and sauce. 
SOULARD CRAB — The largest of this class of apples (a native wild crab); 
very valuable as a cooking apple; when cooked a fine quince-like flavor; keeps 
very well until July. Tree very productive and hardy as any wild crab. 
SWEET RUSSET CRAB — Fruit large, pale yellow, slightly covered with 
russet; flesh exceedingly rich and sweet; a delightful eating apple for the 
children. Tree slow grower, hardy and productive. 
WHITNEY'S SEEDLING NO. 20— A valuable and beautiful crab. Tree 
very hardy; enormously productive and seldom fails to bear. The very finest 
grown for cider and excellent for jellies, etc. 
♦WILD RED CRAB — This is a novelty of recent introduction; it was found 
growing wild In Johnson County, this state. It is a cross of the wi.d crab 
upon one of our winter apples. Color, red. It has but little astringent proper- 
ties of the wild crab, just enough to make it a good cooker and give its jelly 
the most superb flavor; it will keep the year round In perfect condition, with 
only ordinary cellar storage. Tree as hardy as our native wild crab, and is a 
valuable tree for the home. The increasing demand for this tree is large; 
many buy it for the sweet fragrance of its bloom. 5 to 7 feet, 35c each. 
No family should, be without plenty of fruit for the home table and for 
cannings— better have a little surplus than to go a little scant. Send us your 
order and you will soon have an abundance and to spare. 
Select Pears 
We would not advise to plant pears extensively in this part of the state; 
while we know of many instances where they seem to be a success, yet we 
would only offer them for trial, and those finding their soil and location 
adapted to the growing of this most luscious fruit, can plant of them more 
extensively as they grow in experience. Our list is made up of the most 
promising varieties, many having been discarded. 
PRICE LIST OP PEAR TREES. 
Each Ten Per 50 Per luo 
First-class, 5 to 7 feet, 2 to 3 years $0.50 $4.50 $20.00 $37.50 
Medium. 4 to 5 feet, 2 to 3 years 40 3.50 15.00 27.50 
Varieties marked with a • can be furnished in dwarfs; these are budded 
upon quince roots, first-class, caliper % inch and up. Same price as first class 
standard. 
The following list can be furnished in sizes as priced above. Will only de- 
scribe a few of the leading varieties. 
•Bartlett Early Harvest Lawrence 
•Beurre De Anjou 'Flemish Beauty Mongolian Snow 
Bezia De La Motte Garber Mt. Vernon 
Beurre De Gifford Golden Russet 'Seckel 
Beurre de Clairgeau 'Howell Sheldon 
Bonne De Jersey 'Kelffer Vermont Beauty 
Clapp's Favorite Krull Worden Seckel 
Duchess Longworth Wilder 
GOLDEN RUSSET PEAR — This unique variety promises to be of great 
value in the south half of Iowa; its peculiar thick, leathery foiiaee renders it 
free from blight. It is proving a young and heavy bearer of fruit; abovo 
medium size and good quality. 
LONGWORTH — A very hardy seedling pear of recent introduction, orig- 
inated at Dubuque, Iowa, forty years ago, by William Longworth. Tree a 
strong, upright grower, entirely free from blight and an enormous bearer. 
Flesh rather coarse, juicy, sugary, good flavor. Ripens first to middle of 
September. 
•KIEFFER'S HYBRID PEAR — A cross between the Bartlett and Chinese 
Sand Pear. This has been so widely tested with favorable results that it is 
now regarded as a standard fruit; with us it has never shown any trace of 
