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Select Pears — Continued 
blight Fruit measures ten to twelve inches around; flesh white and firm, 
juicy and rich, with pleasant flavor and good quality. Will keep through 
Our peach trees are budded upon the hardiest stock in existence, namely 
seedlings 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 ever the 
tree is killed back to the ground it will throw up a sprout from above the 
bud union and thus renew the tree. Price of peach trees as follows, except 
as otherwise noted: 5 to 7 feet, 30c each; 4 to 5 feet, 25c; 3 to 4 feet, 20c. 
BAILEY — The Friday Seedling or Bailey Peach has a record of sixty years 
and still fruiting; has borne three crops out of five since planted. In Cedar 
and adjacent counties it has borne heavy crops for many years in succession; 
fruit above medium size, a freestone with sma.l pit and white flesh; season 
medium early. Price, 4 to 5 feet, 25c each, only 
LONE TREE — The original trees of this variety have stood twenty years 
in Johnson county, Iowa, without protection, • having withstood 32 degrees 
below zero unharmed; has produced crops of fruit on an average every other 
year for this time; fruit is medium size, large specimens having measured 8% 
and 9 inches in circumference; color, yellow inside and out, wituout any blush; 
pit very small; ripens about September 10th. We regard this variety as most 
promising for success in Linn county. 5 to 7, 4 to 5, 3 to 4 feet. 
LEIGH PEACH — Here is a Linn county peach tree with a great record. 
The original tree stands in Mount Vernon on the grounds of Mr. Leigh; eleven 
years old; began fruiting at the age of four years; the stem of the tree is 34 
inches in circumference, 24 feet high and 20 feet spread of top; has produced 
sixteen bushels of peaches all told; its best record, eight measured bushels 
of fine fruit in a sing.e crop; fine specimens measure 10% and 11% inches in 
circumference and weigh 10% ounces; freestone and of excellent quality. Our 
stock of trees are as fine as can be produced and will please you. 5 to 7, 
4 to 5 and 3 to 4 feet. 
•MYERS' PEACH — This is a rich, yellow fleshed fruit, largest specimen 
measuring nine inches in circumference; five crops in succession is the record 
of the original trees, beginning with 1897 to and including 1901; passed the 
test winter of 1898 and 1899 without protection, and produced a corp the fol- 
lowing season. This peach made the above record at Centerdale, Cedar county, 
Iowa, where it originated. 5 to 7, 4 to 5 and 3 to 4 feet. 
Our experiments in plum growing have again this season resulted in a 
bountiful crop of as fine fruit as I ever saw grown anywhere, and our en- 
thusiasm on this subject is as live.y as ever. However, the list of varieties 
which produced good crops this season differs greatly from the list which pro- 
duced heavily in 1904, this last season the heavy producers were mostly found 
among the Domestic Japanese and Hybrids of these, very few of the strictly 
native group producing any fruit. A few of the Miner and Wild Goose groups 
produced very good crops. I have recently collected a lot of seedlings and 
new varieties, out of which I expect some good results, and look forward to 
recording their good qualities in subsequent issues of this list. Our notes on 
pVums in this issue are based principally upon the experience gained from 
this and other successful crop seasons. 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. 
We are making this fruit a specialty 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. We have this fall consigned several varieties to 
the woodpile, and at this writing are having them grubbed to make room for 
more profitable and better varieties. It is our aim to test all varieties which 
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