MOUNT ARBOR NURSERIES, SHENANDOAH, IOWA 
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All Grafts are carefully assorted and only the best of material used in orders, so 
that customers can depend upon getting a first-class article. Orders should be placed 
early to procure the best selection of varieties and to give the Grafts ample time to 
callous before shipment. After our Grafts are made they are tied in bundles of 100, 
each bunch carefully labeled and packed away to callous. 
Our Piece-Root Grafts are made with a six-inch Scion and three and one-half inch 
Root, the same style that we make largely for our own planting- For Whole-Root 
Grafts we use the entire Seedling, either a straight or branched root as the customer 
may select. Any style of Graft made to order. 
WHOLE ROOT GRAFTS 
Some of our customers get best results from Planting Whole Root Grafts, which 
are made with a Scion about six inches in length and a branched or straight Seedling. 
We recommend a strong branched Seedling as it will usually give the best results. 
Grafts should be planted at the earliest date in the Spring the season will permit, 
in rows about three and one-half feet apart and seven to eight inches apart in the row. 
The ground should be plowed deep (in the fall preferred) and well prepared before 
planting. 
Machine Wrapped Grafts 
We have installed five Graft Wrapping Machines run with electric motor for wrap- 
ping Grafts. We have been able to do much better wrapping of the union of the Grafts 
and are confident the continuous machine wrapping will materially reduce the percen- 
tage of crown gall, which frequently develops about the union of Root and Scion in 
grafted Apple Trees. 
George G. Hedgcock, Pathologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, con- 
ducted extensive experiments in his "field studies of the crown gall and hairy root of 
the Apple Tree," (See Bulletin No. 186 Bureau of Plant Industry) and according to his 
experiments there was a difference in percentage of crown gall of nineteen per cent, in 
favor of the continuous thread wrapping; aside from an increase in the stand of 10 2 
per cent. 
PRICES OF GRAFTS IN ASSORTMENT 
Apple and Crab, No. 1 Piece Root, 1000 to 5000 $ 5 00 
' ' " " 5000 and up 4 00 
" Whole " branched, 1000 to 5000 8 00 
" " " " " " 5000 and up 7 00 
Pear, No. 1, Piece Root 7 00 
" Whole Root, straight 10 00 
Leading Varieties Apple Grafts 
Aiken 
Grimes Golden 
Mam. Black Twia: 
Seek-no-further 
Alexander 
Haas 
Mann 
Smokehouse 
Allen's Choice 
Hibernal 
Milam 
Sops of Wine 
Anisim 
Horse Yellow 
Mo. Pippin 
SpitzenburK 
Arkansas Black 
Hubbard ston Nonsuch 
N. W. Greening 
Stark 
Aut. Strawberry 
Huntsman 
Northern Spy 
Staymans Winesap 
Banana 
Ine:ram 
Paradise Win Sweet 
Sweet Bough 
Bailey Sweet 
Iowa Beauty 
Patten's Greening 
Sweet June 
Baldwin 
lowu Blush 
Peerless 
Talman Sweet 
Ben Davis 
Isham Sweet 
Perry Rusaett 
Tetofsky 
Benoni 
Janet 
Peter 
Utter's Red 
Black Annette 
Jefferis 
Pewaukee 
University 
Black Ben Davis 
Jonathan 
Pound Sweet 
Wagner 
Chenangro 
Kaump 
Prices Sweet 
Walbridge 
Delicious 
Kinur of T Co. 
Rambo 
Wealthy 
Dominie 
King David 
Ramsdell Sweet 
White Pearmain 
Duchess 
Lawver (Del. Red Winter) 
Red Astrachan 
Willow Twig 
Early Harvest 
L. H. Romanite 
Red Beitigheimer 
Winesap 
Pall Pippin 
Liveland-Raspberry 
Red June 
Windsor Chief 
Fameuse 
Longficld 
R. I. Greeninsr 
Wolf River 
Gano 
Mcintosh Red 
Roman stem 
Yellow Belleflower 
Golden Sweet 
McMahon 
Rome Beauty 
Yel Newtown Pippin 
Golden Uusset 
Maiden Blush 
Salome 
Yellow Transparent 
Gravenstein 
Malinda 
Scotts Winter 
York Imperial 
