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Sherman Nursery Company, Charles City, Iowa 
PEACHES 
Hale's Early. Raised in Ohio. Medium 
size; flesh white, first quality. Kipens 
middle of August. 
Heath Cling. Very large; flesh white, 
iuicy and melting. Good keeper and 
shipper. October. 
Hill's Chili. Large, downy, tame yel- 
low, with slight blusli; flesh yellow, lus- 
cious and weil flavored, pit small. Tree 
continued 
hardy and productive. Bears large ciops 
when most other sorts fail. Late Sept. 
Salway. An Knglish Peach. Large, 
roundish: skin creamy yellow ; flesh deep 
yellow, juicy, melting, rich. A valuable 
late Peach for market, where it will ripen. 
Wager, Medium, yellow, good quality. 
Tree hardy, healthy, long-lived, pro- 
ductive. Early September. 
PEACHES IN THE NORTH 
It is generally considered that this class of fruit can be raised only in the far 
South, but some of our best horticulturists have demonstrated that this is not true. 
By planting small trees and leaning them in the direction that you wish to lay 
them down in the winter, and then in the fall digging out a few spadefuls of dirt on 
the side that it is desired to bend your trees down, you will find that you can easily 
bend them down and pin them to the ground. They should then be covered with 
coarse straw, cornstalks, leaves or any other similar materials. It is better to have 
some mulch under the tree before it is laid down, so that the branches will not come 
to the ground, and under the mulch, and scattered through it, there should be plenty 
of poisoned bait for mice, as they are the worst enemy to trees protected in this 
way. Common corn bread in small pieces and covered with arsenic is as good a bait 
as can be used. 
When spring comes, remove the litter and straighten the trees up; fill in the 
dirt and you will find in a few years that you will be able to raise good crops of 
Peaches even where the mercury often goes as low as 35° to 40° below zero. You will 
also find that the fruit raised in this way will be even more beautiful in appearance 
and much finer in flavor than that raised in the South. 
PIu 
Aiken. The tree is a rapid, vigorous 
grower, with dark green ana very large 
foliage; bark smooth and bright. The 
tree fruits at a very early age, often fruit- 
ing at three years from the graft. The 
fruit is large and of rather poor quality. 
It is free.stone, and a variety that peels 
very easily. The tree originated in north- 
ern Minnesota, anil is probably one of the 
hardiest trees cultivated, and in localities 
i)t; solo. 
ms 
subject to very extreme cold has some 
value, but where other American sorts of 
Plum can be grown we think they will be 
found preferable. Kipens early in Au- 
gust. 
Cheney. A stiong, upright -growing 
tree, very hardy, and one of the very best 
varieties for the extreme North. Fruit 
large, of fair quality. Tree an early and 
abundant bearer. 
De Solo. Tree perfectly hardy, a regu- 
lar and abundant bearer; fruit medium 
size and of fine quality, color light red; 
ripens very early. This tree is liable to 
overbear, and, if very heavily loaded, 
fruit should be thinned. 
Forest Garden. Hardy ; bears profusely ; 
one of the earliest Plums; large, being 
! 1 to \% inches in diameter, oblong, color 
mottled red and yellow ; skin thin; juicy, 
sweet and rich. Ripens from August 1 
to 2.'). 
Hawkeye. This variety is a native of 
Iowa, perfectly hardy, and fruit is as 
large as Lombai'd. Season, September. 
Miner. A strong, vigorous tree, grow- 
ing perhaps to the largest size of any of 
ournative Plums. The fruit is large, bright 
red, very even, very firm, of fine quality. 
