Northern Grown Seeds, Plants and Nursery Stock 
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NURSERY DEPARTMENT 
Hardy, Iron-clad, Productive FRUITS, ORNAMENTAL TREES, 
SHRUBS, CLIMBING VINES, ROSES, Etc. 
-:- There is Money in Fruit Raising in Minnesota -:- 
WHY NOT PLANT ORCHARDS? - Realize the Wonderful Resources and Possibilities that the State Affords. 
APPLE culture is rapidly becoming one of the leading industries of 
the Northwest. Acoordhig to the report of the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Ajfrioulture for hist year, Minnesota surpassed Ohio, 
Illinois. Michigan. Wisconsin, Iowa. North Dakota. South Dakota 
and Nebraska in apple prmluction by obtaining 78 per cent of 
a full crop. During the past season 80 carloads of apples 
were shipped from one county alone and the valuation 
placed on the Minnesota fruit crop for last year was $250- 
000.00. Realize that these are figures for Minnesota 
alone: multiply them by the increase in available 
land throuiftiout the great Northwest, and you have 
a colossal enrerprise In its infancy. To meet the 
demand of this great Northwest we arc pro- 
.'ducing at our Nurseries (the Most Northern in 
America): after years of experiment, trees 
that combine extreme hardiness with the 
quality and oductivity of 
warmer climes. ^ 
$900.00 an Acre 
from land plan- 
ted with 
Apples in 
Minnesota. 
If a tree will lives through the rigors of our Minnesota Winters, we can 
safely say that it will grow anywhere. And once planted its value in- 
creases year by year: for example: 50 standard apples planted SO feet 
aparteaoh way. will cover an acre. The fourth year after planting, 
let us say. each tree will boar (the minimum yield), one .bushel of 
fruit or the crop will be $75.00: but each year the yield 'increases 
until by the tenth year the average yield should be 12 bushels 
of fruit from each tree or 600 bushels from the acre, wliich at 
$1.50 per bushel, will brinff in $900.00. and all without any 
expense Stive the intxinsiderableoneof laboi*, the trees 
having paid for themselves many years before. This 
crop will continue year after year without renewing 
or replanting and be a steady SQfirce of income.' 
These are not mythical or theoretical results bift 
arc actually being obtained by, apple growers' 
throughout the Northwest toilay, the product 
<5f^Iinncsota grown trees. The above plio- 
tograph of Minnesota Apples dis- 
played at the Conservation of Congress 
in St. I'aul shows amply what is l)eirig 
done. The following complete list 
wijl give the varieties best adapted 
to Northern and Western climatic 
conditions, f^pccial attention 
being directed to Mie famous 
M i n li c t o n k a . , * 
The illustration repfeseiits 
a display of M i n n es„o t'a 
Gk'own Apples which 
was exhibited at the 
Conservation Cong- 
ress held In St. 
Paul last year. 
FMi 
innetonlc^ 
Guarantee-. 
^ A Bushel of Fruit 
Srpm Every Tree/ 
The Minnetonka Apple 
Grown in the "Most Northern Nurseries in America" and 
a Minnetonka SL-edlinft. it has bi-en found to be the hardi. st. 
most productive ami most trenerallv satisfactory aoDle we 
have ever raised. It thrives and yields well n here all other 
varieties fail. The fruit is very large, a bright red in color, 
matures full and evenly clinging to the tree until late In the 
season, rendering possible the handpicking of almostthe 
entire crop for market. It is a good keeper, keeping two 
months longes than the wealthy, and is blight proof The 
...K.-,..!* ,■ very small, the flesh tender, crisp with a delicious 
sub acid favor making t excellent for either cooking or eating. This apple was origi- 
nated near Lake Minnetonka, Minn., and the original tr.-e purchased by us twenty 
?^Y,f,f«°,- 'ho'-oughly tested it and propagated from it at our nurseries se^kfng 
S=SJ""fJ°"^*?"'^,*"'°f^"^P.O"'*'^^t^^°"'<'in a" wayibe as delici'ous and abin? 
dantas the apples of warmer Climates and yet be hardy enough to live through the 
rUors of the extreme North west, and after twentp years of experiment and culture of 
this variety we feel that we have filled this want by placing in the hands of the farm- 
ers of the Northwest the GUARANTEED apple. The Minnetonka! 
„» NOTICE-This tree is grown, owned and controlled exclusively by us and cannot be 
offered by any other concern and is GUARANTEED by us to produce a bushel of fruit 
^""^ our seal attached and none is genuine wllhout. Re- 
?J®o'Vi''»J^"';'®^'^'"i^"'' tried for years, found to be the hardiest and most productive 
of all apples and an apple to plant in the Nortwest. w>uuui-i.ivo 
Minnetonka 
V2 Natural Size 
tlliii 4 to 5 ft. Trees 75c each; 3 for $2; 6 for $3; 1 2 for $6; by express or freight, Mail, size l M 40c ea.; 3 for $ 
, postpaid 
