CHOICE FRUIT TREES, SMALL FRUITS AND ORNAMENTALS 
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Grapes 
The Grape is the most beautiful of all fruit and the most highly esteemed for its many uses. It can be 
secured by everyone who has a garden, a yard or a wall. It can be confined to a stake, bound to a 
trellis, trained over an arbor, or extended until it covers a largre tree or building, and still yield its graceful 
bunches and luscious clusters. Capable of most extraordinary results under wise management, as it is 
prone also to give the greatest disappointment under bad culture or neglect. Other fruita may be had 
from plants that know no care; but Grapes are only to be had through attention and forethought. 
SOILS. Good Grapes are grown on various soils — sandy, clayey, loamy, etc. The soil must be well 
drained, and there should be a free exposure to the sun and air. Hillsides unsuitable for other crops arc 
good places for Grapes. 
CROPS. Crop Grapes moderately, if you would have fine, well-ripened fruit. A vine is capable of 
bringing only a certain amount of fruit to perfection, proportioned to its size and strength ; but 4t 
usually sets more fruit than it can mature. Reduce the crop early in the season to a moderate number 
of good clusters, and cut off the small, inferior branches • the remainder will be worth much more than 
the whole would have been. A very heavy crop is usually a disastrous one. 
PRUNING. Annual and careful pruning is essential to the production of good Grapes. If the roots 
are called upon to support too much, they cannot bring to maturity a fine crop of fruit. The pruning 
should be done in November. December, or January, while the vines are entirely dormant. Care should be 
taken in pruning, as some varieties produce only small-sized bunches if cut back too hard, while others 
require severe pruning to produce the best fruit. 
MOORE'S EARLY. A seedling of the Concord 
combining the vigor, health and productiveness of 
iis parent, and ripening a few days earlier than the 
Hartford : bunch medium ; berry quite large ; color 
black, with a heavy blue bloom. Its extreme hardi- 
ne:5s and size will render it a popular market sort. 
Black Grapes 
CAMPBELL'S EARLY. Its strong, hardy, vigorous 
growth, thick, heavy foliage, very early ripening and 
abundant bearing of large and handsome clusters of 
excellent quality, combined with the piost remarkable 
keeping and shipping qualities, form a combination 
equalled by no other Grape. Ripens with Moore's 
Eariy, but. \inlike that variety, it has kept sound and 
Ferfcct. both on and off the vine, for weeks after ripe, 
n quality it is unrivaled by any of our early market 
Grapes. It is. both as to cluster and berry, of large 
size, of a glossy black color with a beautiful blue 
bloom, pulp sweet and juicy : free from foxiness. 
CHAMPION. Bunches large and compact ; berries 
large, covered with a rich bloom : medium in quality ; 
vine a strong and healthy grower and a good bearer; 
profitable for market on account of its earliness. 
CONCORD, Bunches large, berries large, round: 
skin thick, and covered with bloom: flesh juicy, sweet. 
Vine very hardy, vigorous and productive ; at present 
the most popular of all our native sorts. 
White Grapes 
MOORE'S DIAMOND. Origin. New York. Said 
to be a cross between Concord and lona. This 
handsome new white Grape has met with general 
favor • its extreme early ripening alone would make 
it valuable, coming in two or three w^eeks ahead of 
Concord ; the bunch is medium size, slightly shoul- 
dered : color greenish white, with a yellow tinge 
when fully ripe ; flesh juicy and almost without 
puip ; very few seeds. 
NIAGARA. A magnificent white Grape and very 
valuable for both garden and vineyard : a rank 
grower and very productive of beautiful bunches of 
Ihe largest size; berries large, with a tough skin; 
quality good : ripens about with Concord. 
Lntie. 
Red Grapes 
LUTIE. This fine Grape originated in 
Tennessee, and has taken its place in the 
front rank of fine table Grapes. It is hardy, 
vigorous and productive, being remarkably 
free from all fungous diseases ; dark red. 
bunch and berry medium to large : quality 
the best ; it has no equal as a fine family 
Grape. 
Strawberries 
The Strawberry, being the first fruit to ripen in the spring, comes to the 
table when the appetite is exacting, and is a very welcome visitor. It is so 
beautiful in form, color and fragrance that it is to the fruits what the rose 
is to the flowers — a veritable queen. 
No fruit can surpass Strawberries, fully ripe and freshly picked from 
the vines. They are so beneficial to health that invalids gain strength from 
eating them, and they may be eaten at every meal in satisfying quantities 
and nourish the most delicate stomach. 
The fruit is so soon produced after planting that it affords pleasant, easy 
and profitable employment for the poor with but little land, to the old with 
little strength, and to all who love to till the soil and get near to nature 
and to Mother Earth. 
The charms of the Strawberry do not all end in the eating of it. The 
Strawberry is sure to grow, and the various varieties are suited for the 
various soils. Its culture is simple, and fine berries are sure to sell at 
paying prices. 
Strawberries come to the table from the garden in the most tempting 
and presentable shape, and need nothing to fit them to grace the table of a king. 
Cultivation. Cultivation should commence as soon as plants are set. The 
best tool for early cultivating is a fine-tooth cultivator which does not throw 
much dirt and can be run close to plants. Use hoe to keep weeds and grass 
out of row, and cultivate thoroughly every week during the growing season. 
Another reason why a small-tooth cultivator should be used is that it leaves 
the surface level and thoroughly pulverizes the soil, thereby causing it to re- 
tain moisture a long time. The rows should be kept free from grass and weeds 
until fall. Allow all the first runners to set plants, so that they may make 
large, stocky and well-rooted plants. After the row is well set keep all 
runners out, thus throw- 
ing the growth into the 
plants al ready rooted. 
Superb 
Everbearing 
Strawberries. 
(See page 10.) 
It is a bad mistake to cut the first runners and allow the late ones to grow. 
Pollenizing. Plants that arc marked "S" are staminate. and will produce 
fruit without other sorts planted with them. Those that are marked "P" 
are pistillate sorts, and will not produce fruit succes-sfully unless some 
staminate sort is planted with them. The rule is two rows of pistillate sorts 
and one of staminate sorts, or four pistillate and two of staminate. Some 
growers plant the*^ staminate sorts in the rows with the pistillates, using 
one-third staminates. 
Everbearing Strawberries 
They bear the first year and will give you rich, ripe berries until fro»t. 
Fruit brings 25c to 50c per quart. A demonstrated success. 
Strawberries from June to November ! A few years ago that would have 
sounded like a fairy-tale, a horticultural phenomenon contrary to all the 
laws of Nature. But the Everbearing Strawberry is here in actual fact. 
It has been tested, tried and proved. And it has made good in both 
commercial and home garden plantings in widely varying parts of the 
country. 
So many new and unsuccessful Everbearing fruits have been introduced 
that people have been slow to plant Everbearing varieties. The great value 
of the Everbearing Strawberry so far has l>een appreciated by only a few 
growers — but these growers are reaping profits far in excess of the returns 
from the old-time standard varieties. The "Doubting: Thomases*' have only 
to try and see these wonderful berries to become as enthusiastic as those 
who are now growing them so successfully. 
The genuine Everbearing Strawberries are not a variable "sport", but a 
distinct race that are dependable and will produce berries all summer long. 
The first crop is borne early in the season, at the same time as the standard 
or June-bearing varieties. Then there is a continuation of blooming, 
producing rii>e fniit throughout the summer if conditions are favorable. 
Following this is another especially heavy blooming period in the late 
summer, and a large crop follows until severe frosts come. You pick straw- 
berries for four to five months, instead of one. 
A severe drouth or neglect during the heat of mid-summer will check 
the fruiting of the Everbearing varieties, just as it checks the fruiting 
pt»riod of the standard varieties ; but even under neglect the Everbearing 
plants produce heavily in the late summer and autumn. Drouth 
that cuts off the crop for the year on common or standard varieties 
simply checks the Everbearing berries, and they come on as pro- 
ductive as ever with the first rains, producing new blooms and 
starting another crop. 
We especially recommend the Everbearing varieties, Americus and 
Progressive, to our customers, because we have tried them thor- 
oughly and know from experience that they are an unqualified 
success. 
AMERICUS (S). Americus is the best quality of the wonderful 
new race of Strawberries which is giving many growers strawberries 
from very early in the season until the hard frosts come in the fall 
of the year. Berries are bright red, medium to large size, roundish, 
heart-shaped, very attractive in appearance, not as dark red as the 
Superb, but unusually hich flavor, very rich, aromatic, being 
superior 1o the Marshall. The Americus is the best flavored of the 
Everbearing Strawberries, and you can have them now for months, 
where formerly the season was hut a few weeks long. It is a good 
shipper and will hold up as well as Senator Dunlap and nearly as 
well as the Warfield. It is said by some not to be as good a shipper 
as the Progreissive. It begins bearine the first berries with the extra 
early varieties, but this heavy crop ripens over a long period of about 
six weeks, and continues to bloom and ripen fruit throughout the 
;^ummer. This first heavy crop can be delayed by nicking off the first lot 
>^ bloom, bringing it to maturity just after the late varieties are gone. 
IOWA (S). The Iowa is a dark but brilliant red with a glossy surface. 
The flesh is also dark color, making it a very attractive berry. Good quality, 
sweet, pleasant. The berries are almost round, large, very attractive 
appearance, extra good quality ; strong, vigorous grower. 
