CHOICE FRUIT TREES, SMALL FRUITS AND ORNAMENTALS 
BLACKBERRIES Continued 
ELDORADO. Almost as large a berry as Kitta- 
tinny ; not so Kood in flavor, but withal a ^ood one 
to plant. 
McDonald blackberry (Very Early Black- 
berry.) McDonald Blackberr>' is the Kreatest im- 
provement since the first wild blackberries were 
planted in a garden and cultivated. Like many 
other improved fruits, it ia a hybrid, or cross, com- 
bining the firmness and quality of the blackberry 
with the size, earliness and productiveness of the 
dewberry. The berries are large, oblont? and very 
good quality, etiualling the best late varieties for 
flavor and juiciness. The McDonald is enormously 
productive, outyielding any other known variety of 
blackberry. The McDonald ripens fully two weeks 
before Early Harvest, which is the earliest ripening 
of all blackberries, and can be picked and sold for 
an extra price before any other varieties are on 
the market. 
MERCEREAU. A most phenomenal grower, and 
very prolific, of larger, better-flavored berries than 
Kitlatinny. We have planted it only in a small 
way, but the cane is very hardy, and from its 
general appearance think it will prove a good one. 
AUSTIN'S DEWBERRY. Originated by J. V/. 
Austin. Texas ; -said to be superior to Lucretia. 
LUCRETIA DEWBERRY. We 
have a very large demand for plants, 
which goes to prove that the Dew- 
berry is winning its way to the 
front. The cane will not withstand 
our cold winters, but can easily be 
covered with old hay or straw for 
protection. Berry five times as large 
as Snyder. 
RATHBUN. A cross between the 
Dewberry and Blackberry ; berry 
very large. We have never heard 
an unfavorable report. Propagates 
from root-cuttings or tips. Cane is 
much hardier than that of Dewberr\ 
and grows more upright. 
Juneberries 
Cold or heat, wet or dry, the June- 
berry seems to get along anyway, 
and always produces fruit. But the 
market is limited, and hence can 
never be a profitable fruit plant : 
but you will always have fruit if 
you plant the Juneberry. 
Currants 
Currants do best on a cool, sheltered, moist location. Plant about 3 feet apart ; rows 
4 feet apart. Being perfectly hardy, they can be planted in the fall and do not suffer 
injury from the winter. To destroy the currant worm, dust the plants with white 
hellebore when the dew is on ; care should be taken not to breathe the hellebore, as it causes violent 
sneezing. 
BLACK NAPLES. Very large, sometimes meas- 
uring half an inch in diameter; fine for wines or 
jellies. 
BLACK CHAMPION. Bunches are very large 
and the flavor of the fruit is particularly delicious; 
it hangs long on the bushes. < 
CHERRY. The largest of all the red Currants; 
berries sometimes measuring half an inch in 
diameter, bunches short, plant very vigorous and 
productive when grown on good soils and well 
cultivated. 
FAY (Fay*s Prolific). Bush vigorous, but not 
quite so strong a grower as Cherry ; cluster me- 
dium to long, with rather long stems ; color darker i 
than Cherry ; berry averages large, juicy and less j 
acid than Cherry. 
RED DUTCH. An old and well-known standard 
variety. Bush a strong, tall, upright grower, with 
rather tender shoots : clusters average about 3 
inches long; berries average medium in size, are 
dark red and have sprightful subacid flavor. Pro- 
ductive. 
Downing 
Goose her reis, 
Fay Currants. 
Gooseberries 
Until quite recently no interest has been felt 
in the cultivation of this fruit, further than to 
grow a meager supply for home consumption, yet 
there are few crops that will yield as satisfactory 
returns ; certainly none more certain with so little 
expense in cultivation. 
DOWNING. A seedling of the Houghton. An up- 
right, vigorous-growing plant ; fruit larger than 
its parent ; color whitish green : flesh rather soft, 
juicy, very good: productive; valuable market sort. 
HOUGHTON»S SEEDLING. Rather small : pale 
red ; flesh tender, juicy, sweet and pleasant ; pro- 
duces enormous crops ; free from mildew ; most 
profitable market variety. 
INDUSTRY. English origin : the best foreifrn 
Gooseberry yet introduced : very large ; dark red : 
excellent quality ; beautiful and an enormous 
bearer. 
SMITH*S SEEDLING. A new variety grown 
from seed of the Houghton ; more vigorous and 
upright in growth of plant than its parent; the 
fruit is larger and somewhat oval in form ; light 
green ; flesh moderately firm, sweet and good. 
Nut Trees 
Most farmers have a spot or corner on their land that is better adapted for nut-bearing trees than 
these trees more than pays for the use of the land, while the trees are growing into valuable timber, 
and immense quantities of them are imported yearly to meet the demand. 
Almonds 
PRINCESS and SULTANA. Both are prolific, 
soft shelled and very good. These are the varieties 
mostly cultivated in Europe, and produce the bulk 
of the Almonds of commerce. 
Chestnuts 
AMERICAN SWEET. The common variety that 
flouishes in our mountains. 
LARGE SPANISH. Yields very large nuts, not 
so sweet as the American, but by their size and 
beautiful appearance command a ready sale. 
JAPAN GIANT. The tree is similar in habit of 
growth to the Italian Chestnut, It is a handsome, 
sturdy, healthy tree — one of the most useful that 
can be grown. It grows in northern Japan, and 
has proved sufl^ciently hardy almost anywhere in 
the United States. Many people are deterred from 
planting nut-bearing trees by the thought that 
fifteen or sixteen years must elapse before bringing 
the tree into bearing condition, while in fact the 
Japan Mammoth Chestnut tree bears fruit at three 
or four years of age. The size of the nut is re- 
markable, some of them weighing 1V> ounces. No 
nut tree in cultivation promises to be more re- 
munerative. 
for any other purpose, and the crop grown from 
There is a constant and growing demand for nuts. 
Pecans 
Pecan culture is rapidly increasing throughout 
the South, there being few trees that yield as 
regular and large an income after they attain the 
bearing age. Any good pine land, or land where 
hickory grows, is suitable for the Pecan, but it 
does best and produces larger crops when planted 
in the rich alluvial soils. It is a well-known fact 
that both the quality and the quantity of both nuts 
and fruits are increased by cultivation, and the 
Pecan is no exception. Here we have a tree which 
is of beautiful shape, symmetrical, rapid in growth, 
with luxuriant green foliage, which it retains late 
in the _ fall, rendering it a very conspicuous and 
attractive shade tree, producing in great abundance 
smooth, oblong, thin-shelled nuts with sweet and 
delicious kernelsi 
Owing to the difliculty in grafting or budding the 
Pecan, and the necessarily high price of the bud- 
ded or grafted trees, and the fact that the sub- 
varieties, of which there are many, reproduce 
themselves at the rate of 60 to 70 per cent, thus 
showing a small variation from the seed planted, 
we off"er seedling trees raised from the largest 
selected paper-shell nuts obtainable. Our custo- 
mers can therefore rely on these trees producing 
a large proportion of superior nuts. 
GRAFTED and BUDDED PECANS. We also 
grow grafted and budded Pecans, the scions gr 
buds for which were taken from trees producing 
very choice soft-shell nuts. The Pecan, when 
budded or grafted from bearing trees, comes into 
bearing the second or third year from planting, 
trees having been known to produce nuts in the 
nursery the first year. You have a certainty of 
getting nothing but choice nuts, which makes the 
trees well worth the difi'erence in price. 
Walnuts 
CALIFORNIA PAPER SHELL. A vari- 
ety of the English Walnut, or Madeira nut. 
bearing an oblong-shaped nut, with a ver>' 
tender shell, well filled with a rich kernei. 
JAPAN. Produces in abundance nuts 
larger than the common hickory, which are 
borne in clusters of from fifteen to twenty. 
The meat is sweet, of the very best quality. 
Leaves enormous size, of a beautiful shade 
of green, making a very handsome tree. 
BLACK WALNUT. Our native species. 
The Black Walnut is planted for its timber 
possibilities, the wood being very valuable. 
There have been many waste pieces of 
ground thus put into growing timber that 
will be found very profitable, and the fruit 
also affords a source of income before the 
timber is available. 
Illinois. May 3. 1916.— I take pleasure in stating that I have lived in the fruit belt of 
Southern Illmois for the past 15 years. Being interested in the fruit business have paid 
partu-ular attention to trees growing and fruiting that have been shipped in from various 
Nurseries, and I find that your trees give universal satisfaction, the same people buying 
from you year after year. Your stock is always better than expected, and is packed and 
shipped in first class condition. They live well, and bear fine fruit in thin section. I there- 
fore take pleasure in recommending your trees to those interested. 
Paper Shell Pecans. 
