R EID’S NURSERIES . 
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SELECTED TREES, PLANTS, ETC 
Apples. 
The first fruit, both in importance and general culture, is the Apple. Its period, unlike that of other fruits, 
extends nearly or quite through the year. By planting judicious selections of summer, autumn and winter sorts, 
a constant succession of this indispensable 
fruit can be easily obtained for family use. 
There is no farm crop which on the average 
will produce one-fourth as much income per 
acre as will a good Apple orchard. 
BISMARCK. 
This most valuable new Apple, intro- 
duced from New Zealand a few years ago, 
through the agency of a celebrated arboretum 
in Germany, promises to take the place of 
almost every other Apple grown in this 
country and abroad. It has already been 
fully tested in Russia, Germany, France, 
England, United States and Canada ; and 
wherever grown it has proved a most astonish- 
ing revelation, not only in high quality, but 
also in hardiness, and especially in earliness 
of fruiting. The color of the fruit is a beau- 
tiful golden yellow, and its size is the largest. 
The trees bear most profusely, and the showy 
fruits are eagerly sought after, always bring- 
ing the highest market price. Bismarck trees 
bear at an earlier age than any other Apple, 
and the fruit keeps well into March. As a 
dessert Apple it has no equal, owing to its 
distinct and most delicious flavor. It is also 
found especially suitable for cooking pur- 
poses. It bears fruit when only one or two 
years old, and it has been grown in large quantities as a pot plant for table and greenhouse decoration. Large, 
40 cts. each, $4 per doz.; medium, 30 cts. each, $3 per doz.; small, postpaid, 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
Bismarck. (Reduced. 
STARR. 
This valuable Apple, although never formally introduced to the public, has been fruiting several years. It is 
an accidental seedling. It has proved a very desirable, reliable and valuable market Apple, and is now offered 
after several years of thorough testing in comparison with other best early market Apples. It always brings 25 
to 50 per cent more than other Apples in market, and sells readily at'Sl per half-bushel basket. The tree is 
a good, healthy grower, comes to fruiting young, and is an abundant and healthy bearer, though heavier on the 
alternate year. The fruit is very large, 1 1 to 12 inches around. Showy being a pale green color, frequently with 
a handsome blush on sunny side ; pleasant 
subacid. Very early, marketable first week 
in July, and will continue in good condition 
until September, being an excellent shipper 
for so early an Apple; has carried to Cali- 
fornia in excellent condition. A very supe- 
rior cooking and a good eating Apple. Price, 
first-class, 50 cts. each, $5 per doz.; medium, 
35 cts. each, $3.50 per doz.; mail size, post- 
paid, 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
ATSION. 
Probably no Apple grown in this section 
combines so many good points as this. The 
fruit is medium to large, very uniform in size 
and shape; cavity large; skin smooth, bril- 
liant red. Flesh moderately firm, of rich, 
mildly acid flavor ; equally fine as an eating 
or cooking Apple. It is a heavy bearer, 
ripening in October and keeping perfectly 
until February ; we have kept the fruit in lint- 
condition until the middle of March. It is 
just the Apple to command a high price dur- 
ing the holidays. One of its best features is 
that it produces uniformly large and round 
fruit, almost entirely free from wormy sped 
mens, without spraying, and this, too, where 
other Apples suffer badly. Atsion has never 
been offered to the public until now. The 
engraving represents an average specimen. 
No grafts will be cut from trees sent, and you 
can depend on getting a good amount of wood 
for propagation. Price, first-class, 50 cts. 
each, $5 per doz.; medium, 40 cts. each, $4 
per doz.; small size, postpaid, 25 cts. each, 
$2.50 per doz. 
ATSION. 
