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ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
HABIT I 
OF I 
GROWTH 
NAME AND DESCRIPTION. 
I SEASON. 
Vig. 
Vig. 
Free. 
Mod. 
Vig. 
Free. 
Free. 
Vig. 
Vig. 
Vig. 
Free. 
Martha Crab — Gideon's new seedling, No. 5, from Minnesota. Immensely vigorous, 
hardy, productive every }ear. Mr. Gideon says: “For sauce it surpasses any 
apple \.e ever grew.” A great acquisition. 
Montreal Beauty— Fruit large ; bright yellow, mostly covered and shaded with rich 
red ; one of the most beautiful of all Crabs in appearance. Flesh yellowish, rich, 
firm and acid ; very good. 
Orion— A new and very desirable Crab. Bright red ; one of the best. 
Orange — An annual and abundant bearer. Fruit larger than Transcendant. Flesh 
firm crisp, juicy and delicious. 
Quaker Beauty — A hardy sor* ; bears large crops of fine fruit. 
Queen’s Choice— Fruit as large as Transcendant, but a little more elongated ; bright 
yellow with .. beautiful blush cheek ; grows in large clusters ; flesh fine grained, 
juicy and good . An early and abundant bearer. 
Soulard — The largest of this class of apples ; very valuable as a cooking apple ; sour 
and astringent as an eating apple, but has, when cooked, a fine quince-like flavor : 
color green, becoming yellow in the spring; keeps well until July; very productive. 
Transcendant— All things considered, this is, perha s, the most valuable of Crab 
Apples grown. Tree immensely productive, bearing after second year, and pro- 
ducing good crops by the fourth year. Fruit from one and a half to two inches in 
diameter, being large enough to quarter and core for preserving and drying. 
Excellent for sauce and pies, both green and dried. The best of its class for cider, 
being juicy and crisp, and is also by many considered a good eating apple. Skin 
yellow, striped with red. 
Van Wyck Sweet— An exceedingly valuable variety. Fruit very large ; skin yellow- 
ish white, colored light red, and covered with bloom ; flesh yellowish white ; very 
sweet and tender ; small core. 
Whitney’s Seedlings Siberian— Large, averaging one and a half to two inches in 
diameter ; skin smooth, glossy green, striped, splashed with carmine ; flesh firm, 
juicy and flavor very pleasant ; ripens latter part of August. Tree a great bearer 
and very hardy ; a vigorous , handsome grower, with a dark green, glossy fol'age 
Yellow Siberian Crab— Nearly as large as the above ; fine amber or golded yellow 
color. 
Oct. 
Oct. to 
Nov. 
Oct. 
Oct. to 
Dec. 
Dec. to 
May. 
Oct. 
Jan. to 
June. 
Sept. & 
Oct. 
Oct. & 
Nov. 
Aug.. 
Sept. & 
Oct 
PEARS. 
The cultivation of this noble fruit is extending as its value is appreciated, The range of varieties is 
suci m iat ’ , • a Pl? les i they can be had in good eating condition from August until early Spring. 
The melting, juicy texture, the refined flavor, and the delicate aroma of the Pear, give it rank above 
all other fruits except the grape. 
j most things highly desirable and valuable, cannot be had without attention, labor 
and skill. I he relative price of the Apple and Pear being about as one of ten, show at the same time the 
superior value of the latter, and the grea er skill required to bring it to p. rfection . 
One of the most important points in the management of Pears, is to gather them at the proper time 
Summer Pears should be gathered at least ten days before they are ripe, and Autumn Pears at least a 
fortnight. W inter varieties, if they will hang so long, may be left until the leaves begin to fall. 
At the present time the demand is for choice fruit— inferior fruit brings scarcely a remunerative price 
but the best will always pay well. Pears should have the best kind of cultivation ; the fruit should be 
thinned so as not to over-produce. Care should be used in selecting for market only the best specimens 
an °'ru 1 h such effort and system on the part of the grower, there will also come a satisfactory profit. 
I he Pear succeeds on most soils, but docs best on a rather heavy loam. Budded on its own stock, it 
makes a standard tree, and on the French or Angers Quince, a dwarf, the former being best adapted to 
large permanent orchards, the latter (requiring garden culture and severe pruning every year) to smaller 
orchards, fruit yards and gardens. 
Dwarfs must always be planted sufficiently deep to cover the junction of the Pear and Quince two 
or three inches the sod made rich and well tilled, and about one-half of the previous Summer’s growth 
cut ott each Spring. Under this treatment, Dwarfs are everywhere snccessful. The side branches should 
H 0t u J en ? CH ’ ed “jlfner than on e foot from the ground in Dwarfs, while Standards may be trimmed to the 
height desired. Train in pyramidal form. Ripen the fruit in the house. Gather when, on gently lifting 
the truit, the stem will readily separate from the limb. Place in a dark room until fully matured. Winter 
“ ea !l 5 ni ®y han *\?£, „ e trees until there is danger from frost, then place in a dry cellar for maturing. 
,, n he tetters D and “ S appended to the description of varieties, indicate favorable growth either 
as Dwarfs or Standard or both. Those designated as “ moderate growers” are usually smaller 
