GENEVA, NEW YORK 
NECTARINES 
A most delicious, smooth-skinned fruit, which thrives wherever peaches will grow, but it is liable to be stung by 
the curculio, and requires the same treatment as plums. Trees good, vigorous growers. 
Early Violet. Medium size; yellowish green, with a Elruge. Medium size, pale green, covered with dark 
purple cheek, flesh pale green; melting, rich and highly red; flesh greenish white, melting, very juicy, with a rich 
flavored. Freestone. Last of August. high flavor. Freestone. Beginning of September. 
QUINCES 
The quince is well known and highly esteemed for cooking and preserving. One of the most profitable for orchard 
planting. , . . , , , 
The trees are hardy and compact in growth, require but little space, productive, give regular crops and come early 
into bearing. • . , , . , u ^ j 
They require good deep soil, which should be kept clean and mellow, with an occasional dressing of manure, but do 
■not need severe pruning; a careful thinning out of the old decayed wood will be sufficient. 
Keep a vigilant search after the borer, and thin out the fruit if bearing too freely. 
Bourgeat. A new variety, of the best quality, tender 
and good. Ripening shortly after Orange, and keeping till 
past mid- winter. Largest size, rich golden color, smooth, 
no creases. Rich velvety skin, with delicious quince odor. 
Foliage healthy. The strongest grower of the quinces, 
making tree as large and thrifty as plums and pears, and 
yielding an immense crop. 
Champion. The fruit is very large and productive. 
Young trees, two years old from bud, are often loaded with 
fruit. The skin russetted around the stem; below, a 
lively yellow color. Its flesh cooks tender; season is about 
two weeks later than the Orange. In growth it is very 
strong, stout and rugged. 
Meeche’s Prolific. Fruit said to be larger than the 
Orange, resembling the Champion in shape and general 
appearance, though not averaging quite so large; of great 
beauty and delightful fragrance. Productive and ripens 
early. 
Orange. Large, roundish, bright golden yellow; cooks 
quite tender, and is of very excellent flavor. Valuable 
for preserves and market. Very productive. Octo- 
ber. 
Rea’s Mammoth. A seedling of the Orange quince, 
one-third larger. Fair, handsome, and equally as good 
and productive. Tree a healthy, thrifty grower. 
APRICOTS 
This is one of the most beautiful and delicious fruits, and its value is greatly enhanced by the season of its ripening, 
between cherries and peaches. 
Liable to attack by curculio, and requires the same treatment as that applied to plum trees. 
■ Early Golden. Small; pale orange; juicy and sweet; 
hardy and productive. First of July. 
Early Moorpark. Medium; rich; juicy; very fine. 
Harris. Originated in Geneva. Free; perfectly hardy; 
comes into bearing young, and is very productive. Fruit 
large, rich golden yeUow ; ripens middle of July. 
Large Early Montgamet. One of the finest early varie- 
ties. Large. 
Moorpark. One of the largest; orange with a red 
cheek; firm, juicy, with a rich fiavor; very productive. 
August. 
Peach. Very large; orange with a dark cheek; juicy 
and high flavored. 
St. Ambroise. A good grower and very productive of 
good quality; freestone. Excellent for drying or canning. 
Ripens about middle of July. 
Russian Varieties 
The following varieties are the best that have been 
brought out; as a class, they are sufficiently hardy, but 
they are not as desirable as those named in the foregoing 
list. 
Alexander. Fruit yellow flecked with red; very beauti- 
ful and delicious. July. 
J. L. Budd. Strong grower and profuse bearer; ■white 
with red cheek; sweet, juicy, the best late variety. August. 
Golden Russian. One of the best of the Russian Apri- 
cots; rich, juicy and very fine. 
MULBERRIES 
The Mulberry is one of the most valuable of trees. As valuable for shade as for its fruit producing qualities. A 
wonderfully rapid grower, often growing 6 to 8 feet in one season. Perfectly hardy. The fruit ripens in July and con- 
tinues for three months. It is rarely picked from the trees, as it falls as soon as ripe, and it is therefore the custom to 
keep the surface below in a short turf, and the fruit is picked from the green grass. Invaluable for planting in yards 
where chickens are kept. 
Downing. Superseded by New American which is 
hardier and better. 
New American. Tree very vigorous and productive, 
surpassed by none; possesses a rich, sub-acid flavor; 
continues in bearing a long time. Fruit one and one- 
quarter of an inch long and nearly half an inch in diameter; 
color maroon or an intense blue black at full maturity; 
flesh juicy, rich, sugary. 
Russian. Very hardy, shrub-like in form of growth, 
valuable for feeding silk worms and for fences in severe 
climates. 
Tea’s Weeping. See ornamental trees. 
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