DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
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APPLES Russian and others of Special 
Merit. 
One year grafts cut back for mailing. 25 cents each ; | 
5 for $1.00. 
Alexander, Emperor Alexander, Russian Em¬ 
peror, &c.— A large, beautiful, red apple. September. 
Bottle Greening.— Fruit medium ; greenish yellow, 
shaded with dull crimson ; sub-acid, almost melting. 1 
January and February. 
Duchesse of Oldenburg.—Large, striped yellow and 
red. Popular everywhere. September. 
Dutch Butter.—A beautiful, even sized, sweet, red 
apple, admirably adapted for apple butter. December 
to March. 
Haas. —I^rge size; splashed and mottled light red; 
juicy acid, rich, extremely hardy. November to March. 
Lawver. —large, dark bright red. Flesh white, crisp, 
sprightly, aromatic, sub-acid. January to May. 
McIntosh Rad.—A new, hardy variety, of Canadian 
origin. Fruit medium, dark red ; very handsome, fine 
grained, juicy, tender and mild. January. 
Mann.—A good sized apple of the Greening type, 
keeping until June or July. 
Pewaukee. —Medium size : bright yellow, splashed 
and striped dull red; sub-acid, with a rich, aromatic 
flavor ; perfectly hardy. December to March. 
Red Canada. —This is the old Richfield Nonsuch. A 
handseme, red, winter apple, but difficult to propagate. 
December t# February. 
Smith's Cider. —Very desirable ; medium, striped, 
productive. November to March. 
Seedless. — Medium sized; greenish yellow, with 
dark carmine cheek in sun. It is entirely seedless, and 
quite a novelty. November and December. 
Shiawassee Beauty. — Fruit medium, white, mar¬ 
bled, splashed aud striped with red. i*lcsh firm, very 
white, tender, juicy, brisk, refreshing, sub-acid. Octo¬ 
ber to January. 
Stump. -^Medium, roundish, conical, smooth, while, 
shaded with bright red, splashed and striped with crim¬ 
son. Flesh white, tender, juicy and pleasantly sub-acid. 
September and October. 
Tetofsky. — An early. Russian apple, ripening in July 
and August ; bc^rs extremely early. Fruit handsome, 
medium to large ; yellow, striped with red ; juicy, pleas¬ 
ant acid, aromatic. 
Walbridgc. —Medium size; handsome, striped red; 
one of the hardiest. March to June.' 
Wealthy. A native of Minnesota ; perfectly hardy; 
fruit large, red, sub-acid. December to February. 
HYDE’S KING OF THE WEST.— Large to very 
large ; handsome, yellowish green ; good quality, a re¬ 
markable keeper. Apples of crops of 1878 and 1879 were 
exhibited side by side at the win'er meeting of the Ohio 
State Horticultural Society, hel<t at Canton, in Decem¬ 
ber of 1879, and attracted great attention. Time of 
keeping, all the year round One year trees, suitable 
for mailing, 40 cents each ; 3 for $1.00. 
APPLES Crab. 
One year grafts cut back for mailing. 25 cents each ; 
5 for $i.co. 
Aucubifolia, 
Briar's Sweet, 
Chicago, 
Golden Beauty, 
Hyslop, 
Montreal Beauty, 
Marengo, 
Power’s Large Red, 
Transcendent, 
Van Wyck’s Sweet, 
Whitney’s No. 20, 
Yellow Siberian, 
PEARS—Standard. 
Plant 20 feet apnrt each way, 108 trees to the acre. 
One year grafts cut back for mailing. 40 cents each ; 3 
for $1.00. 
SUMMER. 
Bartlett, Madelaine, 
Brandywine, Osband’s Summer, 
Dearborn’s Seedling, Tyson & Clapp’s Favorite. 
AUTUMN. 
Howell, 
Buffam, 
Beurre d’Anjou, 
Beurre Clarigeau, 
Belle Lucrative, 
Duchesse de Angouleme, 
Flemish Beauty, 
Louise Bonne de Jersey 
Seckel, 
Swan’s Orange, 
Sheldon, 
Steven’s Genesee. 
Beurre Easter, 
Columbia, 
Lawrence, 
winter. 
Mt. Vernon, 
Vicar of Wakefield. 
PEARS New. 
Price 50 cents each, except where noted. 
Beurre de I’Assumption. — Fruit large and melting, 
ripening early in August. 
Brockvvorth Park. — Large, pale yellow, flushed and 
streaked with red on the sunny side ; flesh white, but¬ 
tery, melting ; very juicy, vinous and rich. September. 
Duchesse de Bordeaux. — Medium to large ; sweet 
and pleasant. December to February. 
Frederick Clapp.— Above medium size ; clear lemon 
yellow ; fine grained, juicy, melting, sprightly, rich and 
aromatic ; very good to best. October. 75 cents. 
Souvenir du Congress.—A secdKngof the Bartlett, 
ripening before it, and larger. The fruit is very fine, 
and of immense size, but unfortunately the tree blights 
badly. 
Goodale. — Fruit large, light yellow, with a blush in 
the sun ; juicy, melting, vinous. October. 
Keiffer’s Hybrid.—A cross between the Chinese 
Sand Pear and a choice variety supposed to be Bartlett, 
the tree partaking of the hardiness of the Sand Pear, 
which is absolutely blight proof, and the fruit partaking 
; of the characteristics of our choicest varieties. Mr. 
Meehan, editor of the Gardener's Monthly , says: 44 I 
have eaten fruit of Keiffer’s Hybrid, that was equal in 
luscious richness to any pear I ever ate. I have never 
tasted a bad or indifferent pear of this kind, every one 
was delicious. I regard it the most wonderful produc¬ 
tion of the age.” As yet no case of blight on Kcifler 
I has been known ; dwarf trees, $1.50. 
PEARS—Dwarf. 
Plant one rod apart, t6o to the acre. Leading sorts, 
one year buds, cut back for mailing, 40 cents each ; 3 for 
$1.00, except Keiffer’s Hybrid $1.50; Frederick Clapp 
75 cents, and others in list of new pears 50 cents each. 
CHERRIES. 
Plant Hearts and Bigarreaus 20 feet apart each way ; 
j 108 trees to the acre. 
Plant Dukes and Morellos 10 to 12 feet apart ; 363 
trees to the acre. 
One year from bud, cut back for convenience in mail¬ 
ing to about one foot. 40 cents each ; 3 for $i.oo. 
LEADING SORTS. 
Black Eagle, 
Black Tartarian, 
Belle Magnifique, 
Carnation, 
Early Purple Guigne, 
Early Richmond, 
! Elton, 
English Morello, 
NEW CHERRIES. 
Empress Eugenie.—A new variety from France of 
great excellence ; a profuse bearer. 50 cents, 
Gov. Wood, 
May Duke, 
Napoleon, 
Ohio Beauty, 
Reine Hortense, 
Rockport, 
Yellow Spanish. 
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