SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1896. 
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Choice and are Bruits. 
The Fruit Garden in an indispensable part of any rural home. It is a delight, a satisfaction, a convenience, 
a profit, and a source of the most healthful and delicious food supply any family can have. Beginning with 
the. Strawberry in May, the supply is never exhausted until the last winter Apples have gone. Juneherrics, 
Cherries, Raspberries, Wineberries, Currants, Blackberries, l’lunis. Peaches, Pears, Crapes, etc., follow 
successively. They save expense, arc luscious and convenient, and any place well stocked with fruits always 
finds a ready sale at a good price; they enhance its value often many times in excess of its cost. 
We have for years made a specialty of Choice Fruit Novelties and have introduced nearly all of the 
leading ones for ten years past. The varieties here offered are all of recent introduction, and each and every 
one possesses great merit. The trees here offered are young and thrifty and will make a very rapid growth 
and bear quickly. When fruit trees or shrubs arc received before they can be planted they may be safely kept 
for any length of time by having the roots packed in boxes of moist soil and stored in a cool cellar or shed. It 
is important to order fruit trees early that they may be planted out before the foliage starts. 
At prices named we send strong, robust, young stock by mail, postpaid, but by express we can send much 
larger trees, especially Peaches, Apples, Plums, etc. Strawberries, Raspberries, Dewberries, Grapes, etc., 
are of course as well sent by mail as by express, as far as size is concerned. Our fruit stock is all vigorous and 
healthy, and whether you have it sent by mail or express it will be sure to please you by its rapid aud vigorous 
growth and early bearing. We have no Hun Jose Seal Sec Certificate elsewhere. 
Choice Strawberries. 
Of all the fruits known to cultivation the Strawberry is 
conceded to be the most luscious, ami is a universal favorite; 
yet it is not grown by one-half the people who might grow it 
just as well as not. it is but a few hours’ work to plant a 
Strawberry bod and care for it through the year, and no work 
can possibly yield a better return. Strawberries bought in 
the market are not to be compared with the luscious, ruby 
beauties, fresh and ripe from the vines. The following are 
the very best varieties in cultivation—the cream of all in¬ 
cluding' extra early, medium arid late sorts: 
Shucklesa. It is not often that we have a more important 
novelty to introduce than this. It is a thorough depar¬ 
ture from the general run of Stra wberries, differing from 
all others in one most important respect, and in this 
point lies its great value, and we are sure our readers 
will appreciate it when we say that in picking the (nut 
the berry parts from the calyx something like the Hasp- 
berry. thus avoiding the irksome task of hulling them 
before they can be placed upon the table. I he null re¬ 
mains mum the stem. This one point should.and we be¬ 
lieve will, make this the most popular berry for home 
gardens that has yet been introduced. Aside from this 
advantage, the berry is of large size, beautiful color, of 
rich, sweet flavor and a hardy, robust grower, producing 
one of the largest crops of all berries. Everyone who 
loves and cultivates Strawberries must, of course, have 
this variety, if only a few plants to grow a stock from. 
00c. per dor..: $3.50 per 100; $17 per 1,000. 
Meeks Early. This Is a most important new berry, inas¬ 
much as it is the earliest and bkst of all early varie¬ 
ties. It is a good week ahead of any other in ripening, 
and it is also of large size, fine quality and very produc¬ 
tive. No other early variety can compare with it, and it 
must find its way to every collection. 50c. per dozen; 
$3.00 per 100: $15.00 per 1.000. , ,. 
Minpola. For a general all-round Strawberry we believe 
this to be the finest variet y in cultivation. It originated 
on Long Island and has been cultivated here for ten or a 
dozen years by a few growers, and was first introduced 
into general cultivation by us last year. The fruit is of 
verv large size and exceedingly sweet and luscious in 
quality, in this respect surpassing any other vari¬ 
ety. It is a most vigorous grower, its foliage being 
of* great size aud wonderfully healthy and luxuriant. 
The fruit, is borne on tall stems which hold them well up 
from the sand and dirt below. The berries are perfect 
in shape, beautiful in color, enormous in size and exceed¬ 
ingly prolific, succeeding well on all soils. Either as a 
market., home or exhibition berry it is par excellence. 
Could we grow but one variety this would be our choice. 
Fine plants, 50c. per dozen ; $2.00 per 100; $15.00 per 3.000. 
First Season. This is not only the latest variety but it has 
another important advantage. It will bear a fair crop of 
fruit the first season it is planted, especially if the plants 
are set quite early in the spring on good soil. It is one of 
the very best croppers among Strawberries, fruit being 
very large and handsome, produced in great quantity and 
of sweet, tine flavor. Heing extremely late in ripening’it 
greatly prolongs the Strawberry season, especially if one 
has Meeks Early to commence with and Mineola for in¬ 
termediate. Fine vigorous plants, 50c. per dozen; $3.00 
per 300: $35.00 per 1,000. 
SPECIAL OFFER. 
Six plants each of the above fcmrfinrstStrau'ben'iesfor $1.00; 
12 plants each for $1.50; 100 plants each for $6 00. This is the 
Hurst collection of Strawberries it is possible to have. 
