23 Best Varieties 
I F you wish the most delicious fruit of all, plant apple trees. 
My trees have heavy roots on them, are selected from earliest 
bearing, heaviest yielding fruiting trees. Apples you grow 
yourself always seem juicier, of better quality and keep longer. 
Just think! An apple tree will live for forty years if given 
care; 36 years of bearing. My own planting book which is 
sent free with every nursery order tells you how 
to plant fruit trees successfully. 
We poet pay to your door everything' In the nursery 
line, except large else fruit trees and shade trees, 
and I will prepay charges on them If your total 
nursery order is $10.00 or over. Balled Evergreens 
are P.OJ3. Shenandoah. 
Your choice at the following prices: 
Size 
Each 
Per4 
Per 10 
Per 25 
Express or 
freight, 
2 yr. heavy . 
4-6 ft. 
$0.50 
$1.85 
$4.25 
$9.50 
Postpaid, 2 yr. 
branched ... 
3-5 ft. 
.40 
1.50 
3.50 
7.50 
Apple trees should be planted 35 feet apart 
each way. Such early maturing varieties as 
Yellow Transparent, Duchess, Grimes Golden 
and Wealthy make good fillers, or peach trees 
are often used. In planting 35 feet each way 
you can get 35 trees to the acre and about 80 
to 90 fillers. 
SUMMER APPLES "•« '-»• 
Tallow Transparent 
MAIN CROP 
APPLES 
My apple trees are upland grown, vigorous, 
hardy, well rooted, carefully inspected, Iowa 
Inspection No. 97. This is your year to plant 
apples. 
DUCHESS. No apple Is finer flavored than a juicy, 
red striped Duchess. Good eating and cooking 
apple. Bears large crops even lh the extreme 
Northern apple sections. Very hardy. Fruits in 
August. 
EARLY HARVEST. Pale yellow; season July. Very 
fine for eating and cooking. One of the very best 
apples for home use. Always bears a crop. 
BED JUNE. The early sweet Red June is my favor¬ 
ite because it’s the first apple in the summer. 
YELLOW TRANSPARENT. The juicy tender yellow 
summer apple. Hard to beat for eating and cook¬ 
ing. The tree is very hardy, bears young and is 
loaded with apples every year. Ripens in July. 
FAIL or AUTUMN APPLES 
FAMEUSE or SNOW. Everyone likes the crisp, 
snow-white flesh of the Snow apple. Has a won¬ 
derful flavor. Ripens November and keeps to 
January. 
WEALTHY. Best known of all fall apples. Free from 
disease and long lived. Striped bright red and 
wonderful quality. Its planting increases every 
year because it ripens between Duchess and 
Jonathan. Very hardy. 
MAIDEN BLUSH. An old favorite with many. Pale 
yellow with crimson cheek. A medium to large 
apple that can’t be beat for cooking quality. 
Winter apples keep longer and offer a wider range of good fruiting 
varieties for the central west. These varieties are good most any place. 
The juiciness of the Jonathan, the crispness of Delicious and the 
sweetness of Tolman—you can grow all of these kinds yourself. 
JONATHAN. The Jonathan is one of the best known and best liked Winter 
apples. It is good sized and has a spicy rich acidity that has made it a 
favorite with apple lovers. The Jonathan tree will thrive and bear over 
a wide territory. It can be found in the Farm Belt, in the great apple 
sections of Michigan, on the Pacific Coast, and in the apple districts of 
New York. The Jonathan is a good orchard tree. It bears young, has 
high color, is of excellent quality, and a favorite on all markets. Bears 
early, is adapted to the farm belt. 
DEIiICIOUS. This is without doubt the finest red apple in the world. This 
big, flashing, late winter apple is more easily recognized and more gener¬ 
ally known because of its beautiful waxen skin of deep crimson and its 
five knob-like ends. If you like apples and have tasted the crisp, juice-, 
laden flesh of a Delicious, you will never forget it. It has an alluring’ 
aroma and a faint suggestion of old wine. The Delicious is without doubt 
the Apple Supreme of the Apple Kingdom. This great red apple is adapted 
to a wide range of climate and soil conditions. Always the cream of 
the crop. ■ 
GRIMES GOLDEN. The Yellow Winter Apple. Do you like baked apples? 
Do you like apple pie? If you do, try some sauce or a pie made from a 
great big, juicy Grimes Golden. In my opinion it is without doubt the 
finest yellow winter apple that grows. They have a fragrant aroma. They 
are crisp, tender, rich, juice-laden and spicy. 
FREE 
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All Red before it’s ripe. Get yours FREE now. 
HERE’S HOW: 
1 Free with your $3 nursery order. 
2 Free with your $5 nursery order. 
2 All-Red Delicious 
and 
1 Hardy Yellow Glass Sweet Cherry with your $9 nursery order. 
See Page 1 for your choice of many other splendid gifts with 
your early nursery orders. 
ALL-RED DEIiICIOUS. One of the finest gifts I could give you. This 
apple is superior to the old-fashioned Delicious because they color 
early a beautiful, solid, deep blood red. Can be picked early while 
still hard, crisp and full of juice, yet have a brilliant red color. Keep 
until late spring, never getting mealy when picked early. Considered 
Our finest apple for tne. Farm Belt. 
1 
Size | 
Each | 
Per 4 
| Per10 | 
Per 25 
Express or 
Postpaid, 2 
freight, 2 yr. heavy., 
yr. branched . 
4-6 ft. 
3-4 ft. 
$0.60 1 
.45 | 
$2.25 
1.65 
| $5.25 
1 3.75 
$11.25 
8.25 
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