Ch erries an d P ears 
for Fruit or Bloom 
HERRY and pear trees are highly valued as 
ornamental trees for their beautiful blooms 
in springtime, as well as for their fruit. Cherries 
. furnish the basis for pies of melting delicious¬ 
ness, while pears are one of the finest fruits for 
the table. Both pear and cherry trees are easy to 
* grow and make a handsome addition to the home 
grounds. Neosho cherry and pear trees are fa¬ 
mous for their excellence. 
Montmorency Cherries. The most dependable hardy, 
productive and adapted to widest range of climate 
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Early Richmond (Sour)—The favorite 
early sour cherry. Fruit is medium 
size. A good canner. Tree is medium 
size. Ripens about a week earlier than 
Montmorency. 
English Morello (Sour) — Fruit is 
small, dark red colored; very sour, but 
loses some of its sourness if left on 
the tree until fully ripe. First class 
for canning and preserving. Stands 
lower temperature and severe drought 
than any of the other leading varie¬ 
ties. Tree is small. Bears young. 
Montmorency (Sour) — The most 
widely planted cherry. Productive and 
a regular bearer. Colors early before 
ripe—a distinct advantage for ship¬ 
ping. The fruit is roundish, plump and 
a beautiful glowing red. It hangs in 
clusters, making picking easy. The 
fruit does not crack or rot, even in 
very hot, rainy weather. It hangs on 
without dropping after it is dead ripe. 
The flesh is rich, sprightly and pleas¬ 
ant. A good shipper and a good can¬ 
ner. Does not mash down in the box. 
The tree is the largest, most vigor¬ 
ous grower of the sour cherries. A 
very reliable cropper. Bloom seldom 
injured by late frost or severe winter 
freezes. Ripens in Southwest Missouri 
first week in June. 
Black Tartarian (Sweet) — Most 
widely planted sweet cherry east of 
the Mississippi. Beautiful, lustrous, 
purplish-black when ripe. Medium size 
for sweet cherry; very good quality. 
The tree is a very large, vigorous, up¬ 
right grower. Very productive and reg¬ 
ular bearer. Early. 
Gov. Wood (Sweet)-—-Yellowish-white 
tinted with crimson; large. Very good 
quality; ripening early, with Black 
Tartarian; blooms early. 
Napoleon (Sweet)—The best yellow 
cherry. Often sold and grown as Royal 
Ann. Best of the sweets for dessert 
and canning. 
“Standards’’ are pears that are prop¬ 
agated on pear roots. 
Anjou (Fall)—Barge, heavy, green¬ 
ish-yellow with dull red cheek often 
russeted. Very good quality and keeps 
late. 
Bartlett (Late Summer)—The lead¬ 
ing commercial variety, one of the 
most popular for dessert and canning. 
Large, clear yellow with blush on 
sunny side. Flesh is white, fine grained, 
juicy and sweet. Tree is vigorous, very 
productive, hardy, bears young. 
Flemish Beauty (Early Fall)—Large, 
pale yellow, mostly russeted. Very 
juicy and sweet. 
Kieil'er (Winter)—Large, yellow rus¬ 
seted; flesh white, rather coarse. A 
market and kitchen variety that suc¬ 
ceeds farther south where other varie¬ 
ties fail. Tree hardy, very vigorous, 
resistant to blight. Blooms early. 
Lincoln (Summer) — Large, yellow; 
quality good to very good; similar to 
Bartlett, but more resistant to blight. 
Succeeds farther south than Bartlett 
can be grown. It has stood the severest 
tests of intense, moist, summer heat 
and low altitude of the climate of Lin¬ 
coln, Illinois, where it was originated 
by W. E. Jones. Comes into bearing 
early and bears heavy crops annually; 
very hardy. Blooms midseason. 
Seckel (Fall)—The standard of ex¬ 
cellence for quality. Small, yellowish 
brown with russety red cheek; should 
be first choice for family orchard. 
Slow grower, dependable, productive 
and very hardy, notably free from 
blight. Blooms midseason. 
Winter Nells (Winter)—The latest, 
best keeping pear. Can be held in cold 
storage until spring. Medium sized, 
roundish, yellow, russeted pear with a 
short, heavy neck. Flesh fine grained, 
sweet, aromatic, very good quality. 
Tree is hardy; has wide adaptability 
and is a regular bearer. Blooms late. 
DWARF PEARS 
The pear can be grown more satis¬ 
factorily as a dwarf than other fruits; 
especially good for planting in small 
yards and gardens. The fruit is the 
same as that of Standard trees. They 
come into bearing young, often in the 
second or third year and are very pro¬ 
ductive. They can be set close to¬ 
gether, usually 10 to 15 feet apart. 
Duchess d’Aniroulenie (Fall)-—-B e s t 
when grown as a dwarf. The largest 
of the good pears; white flesh, rich, 
good quality. Tree is hardy, upright 
grower, productive and long lived. 
Anjou, Bartlett and Seckel can be 
furnished as dwarf trees. For descrip¬ 
tions, see Standard Pear. 
His Neosho Trees Look Best 
“I received my trees and am well 
pleased with them. I ordered trees from 
four different nurseries and yours 
have the best roots and best looking 
tops; they look so healthy. The others 
I ordered some time ago are bearing- 
fine and bear so young, while the oth¬ 
ers 1 ordered from other nurseries 
have not done any good.” 
(Signed) Elmer Harmon, 
Salisbury, Mo. 
April 10, 1934. 
Windsor (Sweet)—Dark red, almost 
black; large. Good to very good qual¬ 
ity, ripening late; blooms early. 
A sweet cherry planted alone is not 
likely to hear fruit, because it is self- 
sterile. Plant a Black Tartarian with 
any other sweet cherry. 
All Grew Under Trying Conditions 
“I came to your Nurseries last No¬ 
vember and purchased thirty cherry 
trees, all of which grew despite the 
most trying weather conditions we 
have ever experienced in this coun¬ 
try. At the same time last fall, I got 
thirty cherry trees from another Nurs¬ 
ery and paid 10c more per tree for 
them, and I only have two trees left 
out of the thirty. Naturally, I knew 
this fall, when figuring on planting 
some apple trees, where I wanted to 
get my nursery stock.” 
(Signed) W. T. Doss, 
Monett, Mo. 
October 31, 1934. 
Gives Fine Report on Neosho Trees 
“You may remember we ordered 120 
peach trees from you last spring. I 
just thought you might be interested 
in having a report on them. One of 
them never came out. One other died 
for some reason this summer. The 
others have all grown and have done 
remarkably well. The trees were 
pruned back according to your in¬ 
structions and many of them now are 
five feet tall. Some of them have 
branches six feet tall. The other 
things that we got have done equally 
well.” 
(Signed) C. C. Brooks, 
Supt. Navajo Methodist Mission School. 
Every Tree Bore Fruit 
“It will, no doubt, interest you to 
know that nine years ago I purchased 
200 apple trees from your company, 
comprising 17 varieties, and every one 
bore fruit true-to-name.” 
(Signed) J. L. Quinn, 
St. Louis, Mo. 
March 20, 1934. 
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