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SANTA ROSA NURSERIES 
Hoover.—Large, rich dark red ; productive and very salable. 
Yellow Belleflower.—Large, oblong, yellow ; very productive and good. 
Gloria Mundi.—Extremely large, greenish yellow ; fair for cooking. 
Smith’s Cider.—Large, striped red and white ; productive. 
Esopus Spitzenburg.—Large, rich red ; bears freely. 
White Winter Pearmain.—Medium, pale yellow ; of the finest flavor. 
Ben Davis, or New York Pippin.—Medium to large, yellow, striped red ; one 
of the most vigorous and productive of the winter apples. 
Wagener.— Medium, yellow, striped red ; the best of the winter apples for home 
use ; very prolific. 
Yellow Newtown Pippin.—Medium to large ; a slow grower, but one of the 
best keepers. 
Siberian Crab.—Fine for cooking. 
Several kinds not mentioned above are grown in smaller quantities. 
PEARS. 
Price, 25 cents each; $18 to $22 per 100. 
LEADING VARIETIES. 
Madeleine.—Small; the earliest good pear. 
Buerre Giffard.—Larger than Madeleine; ripens immediately after it. 
Clapp s Pavorite.—About the size and form of Bartlett; a few days earlier. 
Bartlett. — Large, extremely productive ; valuable for shipping, drying or canning. 
Souvenir du Congress.—Very large and productive ; resembles the Bartlett. 
Buerre Clairgeau.—Large, rich cinnamon color ; very productive and valuable. 
Buerre d’Anjou.—Large ; a beautiful, vigorous and productive variety. 
Buerre Hardy.—A fine large fall pear ; valuable for shipping. 
Duchess d’Angouleme.—Large, delicious, vigorous and productive ; late autumn. 
Sheldon.—Large, and of the very best quality. 
Seckel.—Small, but of the best quality. 
White Doyenne, or Virgalieu.—An excellent old well-known fall pear. 
Doyenne d Alencon.—Large, keeps well; a good shipping pear. 
Onondaga, or Swan’s Orange.—Large, orange yellow ; hardy and productive ; 
an early bearer. 
Flemish Beauty.—Large, handsome, sweet; fine for drying. 
Easter rsuerre.—Large, late keeper ; does well in some localities. 
Glout Morceau.—Large, pale yellow ; a winter pear ; fine for baking. 
Vicar of Winkfield.—Long, yellow early winter pear ; productive. 
Winter Nelis. Small or medium ; one of the best winter pears where it does not 
blight. 
NEW AND RARE PEARS. 
Price, 50 cents each ; $35 per 100. 
Le Conte. A Chinese pear; large, smooth yellow, exceedingly vigorous and 
productive ; promises to be valuable for canning'; of very good quality. 
Kieffer.—A cross between the Chinese Sand pear and Bartlett; large, yellow; 
excessively productive ; fair quality. 
