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SANTA ROSA NURSERIES 
Maiden’s Blush. —Medium size, pale lemon yellow with a bright red cheek. 
Baldwin. —Medium size, striped crimson on yellow ground; productive. 
Rhode Island Greening-.—Large, dark green; bears heavily every alter¬ 
nate year; fine for cooking. 
Johnathan. —Medium size, striped; a good market apple. 
Yellow Belleflower. —Large, oblong, yellow; productive and good. 
Lady Apple. —A beautiful little dessert fruit. 
Hoover. —Large, rich dark red; bears early and abundantly. 
Smith’s Cider. —Large, striped red and white; productive. 
Spitzenburg. —Medium, red and yellow striped; productive and valuable. 
King of Thompkins Co. —Large, yellowish red striped with crimson; regu¬ 
lar and abundant bearer. 
York Imperial. —Large, greenish red; hardy and productive. Price, 25 cents. 
Cook’s Seedling. —Originated in this county; large, yellow striped red; 
one of the best winter apples. 
Golden Russet. —Very much in demand for home use; medium size; best 
equality; early bearer. 
White Winter Pearmain. —Medium, pale yellow; fine flavor. 
Wagener. —Medium, yellow striped red; the best of the winter apples for 
home use; bears early and abundantly. 
Virginia Greening. —Vigorous and productive; fruit large, greenish yellow 
with faint blush; a late keeper and good market apple. 
Gibbs. —New; medium to large, white, shaded brown, mild subacid; one of 
the longest keeping apples. Price, 25 cents. 
Hyde’s King. —Said to be the latest keeper known; fruit large, yellowish 
green; exceedingly vigorous. Price, 25 cents. 
Those named below can be supplied in small quantities: Yellow Trans¬ 
parent, Seedless, Lawver, Red Belleflower, Russian Weeping, 
Chinese Double Flowering, Langford. Price, 25 cents each. 
CRAB APPLES. 
Red Siberian. —-Valuable for preserving. 
Transcendent. —Large and handsome; valuable for cooking. 
Whitney’s No. 20.— Large, green striped crimson; a superior dessert fruit. 
Price, 25 cents. 
Kishwaukee. —Good; season, January to June. Price, 25 cents. 
PEARS. 
Pears will do well on strong moist clay or adobe soil where no other fruit 
tree will thrive except, perhaps, plums or plum roots. The Winter Nelis, 
however, is an exception; it does much better 011 rather dry, poor soil, where 
it needs less pruning, and the fruit is more abundant and greatly superior in 
size and quantity. Price, medium size, 20 cents; selected large, 30 cents. In 
quantities, see wholesale list. 
Madeleine. —Small; the earliest good pear. 
Buerre Giffard. —Medium size, melting, juicy, excellent. 
Bartlett. —Well known as the best of all Summer pears. 
Souvenir du Congress. —Very large; resembles the Bartlett. 
Flemish Beauty. —Large, handsome, and sweet; bears early and abundantly. 
Sheldon. —Large, roundish; of the very best quality. 
WRite Doyenne, or Virgalieu. —A delicious, old, and well-known Fall 
pear. 
