CHOICE SMALL FRUIT PLANTS. 
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RHUBARB ROOTS. 
LINNA2US and VICTORIA.—Large early,$1 per dozen, $3 per 100,$20 per 1000 . 
FRUIT TREES. 
APPLES.—Leading standard sorts, 35 cents each ; $20 per 100 . 
CRAB APPLES.—Leading standard sorts, 50 cents each ; $40 per 100 . 
CHERRIES.—Leading standard sorts, 75 cents each ; $50 per 100 . 
PLUMS.—Leading standard sorts, 75 cents each ; $50 per 100 . 
PEARS. — Leading standard sorts, $1 each ; $60 per 100 . 
QUINCE.—Orange, Rhea’s Mammoth, and Angers, 50 cents each; $35 per 100 . 
Champion, 75 cents each ; $50 per 100 . 
MEECH PROLIFIC.—Valuable old variety, recently introduced under this name. 
Said to succeed on light, drv soil, where all other sorts fail; an early and prolific 
bearer ; fruit large, bright yellow, and of fine quality. One year, 50 cents each ; two 
years, $1 each. 
PEACHES.-Best leading sorts for New England planting, 15 cents each ; $ 1.40 
per dozen ; $10 per hundred ; $50 to $70 per 1000 . Special prices for large lots. 
THE PRATT PEACH.—Ripens the first week in September. Of the largest 
size. Specimens picked in our orchard in September, 1885 , measured 111 inches 
around and weighed 10 ounces. Color a rich red and yellow; red predominates. Flesh 
yellow, tender, and juicy. Very small pit. Its habit of reproducing itself from the pit 
is a point that will be especially appreciated by all amateur fruit growers, for when 
they have a few trees of the Pratt in fruiting, they can always be sure of trees of this 
Mammoth Yellow Peach by simply saving a few of the pits and planting them and 
letting them grow, without the expense or trouble of budding. It seems to be strongly 
endowed with the health and vigor of the old native seedlings of New England, 
trees of which over 40 years old are now growing on the Hale farm, and we trust in 
the future that none of our nurserymen will weaken its constitution in their hurry to 
increase their stock by budding, for it is only the seedlings that can be depended upon to 
perpetuate the health of this King of Peaches. All the trees we offer arc seedlings. 
$1 each; $10 per dozen. 
CRATES AND BASKETS. 
32-quart Crates, $1 each; 32-quart Crates 
and Baskets, $1.20 each. Baskets, square 
quarts, $1 per 100, $8 per 1000. 
Parties wanting large lots tvill do 
well to send for samjjles of our baskets, 
as they are first-class in every respect. 
Discount on large orders. 
THE ALARM PIVOT GUN. 
For the protection of fruit gardens, orchards, and melon patches, or can be used as 
a burglar alarm about house or barn. Can be set so as to give warning of the ap¬ 
proach of any intruder from any direction. While we only recommend it as an alarm 
gun, it can be loaded with shot, and being on a pivot, will “ draw bead” on the intruder 
and'make things lively for a few moments. We shall depend on it, in the future, to do the 
work of a night watchman, in our fruit season. It’s not a toy, but ‘‘real old business.” 
By mail, post paid, $3 each : by express, two for $5; $25 per dozen. Printed directions 
with each gun. 
PRUNING SHEARS. 
Such as we use every day for trimming raspberries, blackberries, currants, grapes, 
and trees. By mail, $1.75 each ; by express, $1.50 each, or $15 per dozen. 
