COLUMBIA NURSERY CO. — PORTLAND, OREGON 
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PRUNES 
The prune is very similar to the plum, re¬ 
quiring same soil and planting treatment. Gen¬ 
erally used for drying; also valuable for ship¬ 
ping in fresh state. 
ITALIAN (Fellenberg) — Medium to large 
size, oval, dark purple; flesh juicy, sweet and 
delicious; a standard drying and shipping vari¬ 
ety. September. 
SILVER PRUNE— Large size and sweet; a 
good dryer; ripens rather late for northern 
climates. October. 
FRENCH or PETITE —Extensively used for 
drying, because of its fine texture and sweet¬ 
ness. Reddish purple, sweet and juicy. Fruit 
medium size. 
COATES 1418; DATE PRUNE; IMPROVED 
FRENCH PRUNE — Sweeter, larger than 
French; fine for drying. Reddish purple, juicy. 
HUNGARIAN —Largest size, with a beauti¬ 
ful bright red, making it one of the best for 
marketing; not good for drying. September. 
SILVER PRUNE —Large size and sweet; a 
good dryer; ripens rather late for northern 
climates. October. 
TRAGEDY —Large, purple, early, sweet and 
well flavored. 
EARLY ITALIAN — Fruit resembles the 
Italian in color, sweet, solid, rich amber. Ex¬ 
tensively planted in Walla Walla and Free¬ 
water in Washington district. Ours is the 
Weatherspoon strain. Fruit available to the 
market 10 days to two weeks ahead of the reg¬ 
ular crop. Especially good to get the premium 
on fresh fruit market. The trees are heavily 
foliaged as a plum and a fine producer. (5c 
extra). 
PEACHES 
The best soil for the peach is a deep, rich, 
sandy loam. Trees should be vigorously pruned 
back when planted to form good, strong heads. 
Varieties of Special Merit 
SOUTH HAVEN —One of the best new out¬ 
standing peaches of recent introduction. Of 
golden yellow color with beautiful red cheek. 
Flesh golden yellow, fine grained, rich and 
sweet, firm, making it a good keeper and ship¬ 
per; ripens two weeks or more ahead of El- 
berta, coming on a bare market. Tree hardy, 
healthy, vigorous, quick grower, bears young, 
heavy yielder, freestone. The peach to plant 
right now without delay. 5c extra. 
HALE HAVEN —Freestonee. An Imp. South 
Haven, seems to have a tougher skin and more 
highly colored. New. 5c extra. 
GOLDEN JUBILEE — The wonderful new 
yellow freestone ripening three weeks before 
Elberta, which answers the long felt need for 
a good early yellow freestone. Flesh is firm 
and delightfully fragrant. By all means, in¬ 
clude it in your orchard. 
The New Babcock Peach 
The fruit is almost round, somewhat above 
medium size, and the color ranges from a beau¬ 
tiful pink to deep crimson. The skin is excep¬ 
tionally smooth and is almost like a Nectarine 
in this respect. We highly recommend the 
Babcock either for home planting or as a prof¬ 
itable early market peach. Early June. 5c 
extra. 
PEACHES 
All peaches listed as Freestones unless the 
word cling follows the name. 
Peaches will thrive all through the region 
west of the Cascades. Plant on well drained 
land and spray twice each winter for best re¬ 
sults. In sections where there is any question 
as to hardiness plant Rochester, Mayflower 
and Triumph for a long season of hardy vari¬ 
eties. 
CRAWFORD’S EARLY— Has all character¬ 
istics that gratify taste. Color, rich red 
splashed and mottled with darker red and 
golden yellow. Flesh is beautiful and perfectly 
free from stone. Matures in mid-season. Vig¬ 
orous and productive. 
CHARLOTTE — An Improved Early Craw¬ 
ford, ripening three days later, much smoother 
and a heavier bearer. It is a rich yellow meated 
freestone canning peach and bears very regu¬ 
lar in the Northwest. 
IMPROVED ELBERTA —This peach is the 
“queen” of all canning peaches, and no doubt 
the biggest selling peach on the market. Fruit 
is a beautiful golden yellow, blending into a 
glorious deep pink on the sunny side; a strong 
protecting skin; exceptionally heavy bearer 
and a wonderful pollenizer for the J. H. Hale. 
Ripens about two weeks earlier than Elberta. 
A truly super-quality canning peach. 
J. H. HALE —Peach growers have demon¬ 
strated during the past several years that this 
is a profitable variety. Fruit is of largest size, 
highly colored; flesh is yellow, exceedingly 
firm and yet tender when eaten; flavor is un¬ 
excelled. Fruit ships exceedingly well; remains 
on the tree in a firm condition for a longer 
time than any other freestone. 
EARLY ELBERTA —Ripens about a week 
earlier than Elberta; otherwise the same. 
ELBERTA —Large yellow, with red cheek; 
flesh yellow, firm, juicy, of high quality. Ex¬ 
ceedingly prolific. Leading market variety. 
SLAPPY —Fruit yellow, good keeper; excel¬ 
lent flavor, fine grained, rich. Hardy, best 
medium early yellow peach. Super-quality. 
CHAMPION —Best of white freestone vari¬ 
eties. Skin creamy-white with red flush. Ex¬ 
tremely hardy and of uniform good quality. 
TUSCAN —Cling, commercial canning, ship¬ 
ping, and home orchard. Fruit of good size and 
attractive. Flesh yellow, with some red at pit. 
Flavor good. 
MAYFLOWER —The earliest of all peaches. 
Medium sized, creamy white fruits, mottled 
with dark red; firm, white, juicy flesh. 
HALES EARLY —One of the very best early 
white peaches. Skin greenish, splashed with 
red. Flesh white, juicy and sweet. Late June. 
ALTON —Early white semi-freestone; almost 
a freestone when ripe; one of the hardiest, 
surest bearers known; very large, white meated 
and most delicious fruit. 
TRIUMPH —An extra early yellow fleshed 
peach. Skin very tender; juicy and sweet. July. 
Freestone. 
LATE CRAWFORD —Shipping, drying, and 
home orchard. One of our oldest varieties, and 
still popular as a home orchard sort. A large 
yellow freestone of excellent quality. 
INDIAN BLOOD —Home use. A clingstone 
with deep red flesh. Popular for pickling and 
other culinary uses. 
