BIG CROP PEDIGREED FRUIT TREES 
Apples (Heavy Bearing Strain) 
RHODE ISLAND GREENING 
The Apple is the staple fruit of the United States as it 
can be grown over almost the entire area of our country. 
The long keeping quality of the Apple makes it possible, 
with modern cold storage methods, to extend the Apple 
season to cover every month in the year. And the many 
uses of the Apple, “eating out-of-hand,” for the lunch- 
box, for cooking, preserving, drying; also its juices, 
make it first among American fruits; the old saying, 
“an Apple a day keeps the Doctor away” is well worth 
remembering. 
The varieties we describe here have been carefully 
selected for many points: they are all staple, standard, 
dependable varieties that have been thoroughly tested 
for years and under different conditions in widely sepa¬ 
rated areas; and they are such as we can recommend for 
average conditions and especially where hardiness is an 
important consideration. Any of these varieties can be 
expected to grow and bear well under average condi¬ 
tions, and be given consideration also for fruit for home 
use. 
Season for ripening: We indicate by letters the season 
for ripening: “S” for Summer; for Autumn; 
for Winter; and we mention also the month or months 
when each variety is fully ripe. These notations refer to 
the season in Western New York and allowance must be 
made as variation for other sections. 
“What are the most practical varieties to plant?” 
Possibly the best way to answer this is to state that our 
heavy sale in Apple trees is in the 20 varieties marked 
showing that experienced fruit men, experienced or- 
chardists, are fairly united in their opinion of what is 
best, and what’s good. We recommend that these 20 
varieties be thoroughly considered. 
^Baldwin, W. November to March. Is known to al¬ 
most every fruit grower and housewife as a good cook¬ 
ing Apple that keeps well in storage—it is a good dry¬ 
ing Apple. Color yellowish red and heavily shaded 
with deep red. Fruit rather large. Skin somewhat 
tough, making it a splendid keeper and shipper and it 
is a good cooker for pies, and for baking and apple 
sauce. Flesh yellowish white with good sub-acid 
flavor. Tree a strong vigorous grower, long-lived and 
quite hardy. A profitable variety that is extensively 
planted and that markets well. 
*Banana, W. November to March. Sour. Yellow 
with pronounced red cheek. Of large size, warm, yel¬ 
low color with attractive red cheek on the sunny side; 
firm, whitish, juicy flesh of good quality, distinctly 
aromatic. Keeps well; a fine shipper. Beautiful in 
appearance. In storage, ranks with the good keepers. 
A market apple. Tree vigorous; comes into bearing 
young. 
Ben Davis, W. December to March. Red. Large, 
roundish. Skin tough, waxy, bright, smooth, glossy, 
clear yellow or greenish, striped and splashed with 
bright dark red. Flesh white, juicy with a mild, 
good, but not rich, sub-acid flavor. Tree rather rank 
grower. Has been kept in storage till very late in the 
season. A very popular market Apple in many sec¬ 
tions and much planted for market purposes, its size, 
color and fine appearance assuring its ready sale. 
Bears young, keeps remarkably well, retaining a beau¬ 
tiful aroma late in the season and holds its own as a 
dependable and profitable Apple. 
*Cortland, W. The tree is hardy, thrifty, early pro¬ 
ducing and long-lived. The fruits are abundant, 
large, round and handsome; attractive to the eye with 
their heavy overlay of shaded reds, and delightful to 
the taste. 
