Baldwin 
Winter Banana 
McIntosh 
Fameuse 
R. I. Greening 
Grimes Golden 
APPLES 
Jonathan 
In all the varied list of American fruits, the apple deserves first place for its tastiness 
when eaten from the hand. That crisp sweet flavor and the crunchiness of a bite into its 
firm flesh are pleasures known to all. And in the realm of cooking, the apple must be 
placed second to no other fruit. Witness the twinkle in Mother's eye as she rolls that last 
creamy stretch of dough whose delicate brownness will soon cover the delicious dish 
known the world over as the kitchen's greatest gift — the Apple Pie. 
The apple at its best is produced by Ilgenfritz' Better Bearing Fruit Trees. Our trees are 
budded from selected strains in bearing orchards. With a research department main¬ 
tained expressly to improve the superior Ilgenfritz strains of fruit trees, we are able to offer 
our customers an apple of proven grade. The trees we sell are grown to have a proper 
branch structure, an abundance of roots and packed full of vitality. They are ready to pro¬ 
duce a maximum of the finest fruit. 
THE FILLER SYSTEM FOR ORCHARDS 
Planted First Thinning Second Thinning 
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A HANDY REFERENCE 
Profitable Fruit Growing was 
prepared for the busy orchardist 
to provide brief information on 
planting distances, varieties, rip¬ 
ening dates, pollenization, trim¬ 
ming, spraying schedules and 
other items of interest in a small 
booklet easily carried in the 
pocket, 
FREE UPON REQUEST 
THE FILLER SYSTEM FOR ORCHARDS 
Bearing apple trees need wide spacing for maxi¬ 
mum production of well colored fruit. Some varieties, 
however, bear young when the tree is small. For this 
reason it is possible to obtain the maximum produc¬ 
tion from a given piece of land by interplanting the 
permanent varieties wanted by one or two types of 
early bearing, though less desirable types which are 
later removed as illustrated here. 
A WORD ABOUT POLLENATION 
The Michigan Experiment Stations in a series of 
tests have demonstrated that practically all apple 
varieties under ordinary conditions are self-sterile— 
to obtain proper pollenization of the apple blossoms 
in home plantings, a single tree should be planted 
at least within 200 yards of a blooming apple tree of 
another variety. If no other tree is available within 
this distance, then two trees should be planted to 
pollenate each other. Generally, any two varieties 
will serve for this purpose. Our orchard division will 
furnish without obligation advice or suggestions for 
either large or small plantings of fruit trees. 
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