SPECIAL COLLECTION OFFER 
Ben Davis 
Full of Vitamins, Delicious Flavors, and Health 
Apples are the most delicious of all fruit. Today we have varie¬ 
ties which bear within 2 and 3 years after being planted. We 
have new flavors. We also have the good old standbys like 
Jonathan, Grimes Golden, Tolman Sweet, which will never pass 
out of the picture. All apples we offer are simply loaded with 
good health. The apple keeps us immune from constipation, old 
age and disease. It is extremely rich in Vitamins “A” and “B” 
and excels as a food for both children and adults. 
Home grown apples take on the characteristics of the soils and cli¬ 
mate in which they are grown. They live a lifetime. My trees all have 
heavy roots on them and are selected from the earliest bearing and 
heaviest fruiting trees. Every one is true to name, too. 
My own Planting Book tells you how to plant and how to grow fruit 
trees successfully. It is FREE with every nursery order! 
I prepay to your door everything in the nursery line except 
large size fruit trees and shade trees, and I prepay charges on 
them if your total nursery order is $10.00 or more. Balled ever¬ 
greens are F. O. B. Shenandoah, Iowa. 
Choose Your Apple Varieties at the Following Prices 
Size 
Fer 4 
| Fer 10 
Fer 25 
Each 
Express or freight, 2-yr. heavy... 
Postpaid; 2-yr. stocky . 
4-6 ft. 
3-5 ft. 
$1.89 
1.43 
$4.45 
| 3.39 
$10.35 
7.95 
$0.49 
.39 
. The great varieties pictured on the front 
cover and described below, are recommended 
in these larger, heavier branched, quicker 
bearing sizes. 
In planting apples 35 feet each way, you 
set 35 trees to the acre and use from 80 to 
90 fillers. 
MORE MAIN CROP APPLES 
ORCHARDISTS: If you are planting more than 100 fruit trees of any variety, 
please send us your variety list as we can often make lower prices on large quan¬ 
tities. 
These Are the Varieties on the Cover 
12 Trees, 2 of each of 
these for only $2.00, 
postpaid. 2 to 4 ft. trees. 
YELLOW DELICIOUS. Finest flavored of 
all apples. Here’s the Genuine Yellow De¬ 
licious Apple for you—the apple that has 
the most wonderful flavor of all. Yellow 
Delicious comes into bearing early. Many 
tell us they bear heavily on 5 and 6 year 
old trees. 
Yellow Delicious has a flavor all its own. 
It is a cross between the spicy tang of 
Grimes Golden and the supreme sweetness 
of the Delicious. It is a large, perfect yel¬ 
low apple. 
ALL-RED DELICIOUS. The King of All 
Apples, and rightly named Delicious. This 
is the Double Red Delicious, so named be¬ 
cause it colors early—beautiful, solid, deep 
blood-red. 
BEN DAVIS. This is the great pollenizer for other varieties. You should have one of 
these to every 12 or 15 trees of other kinds. A Ben Davis to every dozen trees often¬ 
times doubles their yield. You can see why it is valuable. It bears young, too. The 
fruit is large size, red striped, good keeper. 
DELICIOUS. This is the original Delicious Apple, one of our leading varieties every¬ 
where. Sweet, crisp, juicy, and the finest flavored of all. A few years ago at 
the Minneapolis Fruit Show, Delicious grown in Minnesota were the outstanding 
apples on display. You can see it’s extremely hardy. 
JANET. (Improved Jeniton.) This is the apple which our grandfathers used to grow, 
except we have the improved variety, which is much larger than the small Jeniton. 
Will keep until the first of May. Especially fine for cider and eating. Very juicy. 
NORTHWESTERN GREENING}. Long keeper, keeping until April. Very hardy. Ap¬ 
ples extremely large. Pale greenish-yellow’. Excellent flavor. Fine for North. 
RED WINESAF. Smaller and juicier than Stayman’s Winesap, and a favorite every¬ 
where. A good keeper; dark red and juicy. 
TOLMAN SWEET. This is the sweet apple. Beautiful yellow color slightly tinged 
with red. Put aw’ay late in the Fall and keep until April. Unexcelled for baking, 
cooking, pickling and eating if you like this exceptionally sweet apple. 
YORK IMPERIAL. A great home orchard tree. Tastes and looks about like Jonathan, 
but is better colored, the flesh a little more crisp and juicy. 
WHITNEY. Our finest Crab Apple. Splendid for jelly, preserves, and pickles. Flesh 
sort of yellow, crisp, juicy, and nearly sweet. Ripens in late August or early Sep¬ 
tember. 
You must taste its crisp, juice-laden flesh 
in order to appreciate the alluring aroma 
that it has. You can pick All-Red w’hile 
the apple is still hard, crisp and full of 
juice. They will then keep until late 
Spring, never getting mealy when picked 
early. 
JONATHAN. A wonderful orchard tree, as it 
bears young and early. Has exceptionally 
fine eating quality. Deep red in color and 
loaded with juice; produces heavily every¬ 
where except the extreme South. Plant 
plenty of Jonathan. 
WEALTHY. Ripens between Duchess and 
Jonathan. Extremely hardy. The fruit is 
striped bright red, of wonderful quality, 
and is very popular. A good home orchard 
variety. 
YELLOW TRANSPARENT. The finest July 
apple. Yellow in color, juicy, sweet and 
tender. It’s hard to beat Yellow Trans¬ 
parent for eating and cooking. Exception¬ 
ally hardy, bears young, and is loaded with 
apples every year. The first yellow apple 
to ripen. 
STAYMAN’S RED WINESAF. Bigger and 
better than the old-fashioned Winesap. 
Juicy, dark red, large in size; makes an 
excellent long keeping market, cider, eating 
and cooking variety. 
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Order*, See Page 2. 
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930 Kilocycles—in the middle of 
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SUMMER APPLES—Early Season Varieties 
DUCHESS. No apple is finer flavored than a juicy, red striped Duchess. Good eating 
and cooking apple. Bears large crops even in the extreme Northern apple sections. 
Very hardy. Fruits in August. 
EARLY HARVEST. Pale yellow, season July. Very fine for eating and cooking. One 
of the very best apples for home use. Always bears a crop. 
RED JUNE. The early sweet Red June is my favorite for early eating and cooking 
because it s the first apple in the summer. 
FALL OR AUTUMN APPLES 
FAMEUSE or SNOW. Every¬ 
one likes the crisp, snow- 
white flesh of the Snow 
Apple. Has a wonderful 
flavor. Hardy, good keeper. 
Yellow Transparent and 
Wealthy described to the left. 
EARL MAY'S 
FAMILY APPLE ORCHARD 
A Collection of our leading varieties. I rec¬ 
ommend them to you. A lot of people want only 
large size trees. Well, here they are and they 
should continue to develop fastest for you. 8 
trees—all large, 2-year old, branched and heavily 
rooted, 4 to 6 ft. size—for ONLY J3.39. Here’s 
w’hat you get: 
Page 4—Earl E. May Seed Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 
Duches* 
a Jonathan 1 Delicious 
1 Grimes Golden 
1 Whitney 1 Wealthy 
1 Yellow Trar 
1 Anoka 
msparent 
Express 
or Freight 
