The Best Tree Digger on Earth 
Used and Recommended by Leading 
Nurserymen. 
The one we have used for years and by far the most 
satisfactory of any we have ever seen. It does exactly the 
work for which it was designed and does it right. If inter¬ 
ested we will be glad to send description and prices. 
Stark Bros. Nursery & Orchards Co. 
LOUISIANA, MO. 
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15,000 Oriental Planes from 1J4 to 3 inch caliper 
A large stock of Sugar Maples, American Elms, 
Carolina Poplars, Lombardy Poplars, Double 
Flowering Japan Cherries, Weeping Japan 
Cherries, Flowering Apples, Flowering Peaches 
Norway Maples, 2 inch caliper and up. 
Also a large and complete assortment of Ornamental Trees 
and Flowering Shrubs. Among our large stock of Fruit 
Trees we call especial attention to our surplus of: 
10,000 Keiffer Pears, 2 and 3 years 
20,000 Stayman’s Winesap Apples, 11-16 in. and up 
10,000 Downing Gooseberries, 2 years. No. 1 
200,000 Apples, 2 year buds, fine 
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Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas Company 
Maple Avenue Nurseries 
PHILADELPHIA OFFICE 
222-3-4-5 Stephen Girard Bldg. 
21 So. Twelfth Street 
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Black, Red, Purple and Yellow Raspberry, Blackberry, 
Dewberry, Gooseberry, Currants, Gooseberry rooted layer 
plants, Rhubarb, Horseradish, California Privets, Bar¬ 
berry THUNBERGII, Paeonies, Black Currant Cuttings, 
Spiraea, fifty thousand Black Currants one and two years, 
Raspberry transplants, etc. 
Quotations furnished by letter. 
P. D. BERRY, 
Dayton, 
Ohio 
When writing to Advertisers please 
A Stupendous 
Quality Inducement 
To the trade accepting fall shipments, a very generous dis¬ 
count off of my fall price list will be quoted. And further 
remember, 
WHEN YOU WANT PLANTS AS GOOD AS HATHAWAY’S 
You Should Buy of Hathaway— 
For you could not buy better, even though you paid more 
I am offering in three grades or more of crop, put up in 
attractive bundles, the finest lot of quality plants I have ever 
grown. I offer in RASPBERRY, Tip, Cane or Transplants, in 
black, purple, red and yellow. The Greggs, Cumberland, Kan¬ 
sas, Plum Parmer, Columbian, Cardinal, Haymaker, Royal 
Purple (the best shipper of all purples) and Shaffer’s Ccl- 
lossal., St. Regis (everbearing red), Cuthbert, Eaton, Early 
King, Marlboro, Miller Perfection, Ruby, Herbert, Lou'.on and 
Golden Queen. In BLACKBERRY, Root Cutting, Cane or 
Sucker, and some Transplants, I offer Ancient Britton, Blow¬ 
ers, Bldorado, Early Harvest, Early King, Lucretia Dew¬ 
berry, Mercereau, Ohmer, Rathbun, Snyder, Taylor and Ward. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS in leading variety, including PALL 
BEARERS. Currants, Grapes and Gooseberry in variety. 
Also the EVERBLOOMING BUTTERFLY BUSH (a flower), 
one of the best selling new novelties of recent introduction 
Write me now, Inclosing your want list, for my special offer 
for fall shipments to Le made prompt at the time von 
Such service should appeal to and hold your continued patron 
age. 
A. A. of N. 
Permanent Badge 
No. 157. 
Yours Truly, 
Wick Hathaway, 
Madison, Ohio. 
Tmats Hr 
mention The National Nurseryman. 
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