FRUIT TREES 
(ENGLISH GROWN) 
OVER HALF A MILLION 
TO SELECT FROM=^ 
APPLES: Maidens, Bushes and Half-Standards are 
a leading feature with us. 250,000 in stoek. 
PLUMS AND PEARS. Enormous stoek in lead¬ 
ing kinds. 
CHERRIES, Peaches, Nectarines and Apricots 
in heavy quantities. 
Fruit Trees are our leading line. 
Inspeetion invited to nurserymen visiting England. 
Our nurseries are only ten miles by rail from London. 
List of varieties grown and quotations sent on 
applieation. We have no agents. Write direct to 
S. SPOONER & SONS 
Fruit Tree Growers and Nurserymen 
HOUNSLOW, ENGLAND 
Cyclopedia of American Horticulture 
L. H. Bailey 
IN FOUR VOLUMES 
The NATIONAL NURSERYMAN has made special 
arrangements with the publishers of this great work and 
now offers it to Nurserymen on special easy monthly 
terms, $2.00 per month for ten months. The work 
shipped by express prepaid on receipt of first install¬ 
ment and coupon below filled out. 
Practical instructions on every subject connected with 
Horticulture. Four handsome quarto volumes; 
2,800 original engravings, 50 full plates; 2,016 pages and 
4,357 articles; Total plants accounted for 24,434. 
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Seedling and Transplanted 
Evergreens by the million 
Arbor Vitae 
Austrian Pine 
Black Hill Spruce 
Colo. Blue Spruce 
Concolor 
Engelmanii Spruce 
Jack Pine 
Norway Spruce 
Pinus Ponderosa 
Scotch Pine 
White Pine 
White Spruce 
We have these in all sizes and ages. Also 
a general line of nursery stock. 
Evergreen price list now ready. 
SHERMAN 
NURSERY COMPANY 
CHARLES CITY, IOWA 
SURPLUS 
FOR SPRING OF 1912 
APPLES, three and four years. Many of them 
can be furnished in extra size. PEACHES, nice stock, 
leading kinds. KEIFFER PEARS, first class and extra. 
CHAMPION QUINCES, inch, first class and extra. 
JAPAN PLUMS, inch, ^ and A large stoek of 
extra fine ENGLISH WALNUTS, all sizes up to 8 ft. 
A LARGE LINE OF : : : : 
SHADE TREES, EVERGREENS 
and SHRUBBERY. 
Heavy on White Bireh, Catalpa Speciosa, Horse Chest¬ 
nuts, American Judas, American Linden, Lombardy 
Poplars, Sweet Gum, Tulips, Laburnums, Carolina 
Poplars, Bolleana Poplars and Salisburia. Oriental 
Plane, 8 to lo ft., American Elm, 8 to lo ft. and lo to 
'12 ft., Retinospora Plumosa, Plumosa Aurea, Pisifera 
Aurea and Squarrosa Veitchii. Norway Spruce,, all 
sizes from 2 to 8 ft. Altheas, Deutzias, Hydrangeas, 
Halesias, Spireas and Snowballs. Berberis Thunbergii, 
12 to 18 in. 
SEND LIST OF WANTS FOR PRICES 
THE RAKESTRAW-PYLE CO. 
KENNETT SQUARE, PA. 
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