THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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lamily and to luniisli a liberal sui)])ly of fruit throughout 
the whole year. Often the last of the apples would he 
taken from storage when the tirst strawberries were gath¬ 
ered. 
Again, since the smallest of these plantations was more 
than an acre set in the interplanted plan popular in those 
days, the aggregate was a large list of varieties. Like 
many another hoy of my day, while still in my teens, I 
knew fifty or more varieties of apples, tw^enty-five or 
thirty of pears, ten or fifteen of peaches, grapes, and 
plums, six or eight of cherries and a goodly list of hush 
fruits and strawberries. This knowdedge was fostered, 
supplemented and extended by studying varieties at the 
county fair where many of the boys, as w^ell as their 
fathers, made exhibits. 
While a reasonable proportion of the boys in those days 
w ent direct from school into some branch of farming and 
planted orchards more or less like the ones T have de¬ 
scribed, and while a few" took up commercial fruit grow ¬ 
ing, the majority went into other lines of business; hut 
among these last are many, the influence of whose boy¬ 
hood led them later in life to take up fruit growing either 
for business or for pleasure. So far as I have been able 
to discover, they have w ith remarkably few" exceptions 
chosen the varieties w ith w"hich they were familiar dur¬ 
ing boyhood, or other varieties of equally high (luality. 
In those boyhood plantations fruits of low' quality were 
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Prices on request 
PETER BOHLENDER & SONS 
Tippecanoe City, Ohio 
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AMERICAN FLORlST^S TRADE DIRECTORY 
Price $3.00, Postpaid 
For Sale By 
NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUB. CO. Inc., 
HATBORO, - - . PA. 
WANTED 
WANTED 
Young nurseryman as partner to build up nursery busi¬ 
ness. Opportunity limited only by ability to push business. 
No capital required. Best references required. 
HAROLD ZEISS 
1004 Harris Trust Bldg. - - Chicago, III. 
^ WANTED ® 
% A flrst-class salesman who is capable of taking care of gen- ^ 
% eral nursery correspondence. State experience, age and sal- % 
% ary desired. % 
^ FANCHER CREEK NURSERIES, ^ 
^ Fresno, Calif. ^ 
FOR SALE 
FOR SALE 
Eighty Acres well improved rolling land, six room 
house, grafting shop, good barn, new silo, good well 
and windmill, five new individual hog houses, chicken 
house. Buildings all well painted a year ago this fall. 
About 200 rods of new w"oven wire fence on the place. 
This would be a very suitable place for stock raising 
in connection with a nursery as there is pasture land 
and improvements for both. 
This nursery has been known as The Hawkeye Nursery 
which has been running until the last few years and 
was fixed up purposely for a nursery having many 
advantages in the way of landscape work and variety 
of trees n the yard and orchard that is matured. 
Location is very good for a nursery as there is no nur¬ 
sery near, it is 12 miles southwest of Webster City, 6 
miles north of Stratford, 4 miles southeast of Homer 
and 1^2 miles northwest of Stanhope. Asking $215.00 
per acre. 
For further information write 
R. A. KAUFFMAN 
OAKDALE - - - IOWA 
ESTABLISHED 1893 
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INCORPORATED 1902 
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