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BUTZER’S SEED STORE, PORTLAND, OREGON 
FRUIT TREE DEPARTMENT 
PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS 
Planting Season—Stock should not be planted until dormant in the fall nor after growth 
starts in the spring. Under ordinary weather conditions therefore our digging and shipping 
season begins in late October and continues until early May, the winters generally being 
sufficiently mild to permit safe handling of nursery stock, with but few short interruptions. 
Early fall planting is preferable as a rule as roots form all winter and stock is ready to 
grow as soon as warm weather begins. 
It is advisable to order early, as a better selection and more complete assortment can be 
had. Orders placed early are generally planted early. Orders can be placed early with in¬ 
structions to ship at a given time, when you are ready to plant. 
CARE OF TREES ON ARRIVAL 
In case you do not immediately plant the trees, it will be well to heel them in, namely, to 
bury the roots in the ground to keep them fresh and from being frozen. 
In doing this dig a trench long enough and wide enough to hold the trees you have; cut 
the bottom string on the bunches, place them in the trench, spreading the trees so as to 
have the dirt worked in, leaving no exposed places. The tree should NOT be laid down at an 
angle of 45 degrees, but should be stood straight up, for a lot of nursery stock is injured by 
being heeled-in in a reclining position, for many times the dirt from the trench is left under 
the trees which are close to the ground. This dirt is still warm, or warm enough to make 
the sap in the trees active and if there should be frosty weather in a short time after the 
trees have been healed-in in a reclining position the sap will be frozen, resulting in soured 
sap and a lasting injury to the tree and you will also be writing in to the nursery that the 
stock was diseased, etc., when the cause was really wrong methods of heeling-in. We do 
not mean to infer that to heel-in in a reclining position will always result in damage, but 
do mean to infer that you are flirting with disaster, if it is done. Be sure and bury the roots 
plenty deep, anyway 16 to 18 inches. 
In Planting: Do not plant too deep, but about an inch or two deeper than they grew in 
the nursery. This may be determined by the color of the bark above the roots, showing 
where the ground line came. Have the holes wide enough so as to hold the roots without 
crowding. Tramp well after a couple of inches of dirt have been put in, etc., until the hole 
tramped. In late spring planting, if a bucket of water could be thrown in when the hole is 
half filled with dirt it would be very beneficial. 
Do not plant or expose the roots when it is freezing. That is, do not start planting frosty 
mornings or until it starts to thaw, and do not leave the trees you have not planted during 
the day outside and take a chance on it freezing until you start planting again the next 
morning. For if the exposed roots are caught in a frost, the chances are that they will not 
grow and you might think you had been swindled by your nurseryman, while it would only 
be through your own negligence in not taking care of the trees during planting operations. 
NEW VARIETIES OF GREAT MERIT 
Golden Jubilee (A)—A development of the New Jersey Experimental Station. Planted 
and producing in every peach producing secton of the United States and Canada and 
stands without an equal as an early, yellow, freestone peach of exceptional quality. The 
Golden Jubilee is a second generation seedling of the Elberta crossed with the Greensboro. 
The tree is unusually hardy. The buds resist low Winter temperatures better than Elberta 
and open later than Elberta insures a regular crop. The blossoms are self-fertile. The 
peach is medium to large size and firm. From observation we find that the peach develops 
better if a well balanced fertilizer is used and in the lighter sandy soils of the Southern 
peach producing areas where Jubilee is inclined to set too heavy a crop, better fruit is ob¬ 
tained by thinning the fruit on the tree. As the tree grows older the fruit becomes firmer 
and develops more naturally. No general planting of peaches is complete with a liberal 
amount of Golden Jubilee trees. 
Corvallis (New Peach)—This new peach comes to us from D. M. Johns of Corvallis, Mr. 
Johns stating that a Doctor Alexander planted the seedling sixty-five years ago at Corval¬ 
lis, therefore, we consider “Corvallis” to be an appropriate name for it. The fruit is very 
large and globular, a yellow freestone, ripening just after J. H. Hale. We feel that the 
great merit of this peach is its large size, beautiful coloring and the fact that it colors up 
brilliantly while still firm and solid, which should make it a very valuable shipping variety, 
for it will stand a lot of handling without being bruised or discolored. Each $1.00; 10 for 
$7.50. (Patent applied for.) 
Southwick (New Apricot)—The original tree of this variety, which came from a seed 
planted in 1852 is still growing and bearing- annually at Rickreall, Oregon, on rather poor, 
wet soil which ordinarily would not maintain an apricot tree at all. The tree is one of our 
best growers of all the varieties of apricots in our nursery. The fruit is round, very large, 
with true apricot color, slightly red on the sunny side. We hope and trust this variety will 
prove to be an iron-clad long lived variety the same as the parent tree, which of course 
time alone can prove. Each $1.00; 10 for $7.50. (Patent applied for.) 
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