FARIBAULT , MINN. 
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PIXWELL 
Most everyone likes Gooseberries. We like green Gooseberry sauce 
and green Gooseberry pie. But we do hate to pick the Gooseberry be¬ 
cause of the terrible thorns. Prof. Yaeger of the North Dakota Station 
spent years and tried out thousands of seedling Gooseberries looking 
for a good Gooseberry with fewer thorns that could be easily picked. 
Out of all his seedlings he 
picked this one and named it 
Pixwell. It is not thornless 
but it has comparatively few 
thorns and these are so con¬ 
structed as to give very little 
trouble in picking. 
One can encircle with the 
hand a limb of Pixwell at its 
base and draw the hand the 
entire length of the limb to 
the tip and hardly feel the 
prick of a single thorn. Try 
this on any other Gooseberry. 
Pixwell is considered one of 
the best Gooseberries in cold 
southern Manitoba. 
Strong 2-yr., No. 1 plants, 
2 for $1.00; 3 for $1.35; 
12 for $4.00, postpaid. 
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NANKING CHERRY 
A fine ornamental shrub that can be used in any orna¬ 
mental planting and also bear great crops of fine cherries 
at the same time. 
These bushes grow to a final height of about seven feet. The shrub is nicely 
shaped, with clean foliage that looks well all season. It can be worked into a 
planting about the house or in the shrub border. The flowers come early, just 
before the leaves. The color is an apple-blossom-pink in the bud but gradually 
opening into a pure white. 
Several varieties must be planted together. Otherwise the Nanking Cherry 
will not bear fruit. The fruit of the improved varieties is oval in shape, 
Va inch long by /y. inch or a little better in diameter. The color varies from 
a very light pink to a rather deep red; the pit is small, and the quality is good 
but a trifle acid, with no bitterness. 
BUSHES MUST HAVE SOME AGE 
The bushes start bearing at two years but rapidly increase in productiveness 
as they age. Heavy crops may be expected by the fourth year. 
A HEAVY CROPPER 
This year our bushes were four years old and we had a tremendous crop. 
The fruit comes close to the limbs from the ground up, and is packed close 
together all along the limb. A solid mass of fruit is formed on every limb 
from tip to tip. A neighbor sold many crates containing 16 quarts each on 
the St. Paul market. 
This illustration shows a row of the bushes in our nursery together with 
a crate of fruit. We must have picked 5 bushels of fruit from this row. 
Prof. Alderman, in charge of the Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm Station, 
said on December 11th last in an address before the Minnesota Nurserymen’s 
Association: “There is no longer any question as to the value of the fruit of 
the Nanking Cherry.” 
We will not sell less than three different bushes as it takes this many to 
insure cross fertilization. 
Three fine 2-3 ft. bushes, all different, for $3.00; five all different for $4.50. 
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The New RHUBARB 
Strong roots, 50c each; 6 for $2.75, postpaid. 
MacDONALD. A new and select strain of Rhubarb or Pieplant 
developed and sent out from the Experimental Station of the 
Dominion of Canada. MacDonald is unusually high in sugar 
content for a Rhubarb, which causes a great saving in sugar in 
its cooking. It is also an unusually fine flavored Rhubarb, which 
makes it very desirable. Usable over a long period of time. 
Makes a fine pink sauce of finest flavor. 
RUBY. Another fine Rhubarb from the Canadian Station. Ruby, 
like MacDonald, is very high in sugar content, and is of excep¬ 
tionally fine flavor but differs from that variety in color. 
MacDonald is a green stemmed sort with a good deal of red 
veining running through it while Ruby is a deep rich ruby-red, 
the reddest of all Rhubarb. It makes a deep rich red sauce 
which is very beautiful and tasty. 
GRAPES for the NORTH 
r» r*T A Hardiest 
I A c f 40 Grapes 
This is the Grape that will grow where all other Grapes fail. 
A medium sized black Grape with one-half wild blood. An ex¬ 
cellent Grape for jellies, jams, etc., etc. Wonderful to cover 
porches and arbors. 
pAf'n Best ® ra P e 
UAvw to Grow in Minnesota 
A large red Grape of the very finest quality; has none of that 
foxy taste so peculiar to many red Grapes. A medium-sized 
bunch of large red Grapes of the sweetest imaginable flavor. This 
variety has always done well for us here at Faribault. 
rAkl/'ADH The 01^ Standard Black Grape, 
vV/INV#Ui\w Favorite for Over 100 Years 
The blue-black Grape which you buy in little baskets on the 
market in the fall. Sweet, juicy, delicious. 2-year, No. 1, 20c each; 
10 for $1.15; 25 for $2.25, postpaid. 100 for $6.00 by express. 
rn P r\Ak.I ■ A The Earliest Hardy Grape 
FREDONIA for the Far North 
A big black Grape with the quality of the Concord but it ripens 
three weeks earlier. People living in the colder parts of the 
country who would like to grow good Grapes have looked long 
for an early Grape with the good qualities of the Concord. This 
Grape has been found in the Fredonia. a new Grape sent out from 
the New York Experimental Station at Geneva. 
GOLDEN MUSCAT. See color page. 
PARTI A Kin Best Eorly White 
r wlv I LA lx L 9 Grape for the Far North 
Another of the new Grapes from the New York Station. This 
is the best early white Grape we know of. It is easy to grow in 
Minnesota, as it ripens so early, being three weeks earlier than 
Concord. A large nice-flavored white Grape that is taking head 
place of all Grapes for market use. 
Prices for all Grapes on this page, except Concord: Strong 2-yr.. 
No. 1 vines, each 30c; 10 for $2.25; 25 for $4.75, postpaid. 
SPECIAL GRAPE COLLECTION 
Six wonderful Grapes: 1 each Beta, Caco, Concord, Fredonia, 
Golden Muscat, and Portland. A regular $2.15 value for $2.00, 
postpaid. 
Nanking Cherry 
