
Marshalls “\Better-Built’” TREES ana PLANTS 
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“PARCEL POST” 
GRADE 
MARSHALLS 
BEST GRADE 
Compare These Trees 
A photo comparison of a Marshalls Best Grade Fruit 
Tree and “Parcel Post’’ Grade tree often described 
as a “big 3-4 ft. size.’”’ The small scantily-limbed 
tree is not offered by Marshalls. It is a weakling 
and high at any price. It pays to plant strong, heavy 
rooted, well limbed trees. 
Plant This Apple Orchard 
Early to Late 
Best Medium 
Grade Grade 
7 $0.55 

1 Transparent ....$0.75 
1 Red Duchess..... z 
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PONV GAltY =i.) Sos 1.50 1.10 
2 Jonathan or 
Cortland —.. ose 1.50 1.10 
2 Red Delicious or 
Prairie Spy.... 1.50 1.10 
2 Yel. Delicious or 
Northwestern . 1.50 1.10 
2 Turley or 
Haralson ...... 1.50 1.10 
Value...... $10.50 $7.70 
Jonathan, Red and Yellow Deli- 
cious, and Turley not suitable 
to North and West. 
Special 
Freight Paid.... 
$9.00 $6.75 








Apples from Our Orchards 
Selected Strains... New Super- Hardy Hybrids 
. FULL HEIGHT 
2 WELL DEVEL OPED and DISTRIBUTED 
LIMB STRUCTURE 
3. TRUNKS of GOOD CALIPER 
4. BALANCED and COMPLETE ROOT SYSTEM 
Pruning, pinching back, spraying and other operations essential to the growth 
of the best formed. stock is done only by experts, and at exactly the right time. 
Marshalls trees are not only nursed, but “built” into real individuals. They are 
worth more. 
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Trees and plants frequently develop “bud sports,’ which differ somewhat from 
the variety. When such difference is an improvement, like the better color of 
solid Red Delicious, or with some other better quality, wood from such indi- 
vidual tree or limb is used for the propagation of the variety. 
Marshalls entire organization is constantly on the look-out for these better 
strains, and when found are carefully checked and put into propagation. After 
fifty years, most of the important standard sorts in Marshalls stocks have been 
improved and are definitely superior to ordinary trees and plants of same va- 
rieties. Our stock is constantly being improved by this practice. 
Grafting fully perpetuates the same characteristics and qualities of the original 
tree. 
OUR FRUIT TREES A YEAR OLDER 
The Marshall way of growing apple and other fruit is known as the “Cut- 
Back” method. These trees are cut off just above the ground at one year old. 
They then make a strong straight growth, (up to 4 or 5 feet) the second year, 
with well developed side buds. The third year certain side buds are selected for 
limbs, and others are pinched out. These selected buds are well-distributed over 
a long body space providing sufficient room between these so the limbs will not 
crowd each other off when they attain size. This crowding is most sure to occur 
with ordinary trees, grown only two years in the nursery since the first years 
growth, on which the limbs must be produced is usually only 3-3% feet high. 
The crowding of the limbs causes more splitting and crippled trees later in the 
orchard than any other. No tree is ready for the orchard until it has gone 
through this careful shaping and the limbs are well-spaced and well established. 
This is a nursery job and can be done properly only by the hands of nurserymen 
who understand orchard practice. Our nurserymen are also trained orchardists 
since we have constantly operated 30 to 100 acres of bearing orchards for almost 
50 years. 
This “Cut-Back” method also provides a three-year-old root system under a two- 
year top structure, which insures rapid growth right from the start. 
A slightly greater first cost for a three-year-old tree instead of the ordinary 
2-year-old tree, is money very well spent. 
HARDY NORTHERN ROOTS 
Our apples are grafted on seedling roots grown from the hardier Russian apple 
seed, rather than on the more tender French crab seedlings, which are cheaper 
and commonly used for ordinary trees. It is important to have hardy roots under 
hardy varieties. 


Grading Apples from Marshalls Orchards 
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