Snyder Bros. (Inc.), Center Point, Iowa Apples 

APPLES 
The orchard can be made a most attractive part of the home grounds from 
a purely ornamental standpoint, if it is carefully located so as to be easily ac- 
cessible for the necessary spraying and for frequent mowing with a field mower. 
Purely ornamental trees are not more beautiful than fruit trees at bloom- 
ing time, especially if an assortment of varieties is planted having flowers 
ranging from pure white to deep red, and good varieties with red flowers are 
now available. 
When the fruit is ripening it again supplies much color and at that time 
a well kept orchard is the most attractive part of the home planting. In the 
fall, again, the foliage of some of the fruit trees is as colorful as that of any 
purely ornamental tree. 
Apple trees should be planted 30 to 40 feet apart. They respond to good 
cultivation, fertilization, and care as freely as does corn or any other crop. 
If planted in sod as most home orchards are, an area 4 or 5 feet in diameter 
around the young trees should be dug up and either kept cultivated or well 
mulched with strawy manure. 
When planted in cultivated ground, small fruit bushes, berries or garden 
truck may be cultivated with the trees while small. 
Our apple trees are grown from piece root grafts planted deeply so they 
can produce roots above the graft, thus ultimately becoming own rooted trees. 
These are superior in hardiness to the budded trees usually sold. For the 
very hardiest orchard trees plant Virginia or Hibernal grown as described 
above and top work their branches to the better but more tender kinds. Top 
worked trees on these stocks begin bearing younger, are more productive, and 
dependable than those grown otherwise. 
EARLY VARIETIES 
Duchess Melba 
Early McIntosh Red Astrachan 
Liveland (Lowland Raspberry) Yellow Transparent 
FALL VARIETIES 
Benoni Snow (Famuese) Ramsdell Wealthy 
WINTER VARIETIES 
Adel Hawkeye Greening Secor 
Allen’s Choice Hibernal Sharon 
Ames 423 Isherwood Sheriff 
Cortland Joan Sugar Loaf 
Delicious, Red Jonathan Stayman (Winesap) 
Edgewood Macoun Tolman Sweet 
English G. Russet McIntosh Turley 
Geniton Northwestern (Greening) Yellow Delicious 
Grimes (Golden) Northern Spy 
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