8 THE DANIELS NURSERY 
NORTHWEST GREENING 
The One Best Winter Greening 
The best and longest keeping of the green- 
ings. A splendidly formed, bright green fruit. 
Should be in every orchard for, even in ordi- 
nary storage, they keep well all winter and 
in a good vegetable cellar sometimes on into 
the summer. One of the leading and most 
profitable commercial varieties in the South- 
ern part of Minnesota. Unexcelled for pies 
and baking. 
PRAIRIE SPY 
(Minn. No. 1007) 
Hardy, Red, High Quality Winter Apple 
Here is another outstanding origination of 
the Minnesota State Fruit Breeding Farm. As 
the name indicates, Prairie Spy, has many of 
the fine characteristics of that famous old 
apple of the East, The Northern Spy. It has 
aptly been described as “A large red apple 
with quality equal to any late winter variety 
regardless of where grown.” 
High points of Prairie Spy’s claims to fame 
are: 
The fruit is large, attractive red, exception- 
ally high quality, long keeper, clings to the 
tree until picked. 
The tree is vigorous, productive and hardy, 
except in highly unfavorable locations. In 
northern areas where growing season is very 
short the tree holds up but fruit colors poorly. 
Does excellently as far north as the Twin 
Cities. 
In season it is late winter when its quality 
is vastly superior to Winesap and others on 
the market at that time: 
WEALTHY 
Minnesota’s Most Famous Apple 
The old favorite fall apple of corn and 
pumpkin time! Probably no eating apple is 
more popular and more loved than Wealthy, 
and certainly no fruit raises more nostalgic 
memories in those who have left Minnesota. 
And no wonder, for Wealthy’s appetizing red 
appearance, its crisp, white, juicy flesh and 
sprightly flavor have endeared it to many. 
In spite of all the fine new varieties— 
Wealthy retains its popularity and will be 
largely planted for years to come! 
THE CRAB APPLES 
We offer what we 
consider the three 
best crabs—one each 
of the three crab 
types: DOLGO, as 
our finest jelly crab, 
and best as an or- 
namental; WHIT- 
NEY, as our most 
flavorful eating 
crab; and VIRGIN- 
IA as the best of 
the ‘fold fashioned”’ 
crabs and one of 
the outstanding, 
hardiest stocks for 
“top working.” 

DOLGO CRAB 
DOLGO CRAB 
Dolgo is generally conceded to be the most 
beautiful of all apple trees. It is heavily laden 
with large white flowers at blossom time, and 
later the brilliant red fruit is borne freely in 
beautiful rope-like clusters, among dense 
foliage of vivid, dark green. The fruit is 
oblong in shape, of rare beauty and has a 
very unusual lemon-like flavor. Far superior 
to other crabs for jellies, producing a trans- 
parent bright red jelly of high quality. Will 
jell even when dead ripe. In praising Dolgo 
the Country Gentleman says: “This variety is 
the most striking in appearance of any of the 
newer crabs tested at the Ohio station.” When 
in full bloom the tree is very decorative, and 
again in early fall when the fruit is ripening 
the high red color of the fruit makes this tree 
worth while just for ornamental purposes. 
The quality of the fruit for jelly and preserves 
is excellent. The most attractive apple tree 
for lawn specimens. 
VIRGINIA CRAB 
One of the oldest and most dependable 
crabs. Tree large, vigorous and heavy bearer. 
Very hardy. Unsurpassed as a stock for top- 
working to less hardy varieties. 
WHITNEY CRAB 
A large crab, generally considered the nicest 
eating of all crabs—and by many the best 
eating apple of its season—early fall. Large 
in size for a crab, well colored, with crisp 
flesh and a delightful flavor. A hardy, strong, 
very upright grower. 
DANNY SAYS: 
“Gone with the Wind?” 
Not so for Fireside, Haral- 
son, Northwest Greening 
and Prairie Spy, for they 
not only keep all winter 
but they won’t blow off 
the tree at picking time. 

e rary tree (called a ‘‘filler’’) in the center of 
each square or oblong. The “filler” tree 
should be one which does not get large too 
rapidly and which bears at a very early 
age. The Haralson, Red Duchess and Dolgo 
Apple are splendid for this purpose. The 
filler trees must be removed before they 
crowd the permanent .ones. 
The newly set trees should be carefully 
pruned, not only to counterbalance root 
loss, as is done in planting any deciduous 
shrub or tree, but also to establish the best 
possible branching head or “‘scaffold.”’ 
Planting Distances— 
A Dples®. =. we 25 to 32 feet apart 
Pearsirre eee 22 to 30 feet apart 
UNIS Bete, weeceteteet rr. ee 16 to 22 feet apart 
Cherries see 12 to 16 feet apart 
Culture—All fruit trees should be thor- . 
oughly cultivated during the first few years 
of the orchard’s life. As apples and pears 
reach bearing maturity, the ground may 
be and Deny should be allowed to de- 
velop into a sod, but with plums and cher- 
ries much better results and production 
will be obtained if cultivation is main- 
tained throughout the life of the orchard. 
Where cultivation is not practical in plums 
and cherries as they get older, and as a 
supplement to sod culture in apples and 
pears, the use of a heavy ground mulch 
may be practiced. Hay, lawn clippings, 
leaves, strawy manure, or any similar ma- 
terial may be used to form this mulch. 
Where orchards are being cultivated the 
trees must be allowed a period in the later 
part of each year during which cultivation 
is dispensed with. This is necessary to 
allow the trees to check their growth, ripen 
and harden up their wood, and to allow 
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