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

APPLES 
The orchard can be made a most attractive part of the farmstead if it is 
carefully located so it can be easily and frequently mowed with a field mower. 
Purely ornamental flowering trees are not more beautiful than the various 
fruit trees at blooming time especially if some of the new apples and crabs 
with bright red flowers are mixed in among the pink and white. When the 
fruit is ripening it supplies much color and at that time the orchard is again 
easily the most attractive part of the home planting, and again later some of 
the fruit trees have as colorful foliage as the purely ornamental trees. 
Apple trees should be planted 30 to 40 feet apart. They respond to good 
cultivation, fertilization, and care as freely as does corn or other crops. 
If planted in sod as most home orchards are, an area 4 to 5 feet in diameter 
around any young trees should be dug up and kept cultivated or well mulched 
with strawy manure. <A new planting in cultivated ground can be inter- 
planted with small fruit or garden truck for several years. 
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 de- 
pendable than those grown otherwise. 
This is the year to plant apple trees. Our supply is better than it will be 
again for several years and growing conditions were so favorable last year 
that nearly all kinds are larger than the sizes listed. 
EARLY VARIETIES 
Duchess Melba 
Liveland (Lowland Raspberry) Yellow Transparent 
Lodi 
FALL VARIETIES 
Milton Snow (Famuese) Wealthy 
WINTER VARIETIES 
Allen’s Choice Hawkeye Greening Minjon (No. 700) 
Cortland Hibernal Minn. No. 790 
Delicious, Red Isherwood Sharon 
Edgewood Joan Tolman Sweet 
English G. Russet Jonathan Wolf River 
Grimes (Golden) McIntosh Yellow Delicious 
