DOUGLAS PEAR 
STANDARD 
PEARS 
The pear tree is very shapely and beauti- 
ful. The tree is very long-lived. 
GARBER A large round pear that is widely 
grown for eating and canning. Fruit ripens 
on the tree. 
KEIFER. Very disease-resistant. Seldom af- 
fected by blight. This is the common 
southern preserving pear. Tree vigorous and 
prolific. One of the safest pears to plant. 
Fruit ripened in cellar or storage is deli- 
cious. 
DOUGLAS. Rather new pear that attracts 
attention with heavy crops on small trees, 
many bearing in the nursery rows. I saw 
a tree not much higher than a man’s head, 
with over 200 pears. Blight-resistant. Eat- 
ing, canning and_ preserving. A fine rep- 
utation as an unusually heavy producer. 
The GRAYWAY Special 
“5-1N-1/ 
APPLE 
Something nice for the small 
home owner with only a_ small 
yard. 
Five standard varieties that ripen 
at different times and cover prac- 
tically the entire apple season. 
Yellow and Doubie Red Delicious, 
Rhome Beauty, Yellow Transparent, 
and Winesap are the varieties usu- 
ally used. 
Plant one of these outstanding 
novelties and gather’ different 
kinds of delicious apples from the 
same tree, 












STANDARD APPLE 
VARIETIES 
RED JUNE APPLE 
RED JUNE. An early, red, heavy- 
producing summer apple. Good 
for home or market. Sells well. 
DOUBLE RED 
DELICIOUS. Extra 
large, bright red all 
over. Bears on young 
trees. A very profit- 
able market apple of 
fine flavor. 
RED JUNE APPLE 
YELLOW DELICIOUS. A golden yellow, popular eating apple. Bears young 
and abundantly. Keeps well. Will make you money. 
KING DAVID. A medium size red apple noted for enormous production at 
an early age. Ripens in August and one of best money-making apples. 
Good pollenizer for other varieties. 
ANOKA. Bears younger than any other apple—often starts producing second 
year after planting. Large, red, eating. Dwarfish-growing and takes up 
less room than standard trees. Good pollenizer for other varieties. 
LODI. Called the improved Yellow Transparent. A good yellow for eating 
and market. Bears early. 
TRANSCENDENT CRAB APPLE. Red and yellow striped. Bears young. 
Ripe mid-summer. 
GRAYWAY PERSIMMONS 
(Oriental) 

“Possum in de ’simmon tree 
Raccoon on de groun’ ”’ 
One of the most delicious fruits grown in the South. Good for home or 
market. The persimmon tree bears very young—a lot of trees bear big crops 
right in the nursery rows. 
The persimmon tree, with its big crop of enormous golden fruits in the 
fall of the year is a beautiful sight and very ornamental. 
EUREKA. Fruits look like large red tomatoes hanging on the trees. Almost 
seedless. Delicious flavor. One of best for home table. 
TANE NASHI. Large fruits shaped like an acorn without the cup. Seedless. 
Fine quality, and fine for market or home. 










The custom of plant- 
ing pecan trees as living 
memorials had its be- 
ginning ‘nh the request 
ef Texas’ beloved Gov. 
James Stephen Hogg of 
Texas, that a pecan tree 
be planted at his grave. 
* 
According to Pliny, 
kissing orginated in 
ancient Greece, among 
kinsmen and kinswomen, 
to enable the former to 
know if their wives and 
daughters had _ tasted 
wine. 
* 
Rice is as old as his- 
turv. It probably origi- 
nated in ancient India 
about 3,000 years before 
Christ from a plant call- 
ed Nivaria. 
* 
Corn is grown in every 
etate in the union. 
* 
The origin of wheat 
is unknown, its cultiva- 
tion predating history. 
Inscriptions on ancient 
monuments show that it 
was already domesticated 
at an early period. It 
was cultivated early in 
the Stone Age. 
* 
A college education 
seldom hurts a man if 
he’s willing to learn a 
little after he graduates. 
* 
The man who plants a 
tree contributes not only 
to his own enjoyment 
hut to that of posterity. 
* 
According to Luther 
Burbank more than half 
of the flowers in the 
world are red or some 
shade of red. 
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Plants do give off oxy- 
gen. In the process of 
photo-synthesis in green 
plants the absorption of 
carbon dioxide is accom- 
panied by a release of 
oxygen. 
* 
Flowers are the heau- 
tiful hieroglyphics of na- 
ture, with which she in- 
dicates how much she 
loves us.—Goethe. 
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Common sense is. the 
ability to detect values. 
