APRICOTS 
Two-year Trees, Caliper °/’’ and up, $1.50 
Blenheim. The leading California variety used for canning, shipping 
and drying. Fruits are medium to large, round in shape and attrac- 
tive in appearance. Flesh is highly colored, pit is small, and quality 
very good. 
Ripens in mid-July. 
Trees are robust growers and consistent producers. 
Moorpark. Many people consider this variety the finest-flavored 
and most delicious of all apricots. The fruits are extra larg2 in siz2 
and ripen just after Blenheim. Production is not so heavy with 
this variety as it is with the Blenheim but enough to satisfy hom2 
orchard requirements. 
Royal. Very similar to Blenheim and some strains are thought to 
be identical. The true Royal, however, ripens a few days ahead of 
Blenheim and seems to do best near the coast where there are com- 
paratively few days with low temperatures in winter. 
are abundant producers. 
Strong trees 
NECTARINES | 
Two-year Trees, Caliper 5@’’ and up, $150 
Gower. A very good nectarine for the early July season. Large 
fruits have skin heavily blushed red. Flesh is white, red at the pit, 
freestone, and heavily flavored with the delicious nectarine tang. 
Stamwick. The standard nectarine variety in California for com- 
-mercial and home orchards. 
blushed red. Flesh is white, red at the pit, and entirely freestone. 
Delicious when canned whole or in halves. 
Fruits are large and handsomely 
Ripens in August. 
FIGS 
One-Year Rooted Cuttings, Caliper %’’ and up, $1.50 
Brown Turkey. Very large, elongated fruits are purplish-brown and 
very good looking. Flesh is sweet, a rich strawberry-red. Trees 
have a wide-spreading habit and produce abundant crops. A good 
variety in any section. Ripens in early summer. 
Kadota. The best home canning and preserving variety. Trees are 
small in stature and bear heavy crops of small to medium-sized 
greenish fruits with very sweet pink flesh. Ripens in midsummer. 
introduced by the 
Trees grow erect and spread 
Mission. The traditional California variety 
Padres and still a popular variety. 
with age and become very large, producing two distinct crops of 
medium to large figs. Shape is elongated; skin very dark purple, 
almost black; pink flesh very sweet and tasty. 
White Adriatic. Commercially the leading drying fig in the state, 
but a good home orchard eatina and canning variety for the coast. 
Fruits are medium in size, with a rounded shape and greenish skin. 
Flesh is raspberry-red and excellent in quality. 
PRUNES 
Two-year Trees, Caliper °/e‘’ and up, $1.50 
French Improved. The leading all-purpose prune in California. 
Small to medium-sized fruits are borne abundantly; dark blue in 
Amber flesh is fine-grained and juicy, with an excellent 
Ripens in September. 
color. 
sweet flavor. 
Sugar. Earlier and larger than the French prune. Oval fruits are 
dark-purple in color and covered with a silver’ ‘‘bloom’’. Flesh is 
very sweet and juicy, making Sugar a very desirable variety for can- 
ning. Plant with French Improved for cross-pollination. 
HOW TO PLAN YOUR 
FAMILY ORCHARD 
1. Lay out the position of the trees 
on a scale drawing of your lot. 
Spacing should be 18 to 25 feet for 
fruit trees; 35 to 50 feet for wal- 
nuts. Allow 15 feet between tree 
and property line. 
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Select varieties according to time 
of ripening so that crops will bear 
at intervals throughout the season. 
Write names in plot plan. 
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Order early to avoid disappointment. 

CHERRIES 
Two-year Trees, Caliper 7°’ and up, $1.50 
Bing. The leading black cherry and considered by many to be the 
best eating. Deep maroon fruits are large and heart-shaped. The flesh 
is firm and flavor sweet when fully ripe. Ripens in early June. 
“Black Tartarian. Ripens earlier than Bing and produces abundant crops 
of medium to small black fruits. Flesh is tender and has a very de- 
licious flavor when fruits are picked fully-ripe from your own tree. 
Royal Anne. The leading canning cherry because of its firm texture 
and tasty flavor. Trees grow quickly to large size and produce abun- 
ant crops of amber and red fruits. Ripens after Bing. 
SOUR CHERRY 
Montmorency. The leading sour, or pie cherry of the Pacific Coast 
and one of the best for the home orchard. Fruits are medium to dark 
red and medium-sized. 

ROYAL ANNE CHERRIES 
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