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PEARS 
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A Delicious Eating Fruit 
Hardiest Varieties Are Indicated With the Star (+) 
Pear growing at one time was considered a 
failure in the Plains States. ‘With 
knowledge of varieties and culture, pears are 
succeeding to a much greater degree. 
only two or three varieties; try to get well-— 
ripened growth; give only fair cultivation. 
Be content with an annual growth of from . 
twelve to eighteen inches. Rank, late growth 
is often. the cause of blight. 
DOUGLAS. It is the best bearer of any 
known pear and practically immune to 
Dlight. A large handsome pear that ripens 
in early fall, golden yellow flushed with 
pink, tender, juicy, excellent flavor. 
Sometimes bearing one year after planting 
and then every year after. Resists frost 
. and adverse weather, and sets fruit al- 
most without fail. Cine tree Dnaatraad 
grounds ripened several fine pears the 
first season and has borne every year 
since. Excellent for sauce and canning. 
PEACHES 
Hardiest Varieties Are Indicated With the Star (4) 
The Peach prefers a well-drained 
loam. We recommend the following 
“varieties,hardy enough to stand with-— 
out protection in the southern half 
of Nebraska and southern Iowa. 

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CLAPPS FAVORITE. This is a seedling of 
Bartiett and earlier ripening. Lemon yel- 
low in color, with brown dots. In quality 
it is almost the equal of its parent, and 
hardier. 
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LINCOLN. Large size, with often a beauti- 
ful blush to the sun; buttery, very juicy 
and high flavored; bears early and abund- 
antiy. August. 
*& MARQUETTE. New dwarf peach from northern 
Michigan. Bore considerable fruit in Wis- 
consin nursery second season after graft- 
ing. In our trial orchard trees not more 
“than six-feet high produced as much as it 
bushels. Fruit is medium size, red cheek, 
yellow flesh, of high quality, freestone. 
Should be in every home orchard in-south 
half of Iowa and Nebraska and south. 
_CHAMPION. Fruit ts large, beautiful in 
appearance; flavor delicious, sweet, rich 
and juicy, skin is creamy white with red 
cheek, becoming quite red when ripe. Meat 
‘fis white and a freestone. Ripens last of 
August and is one of the hardier types. 
ELBERTA. The most widely planted commer- | 
cC\lal peach. Very large, golden yellow, 
freestone. Tree very productive, yielding 
large quantities of uniform, highly color- 
ed fruit. Ripens mid-August. 
CRAWFORD. One of the best freestone peach- 
es for the West. A rich golden yellow, 
sometimes slightly flushed; yellow meat, 
quality rich and delicious, a reliable 
bearer and hardy. Season, late. 
J. H. HALE. Very large in size; beautiful 
yellow overlaid with red, and has a firm, 
fine grained yellow flesh of good qual- 
ity. Colors up a week before maturity, 
ripens 3 to 7 days ahead of Elberta. 
