EARLY APPLES 
Early apples are hardy anywhere, hardier 
than any other applies, and they bear young, 
and extra well. However, the fruit of early 
apples does not keep very long after picking. 
For home use early apples should be planted 
only in small numbers unless there is a city 
nearby where early apples would always find 
a good market. 
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ing apple. Medium to large in size, greenish 
yellow with red stripes. Bears heavily. For 
cooking and pies it is unsurpassed, but for 
raw eating it is a little sour. The tree 
grows to large size, used as a shade and 
fruit tree with a very heavy foliage. Where 
the tree is to be planted for shade and fruit, 
Wwe recommend the larger size for planting. 
The apple ripens here in early August. 
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This is our earliest ap- 
Early Harvest ple, with us here it ae 
ually starts ripening July 4th. Years ago on 
the Sonderegger farm the earliest fruit in 
orchard was Early Harvest apples and May- 
flower Peaches. You must grow these trees 
yourself to appreciate fruit of such quality Sonderegger trees, because of their 
and so early in the summer. greater vitality. bear young and well. 
This tree, just 6 years after planting, 
produced over one bushel of extra choice 
Grimes Golden apples. Upland growing 

under our severe climatic conditions gives 
for Apples f a tree the greater vitality needed for 
insect $s disease attacks, suc- e young and heavy production. 
ule below. This will keep the 
Sherwin-Williams predicts: Red J A little later than Early Harvest. The 
une apple is of medium size, nice for home- 
use or market, it is yellow, striped red. This is an 
old-fashioned apple, and its very good eating qualities 
WHEN TO SPRAY OR will always give it a favored place with the experi- 
IDIOM enced orchardist. Ripening season July to August. 
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Fruit medium large. 
Yellow Transparent Smooth, skin clear 
When the trees are dormant. white turning pale vellow when ripe. The flesh is 
white, fine grained, aromatic. and of splendid quality. 
Ripgens a week or 10 days after Early Harvest. The 
tree is a vigorous grower. and a good bearer, perfectly 
hardy, beginning to bear quite young, and it does well 
in most any location. 
1. When the blossom buds begin of 
to show. (The _ pre-pink You May Like to Know ; 
spray, when the buds are in That the production of one apple tree requires 22 
the >> Cat's-Paw:..’) separate operations, 12 of which must be hand-work 
2. The pink spray—just before | by highly skilled men. 10 operations are performed 
the flowers open. with mechanized equipment. This does not include 
assembling of the tree in your order, or such handling 
as packing for shipping. Every fruit tree represents 
3 vears of careful work, mostly handwork. 

3. \t the fall of the petals 
(Calyx Spray). . 
4. Ten days to two weeks later. Pruning of Apple Trees 
- dice weeks after the Calyx So that the trees make an even shaped pore Le 
= ee : a ples should be pruned every year or two. Shorten the 
6. ee asa after the Calyx longest limbs. Cut out some of the branches where 
they stand too thick. Cut out the ‘‘water-sprouts.” 
This is done very early in the spring. Trees growing 
Approximately ten weeks after] extra fast due to favorable soil or weather conditions, 
the fall of the petals. should have a light summer pruning of the new 
branches. This applies also to Peaches. 
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