
FRUIT 
A FRUIT Tree is not only beautiful of itself, but highest utility multiplies its value and even 
adds to its beauty. What more delightful to the eye than a globose shaped, deep green cherry 
tree, Or a pyramidal pear tree on a lawn, all on fire with its load of irridescent fruit! Never 4 
more perfect shade than the ‘‘back-door’ apple tree of our grandmothers. 
As a windbreak, a massed orchard is perfect, giving air drainage while protecting the estate 
or farmstead from the shock of storms without the rock-like resistance of evergreens, which 
produce back-drafts and eddies. 
A background of small fruits, mounting from currants to raspberries, and then to a corner- 
thicket of blackberries beyond, is something more than just a screen. It invites your friends and 
your bird-friends too. A pergola bowered in purpling grapes is doubly attractive, combining 
beauty and bounty. Did you ever see a homestead with too much fruit—or grow any quinces 
or gooseberries or peaches you couldn't give away? No other feature of the newly-built dwelling 
—be it in town or country—gives it such attractiveness and saleability as a copious supply of 
fruits. To reduce sentiment to shillings, fifty dollars invested in well-assorted fruit trees and plants 
will add ten times the cost to a sale or rental value—besides that in the meantime the proprietor 
is himself regaled most sumptuously. 
APPLES 
BALDWIN. Too well-known to need description— spread with brilliant, dark red. Fine grained, crisp, 
still the most popular apple this side of the Atlantic melting and juicy with a delightful aroma. The very 
and steadily gaining in favor in London markets: The highest quality for every purpose, being a splendid 
standard strain of this fruit is of a deep, uniform red. early winter shipper, yet keeping perfectly. The tree 
Oblate spheroid in shape, with flesh of a light canary is vigorous and has so far proved perfectly hardy. 
yellow. DUCHESS OF OLDENBURG. Fruit large ish 
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BANANA. Very large size; color deep yellow yellow with red stripes. Flesh light yellow, fairly 
splerngs vas ts Nie orets grower, heavy bearer. fine grained and firm, with a pleasant acid flavor. A 
PESNn=tCnCemana aromatic: : cooking favorite and prime market sort. A good ship- 
CORTLAND. Bright red, blushed with very dark red, per for an early apple and commands good prices. 
splashed and striped with carmine. The flesh is a : ; 
pinkish tint, and while fine, crisp, exceedingly tender richanee Dth Ds Vigorous and productive, hardy, red 
and juicy, it is protected by a skin more tough than ; 
that of the Mcintosh. The tree is a vigorous, up- H¥YSLOP CRAB. Large, deep crimson, with beautiful 
spreading, hardy grower, healthy and very produc- bloom. Very prolific and popular. A very showy 
tive, holding its ripening fruit better than the Mc- fruit, making excellent jelly. Mid-autum to January. 
Intosh, and maturing about three weeks later. Tree hardy, vigorous and productive. 
DELICIOUS. A comparatively new variety that every- FALL PIPPIN. Large, beautiful light yellow when 
where has proved itself to be one of the finest all- fully ripe. An old favorite. Flesh tender, rich, and 
purpose fruits. It varies slightly in shape and coloring of good dessert quality. Tree hardy, vigorous and 
in different sections and on different soils. Fruit large, long-lived. Season, September to October. 
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