McKAY’S Profitable Apples 
McKay’s Profitable Apples have been justly 
styled, “The King Fruit of the Northwest’”—a 
by-word among farmers and orchardists. No 


Summer Apples 
ANOKA. The Anoka Apple is attracting EARLY McINTOSH. A MelIntosh of the 


other fruit is as widely grown and no other 
Apples have met as universal a demand through- 
out this territory. No other fruit offers so many 
variations in quality and usefulness. No other 
gives such a long period of enjoyment as a fresh 
fruit—very late keeping varieties lasting over 
until the early varieties of the following season 
are ripe. Every farm home should have a family 
orchard featuring McKay’s Profitable Apples. 
A careful selection will provide fruit all year. 
attention because it bears freely on one- 
year-old wood, beginning the second year 
after planting, and annually thereafter. 
Fruit is similar to Duchess. Very hardy 
and blight resistant. Ripens early, about 
the time of the Duchess or a little before. 
Very hardy anywhere. 
BEACON. Originated at Minnesota Experi- 
ment Station at Minneapolis from where so 
many of our other good, new fruits have 
come in recent years. The fruit is medium 
size, round with a glowing beacon-red 
color. Flesh, yellowish white, fine grained 
and of mildly sub-acid flavor. Season late 
summer, like Duchess, but keeps a month 
longer. Fruit holds well to tree, even after 
it is ripe. Tree is of an upright spreading 
habit, vigorous and productive. An excel- 
lent new variety for either the home or- 
chard or the commercial fruit grower, be- 
cause of its exceptionally good quality for 
a summer Apple, its color, productivity and 
ability to stand up under market conditions. 
Hardy throughout Wisconsin. 
See picture at left. 
DUCHESS. An old well known variety for 
over 50 years, and it still rates a place in 
every orchard. While it is only a fair eat- 
ing Apple, it certainly is the best pie and 
sauce Apple ever grown. A large, round, 
yellowish red Apple, tender, juicy, and 
very acid. Bears early and heavily. Mid- 
Aug. 
Yellow Transparent season. A cross be- 
tween the Yellow Transparent and the Mc- 
Intosh. A small handsome red Apple which 
ripens about 10 days after Yellow Transpar- 
ent, but before Duchess. An Apple that 
pleases the taste, as well as the eye. The 
trees are hardy, vigorous, productive, and 
bear annually if thinned early and severely. 
Mid-Aug. 
LIVELAND. A small pinkish Apple, ripen- 
ing a week after Yellow Transparent. Very 
juicy, sweet and pleasant to eat. Flesh 
white. Tree hardy and long lived. Ripens 
last of July. 
MELBA. Another early McIntosh type of 
Apple from Canada, ripening a few days 
after Yellow Transparent. In its season the 
finest early eating Apple of real McIntosh 
quality, Fruit of medium size, colored with 
bright crimson stripes over a pale waxy 
yellow skin. The trees are very hardy, 
make a strong growth and bear early and 
abundantly. Late July and early Aug. 
See picture on page 38. 
YELLOW TRANSPARENT. The first Ap- 
ple of the season, ripening in late July. 
A small yellow Apple with a smooth waxen 
surface. A fine eating Apple with crisp 
flesh. A very good tree for Central and 
Northern Wisconsin, but subject to fire 
blight in southern part. 
See picture on page 36. 
‘SEEING IS BELIEVING” —Photo below shows a field of 50,000 
Apple trees growing in our nurseries at Waterloo, Wis. You have 
to see these trees to appreciate their worth. Northern grown, selected 
[35]  varieties—for our Wisconsin soils and climate. 
Beacon 


