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FRUIT TREES and GRAPE VINES 
We are offering this year the best in fruit trees and grape 
vines, including the apricot and peach illustrated in this catalog. 
We have a descriptive catalog, illustrated in color, 16 pages, 
8% x 1l inches, describing about 200 varieties, including the new, 
outstanding Merrill fruits for home planting, which include the 
Early Bee apricot and Merrill Brilliant peach and eleven other 
peaches. This catalog will be sent to you on request enclosing 20¢ 
which you may deduct from your first order for trees from the 
catalog. 
These new peaches and apricot are the result of 20 years of 
effort on the part of Grant Merrill to produce peaches of excep- 
tional flavor and color and also ripening throughout the entire 
season. None of these varieties is recommended for commercial ship- 
ping since the qualities which make a good shipping peach generally 
detract from the delicious flavor and tender, juicy flesh desired 
in apeach to enjoy eaten tree-ripe on the home table. 
Planting all 12 of these Merrill peaches will assure you of 
peaches on your table from the earliest to the latest. 
. MERRILL DELICIOUS PEACH — This is the best peach for home freezing 
so far known and the finest flavored yellow fleshed peach in the 
originatot’s opinion. Semi-freestone, ripens in mid-June. Should 
be in every home orchard. Darker stripes are a unique feature. 
~ MERRILL BRILLIANT PEACH — Brilliant red peach of eepert flavor. 
White fleshed cling. Ripens in early June. This peach 1s so 
beautiful that anyone would be proud to show or ship to friends. 
PRICES, POSTPAID TO ANY POINT IN THE UNITED STATES 
Each Each 
Fruitedreés.... <3 $1. 50 Walnu t35 center e $3.00 
Merrill Peaches... 1.75 Pecana.a5 esa. «es 4.00 
Early Bee Apricot. 1.75 Shade Trees....... Suu 
Armstrong Varieties. 2.00 Flowering Trees... 1.50 
Persimmon. sys 3. U0 Grape Vines. oo 
In California; add 3% sales tax; in liao AL, 34% 
CITBUS TREES NOT INCLUDED IN MAIL ORDER SERVICE 
MULCHING= Mr. B. G. Clough, owner of Pelley’s Nursery, Vis- 
ta, San Diego Co., in his column, DIG AND BE WELL, in the Oceanside 
Post Dispatch of July 7, 1949, said: “You may really become en- 
thralled on this subject, and your organic gardening may grip you 
like a virus *X’. It’s likely.This is no fad. Ample proof is 
forthcoming and visible in so many places....Strawberry beds wormed 
and mulched were possessed of mammoth berries and vigorous large 
leaved plants.’ Also tells of amazing results from use of compost 
and earthworms on deciduous fruit trees. And a dealer and grower at 
Pacific Grove told us of wonderful results from mulching Rockhill 
berries and other plants and trees. See also item on Rockhill. 
