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. Every farm home should have a family orchard featuring McKay’s 
Profitable Apples. A careful selection will provde fruit all year. 
Summer Apples 
™\ ANOKA. The Anoka Apple is attracting attention because it ~\BEACON. Originated at Minnesota Experi- 
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. 
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 mew 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 
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EARLY McINTOSH. A McIntosh of the 
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- 
August. 
Yellow Transparent season.s 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-August. 
| 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 August. 
See picture on page 38. 
{ORIOLE Minnesota No. 714. A large sum- 
mer Apple of the highest quality for eat- 
ing or cooking. The fruit is very large and 
roundish, striped and splashed with red 
over orange-yellow background. The flesh 
is tender, fine grained and juicy. The 
flavor is sprightly, aromatic, sub-acid; qual- 
ity is excellent for eating fresh or for use 
in sauce or pies. The tree is hardy and an 
annual bearer. One of the newer and most 
worth-while of the Minnesota Fruit Breed- 
ing Station introductions. 
See picture on page 36. 
-\ 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 |S 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 
varieties—for our Wisconsin soils and climate. 
