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 a 
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 
? CORTLAND. Bright red, blushed with very dark red, 
splashed and striped with carmine. The flesh is a 
pinkish tint, and while fine, crisp, exceedingly 
tendér and juicy, it is protected by a skin more ‘ DUCHESS OF OLDENBURG. Fruit large, greenish 
tough than that of the McIntosh. The tree is a yellow with red stripes. Flesh light yellow, fairly 
vigorous, upspreading, hardy grower, healthy and finé grained and firm, with a pleasant acid flavor. 
very productive, holding its ripening fruit better A cooking favorite and prime market sort. A good 
than the McIntosh, and maturing about three shipper for an early apple and commands good 
weeks later. prices. 
\ DELICIOUS. A comparatively new variety that every- \ FAMEUSE (Snow). An old and well-known variety. 
yet keeping perfectly. The tree is vigorous and 
has so far proved perfectly hardy. 
where has proved itself to be one of the finest all- 
purpose fruits. It varies slightly in shape and 
coloring in different sections and on different 
soils. Fruit large, spread with brilliant, dark red. 
Fine grained, crisp, melting and juicy with a de- 
lightful aroma. The very highest quality for every 
purpose, being a splendid early winter shipper, 
Esra 
Fruit medium in size. Color, pale gieenish yellow 
mixed with stripes of red, with splashes of same 
on shady side. Flesh white, tender and juicy, 
slightly perfumed. Flavor, subacid, extra good. 
Tree a moderate grower, productive. Very hardy. 
Valuable variety for Northern sections. Season, 
October to December. 
