STANDARD FRUIT TREES 25 
Fruit Trees for Home Gardens % 
and Commercial Orchards ,X 
; With the use of fruit ever increasing, fruit trees present an even bigger 
interest than heretofore, both to the commercial grower and the home 
owner. 
Many of our finest fruits can be enjoyed to the fullest extent when home-grown. 
Some of the most delicious of them are too thin skinned, or do not keep well enough, 
for markets or shipping, consequently the home-owner who must depend upon the 
commercial grower has to be satisfied with the less flavorful fruits which will stand 
the delay and rough handling that marketing requires. The remedy is to grow a few 
trees in the home garden or to set out an orchard. 
On the other hand, the commercial grower will find we have listed a full assort- 
ment of the best varieties for his purpose also. 
APPLES 
We list here only such varieties as have proved best in New England. Apples 
thrive in all soils and require very little attention. Some pruning must be done, and 
spraying will insure unblemished, wormless fruits. 
Trim the trees every spring to prevent crowding of the branches and to allow 
pure air and plenty of light to reach the fruits. Spraying just after the flowers 
have fallen usually insures satisfactory crops. 
Most commercial orchards are now planted with standard varieties, 40 feet 
apart each way. Quick, upright growing, early maturing varieties are used as fillers, 
planting between standards to 
make 20 feet apart; fillers to 
be removed when the stand- 
ard trees require the room 
(12 to 18 years). This requires 
28 standard and 82 fillers to 
the acre. We recommend for 
fillers—Yellow Transparent, Duchesse of Oldenburg, 
Wealthy, Grimes Golden and McIntosh. 
Those varieties following, preceded by a star (*) 
are the Russian and hardier kinds. 
SUMMER APPLES 
\BOUGH—Large, pale yellow; tender, sweet. 
NEARLY HARVEST—Medium, pale yellow, tender 
juicy. 
GOLDEN SWEET—Large, pale yellow, very sweet. 
<ALIVELAND RASPBERRY—Fruit good sized, clear, 
waxen white, striped crimson; flesh snow white. 
Blooms late, is blight resistant, bears early, makes 
a good filler. 
Delicious 
“*RED ASTRACHAN—Large, beautiful deep crim- 
son. 
\*YELLOW TRANSPARENT—Earliest, and best 
of the early kinds; white, tender, juicy, sprightly, 
sub-acid. 
| AUTUMN APPLES 
~\\AUTUMN STRAWBERRY—Tender, juicy, pro- 
ductive. 
\ *DUCHESSE OF OLDENBURG—CGood size, yel- 
low, streaked red, juicy, rich, sub-acid, produc- 
tive. Bears young. 
\SGRAVENSTEIN—Large, striped, fine quality; one 
of the best. 
‘“ MAIDEN BLUSH—Large, beautiful blush cheek. 
“MUNSON SWEET—Good size, yellow, red cheek. 
>RAMBO—Medium, yellow, streaked red. 
~WESTERN BEAUTY—Large, shaded bright red 
on pale yellow; crisp, tender, mild, sub-acid. 
Winter Banana Apple 
