Fruits for the Home Gardens 
Only when you pick your own sun-ripened fruit directly from the trees and plants can you enjoy its full, 
delicious flavor. Not everyone has space to plant an orchard of standard fruit trees, but almost everyone 
has room for a few berry plants and two or three dwarf applé and pear trees. Plums and peaches require 
only slightly more space. Don’t overlook the fact that fruit trees are ornamental as well as productive. 
\ Red Northern Spy. Best flavor of all! Waits longer 
than most varieties to come into bearing. Large, 
pele te and mildly acid. Nov. to Apr. or even 
; ay. 
Rhode Island Greening. An all-time favorite. Green- 
ish yellow cooking Apple which keeps well and is 
not half bad for eating out of hand during winter and 
| early spring. Dec. to Apr. 
Wealthy. Best fall Apple for home gardens and a good 
llinator. Brilliant red fruits of moderate size. 
esh of fine quality, white sometimes streaked with 
red. Relatively good keeper. Trees very hardy and 
healthy, beginning to bear in about four years. Sept. 
15 to 20. 
~ Yellow Transparent. One of the Lest summer Apples. 
Pale yellow with acid flavor, making it excellent for 
cooking. Good to eat, too! Makes a comparatively 
small tree, which begins bearing at an early age. 
Early Aug. 
VERMONT MAPLE SYRUP 
As this syrup has not been made at the time this 
catalog goes to press, we have to offer it subject to yield. 
MclIatosh Apple In case of a shortage, orders will be filled in the sequence 
in which we have received them. Your order will be 
filled with 1953-crop syrup as soon as it is ready in late 
March. We operate our own “‘sugar-bush.”’ 
STANDARD APPLES GRADE A: Gal. $6.50; 14 gal. $3.50; qt. $2.00. 
Dates following descriptions indicate when the 
quality of the fruit is at its best. 2-yr., 4 to 5-ft. trees: 
1 to 6 at $1.55 each. # 
7 to 11 trees at $1.40; 12 to 24 at $1.20; 25 to 50 at 4 
$1.00. 
~\Red Astrachan. Attractive red summer Apple which 
begins bearing young. Flesh white, crisp and juicy, 
with pleasant acid savor. One of the best Apples for 
small home grounds because the healthy trees require 
little spraying. Early Aug. 
Baldwin. Favorite winter Apple for both eating and 
cooking. Has a flavor all its own. Large, bright red 
fruits are crisp and juicy. Dec. to Mar. 
Cortland. Best of the McIntosh hybrids and a good 
pollinator in McIntosh orchards. Bright red, splashed 
and striped with carmine and overlaid with purplish 
bloom. Flesh white, firm and juicy. Excellent for 
small home grounds. Oct. to Feb. 
~Red Delicious. High-quality dessert Apple. Large, 
brilliant dark red with fine-grained, tender, crisp, 
jue flesh. Mild flavor and pleasing aroma. Dec. to 
ar. 
“Early McIntosh. Fruit similar to McIntosh but 
ripens much earlier and, naturally, does not keep so 
long in storage. Aug. 
“McIntosh Red. Extra well-colored fruit with white, 
crisp, juicy flesh, subacid in flavor and possessing an 
appetizing aroma. The most popular commercial 
variety. Must be planted with another variety for 
cross-pollination. Oct, to Jan: Delicious Apple 
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