Center Point, Iowa Crab Apples, Pears 
\ GRIMES GOLDEN. Continues to be one of the best yellow apples. A favorite 
of those who like a sub-acid apple. Keeps until mid-winter. 
\ HARALSON. An attractive red late keeping apple that is very hardy. 
\HAWKEYE GREENING. Is a very good home orchard apple. Very hardy, 
good for eating and cooking. Keeps well. Productive. 
a HIBERNAL. Is most used as stocks to top work other varieties onto. The 
tree’s very hardy with good crotches and nearly all varieties do good 
worked on it. It is also a good reliable large cooking apple. 
\ JONATHAN. Is next to Delicious, probably the best known red apple in 
the midwest. Good for commercial and all purpose use. Good size, crisp 
juicy flesh with a tingling flavor. 
MONROE. Cross between Jonathan and Roman Beauty. A new apple from 
the N.Y. Experimental Station. Very high quality, beautiful red color, 
large and an annual bearer. 
\. SHARON. One of the newer Iowa varieties. Very hardy early winter apple. 
Large uniform fruit of outstanding quality. Tender, juicy white flesh 
with a mild aromatic flavor. Fine for eating and cooking. Bears young 
and heavy on lighter soils. 
“. TURLEY is a hardier Winesap largely replacing other winesaps in the north- 
ern half of Iowa. Fine quality, heavy bearer and rich red color. 
= WOLF RIVER. A very large old Fashion apple. 
YELLOW DELICIOUS. Is well known for its pleasing rich sub-acid flavor 
has pleasing appearance and good crops. 
CRAB APPLES — Also See Pages 7 to 9 
~ CHESTNUT. A very hardy beautiful bronze red, crisp and juicy crab. Ex- 
cellent for school lunches. Ripens in early September and keeps through 
October. 
~ PIOTOSH. A very hardy eating crab. 
At VIRGINIA. A very hardy crab with wide strong crotches used chiefly as the 
understock to graft less hardy varieties on. 
WHITNEY is an old favorite. A large red mild flavored eating, canning and 
pickling crab. Hardy healthy tree that bears good crops. 
“YOUNG AMERICA. A productive tree having good sized bright red fruit 
excellent for jell. Season September. 
PEARS 
Pears do well on clay or gravelly upland. The fruit is less subject to 
worms than apples, but the trees are more subject to fire blight. 
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