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Standard Varieties 
\ ANOKA_A summer apple that ripens very 
early. Sometimes bears second year after 
planting, but fruit lacks quality. Beacon and 
Van Buren produce better fruit. 
K DELICIOUS—A favorite winter apple that’s 
dependable only in the most favorable areas 
of southern Minnesota and further south. See 
map, page 29. Fruit is large, all red, sweet and 
delicious. 
DUCHESS—(See Red Van Buren). 
among Minnesota commercial growers. Large 
size, deep red color, and excellent flavor. 
Keeps in perfect condition until late spring. 
Free from blight and tends to bear early. Can 
be grown throughout Minnesota. 
NORTHWESTERN GREENING—A popular old 
winter variety, with large, smooth, handsome 
green fruit, turning yellow when mature. A 
good winter keeper and a splendid cooking 
| apple, especially fine for pies. 
RED VAN BUREN—A summer apple of Duchess 
type, but with better color—it's solid red! 
Ripens in Duchess season, it’s just as hardy, 
it has all the good qualities of Duchess, but 
much more attractive. 
\| WEALTHY —One of Minnesota's most popular 
late fall apples. Bright red, large size, with 
juicy, sprightly flavor. A good eating apple 
that yields heavily and keeps into December. 
Grown throughout Minnesota. 
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A non-injurious chemical that can be applied 
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rabbit and deer damage in 
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until edible portions develop. 
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.\ HARALSON—The most popular winter apple ~ 
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\BEACON—A better summer apple 
that ripens a few days after 
Duchess, but is not so perishable. 
It keeps well into Wealthy sea- 
son! There's no finer early red 
eating apple—it's highly colored, 
has fine quality and flavor, it's 
solid red, very hardy and a 
heavy bearer. 
‘ FIRESIDE—NOW! A MINNESOTA 
DELICIOUS that’s hardy for 
Minnesota! Truly a triumph of 
fruit breeding. Flavor and tex- 
ture even better than Delicious, 
although fruit is not so highly 
colored. Fireside is a large, long 
keeping winter apple with the 
finest flavor ever produced at 
Minnesota's Fruit Farm. Flesh is 
crisp, sweet, juicy—never be- 
comes “flat and mealy.” 
NEWT 714). A new harvest ap- 
ple from Minn. Fruit Farm. Prof. Alderman (U. \ 
of Minn.) says of it: “A large attractive early 
summer apple of top quality for dessert or cook- 
ing.” Destined to replace such varieties as Yel- 
low Transparent. Color is red over yellow. 
|Profitable for home or market. 
PRAIRIE SPY—An extra long-keeping winter ap- N 
ple with the BEST QUALITY of any available in 
late winter and early spring! For eating or 
cooking it’s unsurpassed by any apple that 
stands up (so well in storage for many months. 
It bears very young and heavily, fruit is big, 
bright red and of excellent flavor. 
REDWELL—A new early winter apple from Uni- 
versity Farm. Above medium size and bright 
solid red. Moderately juicy, its pleasantly mild 
flavor makes it a good eating apple of Wealthy 
type. Excellent for baking and cooking. Fruits 
hang well to trees even in high winds. A 
dependable bearer. Keeps until January. 
Why NORTHERN ROOTED “cco? 
Northern Rooted APPLE TREES 
New Apples from Minnesota’s Experiment Station 
NEW 
7 MANTET 
“ Ripens 2 Weeks 
Before Duchess 
MANTET — This brilliant red, early summer 
apple was originated at Dominion Experiment 
Station, Morden, Canada. Its dessert and culi- 
nary qualities are not excelled by any other 
variety of its season, which is nearly two 
weeks ahead of Duchess. 
MINJON—A Minnesota Jonathan that thrives 
and produces in Northern Minnesota! Its season 
is late fall, following Wealthy. It bears regu- 
larly, heavy loads of brilliant allred apples. 
It colors up well and hangs tightly to tree until 
picked, 
NEW LAKELAND—A new solid red apple 
with good dessert and excellent cooking quality, 
that ripens immediately after Wealthy, yet keeps 
much longer. It bears every year and fruits 
cling to the tree exceptionally well. Ideal for 
both home and commercial growers. 
VICTORY — A new Minnesota model of the old 
McIntosh! It has McIntosh shape, color and 
quality but ripens a week later, and keeps a 
month longer. Flesh is firmer, color is better, 
tree is hardier, fruit is not inclined to drop 
before harvest and it cooks and bakes better 
than McIntosh. 
The pictures below show two root stocks from our orchard 
where this test was made: We set 50 McIntosh apples 
propagated on our own hardy northern root stocks, alter- 
nately with 50 trees propagated on common roots. Both lots 
of trees were the same size when planted and both received 
the same care through the 17 years until the pictures were 
taken. 
After 17 years our hardy Northern rooted trees were at least three 
times as large as those on common roots. Many of the common rooted 
trees had died, but few of the Northern. 
The common rooted weaklings had borne little fruit and were a finan- 
cial loss, while the Northern rooted trees were strong and sturdy and 
had borne regular and profitable crops. All fruit trees we offer are 
budded or grafted on hardy Northern root-stocks. 
This 17-year-old McIntosh was 
grafted on common root stocks. 
These roots died completely, 
leaving the tree to exist on the 
few “scion roots’ above the 
graft. Result: weak or stunted 
growth—little or no fruit. 
FARMER SEED AND NURSERY CO., 
New Minjon 
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This 17-year-old McIntosh was Beacon Lakeland 10 or 
grafted on our Special Northern Fireside ada ‘ 1to4 5to9 more 
stocks. The hardy, sturdy root Minjon Rodwelhee SIZES EACH EACH pap 
anchors this tree securely in the nore Victory Aer re Preh csransits 
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ground, Result: eee growth Haralson Red Van Buren 4 to 5 ft By 1295 1.85 1.65 
— heavy crops of fruit. Wealthy 5 to 6 ft "225 210 . 4.90 
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