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Title: Aiken's 1953 garden book
Identifier: aikens1953garden1953aike (find matches)
Year: 1953 (1950s)
Authors: Aiken Nurseries; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Plants Vermont Catalogs; Trees Vermont Catalogs; Vegetables Vermont Catalogs; Flowers Vermont Catalogs; Nursery stock Vermont Catalogs; Horticulture Vermont Catalogs
Publisher: Putney, Vt. : Aiken Nurseries
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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FRUITS FOR THE HOME GARDENS, continued
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Peaches, Elberta PEACHES 1-yr., 4 to 5-ft. trees: 1 to 6 at SI.55 each, prepaid. NOT PREPAID: 7 to 11 at $1.35; 12 to 21 at S1.20: 25 to 50 at SI.00. 1-yr., 3 to 4~ft. trees: 1 to 6 at 81.30 each, prepaid. NOT PREPAID: 7 to 11 at $1.15; 12 to 24 at 95c; 25 to 50 at 80c. 1- yr., 2 to 3-ft. trees: 1 to 6 at SI.10 each, prepaid. NOT PREPAID: 7 to 11 at 95c; 12 to 24 at 80c; 25 to 50 at 65c. Belle of Georgia. The leading white-fleshed Peach and the variety most grown in commercial orchards. Very large fruits on very hardy trees. Grows equally well North or South. Red-cheeked fruits are firm and juicy, with excellent flavor. Stone semi-free to free. Early Sept. Champion. Best white-fleshed Peach for eating out of hand. Large, creamy white, round fruits with red cheeks. Trees hardy and productive. Freestone. Early Sept. Elberta. Most popular yellow-fleshed Peach and the leading market variety. Big yellow fruits with ruddy cheeks are juicy and tasty. Trees bear heavily and uniformly. Freestone. Mid-Sept. Hale-Haven. Beautiful to look at and delicious to eat. Large, handsomely colored fruits with yellow flesh. Prolific, hardy, vigorous trees. An exceptionally good variety for either the home garden or the coin- nifi orchard, (iood shipper. Freestone. Earl) Sept. Red Haven. Extra early. If you have space for only one Peach tree, this is the kind to choose. Fruits are bright red with yellow flesh of fine quality, yet firm enough for shipping. Trees are self-polleni/ing, heavy-yielding and hard) . Freestone. Late Aug. DWARF PEARS ail' I'ear 1 rees should be spaced 12 I <) 15 feet apart In al lain optimum growth and production, bike the dwarf apples. they bear wilhin a year or two, occasion- ally the same year they are planted. 2- yr., 3 to 4-fl. trees: S3.25 each; 3 for S9.00: 10 for S27.50. prepaid. liartletl Duchei— Clapp's Faxoritc Seckcl Pears, Seckel STANDARD PEARS At least two varieties of Pears should be planted to provide cross-pollination. 2-yr., 4 to 5-ft. trees: 1 to 6 at SI.90 each, prepaid. NOT PREPAID: 7 toll at SI.70: 12 to21at S1.50: 25 to 50 at SI .20. 2-yr., 3 to 4-ft. trees: 1 to 6 at SI.65 each, prepaid. NOT PREPAID: 7 to 11 at SI. 15; 12 to 24 at $1.25; 25 to 50 at 95c. Bartlett. Everybody's favorite. Large, golden yellow fruits with reddish blush on sunny side. Flesh is tender and juicy with a taste-provoking aroma. The leading market variety. Excellent for canning. Sept. Beurre Bosc. Best for eating. Brownish yellow with long, tapering neck. Flesh is tender, buttery, very juicy, with rich flavor and pleasing aroma. Fruit keeps until January. Ripens in Sept. Clapp's Favorite. Earliest Pear of high quality. A very good pollinator for Bartlett. which it closely resembles in size, shape, coloring and flavor. VJboul the easiest variety to grow well in home gardens. Ripens just after the middle of \.ug. Duchcsse d'Aiigouleiiic. " Tops" for home gardens. The fruits excite wonder and admiration by their enormous size and wonderful laste. Color is a rus- seted. greenish yellow. \ln-l fla\orful dining \'o- vember and December. Hipens in late Sept. Seekel. Sweetest of all. The small, juicy. golden brown fruits with deep reddish blown cheeks melt in your mouth. Trees are healthy \ igorous. hardy and bear young. Sept. 26 AIKEN NURSERY,INC.

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