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Title: C. M. Hobbs & Sons : hardy fruits, ornamental trees, evergreens, shrubs, vines, roses, perennials, hedge plants
Identifier: cmhobbssonshardy00cmho_0 (find matches)
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: C. M. Hobbs & Sons; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries Horticulture Catalogs; Evergreens Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Climbing plants Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs
Publisher: Bridgeport, Ind. : C. M. Hobbs & Sons
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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52 C. M. HOBBS & SONS, BRIDGEPORT, INDIANA
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Champion Peaches. Peaches To secure healthy, vigorous and fruitful trees, the ground must be well drained and kept clean and mellow. Peach trees are easily cultivated and their freedom from disease, the short time it takes to come into bearing and the immense demand for the fruit, makes them ex- tremely profitable. Peaches are borne on wood of the .previous season's growth, and this makes it absolutely essential to prune the trees yearly, remove dead branches and let in light and air. Keep the trees in good shape and you will have splendid returns. Each 10 100 1000 Extra, 5 to 6 feet high $0.40 $3.50 $20.00 First Class, 4 to 5 feet high 30 2.50 15.00 S120.00 First Class, 3 to 4 feet high 25 2.00 10.00 90.00 First Class, 2 to 3 feet high 20 1.50 7.00 60.00 Unless otherwise priced. Fovly RioGIlill^ Yellow St. John. A superfine early yellow free- * " stone, nearly as large as Crawford, as finely Admiral Dewey (Free). A perfect freestone, colored and of even better flavor. Its round, of fine size, form and color, with delicious showy fruits always attract attention and sell yellow flesh that is yet Arm enough to ship well. A fine dessert peach. The tree bears well. The tree is a strong, hardy, symmet- while still small, and abundantly afterward, rical grower and produces well. We consider August, this peach the very best early yellow free- - stone, juiy. Mid-Season Belle of Georgia (Free). Very large, skin white, with red cheek; flesh white, firm and of ex- Arp Beauty (Free). Large, yellow, blushed and cellent flavor; fruit uniformly large and mottled, bright-crimson; strong grower; showy. Tree a rapid grower and very pro- hardy. Same size, color and character as ductive. July. Elberta. Has great value as a market or _ . ,„ '. ' t , family peach. September. 1. Greensboro (Semi-Cling). Large, rather round- ish; yellow with splashes of bright red; highly BIG RED (Shipper's Late Red). Without a colored in the sun; flesh white, very juicy doubt the best Commercial Peach on the and of good quality. July. market to-day. See full description on Lewis. The earliest white-fleshed freestone; at- inside front cover. tractively colored; a good shipper. Of vig- Champion (Free). Large, round, quite regular; orous growth, very hardy, immensely pro- yellowish-white, mottled with red on sunny ductive. Early July. side; flesh white with red at the pit; one of Mayflower (Semi-Cling). It is a red peach, ab- the best in quality. While Champion is a solutely red all over, even before it gets ripe little too tender skinned to make it a good enough to ship. Carries to market in fine shipper, yet for nearby market and home shape and sells well, as it is the only early use it is the best variety we know of. Tree is peach that is well colored. A strong, thrifty a sood healthy grower and one of the hardiest grower, inclined to overbear, should always m fruit bud. Fruit ripens from 20th of be thinned. Early July. August to 1st of September. Stearns. A perfectly free-stone, with yellow , Crosby (Free). Medium to large; orange-yel- flesh and brilliant red skin. As a shipper it low splashed with red; flesh yellow, red at cannot be surpassed. Tree is a strong, up- pit, juicy and rich; tree hardy and prolific; right grower, extremely hardy and free from fruit should be thinned in order to make disease. Considered by the introducer as the good sized peaches; a popular market sort; best market peach grown. July. middle of September. Don't Fail to Order Some Carson and Big: Red.

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