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Title: Catalogue
Identifier: CAT31283717 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Greening Bros; Greening, Charles E; Greening, George A; River Raisin Valley Nursery; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Michigan Monroe Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs
Publisher: Monroe, Mich. : Greening Bros.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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42 GREENING BROS.' CATALOGUE AND FRUIT GROWERS' GUIDE.
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WINTER BANANA APPLE. "THE CROWNED KING OF THE APPLE ORCHARD." The «• Ideal'^Market Apple has been found in the Win er Banana. It has stood the severest tests. Tree is hardy and will succeed in very cold climates ; its wonderful product- iveness will bring- quicker and larger returns than any other apple in the orchard. The fruit has a richness of flavor that cannot be described. It surpasses in aromatic taste the choicest pear, plum, apricot, peach, cherry or any other fruit grown. If placed in a room one specimen of this apple will fill the entire room with an aroma of sweet perfume. The fruit is beautifully shaded and mottled with rich, bright red. Flavor very rich, spicy and aromatic. Flesh golden yellow, fine grained, firm and juicy. Tree a very strong grower, and will grow to be a tree of immense size, very suitable for lawn or shade, the leaf being nearly double^the size of other apple sorts. Big crops in two to three years. Read Opinions of Authorities, in this catalogue, on Banana Apple*

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