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Title: Everything for the fruit grower : 1899
Identifier: CAT31283881 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Reid's Nurseries; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture), Ohio, Bridgeport, Catalogs; Nursery stock, Ohio, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs
Publisher: Bridgeport, Ohio : E. W. Reid's 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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jyj^ E. W. REID'S NURSERIES, BRIDGEPORT, OHIO THREE FAMOUS NEW APPLES APPLES The first fruit, both in importance and general culture, is the Apple. Its period, unlike that of other fruits, extends nearly or quite thiough the year. By planting judicious selections of summer, autumn and winter sorts, a constant succession of this indispensable fruit can be easily obtained for family use. There is no farm crop which on the average will produce one-fourth as much income per acre as will a good Apple orchard. ; BISMARCK. This most valuable new Apple, gill introduced from New Zealand a few years ago, through the agency of a celebrated arboretum in Ger- many, promises to take the place y§s °^ a^most every other Apple grown gjp in this country and abroad. It glf has already been fully tested in ^§f Russia, Germany, France, Eng- land, United States and Canada; W and wherever grown it has proved f a most astonishing revelation, not only in high quality, but also in hardiness, and especially in .. earliness of fruiting. The color of the fruit is a beautiful golden 0/ yellow, and its size is the largest. The trees bear most profusely, and the showy fruits are eagerly sought after, always bringing the highest market price. Bismarck trees bear at an earlier age than any other Apple, and the fruit keeps well into March. As a dessert Apple it has no equal, owing to its distinct and most delicious flavor. It bears fruit when only one or two years old, and it has been grown in large quantities as a pot plant for table and greenhouse decoration. Large, 40 cts. each, $4 per doz.; medium, 30 cts. each, $3 per doz.; small, postpaid, 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz.
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Tree and Fruit of the Bismarck Apple. STARR. Has proved a very desirable, reliable and valuable market Apple, and is now offered after several years of thorough testing in comparison with other best early market Apples. It always brings 25 to 50 per cent more than other Apples in market, and sells readily at $8 per half-bushel basket. The tree is a good, healthy grower, comes to fruiting young, and is an abundant and healthy bearer, though heavier on the alternate year. The fruit is very large, showy, pale green, frequently with a handsome blush on sunny side; pleasant subacid. Very early, marketable first week in July, and will continue in good condi- tion until September, being an excel- lent shipper for so early an Apple; has carried to California in excel- lent condition. A very superior cooking and a good eating Apple. Price, first-class, 50c. each, $5 per doz.: medium, 35c. each, $3.50 per doz.; mail size, postpaid, 20c. each, $2 per doz. WALTER PEASE. This is one of the best Apples we know. It much resembles the Baldwin in color and productiveness. Size very lar^e. Tbe fruit is very showy and attractive, and as a table Apple, we think, has no superior. Fruit nearly round; color a beautiful deep red on sunny side, with splashes and stripes of red on yellow ground on other side: where fully exposed to sun, nearly all red. Ripens in September, October and November; has been kept until past midwinter. Core very small: flesh white, very fine-ffrained; quality best, mild, juicy, slightly subacid, with a rich, sweet, aromatic flavor. Tree very productive, fruiting heavily; strong and vigorous grower. A deli- cious table Apple for either mar- ket or home use. First-class, 50 cts. each, $5 per doz.; medium. 40 cts. each. $4 per doz.; second-class, 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz.

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