Archive image from page 12 of Descriptive catalogue of select fruit. Descriptive catalogue of select fruit and ornamental trees grape vines, small fruits, flowering platns, etc. descriptivecatal1890west Year: 1890 Fruit and Ornameyilal Trees. ii Early Golden Small, pale orange ; flesh orange, juicy, sveet. Moorpark. Large, yellow and red ; flesh orange, sweet, juicj', rich; ven,- pro- ductive, reliable. Peach. Very large, handsome, excellent. Russian. From Russia and extremely hardy. The tree comes into bearing as early as the peach and is highly ornamental. QUINCES. The Quince is very highly
Archive image from page 12 of Descriptive catalogue of select fruit. Descriptive catalogue of select fruit and ornamental trees grape vines, small fruits, flowering platns, etc. descriptivecatal1890west Year: 1890 Fruit and Ornameyilal Trees. ii Early Golden Small, pale orange ; flesh orange, juicy, sveet. Moorpark. Large, yellow and red ; flesh orange, sweet, juicj', rich; ven,- pro- ductive, reliable. Peach. Very large, handsome, excellent. Russian. From Russia and extremely hardy. The tree comes into bearing as early as the peach and is highly ornamental. QUINCES. The Quince is very highly esteemed for making marmalade, preserves, and giving additional flavor to Apples, Pears, &c. A rich, mellow soif, good culture and animal ma- nuring are requisite to success. Keep branches and fruit thinned. Plant 12 feet apart each way. Ctiampion. Very large ; pear shaped; of a lively yellow color; flesh tender, and free from hard lumps so common in other quinces ; equal to the Ofange variety in flavor and odor' ripens about two weeks later and will keep till Christmas. Tree of stout, rugged growth, with smooth bark, upright, resem- bling a pear tree more than a quince. A profuse, regular and remarkable bearer. Weeche'S Proliric. A newly-introduced variety, of strong, vigorous growth ; enormously productive, uniformly large, resembling the Champion in shape, but earlier—ripening between that variety and the Ot-ange Quince, but excelling by far even the Champion in productiveness and vigor of growth. Orange or App c. The best known of all quinces. Large ; rich golden yel- low : productive and of best quality. 3 to 4 feet; well branched. Rea'9 Iflaminotll. A seedling of the Orange Quince, very much larger, and a great improvement upon it; of strong growth and proiluctive ; considered by some the best of all quinces. readtHis before ordering. Postage on Mail Oi'ders—Rates of postage have been reduced so that \\c can now aff'ord to pack plants sent by mail with more moss,
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