. Bountiful Ridge Nurseries : our complete catalog and planting guide for fall 1946 and spring 1947. Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Asparagus Catalogs. ttauntiful l^id Are Famous For Adaptability, Rapid Growth and Productivity WRIXPARENT U. S. PLANT PATENT NO. 388 America's Earliest Apple—Ripening 2 Weeks Before Yellow Transparent! EARLY APPLES OUTSTANDING MONEY-MAKERS DURING '46 SEASON Plant To Maintain Your Early Apple Production—Lead the Season With Wrixparent and Lodi. BRIEF FACTS ABOUT THE WRIXPARENT 1. EARLINESS—Ripens 10 to 15 da
. Bountiful Ridge Nurseries : our complete catalog and planting guide for fall 1946 and spring 1947. Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Asparagus Catalogs. ttauntiful l^id Are Famous For Adaptability, Rapid Growth and Productivity WRIXPARENT U. S. PLANT PATENT NO. 388 America's Earliest Apple—Ripening 2 Weeks Before Yellow Transparent! EARLY APPLES OUTSTANDING MONEY-MAKERS DURING '46 SEASON Plant To Maintain Your Early Apple Production—Lead the Season With Wrixparent and Lodi. BRIEF FACTS ABOUT THE WRIXPARENT 1. EARLINESS—Ripens 10 to 15 days before Yellow Transparent. 2. ANNUAL BEARER—Normal to heavy crops each year. 3. LARGE SIZE—Apples under normal conditions pack out 2%" and 21/2" size and up. 4. QUALITY—Unexcelled as an early cooking apple. 5. SHIPPING ABILITY—Does not show bruises, will carry to distant markets, and will keep for weeks. 6. TREE IS VIGOROUS, SEMI - SPREADING IN GROWTH HABITS, BLIGHT RESISTANT, COMES INTO BEARING EARLY. Found as a chance seedling in the Y'ellow Transparent orchard of Mr. Wrixham Mcllvain near Magnolia, Del- aware about 1920. Mr. Mcllvain after several years' observation, deter- mined the variety to be superior in every way to the Transparent and grafted over his Transparent orchard to this variety. This 2nd generation orchard nov 25 years of age has been producing heavy crops for 20 years. A third generation orchard was planted in 1935 and began bearing at 4 years of age. The tree is more spreading than Transparent, vigorous and hardy in wood, not being subject to blight and other fungus diseases. The fruit averages large in size, being a little more flat in shape than Transparent and packing out commercial sizes of 2%" and 2i/^" at picking time. The Wrixparent ripens from 10 to 15 days before the Yellow Transparent and ripens its fruit evenly so that the en- tire crop may be harvested in two pickings if desired. It is an attractive light gre
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