. John A. Cannedy's fruit book : fruit and ornamental trees, small fruits, grape vines, roses, shrubs, Nursery stock Illinois Catalogs; Fruit trees Illinois Catalogs; Fruit trees Middle West Catalogs; Ornamental trees Illinois Catalogs; Ornamental trees Middle West Catalogs; Roses Illinois Catalogs; Roses Middle West Catalogs; Berries Illinois Catal. J. a. cawedy's fruit book. Early Ripe -Large; yellow; tender, juicy; ripens with Early Harvest, but better apple. A good market variety. Golden Sweet -Orange Sweet—Large; pale-yellow; very sweet: good flavor. Tree thrifty and a good bearer.


. John A. Cannedy's fruit book : fruit and ornamental trees, small fruits, grape vines, roses, shrubs, Nursery stock Illinois Catalogs; Fruit trees Illinois Catalogs; Fruit trees Middle West Catalogs; Ornamental trees Illinois Catalogs; Ornamental trees Middle West Catalogs; Roses Illinois Catalogs; Roses Middle West Catalogs; Berries Illinois Catal. J. a. cawedy's fruit book. Early Ripe -Large; yellow; tender, juicy; ripens with Early Harvest, but better apple. A good market variety. Golden Sweet -Orange Sweet—Large; pale-yellow; very sweet: good flavor. Tree thrifty and a good bearer. We were probably surprised here two years ago to tiud that buyers from New York were coming to Illinois and Missouri to buy apples. This wai at, a time, when the crop there was a failure. The next year when they had a good came also to buy west- ern fruit. The fruit of Illinois seemed to be in demand. It was a great surprise to me, and so I investigated the matter ;md found out why it was they came here to buy fruit when they had it themselves. The solution of the whole matter is contained in a state- ment a New York buyer ma le to me. The >Jew York apples, as a rule, are not long keepiutf. With the best cold storage facilities the Greening is out in January and the Baldwin doesn't last much longer than March or April. But the Ben Davis, Willow Twig, and other varieties gi'own here in the west, the Gauo and York Imperial, are in demand because they are long keeping apples, and because they can sell them in the eastern markets after their apples are disposed of, and it is for that reason the eastern buyers come to Illinois to bay fruit.—Senator Dunlap before Hort. Society of III., A corner in a block of apple grafts. All branched seedling roots and a 90 per cent stand. Piece and straight root grafts did not make a 50 per cent stand. Photographed last of August, 1901. Jefferis—From Chester County, Fa. Tree moderate grower, upright habit. A constant and a


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