Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits for 1895 . several years controlledthe entire stock. Everything claimed for it has been morethan realized, and the Idaho is the Pear to plant aboveany other. It is hardy and vigorous, flourishing alike inhot and cold climates. If you have room for only onetree, let It be an Idaho Pear. Price of fine, vigorousyoung trees of genuine stock, 50c. each ; 3 for Beauty. This lovely Pear was color-plated InThe Mayflower last year, and is without doubt thefinest early variety in cultivation. Itoriginated in Ver-mont, and is, therefore, of iron-cl
Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits for 1895 . several years controlledthe entire stock. Everything claimed for it has been morethan realized, and the Idaho is the Pear to plant aboveany other. It is hardy and vigorous, flourishing alike inhot and cold climates. If you have room for only onetree, let It be an Idaho Pear. Price of fine, vigorousyoung trees of genuine stock, 50c. each ; 3 for Beauty. This lovely Pear was color-plated InThe Mayflower last year, and is without doubt thefinest early variety in cultivation. Itoriginated in Ver-mont, and is, therefore, of iron-clad hardiness. It is anabundant and annual bearer, the fruit ripening a littlelater than the Seckel, and greatly superior to that varietyinsizeand beauty, and equals It in luscious quality. Inform it is of full medium size, l)rlght yellow, covered onthesunny side with flery carmine-red, making it one ofthe most beautiful highly-colored fruits. Flesh rich, Iuicy, aromatic and luscious. It should stand at thelead of tall Pears. bOc each ; 3 for $ Qiiir^cc, M^^cl^s ProlilQc. This Quince is remarkable for its early bearing, as smalltrees standing in nursery row will often producca large are wonderfully productive and sure to bear everyseason. The fruit is also remarkable for its rare combinationof beauty of form and color, great size and fragrance. Itssize large, and shaped like a handsome Pear; sltin smoothand of a bright orange-yellow. Under good culture the fruitsaverage 12 to 15ounces each. Flesh delightfully fragrant andmost delicious in flavor. One or two fruits, when fully ripe,will flU a large room with its delicious aroma. For cookingit is as tender as a peach and quite free from hard lumps, soobjectionable in most varieties. The tree is really very orna-mental as well as useful. In the first place, its flowers arelarge and showy and its foliage abundant and luxuriant andholds its attractive green color until late in autumn, andwhen loaded with fruit it
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