. Stark fruit book. Nursery stock Missouri Louisiana Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowering shrubs Catalogs. Against fraud in « new « varieties, theU. S. Dep't of Agr. is workinpr to protect farmers and horticulturists. It is well known that most « new » varieties of fruits sold at fabulous jiriccs are old varieties under new names. It is seldom a rciillv new, meritorious variety is developed, alllihij. H. Braekett, chief, has undertaken to end, so far as po.^isihle, this si)ecies of swindlinji, and stands ready to give full information to all inciviiiers. Farmers, before yo
. Stark fruit book. Nursery stock Missouri Louisiana Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowering shrubs Catalogs. Against fraud in « new « varieties, theU. S. Dep't of Agr. is workinpr to protect farmers and horticulturists. It is well known that most « new » varieties of fruits sold at fabulous jiriccs are old varieties under new names. It is seldom a rciillv new, meritorious variety is developed, alllihij. H. Braekett, chief, has undertaken to end, so far as po.^isihle, this si)ecies of swindlinji, and stands ready to give full information to all inciviiiers. Farmers, before you buy new fruits write him, Washington, D. C, and ask al)Out Farmer. The 1st Premium for best display of apples at the great St. Louis Fair was awarded the Stark Nur- sery, said Pres't Parker Earle one of the judges soon afterward, «not only for superiority of fruit, but because every variety was correctly named.)) Failing Old Varieties, formerly grown with success, are now little grown, hceause particularly subject to attacks of fungi. Many new varieties seem better adajited to soil and climate than the old kinds, many of wlii(;h are of European origin. The new kinds are , good, more hardy and productive.—K. D. (, Mich, The man mistakes who thinks he must continue to plant old, out-of-date sorts. True, there are those who think they must punch the protuberant head of every new variety. But most people know that in fruits, as in other things, science has made wonderful improvements. «tarly Neb. Horticulture,)) from rey^ort Neb. Hort. Soc: >ly first orchard was cstal)lished at Arbor Lodge In I808. In lS(i'.) we were in the full tlush of fruit. Then the trees were at their most productive age and had given no signs of how short-lived the root-grafted orchards of Neb. were to be. And tliough nui-serymen vehe- mently declare the contrary, I am confident that toi)-grafted trees live longer and l)ear better than root-grafted. Tap roots are indisp
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