. Bountiful Ridge Nurseries : our complete catalog and planting guide for fall 1951 and spring 1952. Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Asparagus Catalogs. bountiful Ria,, .Ire Famous For Adaptability, Rapid Growtii and Productivity WRIXPARENT U. S. PL-ANT PATENT NO. America's Earliest Apple — Ripening 2 Weeks Before Yellow Transparent! EARLY APPLES ARE CONSISTENT MONEY - MAKERS Plant To ?«Iaintain lour Early Apple Production—Lead the Season Witli Wrixparent a^id Lodi. BRIEF FACTS ABOUT THE WRIXPARENT 1. EARLINESS—Ripens 10 to 15 days befor
. Bountiful Ridge Nurseries : our complete catalog and planting guide for fall 1951 and spring 1952. Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Asparagus Catalogs. bountiful Ria,, .Ire Famous For Adaptability, Rapid Growtii and Productivity WRIXPARENT U. S. PL-ANT PATENT NO. America's Earliest Apple — Ripening 2 Weeks Before Yellow Transparent! EARLY APPLES ARE CONSISTENT MONEY - MAKERS Plant To ?«Iaintain lour Early Apple Production—Lead the Season Witli Wrixparent a^id Lodi. BRIEF FACTS ABOUT THE WRIXPARENT 1. EARLINESS—Ripens 10 to 15 days before Yellow Trans- parent. 2. ANNUAL BEARER—Normal to heavy crops each year. ; 3. LARGE SIZE—Apples under normal conditions pack out 2^" and 2%" size and up. 4. QUALITY—Unexcelled as an early coolung apple. 5. SHIPPING ABILITY—Does not show bruises, will car- ry 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 or- chard of Mr. Wrixham Mcllvain neai Magnolia, Delaware about 1920. Mr. Mcllvain after several years' observation, determined the variety to be superior in every way to the Transparent and grafted over his Transparent orchard to this variety, "the 2nd generation orchard now 25 years of age has been producing heavy crops for 20 years. A third generation or- chard 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 2i,4" and 21/2" at picking time. The Wrixparent ripens from 10 to 15 days before Yellow Trans- parent and ripens its fruit evenly so that the entire crop may be harvested in two pickings if des-ired. It is an at- tractive light gre
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