. Catalogue. Nursery stock California Fresno Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK. To Those Interested in True Trees In preparing this catalogue, it has been our desire to make it not only a descriptive book telling the kind of stock we grow, when and how to plant and care for it, the prices at which it sells, and the effects it will pro- duce, but also to give our many customers in- formation showing how the stock itself is pro- duced, the care that has been exercised in iis b
. Catalogue. Nursery stock California Fresno Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK. To Those Interested in True Trees In preparing this catalogue, it has been our desire to make it not only a descriptive book telling the kind of stock we grow, when and how to plant and care for it, the prices at which it sells, and the effects it will pro- duce, but also to give our many customers in- formation showing how the stock itself is pro- duced, the care that has been exercised in iis building, together with lots of little helps heretofore not found in any nursery catalogue. Our aim has been to produce a tree that at once possesses a strong, healthy, well devel- oped root system:-—one that will insure a long life to the tree it supports, a sturdy type with all those tendencies toward prolific bearing which are required to make an orchard a suc- cess. With this in view, many years ago we be- gan to pay attention to the root and the seed which produced it, selecting with utmost care nothing but first-class, healthy seedlings, and at last, after years of careful observation and costly experiments, we have, we believe, found the essential points necessary to produce stock on which to place our buds that possess health, vigor and long life. \ Perfect Tree. The result of care In the selection of both Root and BudwOOd I ike in the selection of seed and root stock, we have for a long time engaged in carefully scrutinizing the orchards of the valleys and the hills of California, selecting with diligent care from the very best of these, bud-wood with which to work the superior root-stock that was ready for the building. We point with pride to orchards of Elberta, Phillips' Tuscans^ and other varieties which have borne for a period of years almost fabulous yields,—tonnages of fruit that, were it not for the actual figures as proof, even we, knowing the trees, might
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