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Title: Bountiful Ridge Nurseries : your guide to better fruits and more beautiful homes for 1937
Identifier: bountifulridgenu19boun_5 (find matches)
Year: 1937 (1930s)
Authors: Bountiful Ridge Nurseries; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Asparagus Catalogs
Publisher: Princess Anne, Md. : Bountiful Ridge Nurseries
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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$rr - - -- * ^ : - i Mr. Geo. W. Kemp, General Manager of our firm, standing: among; some of our one year budded apple trees. Stock such as this is hard to equal. We have thousands of this kind of trees to deliver to our customers this year. Buy your requirements now before other progressive planters absorb our available supply of this fine stock. A prune type plum grown almost ex- clusively in the Hudson river valley section. Tree very thrifty and productive. Fruit me- dium to large, fair quality. Sometimes called Purple Egg. A desirable variety. Plum Trees The Plum, like the Pear and other finer fruits suc- ceeds best in heavy soil with some clay, and being al- most entirely free from disease, they can be grown very profitably. The finer kinds are excellent dessert fruits, cf rich and luscious flavor; for cooking and canning they are unsurpased. Plums should be planted IS feet apart in rich soil, which should be kept well cultivated. Each 10 100 Largest size, 2 yr., 5-6 ft $ 75 $6.50 $60.00 Medium size, 2 yr.. 4-5 ft 65 5.50 50.00 Very fine, 1 yr. buds, 4-6 ft 60 5.00 45.00 Medium size, 1 yr., 3-4 ft 50 4.50 37.50 EUROPEAN PLUMS "R1R A "HQW A "W Very large, dark violet-red, flesh L>i.lJr%LJ^j£l.ri. VV yellowish green; juicy and pleas- ant; tree vigorous, erect and productive. August. FELLEMBURG OR ITALIAN PRUNE Dark purple with a dark blue bloom; size medium: oval, pointed and tapering. Flesh juicy and delicious; fine for drying. A valuable Plum of fair quality for dessert, but most esteemed for drying and preserving. Large, long- oval, purple, with a thick blue bloom; flesh firm, sweet and pleasant, separating from the stone. Moderate to vigorous in growth. September. Large, oval, yellowish- green with marbled green stripes, heavy white bloom, flesh greenish, juicy, melting, rich and best quality ; tree upright and vigor- ous. September. T OTVFR ART") Medium, roundish - oval, violet red, li\sivXD£i.i\Ls juicy and pleasant; adheres to stone; valuable market sort, hardy, and adapted to light soils; a reasonably sure cropper. HUDSON JAPANESE PLUMS ABUNDANCE BURBANK One of the best Japan Plums. Tree is very rapid grower, healthy, and comes into bearing quite young and yields abundantly; medium size, rich, bright cherry red with distinct bloom and highly perfumed: flesh light yellow, juicy and tender, and excellent quality. Tree vigorous and hardy. Medium to large, orange-yellow, dot- ted and marbled with red, flesh meaty yellow, sweet and good; valuable for canning and a good market plum. Mid-June. Hardy and most prolific of the Japan varieties. GERMAN PRUNE IMPERIAL GAGE SHROPSHIRE DAMSON Fruit oval; tree a g o o d grower and enormously productive; fruit of medium size pro- duced in thick clusters or groups, dark purple color, es- teemed for preserving. "HATVT^lOW Tne old-fashioned blue Damson, known to every housewife for the fine jelly and preserves they make. Tree very hardy and prolific bearer. NEW PLUMS We offer the following new Plums for your approval. All are worthy varieties and surpass other Plums for the orchardist to grow. Our stock is limited and can only supply 1 yr. trees on Plum roots. Each 10 4-5 ft., 1 yr $ .75 $6.00 3-4 ft., 1 yr 60 5.00 2-3 ft., 1 yr 50 4.00 URT T A cross between Gold Drop and Grand Duke, t 1.11 -LiJj two 0f tlie iar<£est and handsomest European plums.However, Hall is better in flesh and flavor char- acter. Fruits are so handsome and well-flavored that they will sell on any market. Tree is nearly perfect. This is one of the best of the New York Experiment Sta- tion's new plums. QTfiMTFY A cross between Agen and Grand Duke. OlAllliIj X The fruit is of the prune type, excel- lent for cooking or eating out of hand. The tree is healthy, vigorous and produces full crop annually. Fruit is large in size, dark-blue with thick bloom: flesh, greenish-yellow, juicy, fine-grained, tender, firm, sweet, pleasant: quality, good to very good. Freestone. Mid- season. Stanley and Hail are two of the New York Ex- periment Station's prize plums. One year old trees only. AT "RTOW Tree is productive, strong, and vigorous. njj^lWll Fruit is of Grand Duke type only larger and better quality. Ripens very late. One of the most remarkable of the new plums. Stock limited. EARLY ITALIAN PRUNE i^i^tft ing about two weeks before the regular Italian prune, same size, quality and color. Trees very limited. 1 yr. trees only.

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