Title: Bountiful Ridge Nurseries : your guide to better fruits and more beautiful homes for 1938
Identifier: bountifulridgenu19boun_7 (find matches)
Year: 1938 (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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16 Fruit Growing Today Is One Of The Most Profitable Branches Of Aqriculture^
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3Ir. Homer 8. Kemp, Asst. Mgr. of our firm, is standing: amoii^ -. n , ^, ,.j,i Jonathan apple â¢..- 1 I, ^ are specimens of vigor and are ready to give you the best of result-, when planted into an orchard. We have many thousands like these to deliver to our customers this j ear. 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 desserf fruits, of rich and luscious flavor; for cooking and canning they arc unsurpassed. Each 10 100 Largest size, 2 yr., 5-6 ft $ .85 $7.00 §60.00 Medium size, 2 yr., 4-5 ft 70 6.00 50.00 Tery fine, 1 yr. buds, 4-6 ft 60 5.00 40.00 3Iedium size, 1 yr., 3-4 ft 50 4.00 35.00 EUROPEAN PLUM 'RRfir>QHfi\A7 ^^^^y large, dark violet-red, flesh £»ll.rxiy»^J^/^ VV yellowish green: juicy and pleas, ant; tree vigorotis, erect and productive. FELLEMBURG OR ITALIAN PRUNE Our most popular Commercial plum. It succeeds under most all climatic and soil conditions. The fruit is dark purple with a dark blue bloom medium to large size, oval, pointed and tapering. The flesh is juicy and delicious and it is very flne for drying and canning. It is fast replacing the German prune in commercial plum orchards. We are glad to say we have a flne lot of one year trees of this splendid variety to offer this year. This plum and the Early Italian prune we are selling make a very profitable combination. 'GERMAN PRUNE ;^â;,f,'rYâ^r 7<:Se.°t' if^f most esteemed for drying and preserving. Large, long, oval, purple, with a heavy blue bloom: flesh flrm, sweet and pleasant, separating from the stone. Moderate to vigorous in growth. September. TMPFRIAT riAH-F Large, oval, yellowish- llvirHini/^ii Va/1^£. green with marbled green stripes, heavy white bloom, flesh greenish, juicy, melting, rich and best quality; tree upright and vigor- ous. September. T OTVTR ARD ^J^^dium, roundish - oval, violet red, ±a\^x ±sjx-i.a.i.i^ juicy and pleasant: adheres to stone: valuable market sort, hardy, and adapted to light soils: a reasonably sure cropper. SHROPSHIRE DAMSON rt,o^%J^ and enormously productive: fruit of medium size pro- duced in thick clusters or groups, dark purple color, es- teemed for preserving. D ATVr^OM "^^^^ old-fashioned blue Damson, known "^â â¢^* ^'^^^'â ^ to every housewife for the fine jelly and preserves they make. Tree very hardv and prolific bearer. JAPANESE PLUMS ARTTNrjAWr'F one of the best Japan Plums. r\iJKJX.'%l^£\l^\^s:j Tree is very rapid grower, healthy, and comes into bearing quite young and yields abundantly: medium size, rich, bright cherrv red with distinct bloom and highly perfumed: flesh light vellow. juicy and tender, and excellent qualitv. Tree vigorous and hardy. RTTRRANl?" Medium to large, orange-vellow, dot- uyjxiurxL^ax fed and marbled with red,'flesh meaty yelloAV, sweet and good; valuable for canning and a good market plum. Hardy and most prolific of the Japan varieties. 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 CTHMTPY A cross between Agen and Grand Duke. *^ *'"â â 'â ^ â "â " â *â 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 heavy bloom: flesh, greenish-yellow, juicy, fine-grained, tender, flrm. sweet, pleasant: quality, good to very good. Freestone. Mid- season. Stanley and Hall are two of the New York Ex- periment Station's prize plums. One year old trees only. EARLY ITALIAN PRUNE i^ Jp^SlVi'^': ing about two weeks before the regular Italian nrune, same size, quality and color. Every grower of plums knows how much it would mean to them to be able to have the Italian prune two weeks earlier and that is what you have in this plum. It should prove a money maker. Can supply in one year trees only. Apricot Trees All Varieties, Fine 4 to 5 Feet Trees 60c eat'h; §5.00 for 10 ALEXANDER (Russian) ?^,^r'o'?anl°e. ^^^ flushed with red: flesh tender, juicy, sweet and good quality ; hardy ; very productive. July. TV/T^^PP npTT" One of the largest: orange-yellow * â 'â¢^^^^^â ^'â¢â *' **"'-i-*»- with numerous specks and dots: flesh yellow, sweet, juicy and rich. August. PARTY riOT nFM -^ good variety: very large J^z-iiiXjX V^V^XjI^J^IN deep golden yellow, and flne in quality. SUPFRR I^ated by many as the best of our older â¢*'^* â *-****' and widely planted varieties of apricots. The tree is large, very thrifty and hardy and is ex- tremely productive. Very good qualitv. Fruit is beau- tiful yellow with slight blush; flesh fi'rm and solid.

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