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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 93.

NURSERY DEPARTMENT.
Nothing is more healthful than fruit, and nothing more easily grown. Most of our customers can spare room for a small bed of strawberries, a few rows of raspberries, blackberries, currants or grapes, and what is more delicious than a dish of fresh fruit from your own garden, instead of depending upon fruit which has stood in the hot sun all day in a market stall. There is really no comparison in flavor. It is wonderful the amount of fruit which can be grown in a space thirty or forty feet square, and it costs but little for plants sufficient to fill it. And then you certainly have room enough for a few fruit trees. It takes no more room or trouble to grow an apple or cherry tree than it does a shade tree and you will have both shade and fruit.
Our stock of all kinds has made a very fair growth the past season, and is in splendid condition, thoroughly acclimated, hardy, strong, well grown, properly labeled, and all will be pleased who order from us. All stock is carefully packed and shipped by express or freight at expense of purchaser unless stated by mail--but the present special rates of express and freight charges are very low. Don't buy of tree peddlers, but send your order to us and be sure of getting what you want.
TIME OF SHIPMENT.--For south of Iowa line we begin shipments March 20th; for Iowa and other states of the same latitude, about April 10th. For north, about April 20th. Send your order early so that we can select stock for you and have no delay.
DISCOUNTS.--On orders amounting to $5.00 or over you may select stock to the amount of 10 per cent extra. Five of any sort at the ten rate, six at the dozen rate, and fifty at the hundred rate. If you want a large amount, send us your list and we will make special prices wherever possible.
NOTICE.--Orders for nursery stock are always shipped direct from the nursery and they must amount to at least 50 cents.

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PAGE'S IDEAL.
PARAGON.

APPLES.
We grow over one hundred sorts, yet are not always able to supply all kinds called for. But if selections are partly left to us we can always fill the place of any sort we may be out of with others equally as good and ripening at the same season; the same is true of other fruits. Below we give a partial list of our best known varieties, of which we have a large stock.

SUMMER SORTS.
YELLOW TRANSPARENT.--The earliest and best; skin clear white, changing to pale yellow when fully ripe; flesh white, tender, juicy, sprightly, sub-acid; good early bearer.
RED ASTRACHAN.--Medium size, beautiful deep crimson, striped yellow, hardy and good quality.
DUCHESS.--Of good size, yellow, streaked with red, juicy, rich sub-acid, a favorite everywhere.
COLE'S QUINCE.--Large size, greenish yellow, very best quality. Bears well when quite young.
BENONI.--Medium size, deep red color, rich flavor.

AUTUMN SORTS.
WEALTHY.--A perfect iron-clad. Fruit of large size, of fine appearance and quality, rich, sub-acid and delicious. An early and profuse bearer and quick seller on the market; keeps well.
LONGFIELD.--One of the best of the Russian varieties, an early and abundant bearer and the fruit is of most excellent, rich, sprightly sub-acid quality, from October to February. Medium size, yellow with a decided blush on one side.
SNOW OR FAMEUSE.--Very popular, medium size, fine quality.
UTTER'S RED.--Medium to large, and one of our best autumn sorts.
HAAS OR GROS POMIER (meaning big apple).--A large handsome, red striped fall apple, juicy and very productive. Hardy.

WINTER SORTS.
RAWLE'S JANET (Jennetin).--Medium size, greenish yellow, striped with red, rich, crisp and juicy; a long keeper.
WALBRIDGE.--Medium size, very good quality; one of our hardiest and best keeping sorts. Handsomely striped red.
WILLOW TWIG.--Medium to large, good quality; popular.
SHERIFF.--A small round apple of good quality; very hardy.
GRIMES' GOLDEN.--Medium to large, golden yellow and flesh a still deeper golden, sub-acid, rich, spicy, aromatic; one of our very best and most profitable market sorts; there is nothing superior in quality.
ROMAN STEM.--Medium size, brown russeted, very good quality; desirable for home use.
TALMAN SWEET.--Medium size, yellow and red, rich and sweet.

PAGE'S IDEAL.--This grand new variety which we now offer for the first time originated in Central Iowa and was named by the introducer in honor of Chas. N. Page, the manager of the Iowa Seed Co. It is a seedling and has proved to be an immense bearer of choice winter apples and is perfectly hardy in southern and central Iowa. The apples are medium to large in size, of a greenish yellow color with one side handsomely suffused or blushed with red. In quality it is one of the best producing an abundant crop of fine shaped choice specimen fruits. Season December to March. Each 50c; doz. $4.00.
PARAGON.--A seedling from Tennessee. The original tree is over fifty years old, still vigorous and bearing, though mutilated by storms. Young trees show the same remarkable vigor of growth, bearing very young and are very productive. Fruit large, roundish, somewhat flattened; color dark red, slightly streaked; flesh firm, yellow, crisp, aromatic, sub-acid and juicy. A very late keeper, rich and of excellent quality. Is thought to be a cross between Wine-sap and Limber-twig, combining the good qualities of each. The large size and showy appearance of this apple attracted much admiration at the World's Fair. Each 50c, doz. $4.00.
PEWAUKEE.--Medium size, bright yellow, splashed and striped red, sub-acid, with rich, aromatic flavor.
IOWA BLUSH.--Hardy and desirable for the north; small and good quality.
WOLF RIVER.--The famous prize apple from Wisconsin which took three first prizes at the New Orleans Exposition. Very hardy, a strong grower and a profuse bearer of large, beautiful fruit of excellent quality. Color light yellow, shaded with crimson and red; very showy. Has been grown to the weight of twenty-seven ounces.
JONATHAN.--Popular everywhere; medium size, handsome, deep red color; juicy, rich, and always brings an extra price; trees scarce this year.
BEN DAVIS.--Large striped apple; handsome and bears well.
McMAHON.--Large, beautiful, glossy white, with delicate crimson cheek, juicy, lively, tart flavor; good for cooking or desert [dessert].
FLORA BELLFLOWER.--Fine, large, yellow fruit of good quality.
PRICE'S SWEET.--A large, late keeping greenish yellow apple of flat shape; tree very hardy, claimed by many to be of superior quality to Tallman Sweet.
CHISMAN.--An Iowa apple which has been fruited for twelve years and proved perfectly hardy; large size, color yellow with a blush cheek; an early bearer, very productive; long keeper, tender, juicy, sub-acid and delicious; in use all winter.
PRICES.--For any of the above, except Page's Ideal and Paragon, 4 to 6 feet, each, 20c; doz. $2.00.

RUSSIAN APPLES.
May be relied on as strictly genuine, as the stock was procured directly from the Iowa Agricultural College. We will make our patrons, who wish it, a selection of different sorts at the same price.
Titus, Autonovka, Borsdorf, Grandmother, Bohemian Girl, Switzer, Longfield, Good Pleasant, and twenty-five other varieties; 4 to 6 feet, each 30c; doz. $2.25.

CRAB APPLES.
HYSLOP.--Large, deep crimson; one of the most beautiful of crabs; very popular; keeps well. RED SIBERIAN.--Small, yellow and scarlet, handsome, tree erect, full grower and early bearer. TRANSCENDENT.--Large, yellow, mostly covered with red; tree very virgorous and productive; popular and desirable; September and October. WHITNEY'S NO. 20.--One of the largest of crabs, glossy, green, splashed carmine, firm, juicy, pleasant, great bearer; excellent for cider. SOULARD.--A very large native crab; originally found on the Illinois river; any of above, 4 to 6 feet, each 25c; doz., $2.25.