Hardy, productive, bears young, a splendid filler. Seldom caught by frost. Always commands highest prices. After 12 years of selection we have improved the type of this grand variety until our Grimes Golden are aU blue ribbon stock. Grown from 60 selected trees-the best in four splendid orchards. Eight-year-old parent trees averaged 4 to 5 bushels each: eleven-year-old trees 10 bushels each, and fourteenyear-old trees produced 16 bushels each. In our work we found Grimes Golden of the shade

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... reaching the age of 19 years before producing fruit With our Pedigreed Grimes Golden in your orchard you can count on early fruitfulness and superb quality. KING DAVID-Combines the good qualities of the Jonathan and the Arkansas Black, it being a cross between the two. Rich color, yellow tinged flesh, bright sparkling flavor. Has often been shipped as far as Australia. It succeeds commercially in territories where the Jonathan is too small. The true King David from marked trees of the ideal type in orchard 9 years old. Also from three specially marked trees 16 years old and 6 marked trees from orchard 7 years old.