Your 2009 Order from Dave Wilson Nursery
Fruit Trees
Shade Trees
Flowering Trees
ARKANSAS BLACK SPUR APPLE Large, late season. Dark red
skin, high quality even where summer nights are warm. For dessert and
cooking. Keeps many months. 800 hours. Partly self-fruitful.
FUJI APPLE Recent introduction from Japan that quickly became
California's favorite apple. Sweet, very crisp and flavorful, excellent
keeper. Dull reddish-orange skin, sometimes russeted. Ripe
mid-September. Excellent pollenizer for other apple varieties. Low
chilling requirement - less than 500 hours. Self-fruitful.
GOLDEN DELICIOUS APPLE (Yellow Delicious) Long-time favorite
for its sweetness and flavor. Reliable producer, adapted to many climates.
Pollenizer for Red Delicious. Mid-season harvest (September in Central
Calif.). 700 hours. Self-fruitful.
GRANNY SMITH APPLE From New Zealand. Large, late, green,
all-purpose. Crisp, tart, excellent keeper. Requires long summer.
Thrives in hot climates. 600 hours. Prolonged bloom: good pollenizer
for other apples. Self-fruitful.
GRAVENSTEIN APPLE (Green Gravenstein) Famous for sauce and
baking, also used fresh. Crisp, juicy, flavorful, tart. Early bloom, early
harvest. 700 hours. Pollen-sterile, pollenizer required: Empire, Fuji,
Gala, Red Delicious.
KING APPLE (Tompkins King) Large, old-time red-striped apple with
classic apple flavor. Its coarse, crisp flesh is subacid, sweet and distinctly
perfumed. Used for dessert, cooking and cider. Well-colored fruits are a
very attractive red with some contrasting yellow. Fairly rectangular
shape, with ribs near the base. Ripens mid-season, about with Golden
Delicious. Keeps several months, but at its best soon after harvest.
Horizontal limbs, spreading growth habit. Originated in New Jersey prior
to 1804. Estimated chilling requirement 800-1000 hours. Sterile pollen;
cross-pollination required.
SNOW APPLE (Fameuse) Famous for its pure white flesh and spicy,
aromatic, subacid flavor. Small to medium-sized fruit with beautiful light
red stripes over a cream background. In cool climates, the skin is a solid,
very dark red. Used primarily for dessert, also for cooking and cider.
October harvest, keeps til the holidays. Very hardy, long-lived,
heavy-bearing tree. Originated from French seed planted in Canada in the
late 1600s. Parent of McIntosh. Reported to have a moderately low
winter chilling requirement: perhaps 600 hours. Partly self-fruitful,
biggest crops with cross-pollination.
YELLOW BELLFLOWER APPLE Long-time favorite pie and sauce
apple, also excellent fresh and for making hard cider. Attractive, lemon
yellow skin. Pale, creamy yellow flesh is firm, crisp, aromatic and juicy,
with a rich flavor. For winter dessert use, the fruit may be picked while
still tart; it mellows in storage, reaching peak flavor and acid-sugar
balance after a few months. Elongated, cone-shaped, often lop-sided
fruits vary in size from small to very large. Mid-September harvest in
Central California, about with Golden Delicious and Jonagold. Vigorous,
spreading tree. Discovered in New Jersey in the mid-1700s. Low winter
chilling requirement, about 400 hours. Mid-season bloom. Pollenizer
required.
BING CHERRY Large, firm, juicy, sweet, nearly black when ripe -
superb flavor, the No. 1 cherry. Mid-season. Large vigorous tree. 700
hours. Poll. by Black Tart, Van, Rainier. Also Stella in colder climates.
BLACK TARTARIAN CHERRY Medium-sized, nearly black,
sprightly flavor, early season. Vigorous, productive tree. 700 hours.
Pollenizer required -interfruitful with all popular sweet cherries.
MONTMORENCY SOUR CHERRY Large, light red skin, yellow
flesh. Perfect for cobblers, pies, etc. Extremely winter hardy. Very
heavy bearing. 700 hours. Self-fruitful.
ROYAL ANN CHERRY Long-time favorite yellow sweet cherry for
eating fresh or canning. 700 hours. Pollenizer required - interfruitful
with Van and Black Tart, not Bing.
VAN CHERRY Very cold hardy, reliable, heavy bearing. Fine fruit
similar to Bing, though usually smaller. 700 hours. Pollenizer required -
interfruitful with all popular sweet cherries.
DOUBLE DELIGHT NECTARINE Sensational fruit - consistently the
best-flavored yellow nectarine - plus magnificent, double pink flowers.
Dark red-skinned, freestone fruit is sweet, with unusually rich flavor -
very high-scoring in taste tests. Heavy-bearing tree. Harvest early to
mid-July in Central Calif. 300 hours. Self-fruitful. (Zaiger)
FROST ª PEACH Resistant to peach leaf curl (10-year trials at
Washington State U.). Delicious yellow freestone. Slight red blush over
greenish yellow to yellow skin. Heavy bearing, excellent for canning or
eating fresh. July. Showy pink bloom in spring. 700 hours. Self-fruitful.
GLEASON EARLY ELBERTA PEACH Also called Improved Elberta
or Lemon Elberta. Reliable frost hardy yellow freestone for Utah and
Pacific NW. Juicy, rich flavor. Harvest 10 days before Elberta.
Can/freeze/fresh. 800 hours. Self-fruitful.
INDIAN BLOOD CLING PEACH Large, late season canning peach.
Red- skinned, red flesh, rich flavor. Blooms late, sets heavy crops. 800
hours. Self-fruitful.
BARTLETT PEAR .World's most popular pear. Early mid-season,
high quality, tolerates hot summers. 800 hours. Self-fruitful in most
climates of Western U.S. Elsewhere, pollinated by Bosc, D'Anjou, Winter
Nelis.
SANTA ROSA PLUM Most popular plum in California & Arizona.
Juicy, tangy, flavorful. Reddish-purple skin, amber flesh tinged red. Late
June in Central Calif. 300 hours. Self-fruitful.
SATSUMA PLUM Long-time favorite plum in California. Mottled
maroon over green skin, dark red meaty flesh. Sweet, mild, not tart.
Excellent for jam. Harvest late July. 300 hours. Pollinated by Santa
Rosa or Beauty.
AKEBONO FLOWERING CHERRY Early single pale pink flowers.
Graceful, open growth habit to 25 ft. Magnificent in bloom.
SHIROFUGEN FLOWERING CHERRY Latest flowering cherry to
bloom. Spectacular, abundant, double flowers - pink aging to white.
Long- stemmed, drooping. Beautiful dark green foliage. Spreading tree,
to 25 ft. high.
WEEPING FLOWERING CHERRY (Prunus subhirtella `pendula')
Showy double pink flowers. High-grafted at about six feet, tree grows to
12-18 ft. Graceful weeping limbs nearly reach the ground. Requires good
drainage. Cold hardy. Not tolerant of desert heat.
BLIREIANA FLOWERING PLUM New growth reddish-purple,
turning greenish-bronze. Spectacular double pink flowers, fragrant.
Little or no fruit. Graceful 25 ft. tree.
AUTUMN BLAZE¨ MAPLE - Acer freemanii New hybrid of silver
maple and red maple. Has charater and fall color similar to red maple with
adaptability comparable to silver maple. Dense oval shaped canopy.
Bright red to orange fall color. Drought tolerant. Sunset zones 1-9, 14-24.
KARPICK¨ MAPLE - Acer rubrum 'Karpick' Fast growing tree with a
narrow upright habit. Mature size approx 50' x 20'. New foliage is vibrant
red, turning dark green in summer. Brilliant yellow and red fall color.
Gray bark becomes deeply ridged in older trees. Zones 3-9
MY FAVORITE LILAC (French Hybrid) Dark purple double flowers.
Full flowering and true color reached in 2-3 years. Plants bloom best
after cold winters. Full sun (light shade in hottest areas), alkaline soil,
average water. 10-15 ft. bush.
