Golden Bough Tree Farm

If birds are bothering your orchard or garden, provide a bird bath. Birds often peck fruits and vegetables mostly to get water.
Small Stock Journal

FRUIT TREES

XL Stock
‡ The symbol indicates a plant which this year comes in extra-large as well as the maximum size (1.6m) allowed by Canada Post. The price is the same, but you'll have to come & pick 'em up.

Our Fall pick-up date is Saturday, October 6th, 2007. Please see Specials or this map to Marlbank for directions.

Prunus americana
AMERICAN PLUM Z3/3.5 m ‡
Small, twiggy wild plum often forming thickets. Particularly lovely white flower clusters precede leaves. Red to yellow fruit used in preserves. Plant as pollinators on the edge of your designated plum area. Useful Canada-wide as rootstock on which to graft commercial varieties of Japanese and American plum hybrids.
80-120cm $10 each 5 for $30

Oh, there's such a lot of things to do
and such a lot to be.
But there's always lots of cherries
on my little cherry tree.
Christopher Robin

Prunus tomentosa
MANCHU CHERRY Z2/1.8m
Decorative, edible, easy to grow. Planted as food hedges in North China. A reliable cold area producer with nice white flowers & currant-red fruit. Food for pies, jelly or jam or eating fresh.
"The yield was so spectacular that we were forced to put aside everything & marvel." - Farmstead Magazine
60-100cm $12 each 3 for $30

Prunus persica
CHUI-LUM TAO PEACH - Z4b?/4m
Tested since 1964 at Harrow Research Station in S.W. Ontario (now closed), this elegant green-barked production peach from north-central China may be hardy into Zone 4b. We look forward to zone-specific customer reports on its winter survival rate.
40-60cm $10 each

Pyrus ussuriensis
HARBIN PEAR - Z2/6m
The hardiest species of pear known. From N.E. Manchuria. Resists fire-blight & ripens in a growing season of less than 150 days. Small green-yellow fruit is sometimes preserved. Indispensable in cold regions as a pollinator & rootstock. En masse it forms a flowering, fruiting, impenetrable property screen or living fence line.
60-80cm $8 5 for $30 10+ $4 ea

APPLE

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple.
Who can count the apples in a seed?
Stephen Covey - The Sun

Apple Malus var.
PRAIRIE-HARDY ROOTSTOCK APPLES Z3
We have an assortment of prairie hardy seedling apples suitable for rootstock on which to bud your favorite apple varieties. In early August, cut budwood from the best tasting / storing, disease-resistant apples in your area. Then graft their buds onto our rootstock. This produces a long-living, full-sized tree that grows beyond the reach of deer..
60-80 cm $8 3 for $18 10+ $4 ea.

Organic pears & apples from our trees planted in Zone 3 eastern Ontario. No pesticides used, just compost & mulch.

Semi-Dwarfing Rootstocks: plant with the graft union 10cm above the ground.

M26
This well-tested Malling rootstock reduces the size of the trees by 45%. This permits for easier picking, uses less space & advances the precocity of bearing. Though hardy to Zone 5, this English rootstock will always be vulnerable to a bare or unusually savage winter. Space 3.5m apart. Trees bear fruit in 3-4 years.

B9
Smallest & most winter hardy of the dwarfing clonal rootstocks. Cut back any suckers. Can be grown on high-density trellising. Plant 2.5m apart.

Limited quantities available. Please list 2nd choices.
80-150 cm $20 ea 5 for $75 (any mix)

LOBO on B9 & M26 SOLD OUT ‡
A quality dessert apple named after Loughborough Lake north of Kingston, Ont. where it has been grown commercially. Harvest in September. An excellent cooker. "Large lopsided globular deep red with pin dots."
Ag Canada

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther

ROYAL GALA on B9 SOLD OUT & M26 ‡
Mid-September ripening. Very sweet flavour, medium size. Red-orange colour. Stores 2-3 months. Heavy annual bearer. A New Zealander well suited to B.C.

PAULA RED on M26 SOLD OUT‡
Original seedling found in W. Michigan: now grown world-wide. A crisp tart dessert & cooking apple with appealing bright red skin & bright white flesh. Mid-August ripening.

IDA RED on B9 SOLD OUT‡
A popular warm district variety from Idaho, this small tree flowers early & bears a heavy annual crop. Large bright red fruit with firm crisp white flesh, mildly acidic. October harvest; keeps all winter in cold storage. Scab resistant but susceptible to fire-blight.

CORTLAND on M26 SOLD OUT ‡
A form of Mac that ripens in mid-September. Well known as an annual cropper of large - sized attractively red-striped, whitefleshed fruit of excellent dessert quality. It also has culinary value - particularly for salads & pies.
Geneva Experimental Station

EMPIRE on B9 & M26 SOLD OUT ‡
An attractive, very high quality dessert apple. Red Delicious ancestry shows in its crisp flesh. Keeps longer than Mac. Ripens in mid-September. Annually productive but needs a pollinator. The most outstanding McIntosh type.

Limited quantities available. Please list 2nd choices.
80-150 cm $20 ea 5 for $75 (any mix)

Our two Spring pick-up dates are April 28/29 and May 5/6. Please see Specials or this map to Marlbank for directions.

Apples take more care than any tree we sell. They must be gently fertilized at planting, watered diligently for two years & tied to a stake for trunk support and wind protection.