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although no new plants had been produced that 

 could be compared with those of a later period, 

 the nursery had been stocked with the very best 

 existing varieties of different groups of fruits 

 and flowers, and all had been submitted to careful 

 comparative tests until those that remained were 

 of exceptional quality, and thousands of new 

 productions were under way that were un- 

 developed. 



The nursery catalogue issued in 1887 — the 

 year before the nursery was sold preparatory to 

 devoting my entire time to the experiment gar- 

 dens then in an advanced stage of preparation — 

 comprises 24 pages, and preserves the list of the 

 exceptional varieties of horticultural plants that 

 had been selected and developed and supplied the 

 material for continuance and extension of the 

 experiments on a larger scale on the test ground 

 at Sebastopol. 



Here were orchard fruits in great variety; 

 small fruits of the choicest types ; nuts of several 

 species, including chestnut, walnut, and pecan; 

 garden vegetables, including asparagus and 

 rhubarb; a long list of deciduous ornamental 

 trees and shrubs, and an even longer list of ever- 

 greens; vines and trailing shrubs in interesting 

 variety; and elaborate series of roses, hedge 

 plants, bulbous plants, and bedding plants in 



