600 GARDENING FOE, THE SOUTH. 



Pears suitable for Southern Louisiana and Florida: 



Garber, LeConte, 



Kieffer, Smith. 



Marketing. — The fruit must be gathered before fully 

 ripe, because otherwise it will be too mellow for shipping 

 properly. It will ripen sufficiently in transit. Tack in 

 the same manner recommended for apples, in half-bushel 

 crates, or, if the crop is a large one, in barrels. Face up 

 as directed for appl 



PERSIMMON.— f Diospyros.) 



American Persimmon or Date Plum (D. Virgin iana, 

 L.). — This tree is very common in its wild condition 

 throughout the South, and, not until within recent years, 

 has any systematic effort been put forth to improve the 

 fruit by cultivation. 



In its wild condition the fruit of the persimmon varies 

 greatly in size and flavor. Some are large and more or 

 less pleasant to the taste, while others are quite small 

 and varying also in the degre of palatableness. Within 

 recent years a number of improved varieties have been 

 developed by experimenters, until new we have more 

 than a dozen excellent forms which produce fruit of 

 superior quality. The following are some of the best, 

 described by the Pomological Division of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture and the Indiana Ex- 

 periment Station: 



Daniel Boone. — The fruit is roundish oblate; yellow, 

 with a dull blush in the sun. Skin rather tough ami 

 seeds numerous; quality good, though net so rich as some 

 other varieties. Season, October and November. Tree 

 handsome, productive, and a vigorous grower, with very 

 large, thick leaves. 



