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BLACK MULBERRY. 
Soir of Spain, or Everbearing.— Fruit 
very large, sweet, very juioy, most delicious 
flavor. Tills fine variety of Mulberry, in- 
troduced by us into California 2i years ago. 
is acknowledged as being the very best of 
the Black Mulberry family. The Noir of 
Spain blooins out so late iu the spring that 
it is never injured lay frost. Every garden 
should have such a tree. 
COHSTANTINOPJLE QUINCE. 
This is the largest, most magniBoeut, 
most precocious, heaviest bearer of the 
Quince family. We are i-aising it iu prefer- 
ence to any other on account of its great 
superiority in every reaped. It is so pre- 
cocious that young trees in nursery rows 
bear fruit so "large that it bends the little 
trees down to the ground. The fruit is 
elongated and a bright golden yellow. 
MEDLAR. 
The Medlar is a native of Europe ; it is a 
very ornamental tree, besides bearing in 
profusion its cuiions fruit. When picked 
green from the tree, the fruit is very harsh 
like the Persimmon, but through the win- 
ter it gets mellow, and is then very palat- 
able. It haugs on the tree very well, and 
ripens nicely, if left on, after heavy frosts. 
Every garden should have a Medlar or 
two, as the tree is quite ornamental. The 
Medlar is very hardy and, like the Black 
Mulberry, never injured by late frosts iu 
the spring. 
SORBUS. 
A native of Europe. Its beautiful um- 
bels of white flowers are succeeded by most 
pretty little fruit growing in clusters and 
having the shape of small pears. The 
fruit has to get mellow before it is fit to 
eat. It lipens a week or two after it drops 
off the tree in summer. The Sorbus is 
highly ornamental, and does splendid for 
gate trees. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Japan Bamboo. 
Pampas Grass. 
Ehubarb. 
French Artichoke (Vert De Marseilles). 
Greenhouse Plants and Ferns. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
• Plates I, II and III represent 15 different varieties of walnuts, borne on Grafted 
trees themselves grafted from the original, and all grown on our place ; our Grafted 
trees being grafted from the trees that bore such nuts. 
Plate V represents four varieties of Marrons or French chestnuts. The trees that 
we offer for market are all grafted or budded from the very trees that bore, the nuts 
represented on that plate- 
Plate IV represents a Marron Combale chestnut, the oldest and largest French 
Marron chestnut tree to be found in the United States. This tree was imported from 
France, with other nut and fruit trees, in the winter of 1870-71, being then 5 years 
old, so it is now 32 years old. It is planted in very poor ground, a red clay with dis- 
aggregated granite mixed with it, of which the most of the soil of our Barren Hill is 
composed ; it measures right above the ground 60 inches in circumference or 20 inches 
in diameter, and 51 inches iu circumference or 15 inches in diameter at 5 feet ; it 
branches at 6 feet from the ground, the tree being between 28 to 30 feet in height, the 
top spreading out 20 feet on the south side, and 15 to 17 feet on the other side. 
Xhis tree never failed to yield a crop since it first bore iu 1876, its crop varying, 
for the last four years, between SO to 100 pounds ; but this year, 1898, it yielded 132 
pounds of most magnificent nuts (see Plate V, the two nuts at the top). It will 
be noticed that, although the lower limbs are properly projjped up, the load of nuts 
was so large, that it made Ihem droop to almost touch the ground. 
Plate: VI. (on the back cover of catalogue) represents a Marron Quercy chestnut, a 
most precocious and prolific bearer (see on Plate V two huts of this fine variety). 
This tree -is. only 15 years old and still is loaded as heavy as a chestntit tree can 
be;-it measures 27 inches in circumference near the ground, and 22 inches four feet 
above; it is branched.at 4 feet, its height being 20 feet, and the lower limbs spreading 
out 10 feet all around. 
