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SOUTHERN NURSERY COMPANY, WINCHESTER, TENNESSEE 
Grapes 
The Grape Is the most beautiful of all fruit and the most highly esteemed for Its many uses. It can be 
secured by everyone who has a garden, a yard or a wall. It can be confined to a stake, bound to a trellis, 
trained over an arbor, or extended until It covers a large tree or building, and still yield its graceful bunches 
and luscious clusters. Capable of most extraordinary results under wise management, as it is prone also to give 
the greatest disappointment under bad culture or neglect. Other fruits may he had from plants that know no care; 
but Grapes are onlv to be had through attention and forethought. 
SOILS. Good Grapes are grown In various soils— sandy, clayey, loamy, etc. The soil must be well drained, 
and there should be a free exposure to the sun and air. Hillsides unsuitable for other crops are good places for 
Grapes. 
CROPS. Crop Grapes moderately. If you would have fine, well-ripened fruit. A vine is capable of bringing 
only a certain amount of fruit to perfection, proportioned to its size and strength; but It usually sets more fruit 
than It can mature. Reduce the crop early in the season to a moderate number of good clusters, and cut off 
the small. Inferior branches; the remainder will be worth much more than the whole would have been. A very 
heavy crop is usually a disastrous one. 
PRUNING. Annual and careful pruning is essential to the production of good Grapes. If the roots are called 
upon to support too much, they cannot bring to maturity a fine crop of fruit. The pruning should be done in 
November, Decemher. or January, while the vines are entirely dormant. Care should be taken in pruning, as 
some varieties produce only small-sized bunches if cut back too hard, while others require severe pruning to 
produce the best fruit. 
Black Grapes 
( AMruHiL'S EARLY. Its strong, hardy, vigorous 
growth, thick, heavy foliage, very early ripening and 
abundant bearing of large and handsome clusters of ex- 
cellent quality, combined with the most remarkable 
keeping and shipping qualities, form a combination 
equalled by no other Grape. Ripens with Moore's Ear- 
ly, but, unlike that variety, it has kept sound and per- 
fect, both on and off the vine, for weeks after ripe. In 
quality it is unrivaled by any of our early market 
Grapes. It is, both as to cluster and berry, of large 
size, of a glossy black color with a beautiful blue 
bloom, pulp sweet and juicy; free from foxiness. 
CHAMPION. Bunches large and compact; berries 
large, covered with a rich bloom; medium in quality; 
vine a strong and healthy grower and a good bearer; 
profitable for market on account of its earliness. 
CONCORD. Bunches large, berries large, round; 
skin thick, and covered with bloom; flesh juicy, sweet. 
Vine very hardy, vigorous and productive; at present 
the most popular of all our native sorts. 
MOORE'S EARLY. A seedling of the Concord com- 
bining the vigor, health and productiveness of its 
parent, and ripening a few days earlier than the Hart- 
ford; bunch medium; berry quite large: color black, 
with a heavy blue bloom. Its extreme hardiness and 
size will render it a popular market sort. 
White Grapes 
MOORE'S DIAMOND. Origin, New York. Said to 
be a cross between Concord and Ionia. This handsome 
new white Grape has met with general favor; its ex- 
treme early ripening alone would make it valuable, 
coming in two or three weeks ahead of Concord: the 
bunch Is medium size, slightly shouldered; color green- 
ish white, with a yellow tinge when fully ripe; flesh 
juicy and almost without pulp; very few seeds. 
NIAGARA. A magnificent white Grape and very 
valuable for both garden and vineyard; this white 
Grape has attracted the most attention of any fruit 
recently introduced. The vine is a strong grower, 
healthy and prolific; bunches large, uniform and com- 
pact; berry large, skin greenish white, slightly ambered 
in the sun; quality good. Ripens with Concord. Skin 
tough, making it a good shipper and market grape. 
Red Grapes 
LFTTE. This fine Grape originated In Tennessee, 
and has taken its place in the front rank of fine table 
Grapes. It is hardy, vigorous and productive, being 
remarkably free from all fungous diseases; dark red, 
bunch and berry medium to large ; quality the best ; 
it has no equal as a fine family Grape. 
Concord Grape*. 
Winchester, Tenn., Dec. 5, 1916. To Whom It May Concern: 
This is to certify that we are familiar with the financial standing 
of the Southern Nursery Company, of this City, both at home and 
abroad. We know them to be perfectly reliable in any or all contracts 
they may undertake. 
We know the Company is managed with capacity, ability and un- 
questionable integrity, and we feel very sure that their very great 
prosperity is due to the consideration shown their customers, and 
their rule of fulfilling to the letter their pledge Ut their purchasers. 
S. M. ALEXANDER. President Home Bank. 
St. Regis Everbearing. 
Raspberries 
The Raspberry succeeds best in a deep, rich soil, and well repays 
generous treatment. The sucker varieties should be planted from 2 
to 3 feet apart in rows that are 5 to 6 feet apart. Three to five canes 
should be left in each hill to bear fruit, and others should be cut out as 
they appear. Good, clean culture is necessary to obtain the best results. 
Varieties that root from the tip should be planted from 2^ to 
feet apart, in rows that are C to 7 feet apart, varying in distance accord- 
ing to the richness of the soil and the habit of growth of the different 
varieties. The points of the young canes should be pinched out as 
soon as they reach the height of 1% to 3 feet, according to the vigor of 
the cane. This will cause them to make low. spreading, stocky bushes 
that will support themselves without the aid of stakes or trellises. 
During the latter part of winter, or In early spring, the canes should 
be pruned by cutting all the branches back from 6 to 15 Inches in 
length, varying with the strength of the plants. It Is better to remove 
the old wood soon after the fruit is gathered, but this work is often 
deferred until the spring pruning. Raspberries are benefited by shade 
if not dense. 
Red Raspberries 
ST. REGIS (Red Everbearing Raspberry). Brilliant crimson, very 
large, juicy, highest quality. Ships well. The canes are very strong, 
vigorous and hardy. The main crop Is as heavy as the black caps. It 
Is the most productive of all red raspberries. The old canes continue 
to produce until late August when the canes of this season's growth 
begin to ripen some fruit. The first of the crop comes very early. This 
Is the only successful "ever-bearing" raspberry, and is most profitable. 
CCTHBERT (Queen of the Market). The latter title is indeed true, 
since as a market variety it is a reigning sort. Of large size and fine 
flavor, reliable and an enormous bearer; rich crimson ; firm, excellent 
for market and shipping; largely used everywhere, and best of Its color. 
MILLER. Berry large as Cuthbert, holding Its size to the end of the 
season; round in shape; color bright red, does not fade, but will hold 
Its color after shipment longer than any other red variety; core very 
small, does not crumble, making It the best shipping berry in existence; 
has not the fiat ta*=te of some varieties, but a rich, fruity flavor entirely 
its own. The time of ripening is with the very earliest. Production 
equal to any. 
SHAFFER'S COLOSSAL. Colossal both in bush and berry; carries 
to market well; excellent to dry and unsurpassed for canning; berry 
dark crimson in color and excellent in quality; a very valuable variety; 
does not sucker, but roots from the tips like blackcaps. 
TURNER. A red sort, popular throughout the "West, hardy and pro- 
ductive. 
Black Raspberries 
GREGG. The largest, best and handsomest hardy black Raspberry. 
Is a dark purple berry, very large, early, and ripens the entire crop in 
about two weeks; canes hardy, fruit of good quality, and an enormous 
bearer; grows from tips, not suckers. 
SOUHEGAN. A black variety, and the very earliest, coming in with 
the late strawberries; perfectly hardy, of vigorous growth; canes branch- 
ing freely and very productive: Jet black, without bloom; best quality. 
Berries remain a long time after ripening without drooping or becoming 
soft. 
