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CATALOGUE SOUTHERN NURSERIES. 
Nectarines 
This, the most beautiful of fruits, succeeds very well wherever the peach does, provided the 
same care is adopted as for the plum. Its perfectly smooth skin and beautiful waxen color recom- 
mend it as one of the most superb dessert fruits. Immediately succeeding- the apricot. The foMow- 
ing is a select list of the best varieties: 
Early Violet Cameron Boston Japan Taylor 
Japan Persimmon 
Fruit very large; flesh soft, luscious, with a slight apricot flavor, and without the stringency of 
the common persimmon. In its fresh state the Japan Persimmon ranks with the peach or orange, 
and when dried is equal to the best Smyrna Fig. Lilce the fig, there are different varieties of the 
fruit. Has fruited all through the South, and proved a gr^nd accession to our Southern fruits. It 
is common to see trees loaded with fruit two years after planting. Of great value to the Cotton 
states, as well as being very ornamental. We grow all the best and hardiest varieties. 
Everbearing Mulberries 
But few know the value of this wonderful and prolific fruit. For poultry and swine there 
-seems to be nothing better. Many farmers who have them in bearing claim that one tree is worth 
a barrel of corn each year. Wherever it is known large orchards are being planted. The trees 
commence bearing very young. By the fourth year they are in full bearing. They commence to 
drop their fruit in June, and continue several weeks: Should be on every farm. No one who is 
acquainted with them can afford to do without them. 
Black English— The best black; hardy and prolific. . , 
UIgljj Biick and fine, but does not commence diopplng its frnlt as early in the season as the Black English. 
^Continues In bearing four months. 
'(^Iiite — Nat so large, but equally as valuable. 
Knssian— Dark red; very prolific. . ^, . 
New American — Black; very prolific; one of the best. c 
Bowntag— Fruit of a rich sub-acid flavor; lasts six weeks. Stands winter of Western and Middle States. 
Figs 
This fruit is too well known In the South to need a description. We grow the following varie- 
ties The Carter's Choice is the largest and finest fig we ever saw. Large, white, with yellow 
bloom. Very hardy and prolific. Celestial is a great favorite and succeeds well all over the South. 
Celestial Carter's Choice NeverfaU Brown Turkey Lemon Brunswick 
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 blooming clusters. Capable of most extraordinary results under 
wise management, it is prone also to give the greatest disappointment under bad culture or neglect. 
Other fruits may be had from plants that know no care; but grapes are only to be had through at- 
tention and forethought. We will endeavor to show a few essential points in its successful culture, 
and refer the cultivator to other and more extended works for more details. 
gojls Good grapes are grown on various soils — sandy, clayey, loamy, etc. The soli 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, December or January, while the vines are entirely dormant. 
SELECT VARIETIES. 
BIiACK GRAPES. 
rarmobeU's Early— Its strong, hardy, vigorous growth; thick, heavy foliage; very early ripening and abund- 
ant bearing of large and handsome clusters of excellent quality, combined with the most remarkable keeping and 
shipping qualities, form a combination equaled by no other grape. Ripens with Moore's Early but, unlike that 
variety it has kei)t sound and. perfect, both on and off the vine, for weeks after ripe. In quality t s unrival ed 
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 foxlness; seeds small, few In number and part readily 
from the pulp. 
