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Alabama Nursery Company, Huntsville, Ala. 
JAPAN PERSIMMONS 
D ECIDEDLY successful and perfectly hardy throughout the Southern states. 
Not to be compared with the Native, or “Coon ’Simmons;” the Native 
suffers by comparison every time. The fruit of the Japan Persimmon is 
from three to five times as large and of higher quality. The trees bear remarkably 
early, usually producing a full crop the second or third year. Do not allow them 
to overbear; thin the fruit, leaving only such quantity as the tree can readily 
mature without injury to itself. 
Fruit commences to color when hardly half grown, but should hang on the 
tree until just before a frost strikes, to be house-ripened and kept long at their 
best. A touch of frost improves the quality, but prevents keeping more than a 
few days afterward. 
We offer only the cream of the varieties, only those that are thoroughly tested 
and known to be the best. 
Price, 30 cents each, $2.50 for 10 
Hyakume. Large ; yellow skin ; dark 
brown flesh, sweet, crisp, and delicious ; not 
astringent, good while still rather hard. 
Fine. 
Okame. Large; skin orange-yellow, 
changing to brilliant carmine, with delicate 
bloom and waxy, semi-transparent appear- 
ance ; light clear flesh when ripe, light 
brown center around seed, of which it has 
several ; loses astringency as soon as it 
begins to ripen ; fine quality ; strong bearer. 
The most beautiful of them all. 
Tane-Nashi. Very large ; skin bright red 
when fully matured ; flesh yellow, seedless ; 
quality very fine ; perhaps the most highly 
esteemed of the light-fleshed kinds. Tree is 
vigorous and bears well. 
Yemon. Large ; flat, tomato-shaped ; skin 
light yellow, changing to dull red, mottled 
with orange-yellow ; distinct coloring ; flesh 
deep, dull red, brown around the seeds ; 
no astringency after fruit begins to soften ; 
quality excellent and sweet, and is edible 
while solid, but improves as it becomes soft. 
MULBERRIES 
Every farmer should plant Mulberry trees where the hogs and poultry can 
have access to them. As the fruit matures and falls to the ground new fruit seems 
to take its place ; in the tree there is half-formed green and ripe fruit at the same 
time. Producing season lasts three or four months. We consider Hicks’ the 
most valuable and best. 
Prices, trees 5 to 7 feet, 25 cents each, S2 for 10, $15 per 100 
Downing. Large; blue-black; juicy, sub- fruit sweet, insipid. Valuable and fine as 
acid. Large of leaf, distinct from other feed for the hogs or hens, 
varieties. New American. Equal to Downing in all 
Hicks’ Everbearing. Exceedingly prolific ; respects. Very productive. 
Stephen Girard said, “ If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should plant a tree, 
nevertheless, today.” 
