LIST OF FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES 
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Golden Russet of Japan. A very ornamental tree, having very large, glossy leaves, and bears an 
abundance of large, round fruit, resembling very large russet apples. The fruit is excellent for canning 
and preserving, and cut in halves and baked like apples it is simply delicious. Ripens in October. 
Le Conte. This Pear is too well and favorably known to need an introduction in the South, where 
its advent gave a great stimulus to fruit growing. Being easily propagated, yielding enormous crops, 
coming into market ahead of all competitors, its friends and growers can jingle the contents of their 
pockets and laugh at its delr ictors. 
Mikado. Is also, like the above list, a native of the east. The tree is quite handsome, with very 
large leaves. The fruit is apple-shaped, and when ripe is a bright yellow covered with russet spots. 
PRICES, I-year, 3 to 4 ft., 15 cts. each, $1.2? per doz., $7.50 per 100 ; I-year, 4 to 6 ft., 20 cts. each, $1.50 per doz., 
$8.50 per 100 i 2-year, branched, 25 cts. each, $1.75 per doz., $10 per 100. 
JAPAN PLUMS. 
If one well versed in horticulture should be asked what one feature more than any other marked 
the greatest progress in horticulture in this last quarter of the nineteenth century, he would unhesitat- 
ingly reply, “The introduction and development of the Japan Plums and their seedlings. 11 And true 
it is that the coming of this new race of fruits has opened up a new era in orchard culture, that gives 
promise of making fortunes for many of our most daring cultivators, who, quick to see the money in 
these Plums, have planted extensive orchards, and even now see the golden harvest in sight. 
Burbank. It has long been undecided whether the honor of first place among the older varieties 
of Japan Plums should belong to Burbank or Abundance. The 
Abundance is the better known, but Burbank is claimed to be 
finer by those who grow them largely for profit. Ripens with 
Abundance, and strongly resembles that variety in shape, color 
and growth of tree, but the fruit is considerably larger, and, if 
that be possible, of better quality. 
Abundance, or Yellow-fleshed Botan. Is large, round, 
with pointed apex, but varies from quite round to sharply 
pointed. Of all the Plums that have fruited with us, this ranks 
next to Burbank in value, it is larger than the Burbank, and 
the tree is a stronger grower. It should be very extensively 
planted for market, and is also excellent for home use and 
canning. 
Satsuma Blood. A purple-fleshed Plum of very vigorous 
growth, with rank, dark green foliage ; enormously productive 
of fruit ; large : skin dark purplish red, mottled with bluish 
bloom ; shape globular, or with a sharp point ; flesh firm, juicy, 
dark red or blood color, well-flavored, firm ; quality very good ; 
pit but little larger than a cherry stone. Fruits at two or three 
years of age. Considered by some to be the most valuable of 
Japan Plums. Ripens July 25. 
Wickson. Mr. Luther Burbank, of Santa Rosa, Cal., con- 
siders this the best of all his cross-bred Plums, and offered the original tree for $2,500. This is suffi- 
cient evidence of the great value placed on this new Plum by its originator. Mr. Burbank’s description 
is as follows : “ Fruit large to very large, obcouical ; waxy white when half-grown, then the color gradu- 
ally changes to pink and to a dark crimson-purple ; flesh firm, yellow, juicy, subacid, highly flavored ; 
pit small ; clingstone ; quality best. An excellent keeper. Follows Burbank immediately in season.’’ 
Willard. A variety of great merit on account of its extreme earliuess. Fruit of medium size, 
round ; dark red, splashed with yellow ; quality fair ; flesh firm, yellow and sweet ; does not adhere to 
the stone. It is highly praised by leading agriculturists as being one of the best Plums of its class. 
Kelsey. A good grower and free from disease. Fruit large, greenish yellow, solid, rich and juicy 
Valuable for canning or evaporating. July to August. 
Ogon. Medium to large, round ; golden yellow : flesh yellow, firm, subacid ; quality good ; free- 
stone. Tree of vigorous growth. 
Red June. A vigorous, hardy, spreading tree, as productive as Abundance, Fruit medium to large ; 
deep vermilion-red, with haudsome bloom ; very showy ; flesh light lemon-yellow, slightly subacid, of 
good and pleasant quality ; half cling; pit small. Ripens a few days after Willard, and is the best in 
quality of any of the early varieties. 
EUROPEAN PLUMS. 
Prunus Simoni, or Apricot Plum. Fruit large, flattened; flesh yellow, fine-grained and very 
firm. An excellent fruit. 
Marianna, Improved Chickasaw Type. Finer, larger and much earlier than the Wild Goose, of 
which it is a seedling. An early and abundant bearer of medium-sized, handsome, smooth and highly 
colored fruit, in quality good as Robinson. The fruit commences to ripen June 15, and lasts about three 
weeks. For a good, dense shade, and a cool run for poultrv, there is nothing equal to a Marianna 
thicket, when the trees are planted about 6 or 8 feet apart. Every person in the extreme South who is 
raising poultry should have a Marianna thicket for his chickens during the hot, dry summer months. 
The tree has enormous roots, that run deep into the soil ; stands heat and drought to perfection ; does 
not sucker. 
PRICES, I-year. 4 to 5 feet, branched. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz., $6 per 100 I-year, 5 to 7 feet, branched, 
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., $8 per 100. 
