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Arcadia JVurseries. Monticello, Florida 
JAPAN PLUMS, continued 
THE LUSCIOUS NEW PLUM, “JUICY.” We give the introducers description: 
"This glorious new Plum is a production of the renowned horticulturist, Luther Bur- 
bank, of California, and is a cross between Botan and Robinson. The fruit is the size 
JUICY PLUM. 
good and pleasant quality ; half cling ; 
and is the best in quality of any of the 
of the former and three times larger than 
the latter, and of perfect shape. Skin thin 
and transparent, light yellow, underlaid 
with scarlet — as beautiful as wax. In 
quality it seems to us that there is no other 
fruit that can approach it. It has a de- 
licious sweetness, mingled with a sprightly 
acid and a high, melting Plum flavor, 
surpassing anything we ever saw. When 
fully ripe it is so juicy that when the skin 
is broken its delicious pulp flows out like 
honey. The tree is a hardy, rank, luxu- 
riant grower, though of dwarfish habit. 
KELSEY. A good grower and free 
from disease. Fruit large, greenish yel- 
low, solid, rich and juicy Valuable for 
canning or evaporating. July to August. 
RED JUNE. A vigorous, hardy, spread- 
ing tree, as productive as Abundance. 
Fruit medium to large; deep vermilion-red, 
with handsome bloom ; very showy: flesh 
light lemon-yellow, slightly subacid, of 
: small. Ripens a few days after Willard, 
rly varieties. 
EUROPEAN PLUMS 
PRUNUS SI MON I, 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 poultry, 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 stands heat and drought to perfection ; does not sucker. 
1-year, 4 to 5 feet, branched, 10 cts each, $1 per doz , $6 per 100; 1-year, 5 to 7 feet, 
branched, 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., $8 per 100. 
MULBERRIES 
There is, perhaps, no fruit in the South more 
neglected than the Everbearing Mulberry. Every 
farmer should have a grove of Hicks’ and Downing’s 
Everbearing They produce fruit four months in the 
spring and summer, and are just the thing for hogs 
and poultry. The acid varieties are esteemed for 
table use. Some fruit-growers plant Mulberries to 
attract birds from other more valuable fruits. 
DOWNING'S EVERBEARING. A good large 
berry ; more acid than the Hicks; blooms very early 
in the spring, and sometimes gets killed by the cold ; 
tree very strong, upright grower ; foliage dark green; 
tree very ornamental. 
HICKS' EVERBEARING. This gives fruit four 
months in the year; it grows very rapidly, and should 
be grown largely by every farmer who pretends to raise hogs . The economic value of 
the fruit is not understood by the farmers of the South. 
1-year, 4 to 6 feet, 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz., $10 per 100 ; 1-year, 6 to 8 feet, 20 cts. 
each, $1.75 per doz., $12 per 100. 
RED JUNE. 
