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COMAL SPRINGS NURSERY 
Japan persimmons. 
(Diospyros Kaki.) A fruit from the orient that has come to stay. The 
growing of this fruit in the south, both for market and home consumption, is 
no longer an experiment. It has proven itself adapted to the whole cotton 
belt, and is becoming quite popular on the northern fruit markets. 
Trees on the native persimmon will grow on any soil in the South, but 
are not long lived in wet, low places; high, well-drained, sandy soil suits 
them best, and they vdll do better on very poor land than any other kind 
of fruit tree. They are especially suited for planting in old peach orchards, 
as the old peach trees become worthless, or to replant the land after a peach 
orchard has been destroyed. 
Fruit should be shipped just before it begins to soften, and directions 
how to eat it should be printed on vTaps to be used with each fruit and 
dealers Instructed to display only ripe fruit. 
Price of JAPANESE PERSIMMONS ON NATIVE PERSIMMON ROOT, 
35 cents each or .S3.50 per 12. . . - , - 
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Costata, medium, oblong, conical, pointed, somewhat four-sided, diameter 
2X inches longitudinally, and m inches transversely, color of skin salmon 
yeUow, nearlv seedless; astringent until ripe, and then very fine, one of the 
latest to ripen, and a good keeper; tree the most ornamental of all, it being 
a very rapid, upright grower, wth large luxuriant foliage. 
oia Dia riaru, tree of rather open growth, with distinct light fohage, 
fruit medium size, shape flat like a tomato, slightly four-sided, flesh white, 
quality very fine. 
Hachiya, very large, oblong, conical, with sharp point, very showj , 
diameter inches longitudinally and 3 inches transversely, color of skin 
reddish yellow, with occasional dark spots or blotches and rings of apex; 
flesh dark yellow, some seed, astringent until fully ripe, then very good. 
Tree vigorous and very shapely. 
hyakume, Large, to very large, varying from roundish oblong to 
roundish oblate, but always somewhat flattened at both ends, generaUy 
slightly depressed at the point opposite the stem, nearly always marked vdth 
rings and veins at the apex, skin light biifflsh yellow, flesh dark bro^vn, 
sweet, crisp and meaty, not astringent, good while still hard, a good keeper, 
one of the best market sort. Tree of good growth and sure bearer. 
Okame. large, roundish, oblate, always showing a peculiar corrugated 
appearance at the stem end, somewhat four-sided, flesh yellow wth but few 
seeds, rich, meaty, free from astringency, quality fine, tree a good bearer. 
Triumph. Origin near Sanford, in Orange county, Florida, from seed 
from Japan. Its qnaUty is of the best, size medium, tomato-sbaped, color of 
skin dark red, handsome and showy, flesh yeUow with but few seeds. It is 
very productive, the fruit of a single tree having been sold for .$17.00. Ripe 
in October and holds on the tree until January. 
