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W. E. Strong & Co., Sacramento, Cal. 
We will give special rates to dealers, nurserymen or parties buying in large lots to 
plant. 
Parties asking for special rates should state varieties and number of trees wanted. 
UKIKfc' l>ES<lItll»TIOX OF VARIETIES (AH Hardy). 
Parson Brown — Fruit medium size, oblong in shape, smooth, high color, very 
sweet, ripens early, is sweet as soon as it begins to turn, grand bearer ; tree has some 
thorns. 
Homosassa— Fruit medium size, very heavy, skin quite thin and smooth, high color, 
rich and glossy in appearance, exceedingly fine flavor, one of the best market oranges 
known, good keeper, always brings fancy prices, good bearer, tree thorny. 
Magnum Bonum — A very large orange, a little flattened, skin smooth and glossy, 
fruit heavy and of excellent quality, ripens early, tree very prolific, thorny. 
Peerless — Fruit large and rotind, smooth skin, one of the best market sortc, tree a 
heavy and regular bearer and strong grower. 
Hart’s Tardiff — A large round orange of good quality, its chief excellence consist- 
ing in its lateness ; it does not ripen till May or June, and will hang on the tree in 
good eating condition till August ; tree strong grower and good bearer. 
Jaffa— Imported from the city of Joppa, in Syria, a very fine medium size orange 
of superior quality, tree nearly thornless. 
Mandarin— A very small orange, always brings fancy prices ; is called a kid-glove 
variety. 
Tang- fine — Much like the Mandarin, only larger, leaf of tree is broader and the 
fruit is a dark red color ; generally brings double the price of other oranges. 
Mediterrenean Swtet and Washington Navel — Both too well known in this State 
to need describing. 
Beache’s No. i — A very fine sweet orange ; ripens very early ; brings fancy prices. 
Beache’s No. 5 — A large fine late orange, much of the same type of the Hart’s 
Tardiff, valuable on account of its very late ripening. 
Nonpareil — A large handsome and good flavored orange; a fine market variety; 
tree strong grower and hardy. 
LEMONS. 
Sicily — The common lemon of commerce ; an old standard variety. 
Genoa— Much like the Sicily, but rather larger ; a good market kind, tree hardy 
and a good bearer. 
Villa F; ranba (a new variety) — This lemon has become the favorite in Florida ; the 
fruit is of a very superior quality, tree a strong grower, a heavy and regular bearer, 
excelling all other varieties in productiveness. The tree is exceedingly hardy ; it 
withstood the heavy freeze in Florida in January, 1886, in the same orchards where 
all other kinds, and also orange trees, were killed. It ripens in July and August, 
thus coming in the hot. season when lemons are most needed and when the market is 
bare of other citrus fruits. It is emphatically the lemon for profit. 
Oeciduous Shade and Ornamental Trees. 
I^OPLARS AND LOCUSTS. 
Per 100 
$60 00 
40 00 
20 00 
10 00 
Each 
No. 1—2 to 2*4 inches diameter $1 00 
No. 2 — 1J4 to 2 inches diameter 50 
No. 3 — 1 to 1)4 inches diameter 25 
No. 4 — % to 1 inch diameter, 7 to 9 feet high 15 
(Large orders at special rates, very low.) 
Carolina Poplar — A magnificent tree for street planting, forming a beautiful head ; 
large leaf and spreading habit ; rapid grower. 
Lombardy Poplar — Erect and upright grower. 
Black Locust — Strong grower, valuable for timber ; same prices as Poplar. 
Cork Bark Elm — Kapid grower ; symmetrical in shape ; 50 cents to SI 25 each. 
American Elm — A magnificent tree with drooping branches ; 25 to 75 cents each. 
Soft or Silver Maple — Fine for street planting, handsome foliage ; 25 to 50 cents 
each ; large trees 75 cents to SI each. 
Weeping Willow — A beautiful weeping tree, with slender, drooping branches ; 50 
cents to $1 00 each. 
