KOR. 
Of Trees M Nursery Sioclr 
1889 - 90 . 
OF THE CAPITAL NURSERIES 
Robert Williamson, the original founder and manager of these Nurseries, still has the management 
thereof. With his long experience, and the increased facilities of the present firm, we feel warranted in 
saying that we can compete with any other Nursery on the Coast, and hope for a continuance of the 
liberal patronage so long enjoyed by these well known and popular Nurseries. 
Our headquarters and chief office is at our store. Nos. 102 to 110 J. Street, Sacramento, Cal. 
We have greatly increased our facilities for carrying on this branch of our business by the purchase of 
320 acres of the very best land on the Mokelumne River in the celebrated Lodi District. This, added to 
our 210 acres at Sacramento, and our large orchard and experimental grounds near Penryn, in Placer 
County, gives us unrivaled advantages for growing good stocks, and testing varieties on different soils and 
in different climates. Add to this our thirty years experience in handling and shipping fruit, we certain- 
ly are in better position for supplying the planters with trees that will give the very best satisfaction 
than any other nursery firm on the Coast or elsewhere. 
Our stock this season is unusually large; trees very large and healthy, most of them trained low so as 
to protect themselves from the hot rays of the sun. For the past seven years our buds and grafts have been 
taken from bearing trees fruited under our own observation, and we think they cannot fail to give satis- 
faction, especially when planted in similar climates and soils to that of Sacramento Valley and adjacent 
foothills. The great diversity of climates in this State makes it impossible to get the same results in all 
localities with the same fruit. For instance, some of our best fruits here are worthless in San Jose, and 
some of the best kinds there are of no value here. 
Read With Care The Following: 
(1.) Persons planting should try to find out what succeeds best in their particular climate. 
(2.) Different persons know fruits by different names, which sometimes causes planters to think they 
have been swindled, when they have actually got exactly what they ordered. 
We regard fruit culture in California as being yet in its infancy: we think it is destined to become the 
paramount interest of the State. People generally are using more fruit than in former years, and as a 
proof of the success of the fruit interest in California, fruits of all kinds have brought bettor prices of 
late years than formerly. Our fruits are being sent to all parts of the world, and find a ready market. 
We are in the center of the commercial world, and from present indications we are to be the world’s 
great fruit center. The low freights recently secured, and the lower rates which we still expect to get, 
will enable us to find market for all we can raise. 
Those varieties which we consider most valuable we have cultivated in larger quantities, and are 
indicated by an asterisk, thus (*). 
We are also extensively engaged in Fruit Packing and Shipping, and flatter ourselves that we are com- 
petent to judge of the best kinds of fruit to grow for profit. We make it a point not to recommend or 
send out any new varieties until we have fully tested them ourselves, and proved them worthy of culti- 
vation. Our Nurseries, so far, have been kept clear of the Scale Bug pest, and we are determined by 
constant vigilance to keep them so. 
Principal Tree Repot, Second and H Sts., near C. P. R. R. Passenger Repot. 
