Catalogue of Trees and Mursery Stock 
OF 
W. R. Strong Company. 
(INCORPORATED.) 
1890 = 91 . 
To our Friends and Pafn^ons. 
We take pleasure in presenting a new edition of our descriptive Catalogue and Price 
List. The continued patronage of our friends, as shown by their frequent and increasing 
orders is very gratifying, and assures us that our efforts to please them are appreciated, 
Our facilities for growing and handling nursery stock are unsurpassed by any nursery 
on the Coast. Our main nursery, just outside the city limits of Sacramento, contains 210 
acres; our branch at Acampo, 28 miles from Sacramento, on direct line of the Southern 
Pacific Eailroad, contains 320 acres; also GO acres at Penryn, Placer County; a tract at 
Woodland, Yolo County, and have lately purchased and added to our nurseries the entire 
plant, consisting of about 150,000 Citrus and Deciduous Trees, formerly owned and 
operated by the Palermo Citrus and Nursery Association, at Palermo, Butte County, 
making in all a total of over GOO acres devoted to the propagation of nursery stock, and 
testing new varieties of fruit. 
In addition to these we have extensive nurseries in Florida, in which we grow all our 
orange and lemon trees, and from which this season we will have for sale about 150,000 
orange and lemon trees of different varieties. 
Our packing and shipping grounds are within fifty yards of the li. E. Passenger depot 
in Sacramento, and but five blocks from the freight depot, so that our trees can be delivered 
at shipping point within ten minutes after they are packed. Sacramento being a terminal 
point and a center where the principal railroads in the State with their branches concen- 
trate, this with the shipping facilities of the Sacramento river, give us unequalled advan- 
tages in shipping and cost of freight. We can forward trees to almost any railroad town 
in California, without their having to be transferred. 
Our trees are all packed with tule, wet straw and moss, and put up with the greatest 
care in neat, compact bales or bundles by aid of machinery, and almost invariably arrive at 
destination in first class condition. 
Our stock this season is larger than ever before. Trees large, uniform in size, healthy 
and well grown; mostly trained Iqw to protect them from the rays of the sun. Our buds 
and grafts are taken from bearing trees that have been fruited under our own observation, 
and can not help giving satisfaction when planted in the proper locality. 
In the selection of varieties for propagating, we are governed largely by our extensive 
experience in fruit packing and shipping, and have endeavored to propagate only such 
varieties as are known to be the most profitable, and that are adapted to the climate and 
soil of California. 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 cultivation. Our 
Nurseries, have been kept clear of the Scale Bug pest, and we are determined by constant 
vigilance to keej) them free from all scale and insect pests. 
