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W. R. Strong Company, Sacramento, Cal. 
Varieties. 
ROUTIER'S SOFT SHELL. A new seedling from the orchard of Hon. J. Routier; shell quite soft, 
good size, a regular and prolific bearer. 
BLOWERS’ LANGUEDOC. Originated and highly recommended by R. B. Blowers, of Woodland, a 
fine nut and good and regular bearer. 
BYERS’ LANGUEDOC. A new seedling, one of the best. i 
TWIN. A very large smooth nut, each nut containing a double kernel; shell soft, free, hardy and 
good bearer. 
GOLDEN STATE. A large nut, soft shell, full smooth meat; parts readily from the hull; ripens early. 
I X L. Nuts large, soft shell, good color; recommended by A. T. Hatch. 
NONF.A.RIEL. An extraordinarly heavy and regular bearer; shell very soft. 
DRAKE’S SEEDLING. Originated by Mr. Drake Suisun, and recommended by him as being very 
prolific, and a regular and abundant bearer. 
TEXAS PROLIFIC. A new seedling variety originated at Dallas, Texas. Nut fully as large as the 
Languedoc, but softer shell, very smooth and bright color, well filled with a very sweet meat; tree full 
as strong grower, and very much resembles the Languedoc tree. It is a very heavy and regular bearer. 
It is the only variety that will fruit well at Dallas, Texas. We consider it by all odds the finest and most 
desirable almond we have ever seen. Price 50 cents each. $35 per 100, $250 per 1,000. 
FIGS. 
It has been thoroughly demonstrated that the Fig will grow most luxuriantly, thrive and bear great 
crops from one end of the State to the other; the warm, dry alluvial soils, and the dry warm climate of 
the interior valleys, and foot-hills seem to be peculiarly adapted to its successful culture and earing; it 
will grow and do well on lands too dry to mature other fruits; it will do well on rich bottom lands, pro- 
vided they are well drained, so that there is no Fruit that can be more generally grown all over the State; 
and no other with so little care and risk and that is more profitable in the end. At the same time there 
is no other Fruit that has been so generally neglected. It is only in the last few years, that the value of 
this fruit has been recognized. All of the common varieties can be made pro.fitable, and with the varieties 
we are now introducing, there is no fruit that will be more desirable, or more profitable. 
PRICE OF TREES. 
2 year. No. 1—4 to 0 feet, braii’ched (common kinds) 
each 
...$0 25 
15 
100 
’ $15 00 
12 00 
lOOO 
$120 
100 
WHITE ADRI.4TIC AND VERDONI. 
each 
100 
1000 
. . . . $0 .35 
$25 00 
$200 
.... 25 
18 00 
140 
Varipties. 
LARGE PURPLE. One of 
the most fruitful sorts; large size; dark purple, very 
sweet, good 
flavor; 
drys well. 
BROWN ISCHIA. Very large, skin light or chestnut brown, very sweet and excellent. 
P.YCIFIC WHITE. Fruit medium size, fine grained, very sweet, seeds very small; very white and 
exceedingly fine flavored when dry; but the skin-when dry is thicker and more tough than the imported, 
that and its small size is the only objection to it. It never cracks and sours in drying. The tree is a 
strong grower, very hardy, and always good shaped, a fine shade or avenue tree. A good regular bearer. 
s\n PEDRO (usually ealled WHITE SMYRNA). A very larse, dirty, or rusty white fig: good flavor, 
one of the best as a green or fresh fruit; valuable for that purpose, but docs not dry well if dned in the 
sun, as it cracks and sours in drying, but makes a very superior product when dried by artificial heat. 
We regard it as one of the beat figs for profit we have, if properly handled; the tree is rather a slow 
grower, but a great bearer, exceedingly prolific. 
VERDONI Called by many White Adriatic, but it differs from the fig which is now generally called 
the White Adriatic in the color of the pulp or inside of the truit. The Veidoni is white inside while 
the other is red, otherwise they are very much alike. While they are both excellent figs, we are planting 
(in orchard) more largely of the Verdoni, mainly on account of its white flesh, but either of them will 
make a very superior dried product, that will equal if not surpass the best imported article, (where they 
are well grown and properly cured.) 
WHITE ADIIIATIO. 
