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Plums of the pure-bred Japanese va¬ 
rieties seem to be unsatisfactory in Flori¬ 
da, the cross-bred kinds especially the Ex¬ 
celsior and Terrell do well. Florida 
Queen and Howe are two new varieties 
that deserve a trial. 
Of apples there is little to be said. The 
Jennings does reasonably well in some 
places in the northern and eastern part of 
the state. The settler who has come here 
from an apple-growing region, and de¬ 
sires to grow a few apple trees for old as¬ 
sociation’s sake we think will find this 
the best to plant. We have heard of the 
successful growing of apples on a haw 
(crategus) stock but have not tried it nor 
seen it tried. 
Figs, grapes and Japan persimmons 
may properly come under the subject 
given. There are varieties of each that do 
fairly well in Florida and should be given 
a place in the home fruit garden, we rec¬ 
ommend consulting a near by, reliable 
nursery if the planting of these is being 
considered and there is ‘doubt as to what 
will do well. 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. Henderson—This is the subject in 
whcli I am most interested. One thing 
about which I think growers of these fruit 
should be warned against is putting too 
much confidence in the nursery drummers 
who come down from the north. They 
come down with their nice cuts of fruit 
and show what nice fruit they produce, 
but when they are planted down here nine 
times out of ten they don’t bear fruit at 
all. The pictures are seldom a true repre¬ 
sentation of the fruit produced. There 
is an agent around Gainesville to-day who 
is selling peach trees at $i apiece from 
the book, that they can buy from the 
Florida nurseries for ioc. You never can 
get a peach from them that will bear 
fruit here. I have tried all those northern 
peaches, and you can’t grow them at all 
here. You never will get more than a 
half a dozen peaches to the tree, if that 
many, from the northern grown trees. 
The Peento and Honey varieties are the 
ones we have to depend on in Florida for 
our crop. South of Ocala we have to de¬ 
pend almost entirely on the Peento va¬ 
rieties such as Hall’s Yellow, Jewell, Bid- 
well’s Early and a few others practically 
of the same type. 
Now, as I have said, these agents come 
in and sell peaches, pears and plums abso¬ 
lutely worthless here. 
As to the apple, that may be grown for 
ornamental purposes and for old associa¬ 
tion’s sake. I went to the woods and took 
up a couple of haw roots about the size 
of my thumb and put apple graft in them 
and then put them in the ground and the 
first year the graft grew six feet high. I 
never saw such a growth. The third year 
it had a pretty nice crop of apples on it. 
Then the San Jose scale got on it before 
I learned how to kill it with fungus, and 
it never was any good after that. I be¬ 
lieve we can make a success of growing 
a few apples for apple pies around the 
home in Florida, but I don’t think it will 
ever be grown for commercial purposes. 
I think the fig is a coming fruit. I 
don’t think we have given enough atten¬ 
tion to figs. I have a fig tree in my yard 
that I would not take $50 for. It pro¬ 
duced enough for my own table, we put 
