Glen Saint Mary J^urseries Co. 
Winter Haven, Florida 
T he glen saint MARY nurseries company has grown more citrus trees than any 
other nursery in the world for a great many years. While we produce other nursery trees as 
well, the growing of citrus trees has always been the paramount interest of our nursery business. 
We know the comparative value of different sorts because we are growing them in our test orchards. 
In these orchards the largest-known collection of citrus fruits is to be found. At the meeting of the 
American Pomological Society in Washington, in November, 1913, we exhibited eighty-three varieties 
of citrus fruits. No such collection of citrus fruits grown by one firm was ever brought together 
before. Not all of these varieties are offered in our lists; only the best, determined by actual test, 
are propagated. 
Our varieties are selected strains, with a straight-line history going back to an individual tree of 
known merit. Care is taken in propagation to select well-developed buds from trees of authentic 
parentage, making sure that the young trees are true to name—quality trees in every particular. 
When the trees are sold, the roots of one-year trees are three to five years old. 
Citrus trees can be grown on roots of any member of the whole citrus family. We have tried a great 
many of them. Most of them, for one cause or another, are not adapted for citrus fruit culture under 
general conditions. We have found that practically all requirements for success under different 
climatic and soil conditions can be met with Sour Orange, Rough Lemon, or Cleopatra Mandarin 
stocks. Successful, heavy-bearing, beautiful groves are produced from trees on all of these stocks. 
But no one of them will meet all conditions. It is largely a matter of soil, location and climatic 
conditions. 
ROUGH LEMON. Rough Lemon is the thriftiest and induces a vigorous growth of top. On 
account of its wide-spreading root system, it is the best stock for light sandy soils, such as are found 
on the lower East Coast and in the high rolling regions of Polk, Orange and Lake Counties to be 
quite immune from frosts, and to this type of soil the Rough Lemon stock is best suited. 
SOUR ORANGE. A deep-rooted stock, adapted to the heavier soils such as good flat woods land, 
hammock and muck, where it produces fine, vigorous trees. For the production of high-quality, late- 
keeping fruit it is unsurpassed. 
CLEOPATRA. This stock grows well on medium soils. It is hardy, and varieties worked on it 
produce good crops of fine quality. The Temple Orange has proved to be extremely successful on 
this stock. 
CITRUS TRIFOLIATA. Citrus trees on this stock are suitable for planting only in North Florida 
and the Gulf States. These trees are grown at our main nursery at Glen Saint Mary, Fla. Write us 
there for list of varieties and prices. 
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