GLEN SAINT MARY NURSERIES 
Deciduous Fruits 
JAPAN PERSIMMONS 
Persimmons are easily grown, have few enemies and are prolific bearers. The fruit stands 
shipment well, is large, strikingly handsome and to most palates very delicious. When properly 
handled, properly marketed, displayed on fruit-stands at just the right stage of ripeness, its 
exceptional beauty and unusual flavor command good, in fact often fancy, prices. 
Some of the varieties have dark flesh, others light flesh, still others a mixture of the two. 
The light and the dark flesh differ radically in texture and consistency, as well as appearance, 
and, when found in the same fruit, are never blended, but always distinct. The dark flesh is 
never astringent ; the light flesh is astringent until it softens. The dark-fleshed fruit is crisp and 
meaty like an apple, and is edible before it matures. Some of the entirely dark-fleshed kinds 
improve as they soften. The light-fleshed kinds, and those with mixed light and dark flesh, are 
very delicious when they reach the custard-like consistency of full ripeness. In some, the 
astringency disappears as the fruit begins to soften ; in others, it persists until the fruit is fully 
ripe. Seeds accompany the dark flesh. Light-fleshed kinds are seedless. Those with mixed flesh 
have seeds in proportion to the quantity of dark flesh. Time of ripening, August to December. 
Prices on Persimmons. 
Medium size, 2 to 3 feet 
Standard size, 3 to 4 feet 
Extra size, 4 to 5 feet 
2 years, branched . . . 
Costata. Medium size, conical, pointed, 
somewhat four-sided; diameter 2K inches 
longitudinally and 2 H inches transversely; skin 
salmon-yellow ; flesh light yellow, dark flesh 
and seeds occurring seldom; astringent until 
ripe, then very fine ; one of the latest to ripen; 
a good keeper. Tree distinct; a rapid, upright 
grower; foliage luxuriant. 
Hachiya. Very large, oblong, conical, with 
short point; very showy; diameter 3 H inches 
longitudinally and 3/2 inches transversely; skin 
dark bright red, with occasional dark spots or 
blotches and rings at the apex ; flesh deep yel¬ 
low, sometimes having occasional dark streaks, 
with seed. Astringent until ripe, then very 
fine. The largest and handsomest of all. Tree 
vigorous and shapely. 
Hyakume. Large to very large, varying 
from roundish oblong to roundish oblate, but 
always somewhat flattened at both ends ; gen¬ 
erally slightly depressed at the point opposite 
the stem; diameter 2 K inches longitudinally 
and 3 Y% inches transversely; skin light buffish 
yellow, nearly always marked with rings and 
veins at the apex ; flesh dark brown, sweet, 
crisp and meaty, not astringent; good while 
still hard. The tree is of good growth and a 
free bearer. 
ach 
Per 10 
100 
1 .000 
$O 20 
$1 50 
$12 OO 
$I I O OO 
25 
2 OO 
I 5 OO 
14O OO 
30 
2 50 
20 OO 
160 OO 
40 
3 00 
24 OO 
22 
