Glen Saint Nary Nurseries 
LEMONS : CITRUS STOCK 
LEMONS 
Although Lemons have been grown extensively for a number of years in the more tropical 
portions of the United States, there are annually imported into this country many thousands 
of crates, the home supply being entirely inadequate. To our customers in the West Indies 
and Mexico, where the climatic conditions are so favorable, we would suggest that commercial 
Lemon culture should prove a very profitable industry. When budded upon the hardy Citrus 
trifoliata they can be grown in many sections of the Citrus belts of Florida and Louisiana. 
VILLA FRANCA. Medium size; rind smooth, thin and sweet; juicy; acid very strong and of 
fine quality; tree has but few thorns, and is a vigorous grower and very productive. Fruit a good 
shipper. Imported by General Sanford; considered one of the very best; has taken first rank in 
many competitive exhibits. 
CITRUS STOCKS 
SOUR Orange. —The stock that has been used most extensively in Florida upon which 
to bud nearly all kinds of Citrus trees is the Sour Orange. It is especially adapted for this 
purpose, making strong, vigorous growth, and trees budded on it will stand probably more 
abuse and lack of proper care, and yet produce fruit, than upon any other stock. It readily 
responds to good care and is, perhaps, the best all-round stock that has yet been used. 
Trees budded on it attain immense size and are capable of bearing enormous crops of fruit. 
ROUGH Lemon. —In recent years the common Florida Rough Lemon has become very 
popular as a stock for Citrus trees and seems to be especially adapted to many sections. We 
recommend trees upon this stock for South Florida, West Indies, Mexico and other sections 
exempt from frost. It is a rank grower, and trees budded on it arc generally heavy bearers. 
CITRUS Trifoliata. —In the more northern orange-growing sections, where Jack Frost 
occasionally makes raids, it is necessary to take all possible precautions against his ravages. 
One way of doing this is to plant trees budded upon Citrus trifoliata stock. The Citrus tri¬ 
foliata is entirely hardy as far north as Washington, D. C., and all varieties of Citrus, when 
budded upon it, will stand more cold than upon any other stock. Another point in its favor is 
that all varieties budded on it come into bearing at an extremely early age, and the fruit also 
ripens up one to three weeks earlier in the season than the same variety on other stocks. 
On account of its having been extensively used as a stock for trees grown in pots and tubs 
—for which it is particularly adapted—many people think that trees budded on it are very much 
dwarfed and slow of growth, but this is erroneous. In our test orchard, comprising some 
twenty odd varieties of Citrus—four trees of each, two on Sour and two on Citrus trifoliata , 
planted alternately—it would be practically impossible for any one not familiar with the arrange¬ 
ment to pick out trees of some varieties on Citrus trifoliata from those on Sour, while all of the 
trees on Citrus trifoliata have made good growth. 
The ease with which it can be confined within small compass, and trained into almost any 
shape, makes it desirable as an ornamental. While it is bare of leaves in winter, its vivid green 
stems and unique and peculiar outline give it a very striking appearance. Its large white flow¬ 
ers are followed by a showy fruit, which hangs, golden yellow, on the tree through the win¬ 
ter, and its vigor, hardiness, resistant qualities and stout sharp thorns make it especially valu¬ 
able as a hedge plant. It forms an impenetrable barrier to man and beast, and with proper care 
can be made rabbit-proof. It is unquestionably the best defensive hedge plant for the South. 
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