GLEN SAINT MARY NURSERIES 
Deciduous Fruits 
is to plant trees budded upon Citrus trifoliata stock. The Citrus trifoliata is entirely hardy 
as far north as Washington, I). C., and all varieties of Citrus, when budded upon it, will stand 
more cold than upon any other stock. All varieties budded on it come into bearing at an ex¬ 
tremely early age, and the fruit 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 arrangement to 
pick out trees of some varieties on Citrus trifoliata from those on Sour, while all of the trees on 
Citrus trifoliata have make good growth. 
As a hedge plant, its vigor, hardiness and resistant qualities and stout, sharp thorns, make it 
especially valuable. It forms an impenetrable barrier to man and beast and, with proper care, 
can be make rabbit-proof. 
PEACHES 
The Peach is a standard fruit, one for which there is a market demand that is probably equalled 
by only one or two other fruits. A very rare occurrence, indeed, that a person is found who does 
not relish it either for eating out of hand or served in some of the numerous ways in which it is 
capable of being made palatable. 
It is one of the quickest of horticultural products to bring results. Trees planted during the 
winter months should commence bearing a year from the following spring or summer, according 
to the time of ripening of varieties planted. 
Few fruits can be successfully grown under such varying conditions of climate and soil. With 
the proper selection of varieties, Peaches can be grown from within a few hundred miles of the 
northern boundary of the United States to south Florida and similar latitudes; in fact, even in the 
tropics, for we know of orchards in the West Indies consisting of Waldo, Jewel, Angel and other 
varieties of the Peen-to strain that have given excellent results. But it is in the cofton belt of the 
southern states and reaching down to central peninsular Florida that Peach-growing is most 
extensively and profitably carried on. 
The expense of planting and caring for a Peach orchard is small as compared with many other 
fruits. Prices for trees are low, and the preparation of the land does not necessarily have to be as 
thorough as for many other fruits. The trees are easy to make live if first-class stock is planted. 
Nothing is more disappointing to the orchardist than to plant a block of trees, bring them into 
bearing and then find that they are not true to name. We take especial pains to send out all 
Peaches true to name. 
In planting Peaches, it must be borne in mind that it is of utmost importance that proper va¬ 
rieties are selected for the particular section in which they are to be grown. While a few varieties 
can be successfully grown over a more or less widely extended area, most varieties are limited in 
their range of adaptability. 
There are several different classes or types of Peaches, as follows: Pcrsia 7 i , which includes a 
large number of varieties most commonly grown in the North, and comparatively few of which are 
adapted to Florida or the Gulf-coast country. Northern Chinese , which includes Elberta and many 
other fine varieties adapted to most of the country generally spoken of as the “Cotton Belt,” 
but with northern Florida as about the southern limit of adaptability. Spanish , which includes 
many native varieties that have originated in Florida and the Gulf-coast country, and which are 
for the most part fine Peaches, but better adapted to the latitude of north Florida than to that of 
south Florida. Honey , which includes the parent Honey and numerous varieties that have origi¬ 
nated from it, the range of best adaptibility being from half-way down the state of Florida north¬ 
ward to middle Georgia, and similar latitudes farther west to the Mexican border. Peen to , which 
includes the original tomato-shaped Peen-to, as well as the regular peach-shaped varieties that 
jhave originated from it, best adapted to Florida and similar semi-tropical and tropical latitudes. 
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