GLEN SAINT MARY NURSERIES 
Deciduous Fruits 
JAPAN PERSIMMONS, continued 
brown, crisp, sweet, meaty, free from astrin- 
gency; excellent ; a good keeper and shipper. 
Vigorous, prolific, regular bearer. 
Tane-Nashi. Large to very large, roundish 
conical, pointed, very smooth and symmetrical; 
diameter 3 }{ inches longitudinally and 3 H 
inches transversely; skin light yellow, changing 
to bright red at full maturity; flesh yellow and 
seedless; quality very fine; perhaps the most 
highly esteemed of the light-fleshed kinds. Tree 
is vigorous and bears well. One of the most 
desirable market varieties. 
Triumph. Medium; tomato-shaped; skin 
yellow; flesh yellow; generally has a few seeds; 
very productive; quality of the best. Ripens 
from September till November. 
delicious of fruits, with a flavor so delicate and 
Perhaps you know them already and recognize 
noticed how eager housekeepers are to get fruii 
Tsuru. Large, slender, pointed; longest in 
proportion to its sizeof all; diameter 3^ inches 
longitudinally and 2 Yz inches transversely; skin 
bright red; flesh orange-yellow, some dark 
flesh around the very few seeds; astringent until 
fully ripe, then the quality is good. The latest 
of all to ripen. Tree vigorous and a good 
bearer. 
Yeddo-Ichi. Large, oblate; diameter 
inches longitudinally and 3 inches transversely; 
very smooth and regular in outline, with dinted 
appearing surface and slight depression at end 
opposite the stem; skin darker red than most 
varieties, with heavy bloom; flesh very dark 
brown, verging toward purplish; sweet, rich, 
crisp; in quality one of the best. The fruit is 
good to eat when still hard. The tree is a 
heavy bearer and exceedingly thrifty. 
Yemon. Large, flat, tomato-shaped, some¬ 
what four-sided; diameter 2X inches longitudi¬ 
nally and 3 l A inches transversely; skin light 
yellow, changing to dull red, mottled with 
orange-yellow; distinct in color; flesh deep, 
dull red, brown around the seeds, of which 
there are usually a few; some specimens are 
entirely light-fleshed and seedless; there is no 
astringency after the fruit begins to soften; 
quality fine; one of the best. In form some of 
the fruits have the corrugations converging to 
the depressed apex, as is usually figured, but 
most do not. Tree vigorous and prolific. 
Zengi. The smallest of all; round or round¬ 
ish oblate; diameter iK inches longitudinally 
and z'A inches transversely; skin yellowish red; 
flesh very dark, quality good; seedy; edible 
when still hard; one of the earliest to ripen. 
Vigorous and exceedingly prolific. 
FIGS 
Did you ever eat fresh figs served with sugar 
and good, rich cream and cake? Or preserved 
or made into sweet pickles, or prepared in 
any of the numerous ways the good housewife 
knows so well how to serve them? If you 
haven’t, you have missed one of the most 
exquisite that few fruits can compare with it. 
their good qualities. Perhaps, also, you have 
for canning. But did it ever strike you that 
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