LEONARD COATES NURSERY COMPANY, MORGANHILL, CAL. 
“Payne” Pedigreed Blenheim Apricot 
4 year old orchard bearing full crop of very superior fruit 
A FEW FACTS BRIEFLY STATED. 
The senior member of our firm has been growing nursery stock in California .since 1*78. and has 
planted and raised to maturity several large orchards. 
In 1882 he noticed that there were several distinct varieties of French prunes grown under the 
same name. This was afterward verified by Felix Gillet, and also during one of Mr. visits to 
Jr ranee. 
Prune growers were content with the “French Prune,” as it was, but later. »» larger sizes paid 
muen better they began to give heed to what we claimed. Now in the year 1018. and f<»r three years 
preceding, growers are beginning to believe “there’s a difference,” and nurserymen are beginning to 
lollow suit, but not until we had taught our theory, and demonstrated it to be correct. 
So with the Payne Blenheim apricot, which we have fruited in our own orchards, for the last 
lour years, and which were all propagated from one tree at the Payne orchards was found ns a bud 
sport, in every way it is an improvement on the regular Blenheim. 
Other instances are Butcher’s bred-up Bing cherry, and Ridley’s Napoleon and Tartarian of which 
we are the sole propagators. 
t is n°t suffieient to simply cut buds from good bearing trees. We must raise a bearing tree 
from such buds, and if it reproduces the same good qualities, it may be relied on. That is what wc do! 
Our trees speak for themselves, and may be inspected at any time at our Betabel Nurseries, five 
miles south of Gilroy. 
E HAVE our own orchards near Morganhill, consisting of over 60 acres, where nil fruits lire tested, 
and from whence we obtain buds and grafts. At qur Home Place. Morganhill. we have devoted 
several acres of hillside land to landscape gardening, the same being both an object -lesson «nd 
interesting study to those who contemplate the laying out of their own groundN. \t tin* place also 
we raise our evergreen ornamental stock, grown while young in lath houses and gradually hardened 
to stand transplanting any time in the year. For this purpose, we transplant several times during 
the year, after a system of our own, which insures perfect roots and absolute safety in handling. 
Tho climate of Morganhill is warm, and the air dry, being 70 miles south of San Francisco (near 
State Highway) and our place being 500 feet above sea level. It is n combination of these 
climatic conditions and the frequent transplanting that give such satisfactory results i hundreds off 
customers express themselves similarly to these: 
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