DECIDUOUS FRUITS, Continued 
Thomas. Color reddish purple; very tender and 
sweet. Highly recommended by the best author¬ 
ities. Season, August and September. 
HICORIA [4] Pecan. Pecan. Pecan nuts form a 
staple crop in the South and fine, large nuts bring 
high prices. The industry is a safe one in the 
proper latitude. The lower South has an immense 
area of excellent soil, suitable for these trees. In 
South Florida select good medium high land 
with yellow or chocolate subsoil, and give mod¬ 
erate amounts of manure. 
Curtis. One of the very best for South Florida 
planting, both in respect to bearing and quality. 
Medium in size with bright, clean, thin shell and 
full, plump, yellow kernel of rich, nutty flavor. 
Frotscher. This is doing very well in South Flor¬ 
ida, and we recommend its more extended plant¬ 
ing. A large oblong nut about 1 % inches long, 
with very thin shell. Kernel large, easily re¬ 
moved, of delicious flavor. Tree vigorous in 
growth and a heavy bearer. 
Stuart. One of the oldest named sorts. Nuts of 
large size and of splendid flavor. A heavy bearer. 
PEACHES [5]. We offer grafted on plum stock, 
free from root-knot. They should be planted 
only on well-drained land; in fact after once es¬ 
tablished, they will succeed well on high, dry 
ridges where many other fruits fail. Set deep so 
that graft union is several inches under the 
soil. 
The edible fig 
South Florida planters. Is of medium size, high 
color, fine quality and freestone. Ripens in May. 
PLUMS [6]. In South Florida the Japanese vari¬ 
eties have not been good bearers consequently 
were not generally profitable, but the hybrids 
(Japanese varieties crossed with native varieties) 
have proven very successful and make subjects 
very much worth while. 
Kelsey. Size very large; heart-shaped, long-pointed, 
usually lop-sided with deep suture; color green¬ 
ish yellow sometimes flushed with red covered 
with thick, bluish bloom; very showy; flesh light 
yellow, meaty; flavor rich, pleasant, quality ex¬ 
cellent; prolific and bears while young. Highly 
recommended for the colder sections, but not de¬ 
pendable far south. 
Angel. Of good size, with yellow skin, washed with 
red. Flesh white. Freestone. Ripens in June. 
Hall’s Yellow. A late-ripening freestone, matur¬ 
ing in late June or early July. The fruit is large; 
skin yellow, washed with red; flesh yellow and 
red at stone. Quality fine. 
Jewel. The earliest and best marked peach for 
Japanese Persimmon 
McRea (Hybrid). Fruit of medium size, flattened, 
rounded, oblique at apex; yellow under-color 
washed with dull red, dotted with small light 
dots and covered with delicate bluish bloom; 
flesh yellow, juicy, subacid, firm; flavor aromatic, 
pleasant; quality excellent; prolific, good grower. 
We believe this worthy of extensive planting. 
Terrell (Hybrid). A strong, healthy grower; very 
similar in habit to Excelsior; fruit large, to 
2 inches in diameter, nearly round, blunt-pointed; 
color a beautiful reddish yellow, mottled, covered 
with bloom, wine-colored when fully ripe; flesh 
greenish-yellow, meaty, juicy, slightly subacid; 
pit small; cling; quality excellent. Recommended 
as one of the finest plums for the Gulf Coast 
country. 
Excelsior Plum. The tree is a remarkably rapid, 
vigorous grower, and is often so loaded with fruit 
that the branches must be propped to prevent 
breaking. Fruit is medium large, 1 ^ inches in 
diameter, nearly round, no suture; color deep 
wine-red, with thick, bluish bloom and very nu- 
erous small dots; when fully ripe the fruit is al¬ 
most purplish red; stem short; skin thin, tough, 
not bitter nor astringent; flesh firm, juicy, yel¬ 
lowish with reddish color near the pit; quality 
excellent, flavor subacid; pit small; cling. Early 
ripening about June 1 to 10. Very handsome and 
a fine shipper. Grown extensively in northern 
Florida. 
We also can supply grafted trees on a root stock 
immune to nematodes (root knot), which will in¬ 
sure a healthy, quick growth. 
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