
Peaches for Southern California 
Early Elberta. 
it brings in the market. 65c each. 
Golden Blush (Patented). 
middle August. 90c per tree. 
Babcock. Possibly your friend or neighbor has purchased a Bab- 
cock peach from Armstrong's and you have observed the tremen- 
dous number of juicy, medium-sized red-cheeked, fuzzless peaches. 
Those who like white peaches are enthusiastic about the juicy, 
sweet, white flesh. Bears mid-July. 65c per tree. 
C. O. Smith. For home use this non-commercial variety, 
fruited than Babcock, is ideal. Every year it produces a large crop 
of richly flavored juicy white fleshed peaches that tempt even 
Late July. 65c per tree. 
yellow fleshed peach enthusiasts. 
Armstrong's have pioneered in the introduction of 
peaches adapted to our warm winter climate and which consistently 
bear heavy crops every year whether we have a cold or a warm 
winter. The new Early Elberta is another outstanding introduction. 
The good sized fruit has excellent quality, clear juicy yellow flesh 
and is ripe in mid-July. The home grower will find it ideal both to 
can and eat fresh and orchardists will profit from the higher prices 
If your peach preference is for a big 
perfectly shaped fruit with firm golden yellow flesh, yet full of 
juice, you are sure to enjoy the new Golden Blush. Especially 
adapted to Southern California, even in mild winters you are sure 
of a good crop. An excellent market or home variety. Ripens 
larger 
Flavorsome Sub-Tropical Fruits 
Don't let the term 
“‘sub-tropical’’ scare you. 
Most of Southern California 
is in what is horticulturally known as a sub-tropical belt and unless you 
are in a quite cold section you can grow and enjoy on your own grounds 
the delicious sub-tropical fruit delicacies listed below as well as many 
others we had no space to tell you about here. They grow rapidly and 
require no more care than an orange tree or a common shrub. 
Cherimoyas. When you have tasted 
a Cherimoya chilled and cut in 
half, in our opinion you have tasted 
the most delicious of sub-tropical 
fruits. The smooth white flesh has 
the consistency of ice cream. It is 
not difficult to grow these large 
heart shaped green fruit in your 
own yard and the evergreen foli- 
age makes good shade. Cherimoyas 
will stand frost down to 25° and 
require about the same care as an 
orange tree. Our trees are all 
budded, large-fruited, named kinds. 
3-5 ft. tree, $3.25, $30.00 per 10. 
The Australian Nut (Macadamia). 
Imagine a 25 to 30 ft. rounded tree 
with long glossy holly-like ever- 
green foliage. In‘the spring, bronzy 
new shoots stand out like little bou- 
quets all over the tree. The nuts 
hang in clusters like grapes. The 
highly polished, dark brown nuts 
contain a.solid white kernel. The 
meat is very‘rich in oil and tastes 
like aidelicately blended combina- 
tion of brazil nut and cocoanut. A 
vigorous easy-to-grow shade and 
nut tree, hardy grown to 26°. 5 gal. 
5-7 ft. tree, $3.00; gal. $1.25. 
Chestnuts 
Chestnuts. Have you ever eaten 
tasty, roasted chestnuts, or on a 
hot sunny day sat under the pro- 
tecting shade of a chestnut tree? 
you have you will be glad to 
know that the new French hybrids 
and the Chinese Chestnut do well 
here. Marron Combale and Marron 
Quercy both produce tremendous 
crops. Marron Quercy trees do not 
get quite so large. The Chinese 
Chestnuts have especially sweet 
meats. Marron Combale and Marron 
Quercy, 4-6 ft. tree, $2.00. Chinese 
Chestnut, 6-8 ft. tree, $1.75. 
Almonds that Bear 
Jordanolo Almond. Three things may 
prevent you from getting good crops 
of paper-shell almonds in Southern 
California: Our mild winters, lack 
of pollination, or inferior trees. To 
avoid all three, plant the new 
weather-resistant Jordanolo which 
bears best in mild winter climates 
producing every year an abundant 
crop of large, soft-shelled nuts. 
I.X.L. or Ne Plus Ultra, both excel- 
lent varieties, should be planted 
with Jordanolo”as a pollinizer. 3-4 
ft. tree, 75c. 
Gold Nugget. You will be amazed 
at the size of the deep orange-col- 
ored loquat and at the amount of 
sweet, juicy flesh on this new 
budded variety. Early ripening and 
market-proved, it has been bringing 
as much as three times more than 
other Loquats. An attractive orna- 
mental, the rapid growing tree is 
clothed with large, deep green, 
shiny leaves of a tropical appear- 
ance. Field grown, 1 yr., 
Pineapple Guavas (Feijoas). The 
glossy-green and silvery-gray foli- 
age of the Pineapple Guavas make 
this large shrub a very ornamental 
plant for your garden. The showy 
flowers have conspicuous red sta- 
mens. We offer only grafted kinds 
which will produce heavy crops of 
fruit the size of a hen’s egg. Deli- 
ciously fragrant, suggestive of pine- 
apple, strawberries and bananas, 
as well as delightfully flavored. 
Excellent for jelly or conserve. This 
plant is a born trouper and through 
heat or cold down to 5° the show 
of blooms, fruit and handsome ever- 
green foliage goes on. Field grown 
bushy, 2-3 ft. $2.50; gal. $1.10. 
Mahan Pecan 
Mahan Pecan. This is the world’s 
finest pecan. The nuts are 21/2 in- 
ches long and the paper thin shells 
crack almost as easily as peanuts. 
The richly flavored kernels break 
away clean. Before you plant your 
next shade tree consider how pleas- 
ant it would be to get in addition to 
fast growing shade many pounds 
of astoundingly large pecans. The 
nuts bring double the regular price 
per pound on the market. 4-6 ft. 
tree, $3.50. We prune all pecan 
trees back before shipment to insure 
best results in planting. 
Eastern 
Black Walnuts 
Have you ever tasted a richer, 
more satisfying nut flavor than gen- 
uine black walnut? Neither have 
wel It is remarkable how easily the 
plump rich kernels can be removed 
from the thin-shelled nuts, produced 
on the new Stabler and Thomas 
improved strains. Thomas makes the 
biggest tree, Stabler the largest 
nuts on a medium sized tree. They 
both bear when very young. Thomas 
4-6 ft., $2.25; Stabler 4-6 ft., ‘$2.50. 
Natal Plum 
Fragrant Flowers, 
Delicious Fruit 
New Red Apple 
Valmore Apple. Most red apples do 
not grow well in Southern Califor- 
nia but Valmore produces large 
quantities of magnificent, big, round, 
bright red fruits with a golden yel- 
low glow that look as delicious as 
the sweet and juicy flesh tastes 
when eaten fresh or baked in a pie. 
Be sure you get a genuine Valmore 
with a tag bearing Plant Pat. No. 
238. 4-6 ft. tree, 90c. Write for 
quantity quotation if interested in 
an orchard planting. 
New Berries 
Sugarsweet Strawberry. Big, bright 
red berries so sweet that you can 
eat them without sugar, just melt- 
ing away in your mouth. This new 
non-acid strawberry is quite differ- 
ent. In stores people willingly paid 
almost twice as much per box for 
them and clamored for more. Imag- 
ine a berry so full of sweet straw- 
berry flavor that there is no room 
left for even a little biting acid. 
10 for 75c; 25 for $1.50; 100 for $4.50. 
Sodus Purple Raspberry. Here is an 
amazingly vigorous new raspberry 
which produces sweet, richly flav- 
ored, purple berries as big around 
as a,quarter. Even young plants 
bear heavy crops. The delightful 
aroma of the berries prepares you 
for sométhing especially good and 
you are not’ disappointed. Out of 
hand, with sugar and cream, or in 
jam, we have never sampled a more 
satisfying berry flavor. 25c each, 
$2.00 per 10, $10.00 per 100. 


Mahan Pecan 
Giant Paper-Shell 
Shown Actual Size. 


The Natal Plum 
Carissa grandiflora. This is just one 
of the many beautiful sub-tropical 
fruiting ornamental plants that we 
would like to show you. The Natal 
Plum has beautiful large, polished, 
green leaves to which our color cut 
doesn't do justice. The big white 
blooms are sweetly fragrant and 
the Armstrong strain produces large 
scarlet fruit bigger than a date. 
You will like them both cooked (like 
cranberry sauce) and fresh. The 5 
to 8 foot bush is equally at home 
on the seacoast or in desert heat. 
5 gal. $1.75; gal. 60c. 
A DeLuxe Lemon 
Pink Fleshed Lemon. This is a sport 
model, but is practical too. The fruit 
has a green and white striped rind 
which conceals juicy pink flesh. 
The abundant pink juice has that 
good old lemon flavor. The gay 
foliage, striped and blended with 
green, pink and bronze, is most 
ornamental. Gal. bushy, $1.00. 

