PERSIMMON 
Hachiya. The best and most popular variety. Large cone-shaped bright 
orange-red fruit with sweet, rich, soft flesh. Puckery only when not com- 
pletely ripe. 
PLUMS 
Plums are satisfactory small trees for the home grounds. They bear consistent, 
good crops, make excellent preserves and some kinds are delicious to eat fresh. 
A few varieties are listed below. 
Damson. Small tart purple fruits; amber flesh. Finest for jams. 
Green Gage. Greenish yellow rounded fruits, rich, sweet, firm flesh. 
Howard’s Miracle. New. Large fruits with very small pit. Flavor delicious, 
suggestive of pineapple. Plant a pollenizer such as Wickson or Satusma. July- 
August. (Pat.) $2.50. 
Santa Rosa. Popular variety with oval fruits, maroon skin and amber flesh 
veined with crimson. Delicious. Late June. 
- Satsuma. Deep blood red fruits in quantity. August. 
Wickson. Yellow heart-shaped fruits with red cheeks. Very fine quality. 
Pollenizer. Late August. 
Other varieties available. 
POMEGRANATE 

SUGAR PRUNES 
PEACHES (Freestone) 
Australian Saucer. Oddly shaped flat 
fruits, with white skin and white flesh. 
Well adapted to our mild winters. Early 
June. 
Babcock. Very popular. Consistent 
bearer, even after mild winters. Smooth 
red cheeks and delicious white flesh. 
June. 
Elberta. Oval peaches of good size. 
Yellow with red cheeks. Yellow flesh 
of excellent flavor. Early July. 
Early Elberta. Large yellow freestone 
ripening early in June. Like the Elberta 
except for early ripening. 
Indian Blood. A most unusual peach of 
medium size, deep red in color and 
with deep red, fine flavored flesh. July. 
J. H. Hale. Popular large round peach. 
Fruit very beautiful. Flesh firm, yellow 
and of fine flavor. Late July. 
Millers Late. Heavy bearing yellow 
peach of fine quality. November. 
Rio Oso Gem. Patent 84. Similar to J. 
H. Hale. Large crimson fruits with de- 
licious yellow flesh. 
Redwing (Pat. 621). A very heavy 
bearing peach which has been found 
most dependable in our locality. Fruits 
are large and smooth, with white flesh 
of very high quality. June-July. 
Robin (Pat. 529). Semi-freestone. 
Medium size, very handsome fruits with 
rich coloring and delicious white flesh. 
It is a consistent bearer and a desirable 
tree for both home and orchard. Early 
June. 
Ask us about other varieties, it you do 
not find the kind you want listed. 
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PERSIMMON, HACHIYA 
PEACHES (Clingstone) 
Fontana. For a canning peach with that 
tempting deep yellow flesh you can’t 
go wrong on this one. Bears consist- 
ently year after year. Fruit medium 
size and full of flavor. 
Sims Cling. Medium size golden yel- 
low fruits with yellow flesh. One of 
the leading orchard varieties. Late 
August. 
White Heath Cling. Light cream col- 
ored fruits with pink cheeks. Juicy, 
tender and of rich flavor. September. 
PEARS 
Bartlett. Summer and winter varieties 
available. Fine keeping pear. Fruits 
small and sweet. Good eating. 
Winter Nelis. Small delightfully fla- 
vored fruits. Excellent along the coast. 
December. Good bearer and pollenizer. 
Wonderful. Attractive large shrubs with red flowers and attractive odd 
shaped fruits. Easy to grow, doing very well in dry hot places. 
PRUNES 
French Improved. Large deep purple 
fruits. The standard drying variety. 
September. 
Imperial. One of the largest and fin- 
est prunes. Uniformly large, reddish 
purple. Flesh very sweet and full of 
flavor. Needs a pollenizer. July. 
Standard. Large oval fruits delectable 
in appearance with their deep purple 
color and rich blue bloom and tasty, too, 
when you get into that amber flesh, 
juicy and rich in flavor. Ripens in Au- 
gust. 
Sugar. Large sweet and mild purple 
fruits. Excellent tree for home use. 
Does well in all sections. August. 
WALNUTS 
Payne. One of the hardiest walnuts 
for California. Popular with everyone 
because the nuts are of high quality 
and the sturdy trees begin to fruit and 
bear heavy crops while young. 
Placentia. Rounded oval, thin shelled 
medium-size nuts. Prolific early bearer. 
Eureka. Large elongated nuts. Very 
hardy. 

