CITRUS FRUITS 
other nursery in the world for a great many years. While we produce other nursery trees as 
well, the growing of citrus trees has always been the foremost interest of our nursery business. 
Our varieties are selected strains with a straight-line history going back to an individual tree of 
known merit. Care is taken in propagation to select well-developed buds from trees of authentic 
parentage, making sure that the young trees are true to name—quality trees in every particular. 
Here in Winter Haven we are in the very center of the citrus industry. We are constantly in touch 
with the growers, the caretakers, the packers, and the canners. We can thus determine the trend of 
the popularity of the different varieties from the standpoint of market demand and profit to the grower. 
We also have ready access to the findings of the State Citrus Experiment Station at Lake Alfred, 
only a few miles away, where valuable experiments are constantly being carried on with new varieties, 
root stocks, fertilization, spraying, and all the other phases of citrus culture. This source of informa- 
tion is invaluable to us, because we are immediately in position to put into practice any new methods 
which, after exhaustive tests at the Experiment Station, have been found to be practical and beneficial. 
In the past dozen years great strides have been made in all branches of the industry but we believe 
there are far greater developments yet to come. It will always be our endeavor to keep abreast of the 
times and to provide our customers with the very best varieties, grown under the latest and most 
scientific methods. 
ROOT STOCKS 
Citrus trees can be grown on roots of any member of the whole citrus family. We have tried a 
great many of them. Most of them, for one cause or another, are not adapted for citrus fruit culture 
under general conditions. We have found that practically all requirements for success under different 
climatic and soil conditions can be met with Sour Orange, Rough Lemon, and Citrus Trifoliata stocks. 
Successful, heavy-bearing, beautiful groves are produced from trees on all of these stocks, but no one 
of them will meet all conditions. It is largely a matter of soil, location, and climatic conditions. 
On the next page will be found a brief discussion of these principally used root stocks as well as 
several others which also have merit. 
ROUGH LEMON. This stock has a decided influence on the variety top worked upon it, espe- 
cially as affecting its growth and degree of hardiness. Rough Lemon is the thriftiest growing of all 
stocks and induces a vigorous growth of top. On account of its wide-spreading root system and very 
thrifty growing characteristics, it is the best stock for light sandy soils. Trees worked on it do well 
on soils so lacking in fertility that other stocks would be complete failures. On account of its rapid, 
vigorous growth, trees on Rough Lemon stock are more tender than when propagated on other stocks 
and should be planted where there is little or no danger from cold. As a rule, light sandy soils such 
as are found on the Iower East Coast and in the high rolling regions of Central Florida are quite im- 
mune from frosts, and to this type of soil the Rough Lemon stock is best suited. 
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Wes GLEN SAINT MARY NURSERIES COMPANY has grown more citrus trees than any 
