Gulf Coast Nursery : 1910-11

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CATALOGUE 1910-1911

No. 175
STATE OF TEXAS, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Certificate of Inspection of Nursery Stock.

Chis is to Certify that in accordance with the provisions of the
Orchard and Nursery Inspection Law of the State of Texas, the nursery
stock grown for sale, exhibited and held for sale, by the GULF COAST
NURSERY, W. A. Stockwell, Manager, at Alvin and Genoa, Texas, has
been inspected by J. B. Wolfe, a duly authorized agent of this Depart-
ment, and at the time of the inspection said nursery stock was found
apparently free from dangerous insect pests and dangerously contagious

tree and plant diseases.
A printed copy of this certificate on any shipping tag attached to any

shipment of nursery stock is authority to any freight or express agent in

Texas to accept said shipment for transportation. This Certificate is

void after July 1, 1911.
Austin, Texas, August 22, 1910.

Approved:
ED. R. KONE, SAM H. DIXON,
Commissioner of Agriculture. Chief Inspector of Orchards

and Nurseries.

E. S. Stockwell & Son

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INSTRUCTIONS

Write your name and address plainly, giving both Postoffice and
Express Office.

Be sure to take your trees promptly from the express office.
Open the bundle or box and heel them in carefully in a shady place;
wet them well and take only a few trees at a time, wrapped in wet
sacks, to the field for planting.

Any mistakes or shortage will be cheerfully corrected if reported
promptly.

We exercise all the care possible in filling orders, but if mistakes
are made we will not be liable for a greater amount than purchase
price of trees, and purchaser, in ordering, accepts this condition.

Order early and you will have an unbroken stock to select from.

If we are out of any variety of trees you order, please state if
you wish us to substitute some other variety. If you grant this priv-
ilege we agree to send you something equally as good for your loca-
tion and at no greater price.

Kindly let us know several days in advance when you want
your trees shipped, as we are very busy and can not always ship on
short notice.

Send cash with order, or satisfactory references.

Trees will be shipped C. O. D. only when one-fourth of order
has been advanced.

TO OUR CUSTOMERS

This is our 21st year in the nursery business at Alvin. During
these years we have striven to furnish our customers with the very
best quality of trees that the variable seasons would permit. We
have also planted extensive experimental orchards, including almost
every known variety of fruit and shade tree. We have gained much
valuable information from this work and are in a better position to
assist you in a selection than is any other nursery doing business in
South Texas.

We were among the first to plant the Satsuma orange, and it is
owing largely to our efforts that the attention of the public has been
attracted to the wonderful possibilities of growing oranges in Texas.
Also, we planted the first commercial fig orchard in Texas, and it is
from this orchard that the present enormous industry has grown.

We have borne our share of the burdens and misfortunes of an
undeveloped country; have made mistakes and learned our lessons
from experience. While we have as large and fine a stock of trees as
any nursery in the South, we have also a very extensive trade, and the
demand will more than consume our stock this season; therefore we
have no selfish motive in warning the public to be careful in the
purchasing of trees.

The original cost of a tree is of no importance compared with
the after cost and final results.

There are being a vast amount of trees imported into Texas from
foreign countries that have no proven value, and the results are sure
to prove disastrous to those who plant them. Careful examination
shows many variations in trees that were sold as genuine Satsuma
oranges. Also, the fumigation that was necessary to kill the insects
on these trees, together with six to eight weeks in packing and trans-
portation, so nearly sapped the vitality that 50 to 75 per cent of all
that were imported last winter are now dead.

Go slow and buy only home-grown trees from a nurseryman who
has had experience enough to grow a good tree and a reputation to
maintain.

We propagate our trees from scions cut from bearing trees of
exceptional merit in our own orchards. Our orchards are extensive
enough to permit this, while almost all other Texas nurseries cut
their propagating orange wood from young trees and from various
orchards with no definite knowledge of the correctness of the variety
or the responsibility of the owner. We are sure that it is better to
plant a few trees of the best quality than many trees of a doubtful
quality.

The following table will be of great advantage to those setting
out trees and plants:

Proper Dis- | Number

VARIETY tance for | Trees for

ps Planting One Acre
PP OCANIS ay er ee oe te en Tite a Wee nae Se peo as 40x40 feet 27
PEACHES i ie Pn Cee wee he AHI et i atts TUR SOIR CAM 16x16 feet 170
BUTTS © os SO ee a ere re eae st At tee 16x16 feet 170
POATS ee ad eee eee a CR aan aie cc eee 25x25 feet 70
BADOES On eis 2 iy ee ee ke rn oer 25x25 feet 70
Orances) Lemotis: Pomelossweict oo oe eee ee 20x20 feet 108
Raina ats oat lias Ue dere anny eet Ae Ene ct am 15x15 feet 193
| Aa Ne eee etic Ee gh. Cae NCEP oer 8 16x16 feet 170
Blackberries........... ha eat Ro tert an tae ay en ONE tena 38x 8 feet 1815
SETA WDETIICS ye Ur cre bueh sok tea tegen Meee er en eee Ix 33 feet 12160
Jasminess 85 522s aes Sete urtehreni e ar oeer ee 8x10 feet 545

The following uniform grading scale for orange trees was adopted
by the Texas Gulf Coast Nurserymen’s Association, and will be fol-
lowed by us in all our grading:

GRADING SCALE—For Orange Trees

(Caliper taken one inch above bud.)

: Usual Number
Caliper Height Branches Age Top
No. ee 1-4 —5-16 | 13—2 feet 1— 2, light 1 year Transplanted
No. 2..| 5-16—7-16 | 2 —3 feet 3— 4, light 1 year #
No. 3..| 7-16—9-16 | 3 —4 feet 5— 6, heavy | 1} years =p
No. 4..| 5-8 —7-8 3 —4 feet 8—10, heavy | 2 years

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We have found an entirely unsatisfied demand for knowledge
of how to grow an orchard, and we are accordingly incorporating
with this catalogue a few words on orange and fig culture, these being
the principal trees planted in the Coast Country of Texas, and the
ones with which few people are familiar.

HOW TO GROW AN ORANGE ORCHARD

Select well drained land, free from salt or alkali, with a good
red or yellow clay subsoil. An excess of lime is to be avoided. If
prairie land, be sure to break the sod early in the spring or summer,
if you intend to plant the following winter, as it takes our Coast
Country sod six months to rot. Be sure your land is in a good state
of cultivation before planting.

Place your order early with a reliable nursery for the best grade
of home-grown trees obtainable. Try to get your trees fresh from
the nursery. Do not heel them out for two or three months and
expect them to live. An orange tree suffers worse from abuse than
any other tree with which we are acquainted. If they are so handled
as to lose their fibrous roots, there is a great loss of vitality, and it
will require a whole year for them to recover, and begin to grow.

When you receive your trees, plant them at once, 20 feet each
way. If it is early in the winter (before February 15), leave nearly
all the foliage on the trees, but if it is later than February 15 take
off nearly all the foliage, for the reason that trees planted before
February 15 will begin to grow if defoliated, and are in danger of
freezing, while if planted after February 15 they are in no danger
of freezing, but are harder to make live, and need to have the foliage
removed to save the sap of the tree for recuperating purposes.

On the whole, it is best to plant trees in December with all the
foliage on the trees. Use plenty of water in setting and be sure to
tramp the ground well around the trees.

Thorough cultivation is absolutely necessary to secure good re-
sults. An orchard that is thoroughly cultivated will grow off well
in the spring, summer and early autumn, and will then take its nat-
ural rest in the winter, but if the trees have failed to make a good
healthy growth at the proper season through lack of moisture, they
are in great danger of making a late fall and winter growth, being
full of sap and easily killed by freeze. We have seen this demon-
strated at many different times and places.

Very little pruning is necessary.

A good Satsuma orange orchard should produce a revenue of
$300.00 to $800.00 per acre after the fourth year of age.

An orchard should live to be 100 years old.

The best varieties to plant on the Texas Coast are: Satsumas,
7o per cent; Grapefruit, 10 per cent; Dugats, 10 per cent, and other
varieties, 5 per cent.

HOW TO GROW A FIG ORCHARD FOR PROFIT

Select well drained land of good quality. The richer the better.
Put into good state of cultivation before planting. Secure good

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trees from a reliable nursery. The Magnolia fig is the only fig adapt-
ed to South Texas, with an established commercial value. The trees
should be planted about 16 feet each way, 20 feet if very rich land.
They should be cut back to 6 or 8 inches above the ground when
planted. Allow three or four branches to start; when they have
grown about one foot, pinch the terminal bud out and each limb
will throw out three or four branches. Continue this system, spread-
ing and thickening your trees as they grow, doing no winter pruning,
and in two years you will have a tree that will produce a large crop
of early fruit.

Thorough cultivation is absolutely essential to get good results
from a fig orchard.

A good fig orchard should produce a revenue of $25.00 to $50.00
per acre the second year, and $50.00 to $100.00 the third year, and
$100.00 to $300.00 thereafter.

The life of a Magnolia fig tree is supposed to be 10 to 15 years.

ORANGES

We have been growing oranges in Texas for the past sixteen
years, and after many experiments and careful observation we have
become convinced that oranges can be grown throughout the Coast
Countrv of Texas and inland as far as Nacogdoches, Bryan, San
Antonio and Laredo, though along the northern edge of this belt
only the Satsumas should be planted.

In years past, when only sweet seedlings were planted in Texas,
orange growing was not looked upon with much favor, as it took from
seven to ten years for these trees to come into bearing, and a freeze
of 20 to 25 degrees would kill them back so far that it would take
four or five years for them to recover sufficiently to again bear a crop.
Now we have improved hardy varieties that begin to bear at three
years old, and being budded on Trifoliata roots they resist greater
cold and will recover from the worst freezes in two or three years’
time.

In February, 1899, we had the coldest weather ever experienced
in Texas, and the Satsuma oranges recovered from this and were
loaded with fruit in the fall of 1901.

During the past ten years we have not had a single failure in
the Satsuma orange crop at Alvin, and only twice have our Dugats
and Lemons failed. When we consider that orange trees are very
thrifty and tenacious of life, like a wild persimmon, live to a great
age, and, if banked around the stump, will never be killed in this
climate, and they almost never miss a crop, we know of no other
orchard tree that will bear as many and profitable crops as the orange
in the Coast Belt of Texas.

You will make no mistake if you plant a commercial orchard,
principally Satsumas.

We grow extensively on Trifoliata roots for Texas planting,
Sour stock for most sections of Mexico and Central America and the
Rio Grande Valley of Texas.

Have your ground well prepared and secure only first class home-
grown trees. Plant about twenty feet each way in the month of
December if possible. Open a hole of sufficient size to receive the
roots of the tree easily. Place the tree and pull in sufficient mellow
soil to nearly fill the hole, then pour in a bucket of water. After the

Satsuma Oranges

water has settled away, finish filling the hole with loose soil and
tramp well. Be careful not to get the union of the tree below the
surface of the ground. Bank all your trees, old and newly planted,
about January Ist, a foot or more high. Pull this bank down about
February 20th. If in Dry Belt, it will be necessary to defoliate
trees and cut back considerably. If you will follow these directions
you will have no failure.

We offer and recommend the following varieties, but advise you
to plant 75 per cent in Satsumas:
Prices of Oranges, Lemons and Grape Fruit on
Citrus Trifoliata Roots

PRICE

G’de| Caliper Usual | Bran-| Age 5000
No. | _ Height | ches | Top | Each| 10 | 100 | 1000| to

10,000
1...| 1-4 to5-16 |1}to 2ft. |1— 2|1 yr.) 50c |$4.50 | $ 40 | $350 | 30c
2...| 5-16to 7-16 |2 to 3ft. |3— 4/1 yr.| 75c | 6.50| 50| 400] 35c
3...| 7-16to 9-16 |3 to 4ft. |5— 6|14yr.| 85c | 7.50| 60| 500] 45c
A,B

07-8 |3 to4ft. |8—10|2 yr. $1.25 {10.00 100 750 | Sin ae

SATSUMA—Very sweet, very early, loose rind of medium size;
the hardiest edible orange known. Can be grown throughout the
Coast Belt for 150 miles inland.

DUGAT—Large, round, early, very fine flavor, ripens in Decem-
ber; originated at Beeville, Texas, and has been extensively planted
in South Texas. We recommend it next to the Satsuma for South
Texas.

JOPPA—Very late, few seeds, excellent fruit, no thorns.
MEDITERRANEAN—Sweet, large, smooth, late, very fine

orange.
INDIAN RIVER—Large, Sweet: a Florida Favorite.
KING—One of the best of loose skinned varieties; large deep

red; ripens April and May. Some very fine specimens of this variety
are growing on Mr. Stout’s place at Friendswood.

TANGERINE—Loose rind like Satsuma, deep red, ripens De-
cember and January.

PINEAPPLE—Medium early, very choice fruit, thin tough
skin, good shipper; one of the best.

We have some large five and six-year-old bearing Orange
trees that were planted too close in orchard that we are going
to move. These would make a magnificent tree for exhibi-
tion, park, lawn or garden and would give you full bearing
trees atonce. Moved with large ball of dirt, in clamps. Guar-
anteed to live. Price on application.

We have on Sour stock—
Standard Grape Fruit.
Florida Common Grape Fruit.
Hart’s Late Orange.

Washington Navel Orange.
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POM ELO (Grape Fruit)

(On Citrus Trifoliata Roots.)

Pomelos will thrive throughout the Coast Country, but are not
as hardy as oranges. They went through the past winter in this
section with very little injury. Eight-year-old Duncan trees, near
Alvin, were not damaged and are now loaded with fruit. All the
following varieties will do well here and bear regularly, except after
severe winters:

DUNCAN—Large, best quality, characteristic Grape Fruit
flavor, unusually hardy. Trees of this variety passed through last
winter at Alvin without injury and are now loaded with fruit.

MARSH SEEDLESS—Large, smooth, very handsome, nearly
seedless, excellent quality.

ROYAL—Medium size, round; no bitter taste usual with Grape
Fruit.

LEMONS

(On Trifoliata Roots.)

Lemons are very prolific and will stand a temperature of 25 de-
grees without injury. At Alvin we average about four crops in five
years without protection. A box turned over your tree and a lighted
lantern or oil stove set inside during cold waves will enable you to
carry your tree through any winter, and it will pay, as they are enor-
mously productive, and two or three trees will supply a family with all
they can use. They begin to bear at two years old and will be loaded
continually, if not frozen, as they bloom and bear all the year round.

Ponderosa Lemons

VILLA FRANCA—Medium size, smooth skin, very juicy, high

flavor, prolific. Best commercial Lemon.
PONDEROSA—Very large, thick skin; valuable pot plant.

KENED Y— Medium, smooth; originated on ranch of John Ken-
edy, near Sarita. Very fine.

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KUMQUATS

(On Citrus Trifoliata Roots)

The Kumquat is a small, beautiful fruit of delicious flavor. It
is the most beautiful of all citrus trees, with its dark evergreen foliage
and thousands of clusters of bright yellow fruit. It is highly prized

Nagame Kumquat

as a preserve, has a more delightful flavor than either the orange or
lemon and as an appetizer is superior to Grape Fruit. Probably
its greatest value is as a table decoration for Christmas festivities.

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It is as yet comparatively scarce, and fancy prices are obtained for
it when gathered in clusters and shipped to Northern markets about
Christmas time.

Prices

Three-year-old, bearing, balled and crated, about 3 feet high—$5.00
each, $40.00 for 10.
Two-year-old, bearing, balled and crated, about 2 feet high—$2.50
each, $20.00 for 10.
One-year-old on two-year-old and three-year-old transplanted Citrus
Trifoliata roots:
Best grade, heavy branched—$1.00 each, $7.50 for 10.
Medium grade—75 cents each, $5.00 for 10, $40.00 per 100.
Small—$30.00 per 100.

We offer and recommend the following varieties:

NAGAME—Oblong, fine flavor, beautiful foliage, best for dec-
oration.

MARUMI—Round, fine flavor.

CITRUS TRIPOLI (ie

The Citrus Trifoliata is a wild orange from Japan. It is a de-
ciduous tree, shedding its leaves and becoming entirely dormant in
the winter. Very thorny and of a dwarf growth. As a stock for
budding other oranges it has proven of immense value and has been
principally responsible for extending the orange belt from a small
district in Southern Florida and California to a broad strip across
the entire southern boundary of the United States. It is also the
most valuable hedge plant known. It is cheaper and more perma-
nent than barbed wire or any other kind of fence. Does not root
sprout and remains confined to a small space. If carefully pruned
it is more ornamental than Privett, Box or any other kind of orna-
mental hedge excepting Kumquat and Magnolia Fuscati. We have
an immense stock of these trees and can make very attractive prices
for quantities.

Prices
One-year-old, 36-inch caliper, budding size — $7.50 per 100, $50.00

per 1,000.
Special prices on large lots.

CITRUS TRIFOLIATA SEED
Ready for delivery after September Ist.

Prices

$1.50 per pound, $10.00 for 10 pounds. Special price on large
quantities.

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BALLED TREES,
ORANGE, LEMON, GRAPE FRUIT AND KUMQUAT

Trees taken up with ball of dirt and set aside in packing shed
until thoroughly established. These trees can be planted any time
between December Ist and May Ist, but will not be held unless paid
for in full.

Each 10 100 1000
3 to 4 ft., 2-year-old (bearing size) . | $2250) |, $20200" |2$875500) 22.2.5 2 2s
3 ft., 14-year-old (usually bloom). - 1.50 12.50 100.00 $850.00

2 ft., l-year-old., branched.....-.. 1.25 | 10.00 75.00 600.00

Trees balled as above are certain to live, and will not be set
back by the transplanting. Most all of the larger grades will bloom
and some will bear the first year. As orange trees have very deli-
cate roots, there is frequently a heavy loss from transplanting, and
in nearly all cases it sets the trees back a year in comparison with
those that are balled. Many of our customers have reported from
one to fifty oranges on two-year-old ‘“‘balled”’ trees the first season.

This year we are offering the balled trees at much lower prices
than formerly, to induce more extensive planting of this class of trees.

We are also balling the smaller grades to meet the needs of the
large planter, and are sure that this is the very best method to use in
planting commercial orchards. Our own orchards are planted almost
exclusively with balled trees. These balled trees will prove especially
valuable for planting in the dry sections of the Orange Belt. They
do not need to be cut back, and you have a full sized tree at once.

An orchard planted with our 3-feet one and one-half-year trees
will be far ahead of most orchards planted a year previous with the
same grade of:trees, but without balling. There will be no losses,
and your trees will all be uniform in size and growth. They will
bloom and bear some the first year, being two years ahead of the or-
chard planted in the usual way in this particular.

Remember, our trees have all* been budded on transplanted
Citrus Trifoliata seedlings, and have a perfect root system. The
buds were cut from bearing trees in our own orchards, and are true
to name, sure to bear early, of best quality fruit.

Velasco, Texas, April 14, 1909.
E. 8. Stockwell & Son,

Alvin, Texas.

Gentlemen:—Last winter I purchased from you two 3-year-old
balled Satsumas and two 3-year-old balled Kumquats. They arrived
in splendid condition and were carefully set out and attended to in
the interim.

At present the oranges are literally loaded down with blooms,
and as these drop off the fruit appears, some small branches not over
12 to 14 inches long having as many as 35 to 40 blooms on them.

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Now I take it that the trees, although they are very thrifty, are
too young to bear so much fruit; therefore I am writing you to advise
me whether or not I shall remove a portion of the buds or will they
in course of time fall off.

If each bloom on these trees sets an orange, then the trees will
carry over 500 oranges each. Of course, it stands to reason that a
tree so young can not mature so much fruit, but I do not know whether
it is best to take them off now or wait a while and then take off those
which apparently are making no growth.

Yours very truly,
E. P. HOEFFLE,

Velasco, Texas.

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Figs have been grown throughout South Texas since the earliest
settlement, many being planted by the Jesuit priests around the old
Missions from 200 to 300 years ago, and in all-sections have thrived
and borne abundantly. They have also been grown on all the old

Magnolia Fig

Southern plantations, and are the one sure fruit crop for the winter
preserves, for no matter what the season, wet or dry, hot or cold,
not even storms can prevent this hardy tree from maturing a crop
at some season of the year.

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They begin to ripen in May and bear continuously until Novem-
ber or December. There are many trees eight to ten years old that
bear regularly four to six bushels of fruit each year, and now that
preserving plants are being established throughout the Coast Country
and paying $1.50 per bushel for all the fruit they can get, there is
a great profit for the man who has a few acres in figs.

In past years we have been dependent for a market on the small
cities and towns of Texas, as the fig, when ripe, will keep for only a
short time, can not be shipped in fresh state to Northern markets,
except under refrigeration, and we have never had them in sufficient
quantities for shipping in this manner. However, with the advent
of The Carpenter Fig Company and other preserving plants at Alvin,
Houston and a few other places, we now have a market for all the
figs we can raise at prices that will net us from $100.00 to $500.00
per acre, depending on age and quality of orchard. Of the many
varieties of figs grown in Louisiana and Texas, we have found the

Two Year Old Magnolia Fig

Magnolia to be the most valuable for preserving, and this variety is
the only one that the preserving companies will buy.

We planted the first commercial fig orchard of about five acres
at Alvin twenty years ago, and this was probably the most extensive
orchard in Texas at that time. This orchard was very profitable,
and was our main stay during a number of years. We recommend
the planting of figs to all, whether a few trees or a hundred acres.

We planted over 50,000 trees in our own orchards the past two
seasons, and will plant about the same amount another year. This
is sufficient evidence of our faith in the fig business.

We offer the following varieties:

Prices
1 to 2 feet grade—$12.50 per 100, $100.00 per 1000.
2 to 3 feet grade—15 cents each, $15.00 per 100, $125.00 per 1000.
3 to 4 feet grade—20 cents each, $17.50 per 100, $150.00 per 1000.
4 to 5 feet grade—25 cents each, $20.00 per 100, $175.00 per 1000.

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MAGNOLIA—Large yellow to russet, fine flavor, best for com-
mercial planting.

BRUNSWICK—-Violet, very large, too soft for shipping or pre-
serving.

GREEN ISCHIA—Green skin, red pulp, very fine flavor.

LEMON—Medium size, yellow skin, reddish pulp, extra choice
flavor, too soft for shipping or preserving, but very fine for home use.

CELESTE (Sugar Fig)—Yellowish to blue, small, very sweet,
next to Magnolia for commercial purposes; tree very hardy.

PECANS

A native Southern forest tree of great value as a shade tree, for
timber, and most of all for its valuable nuts. Plant the improved
varieties wherever you can find room for a tree, take care of it for
three or four years and you will reap a harvest of gold, you and your
heirs for generations yet unborn.

There is more than a THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS in-
vested in life insurance in the United States, and yet not a dollar of
all this vast sum is as safe nor as profitable as if invested in a pecan
grove in Texas. Insurance premiums must be paid for fifteen to
twenty years or for life before you get the benefit, which is only your
investment and three or four per cent.

A pecan grove will begin to bring returns at ten to twelve years,
and will increase many fold. It will bestow a perpetual and con-
stantly increasing income on yourself and loved ones for a thousand
years to come.

Pecan growing in Texas is endorsed by all the leading horticul-
turists of the South. Luther Burbank indorses it as the most de-
sirable proposition in the South.

Prices

4 to 5 feet—$1.50 each, $10.00 for 10.
3 to 4 feet—$1.00 each, $8.50 for 10.

We offer and recommend the following varieties:
STUART—Large, soft shell; one of the best.

VAN DEMAN—Large, thin shell, long; a favorite.
FROTCHER—Bears very young; an early favorite.
MONEY MAKER—One of the best from Louisiana.
PABST—A favorite from Georgia.

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ine Lemons

Extra F

-Six

This Tree Matured Thirty

When Two Years Old in Nursery Row

Two-Year-Old Villa Franea Lemon.

PEACHES

Peach growing in the Coast Country will probably never prove
very profitable for large commercial orchards, but by a careful se-
lection of varieties we can have an abundance of this delicious fruit
from early May until October for home use and home markets.
Houston and Galveston consume many carloads of peaches each year
at fancy prices, and certainly we can take care of such markets if a
fair effort is made.

Any well drained land in the Coast Country will produce good
peaches if you make your selection from the following list of trees,
which are chosen for their adaptability to the Lower Coast Plains:

Prices

3 to 4 feet—20 cents each, $1.50 for 10, $12.50 per 100.
Alexander, freestone . edhe ate _..May 20th.
Cablers india tin: seuss eee eae July 10th.
Carpenter: Clint star 2 eee July 8th.
Crawford’s Early, freestone..... Julyaist:
Elberta, freestone............+ =. - July dG@ths
Greensboro, freestone:..:....... May 27th.
Honey, freestones a,c as bee June 15th.
Japan Dwarf, freestone......... May 24th.
Imperial freestone. 22...) 252 June 10th.
Mamie Ross, semi-cling........ June 25th.
Miss May, freestone........... October Ist.
Onderdonk, freestone.......... July 20th.
Pallaswiteestone:. . 2 meeny te. June 26th.
PAIS el I reeStONe). tea as on tere June 20th to 30th.
Bidwell Early, clingstone....... May 20th.
Waldo;treestone:: wars ee May 20th.

GRAPES

The following list of grapes will succeed throughout the Gulf
Coast Country. Perhaps in the Lower Rio Grande Country com-
mercial varieties will prove a success.

Prices

Two-year-old vines—15 cents each, $1.00 for 10.

Varieties—Niagara, Moore’s Early, Diamond, Herbemont, Del-
aware, Concord.

PLUMS

For the extreme lower Coast Counties we find the Excelsior,
El Paso and Terrell are sure and heavy bearers, and they will do
best on plum roots. Peach roots are best for the interior.

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Prices on Plum Roots.
3 to 4 feet—25 cents each, $2.00 for 10.

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PEARS

Keiffer and Garber are the only pears that have proven a success
in the Coast Country. It will pay to plant these, as they are heavy
and sure bearers.

Prices

4 to 5 feet—50 cents each, $3.00 for 10, $20.00 for 100.
3 to 4 feet—35 cents each, $2.50 for 10, $15.00 for 100.

Varieties—Garber, Keiffer.
POMEGRANATE

Good fruit and an ornamental tree.

Prices
Twenty-five cents each, $2.00 for 10.

JAPAN PERSIMMONS

Prices
4 to 5 feet—50 cents each, $3.00 for 10.

APPLES

It is generally believed that apples will not bear in the Coast
Country, but we have some fine summer apples that bear regularly,
and sell for $2.00 to $3.00 per bushel in Houston markets.

BECKER—Has been growing in South Texas for 30 years,
having been brought from Germany and planted in Colorado County.
Trees of this variety are bearing well at Alvin. Fruit medium size,
reddish blue flecked with white, finest quality, ripens in July.

LOCKHART—Many old bearing trees of this variety are found
in Tyler, Jasper, Newton, Jefferson and Orange counties, where it is
a great favorite,j bears well. Fruit of greenish color, medium size,
good quality.

JENNINGS — A Paonite in Southern Florida and recom-
mended for Coast of Texas.

Prices
3 to 4 feet—35 cents each, $3.00 for 10, $25.00 per 100.

Varieties—Ben Davis) Red Astrachan, Red June, Lockhart,
Jennings, Becker.

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Japanese Persimmons in South Texas

BLACKBERRIES

The Coast Country is the natural home of the blackberry. No
fruit has so great a value for home use as a fresh fruit, in jellies, jams
and for wines. It also has valuable medicinal properties. It can be
grown in fence corners or cultivated in open field. Will bring re-
turns of from $300.00 to $500.00 per acre, and at almost no cost for
labor after first planting. Thrives best in black or bottom land,
highly ridged in rows six to eight feet apart and planted three feet
apart in the row. Will thrive nearly as well on sandy land if fer-
tilized. They should be mowed immediately after bearing every year
and the land between the rows given a good plowing close up to row.
Further work until bearing season is unnecessary.

Prices

Fifty cents per dozen, $3.00 per 100.
We offer and recommend the following varieties:
Dallas, Spalding.

DEWBERRIES

The same can be said of dewberries as has been said for black-
berries. They ripen some earlier, are not quite so highly flavored,
but are very profitable and easily worked. Planted along ditch
banks, fence rows or in open fields they always thrive. Should be
mowed and plowed immediately after bearing season. You can use
your waste land to no better advantage than by planting blackber-
ries and dewberries.

Prices

Fifty cents per dozen, $2.00 per 100, $10.00 per 1,000.
We offer and recommend the following varieties:
Austin, Mayes Rogers.

STRAWBERRIES

Strawberries have been grown at Alvin for the past twenty years
and not once during this time has the crop been a complete failure.
Many times it was the only money crop in the vicinity, and even now
it is the principal source of cash for this town.

Five acres of strawberries in the Coast Country will, if well cared
for, support a family in comfort; $500.00 to $800.00 per acre has
been made many times by many different growers in this vicinity.

We have found that the Klondyke is the best commercial berry
for the Coast Country.

Plants should be set during September and October, if the weather
permits., ' Prepare’ your land well and fertilize heavily with bone meal

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and Strawberry Special about August Ist. Set plants in September
and you will get a crop the next spring, or plant any time during the
winter and cultivate well and carry through the next summer and
you will get excellent results the following spring.

Prices
$1.00 per 100, $5.00 per 1,000.
We offer and recommend the following varieties:

KLOND YKE—Large, firm, acid, good shipper, best for com-
mercial planting.

DUNLAP—Good quality, good shipper.

THOMPSON—Good berry for South Texas; vigorous vines,
good shipper, good table berry.

EARLY MITCHEL—Very early, best for home use

SHADE TREES

UMBRELLA CHINA

Most beautiful of quick shade trees. Makes a perfect umbrella
with dense shade in three or four years. Should be planted around
all prairie homes.

5 to 6 feet—35 cents each, $2.50 per 10.

3 to.4 feet—25 cents each $1.50 per 10.

The Umbrella China Grows Prolifically in South Texas

MULBERRY

IRON CLAD— Originated in our own nursery. For South Texas
it is the best of all Mulberries. We have quit propagating all other
varieties. Leaves broad and glossy, very vigorous, is never frozen
back by late freezes; berries black and abundant, bearing about two
months each year. Magnificent tree for walks, lawns, poultry yards.
Have had trees to grow sixteen feet high in one season.

8 to 10 feet—50 cents each, $3.00 for 10.

6 to 8 feet—25 cents each, $2.00 for 10.

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SYCAMORES

Grows nearer the salt water than any other large tree; very tough
and storm proof and of a rapid growth. .Fine for pastures, wind
breaks and firewood lots.

8 to 10 feet—50 cents each, $3.00 for 10.
6 to 8 feet—25 cents each, $2.00 for 10.
COTTONWOOD

Should be planted on all Southern farms. Makes quick growth
and fire wood.

8 to 10 feet—50 cents each, $3.00 for 10.
6 to 8 feet—25 cents each, $2.00 for 10.
CAROLINA POPLAR

Quick growth, valuable timber, good shade.

Prices
6 to 8 feet—25 cents each, $1.50 for 10.

LOMBARDY POPLAR
Quick growth, tall and slender, picturesque.

Prices
8 to 10 feet—35 cents each, $2.50 for 10.
6 to 8 feet—25 cents each, $1.50 for 10.
ELMS

Fine shade trees for lawns, parks or walks. Live to a great age;
very attractive.

Prices
8 to 10 feet—50 cents each, $3.50 for 10.

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LIVE OAK

The grandest of all Southern oaks. The trunks of these trees
often attain twenty to twenty-five feet in circumference, with a top
spread of sixty to seventy feet. Broad spreading in growth, dark
evergreen foliage. Lives to be a thousand years old. Though slower
in growth than some other trees, still they grow quite rapidly if given
good care and cultivation for three or four years. We have had
them attain a height of twenty feet with a top spread of twenty feet
in ten years, and their growth from now will be much faster.

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Prices

8 to 10 feet, balled—$2.50 each, $20.00 for 10.
6 to 8 feet, balled—$2.00 each, $15.00 for 10.
4to 5 feet, not balled—50 cents each, $2.50 for 10.

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PIN OAK

Beautiful, quick-growing oak, nearly evergreen.

Prices
8 to 10 feet, balled —$2.00 each, $15.00 for 10.

WATER OAK

Another beautiful Southern oak, quick growth, evergreen.

Prices
8 to 10 feet, balled—$2.00 each, $15.00 for 10.

MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA

The most beautiful of all Southern evergreen forest trees. Grows
to immense height, with broad, glossy leaves, and all through the
summer months is covered with snow-white blooms as large as a
saucer and of the most delightful odor; begins to bloom at three
years old.

Prices

6 to 8 feet, balled—$2.00 each, $17.50 for 10.
5 to 6 feet, balled—$1.50 each, $12.50 for 10.
2 to 3 feet, balled—$1.00 each, $ 7.50 for 10.

CAMPHOR

Beautiful evergreen tree; grows well on moist soils. Hardy near
the coast as far north as Navasota. Produces valuable gum; makes
a fine windbreak.

Prices
2 to 3 feet—50 cents each, $3.50 for 10.

RED CEDAR

Native to the South. Grows best in clay and black waxy land.
With its dense growth it makes an ideal windbreak, and being ever-
green it is almost as warm as a house for your stock in the pasture.
It will make the best possible windbreak for orange groves.

Prices
5 to 6 feet, balled—$1.00 each, $7.50 for 10.
1 to 2 feet—25 cents each, $2.00 for 10.
SHORT LEAF PINE

A beautiful Southern evergreen, very tough, makes a beautiful
effect when mixed in the woods with red cedar. Also valuable to
mix with other trees in windbreaks. Rapid growth.

Prices

5 to 6 feet, balled—$1.00 each, $7.50 for 10.
1 to 2 feet—25 cents each, $2.00 for 10.

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ORNAMENTALS

CRAPE MYRTLE

Small, bushy tree with great masses of feathery flowers for three
months in the year.

We have White, Pink and Purple.
Prices
Nice l-year-old plants—50 cents each, $3.50 for 10.

SPIREA VAN HOUTTEI

White (Bridal Wreath) evergreen shrub with long spirals of snow
white clusters of flowers. Plant resembles a great ball of snow when
in bloom.

Prices
Fifty cents each, $3.50 for 10.

HONEY-SUCKLE

White flower, turning to yellow, evergreen vine. Fine for arbors,
summer houses and porches. Very fragrant. Price 25 cents each.

WISTARIAS

White and purple; beautiful vines for porches, fences or arbors.

ENGLISH IVY
Beautiful evergreen vine, clings to stone or brick walls, tree
trunks or stumps, barns and buildings.
Price
Twenty-five cents each.
TEXAS STAR

Beautiful evergreen foliage, small white star-shape flower.

Price

Twenty-five cents each.

CLEMATIS

White; a beautiful evergreen vine that becomes as white as a
snow bank in blooming season. Very desirable for fence arbor or
summer house.

Price
Twenty-five cents each.
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KUDZU

The Chinese wonder vine. Nothing else in the world will equal
it for growing.
Price
Twenty-five cents each.

HYBISCUS
Red and Pink, Double and Single.

Price
Two-year-old fine plants—50 cents each.

ALTHEA (ROSE OF SHARON)
Red, White and Purple. A small growing tree completely cov-
ered with large rose-shaped blooms the entire summer.
Prices
Fifty cents each, $3.50 for 10.

CACTI

We have a beautiful collection of Cacti. Among them the fa-
mous Spineless Cactus. One dozen varieties, single plants, $1.00.
A complete assortment of cuttings will be sent for $2.50.

FERNS

We have a beautiful collection of Ferns in six-inch pots at $1.00
each.

MAGNOLIA FUSCATI (BANANA SHRUB)

Small shrub growth, beautiful dark evergreen foliage, sometimes
called banana shrub from the delightful banana-like odor of its
flowers. Makes one of the rarest and most beautiful hedges in the
world.

Prices
1-foot, balled—$1.00 each, $7.50 for 10.

BOXUS (TREE BOX)

A small evergreen shrub, suitable for ornamental hedges and
borders.
Prices

One-foot—25 cents each, $1.50 for 10.
EUONMOUS JAPONICUS

Beautiful dark evergreen foliage, suitable for hedges, windbreak
and shade tree.

Prices
Two feet—50 cents each, $3.50 for 10.
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CALIFORNIA PRIVETT
Extensively used for ornamental hedges.

Prices
Two-feet—25 cents each, $1.50 for 10, $10.00 per 100.

LIGUSTRUM JAPONICUM

Dark evergreen foliage, very desirable for parks, walks and
lawns. Has been extensively planted in the Plazas of San Antonio.
Grows to immense size and attains great age.

Prices

Three-feet, balled—$1.00 each, $7.50 for 10.

OLEANDER

Bright evergreen foliage, leaves long, narrow and pointed; im-
mense clusters of flowers the entire year. Will grow anywhere along
the Coast. We offer three varieties—Red, White and Cream.

Prices
2-year-old, 4 to 6 feet, balled—$1.00 each, $7.50 for 10.
1-year-old, 2 to 3 feet—50 cents each, $3.50 for 10.
ARBOR VITAE
Prices
4 to 5 feet, balled, very fine—$5.00 each.
2% to 3 feet, balled—$2.00 each, $15.00 for 10.
1 to 2 feet—$1.00 each, $5.00 for 10.
We offer and recommend the following varieties:

ROSEDALE—Blue-gray, feathery, symmetrical, dense growth,
very handsome border for drives, walks or lawns.

AURA NANA (Berkaman’s Golden)—The choicest of all Ar-
bor Vitae, especially adapted to cemetery planting.

GOLDEN—Compact, pyramidal, large, handsome.

PYRIMIDALIS—Tall, conical, slender, compact, very fine for
contrasting with other trees and evergreens.

RETINSPORA

SQUAROSA—Dense growth, soft, beautiful silver-blue foliage
arranged in spirals.

PLUMOSA—Small evergreen from Japan; feathery, light green.

Prices
2 to 3 feet, balled—$2.00 each.

CHERRY LAUREL (WILD PEACH)

A beautiful, native, evergreentree. Very attractive for cemeteries,
borders for driveways and windbreaks. Also handsome shade tree.

Prices
2 to 3 feet, balled—$1.00 each, $7.50 for 10.
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PAMPAS GRASS

A native to South America plains; grows eight to ten feet high;
beautiful, snow-white plumes.

Prices
Twenty-five cents each, $2.00 for 10.

FICUS ELASTICA

The Rubber tree of commerce.

Price
Fifty cents each.

GARDENIA (CAPE JESSAMINES)

The Cape Jessamine is being very extensively grown about Alvin
for buds to ship to Northern markets; $500 to $1,000 is frequently
made in a single season from one acre of Cape Jessamines. Beau-
tiful, snow-white flowers, dark green foliage.

Cape Jessamine, a South Texas Beauty

Prices
d-year-old plants, in 10-inch pots—$1.50 each.
2-year-old plants, balled—75 cents each.
l-year-old plants, large—35 cents each, $2.50 for 10.
l-year-old plants, small—$10.00 per 100.

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A Palm in South Texas

PALMS

Palms are the handsomest of all decorative plants, and no house
is complete without some choice specimens. Along the Coast all
varieties thrive in the open, and with their tropical growth make the
grandest and most attractive appearance for lawn and park that is
possible in this climate. Planted in the open air they should be given
some protection during very cold weather until they are three or
four years old. From past experience we find that palms do not live
well when taken from the open field, and we are now growing all of
our plants in pots and buckets, and in this way there is no chance of
failure to live and grow off well.

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We offer and recommend the following varieties:

Outdoor Planting
PHENIX CANARIENCIS (Canary Island Palm)—Has long,

drooping leaves, often reaching a length of fifteen feet. Trees attain
great height and age.

_ PHENIX DACTYLIFERA (Date Palm of Commerce)—Very
similar to Canariencis, but leaves are more upright in growth. There
is one of these trees near Brownsville over seventy feet high.

WASHINGTONIA FILIFERA (California Fan Palm)—Has
immense, broad, fan-shaped leaves, marked by long, hairy filaments;
attains great size and is very hardy.

WASHINGTONIA ROBUSTA—Same as Filifera, except for the

filaments.

CYCUS REVOLUTA (Sago Palm)—Dwarf, hardy and very
beautiful.

Indoor Planting
LATANIA BORBONICA—Beautiful fan-shaped leaves; is the

most attractive of indoor palms.
ROYAL.
PHENIX CANARIENCIS.

CYCUS REVOLUTA.
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ROSES

We have tried and proven all the following list of roses in the
Gulf Coast Country. There are no better. With a little care you
need never be without a great profusion of beautiful roses if you
choose from this list. Roses thrive best in heavy soil, but if properly
fertilized and cultivated will grow most anywhere.

Prices
Fine 2-year-old plants—50 cents each, $2.50 for 10, $20.00 for 100.

WHITE—Cornelia Cook, The Bride, White Cochet, Kaiserin
Augusta Victoria, Snowflake, The Queen, Ruth Vestal (climber),
Climbing Kaiserin, White La France, Bessie Brown.

RED—Admiral Schley, Cardinal, American Beauty, Climbing
Wooten, Climbing Meteor, Etoile de France, Red Mamon Cochet.

PINK—Climbing Bridesmaid, Helen Gould, Pink La France,
Bridesmaid, Paul Neyron, Winnie Davis, Pink Mamon Cochet.

YELLOW—Etoile de Lyon, Pearle de Jardins, Cecil Berthod,
Yellow Mamon Cochet, Marechal Niel (climber), Pillar cf Gold
(climber).

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_. There are only two serious enemies to the orchards in the Coast
Country. The Citrus White Fly, which attacks all Citrus trees,
Cape Jessamines, Umbrella China and some other trees and plants,
has proven a serious problem in Florida, California, Louisiana and
portions of Texas.

White Fly can be absolutely exterminated by one or two thor-
ough sprayings with the following formula, No. 1, applied as directed:

San Jose Scale is the only serious enemy to deciduous fruit trees
in the Coast Country, and can be kept in check or exterminated if
thoroughly sprayed with lime, sulphur and salt spray as given in the
following formula, No. 2:

RESIN WASH FORMULA NO. 1

For spraying for White Fly on Citrus trees, Cape Jessamines
and Evergreens.

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Place the resin (well broken 1p) eacele soda and fish oil in a
large iron kettle; pour over that twenty gallons of water and cook
well over a good fire for not less than three hours; then add hot water,
a little at a time, and stir thoroughly until there is at least fifty gal-
~ lons of the hot solution. Place this in a. spray pump and add cold
water to make up 100 gallons, or keep the mixture of fifty gallons
as a stock solution and dilute with an equal amount of water as de-
sired for use. Cold water should not be added during the cooking
process, but a sufficient quantity of hot water should be provided
for that purpose. This spray should be applied thoroughly on the
under side of the leaves, and in the winter time only.

FORMULA NO. 2

Lime, sulphur and salt wash for San’. Jose scale on deciduous
trees, to be applied only in the winter time.

To prepare this wash, use twenty-five pounds of unslaked lime,
twenty pounds of flower of sulphur, ten pounds of salt, and enough
water to make sixty gallons. Place eight to ten gallons of water in
an iron kettle on the fire, when it reaches boiling point add the sul-
phur and mix thoroughly. Add the lime, which will cause violent
boiling; add small amounts of cold water to prevent boiling over or
burning. After one hour’s boiling, add the salt, when the sulphur
~ should become dissolved. Add water to make the required sixty
gallons, when it is ready for use.

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