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Title: Descriptive catalogue and price list : tropical and semi-tropical, fruit trees, palms, ornamental plants, orchids and greenhouse plants
Identifier: descriptivecata1891seve_0 (find matches)
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Seven Oaks Nurseries; Hoyt, R. D; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical crops Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs
Publisher: Bay View, F. L. : Seven Oaks Nurseries
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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14 R. D. HOYT, SEVEN OAKS NURSERIES, BAY VIEW, FLORIDA.
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HOFFMAN'S SEEDLING STRAWBERRY. Text Appearing After Image:
JUJUBE. (Ziziphus jujuba.)
A shrub or small tree, producing a yellow or red date-like fruit an inch long, of good flavor; makes an excellent preserve. 25 cents each.
STRAWBERRIES. (Fragaria.)
There Are but few varieties that are adapted to this climate, as most of them will scald during our summers; still, it is well enough to experiment on a small scale, especially with southern hybrids, or seedlings from the finest berries. The two following are now the leading varieties grown, both for home use and market.
Hoffman's Seedling. A berry of recent introduction, which with us has proved all that is claimed for it, and we shall plant more largely of it another season; berry medium size, conical; ripens evenly all over and remains firm for a long time after being picked. Our cut was made from a photograph and accurately represents this fruit.
Improved Mobile or Noonan. A first-class berry, averaging rather small; withstands drought and any amount of heat, and its shipping qualities are unexcelled; is a very prolific bearer—the past season we had berries from January till June 15, right along from the same vines; plants should be set out during September and October to obtain best results, although it may be done as late as December. Price, 50 cents per 100, $4 per 1,000.
STRAWBERRY TREE. (Arbutus unedo.)
This tree seems to be little known in Florida, although perfectly hardy as far north as Jacksonville, and perhaps farther. "It is a hardy and elegant-looking evergreen. The leaves, oblong lanceolate and serrated at the edges, the bell-shaped flowers, forming a depending panicle, and the ripe berries, both of which are in profusion together in the end of autumn, render this shrub very ornamental at that season. * * * The fruit is eaten, and in Spain both a sugar and spirit are extracted from it."— Rhind. 50 cents each.
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Government Botanic Gardens,
Saharanpur, India.
Mr. R. D. Hoyt, Seven Oaks Nurseries, Bay View, Fla. May 13th, i890.
My Dear Sir: The box of plants arrived yesterday, and I have much pleasure in returning my best thanks for them. I must compliment you on your packing; the trees are all alive, and some of them have made long branched growths, owing to their long confinement (ten weeks). The run from Port Said, through the Suez canal, down the Red Sea and across to Bombay occupies fully ten clays, and as the temperature in those parts, in the months of April and May, is as near that of the infernal regions as is to be found on this earth, nothing but your good packing saved the plants. I should like to have a box of your best orange trees next season, packed in the same manner.
Yours faithfully W. Gollam.

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