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Title: Fruit and ornamental trees, hardy evergreen and roses
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Fruitland Nurseries (Augusta, Ga.) Fruitland Nurseries (Augusta, Ga.) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs Nurseries (Horticulture) Georgia Flowers Catalogs Shrubs Catalogs Trees Catalogs Fruit trees Catalogs Plants, Ornamental Catalogs
Publisher: Augusta, Ga. : Fruitland 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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at Ocala, Fla.,the (lommittee upon Native Fruits, Dr. F. M. Hexamer, of New York, Chairman,reported upon this Pear, as follows : The most noteworthy new fruit which has come to the notice of your Com-mittee is the Idaho Pear. It is a chance seedling, originating near Lewiston,Idaho. In size, general appearance and aroma, it resembles the crosses of theChinese Sand Pear, but its eating quality is far superior to that of any of thisclass known in cultivation. It is very large and handsome ; irregular globular, IS somewhat depressed. The cavity of the fruit is very irregular, basin shallow andpointed ; calyx very small and closed ; core very small; skin golden yellow withmany russety spots; flesh melting, juicy, with a sprightly,vinous, delicious flavor;season September and October. So far it has not fruited outside of its nativelocality, where the tree has withstood a temperature of thirty degrees belowzero. Stock of trees of our own raising is as yet limited ; but in addition to these
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WILDER. Disseminated by C. A. Green, Rochester, Y. Not fruited South at thisdate, and described as one of the earliest to ripen, about with Doyenne dEteand Alexander peach. The following good points are claimed for it: Earliness,superior quality, does not rot at the core, handsome appearance and vigor of thetree. $l.QO»each. 6Df 1!) ORIENTAL VARIETIES. This class is conspicuous for its remarkable vigor oi* growth and perfectadaptability to the Southern States. While less Liable to blight than the oldervarieties of the European typo, they are by no means impervious to its attacks,as the rapidly increasing cases of blight in every section of this and other Statestestify, and a tree grown from cuttings is no more blight proof than a grafted one. It is asserted that grafted trees arc worthless, because their blight proof prop-erties are then lost. An experience of fourteen years in cultivation of the Le-Conte, and one of thirty-five years with several of the Chinese and Japanesevarieties

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