. Fruits & flowers especially selected and grown for the southern states : anual catalogue and price list 1902. Nursery stock Florida Monticello Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. Selected Fruits and Flowers for the Southern States 3 KIN-KAN, or KUMQUAT This is another Japanese production, and is being planted largely in this country. This tree is of bushy habit, forming a shapely, round head, making it a very hand- some tree. It is very hardy, and bears quite young, as soon in fact as there is enough wood to hold
. Fruits & flowers especially selected and grown for the southern states : anual catalogue and price list 1902. Nursery stock Florida Monticello Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. Selected Fruits and Flowers for the Southern States 3 KIN-KAN, or KUMQUAT This is another Japanese production, and is being planted largely in this country. This tree is of bushy habit, forming a shapely, round head, making it a very hand- some tree. It is very hardy, and bears quite young, as soon in fact as there is enough wood to hold fruit. The fruit is about an inch by one and a half inches in size and is eaten peel and all, or used for preserves and to crystallize and sells for fancy prices. The tree is an enor- mous bearer, and the fruit is a rich, deep gold color, and, as it will hang on the trees for months, makes a ver\- attractive appearance. In sections further north it can be grown in a tub and taken in when cold weather comes. The fruit being edible, the tree is much prefer- able to the Otaheite as an ornament. Every southern garden should have a few Kum- quat trees. _ ^ Kumquat. PRICES: Each I year, lo to 15 inches, bushy plants $0 25 I year, 18 to 24 inches, strong bushy plants 40 1 year, small, for growing in pots. by mail . 25 2 year, strong plants, 2 to 3 feet, full of fruit 75 cts. to i 00. THE TRIFOLIATA Citrus trifoliatay Limonium trifoliatum, AEgle sepiaria, and Citrus triptera of Botanists During the last few years, the Trifoliata has attracted more attention among the Orange-growers and Citrus-culturists of this coimtry, particularly in Florida and the subtropical region of the Gulf, than any other member of the Citrus family. Its value as a stock for Oranges and other Citrus fruits (as well as for hedges and ornamental planting) is now well determined by experimental planting extending over a period of more than twenty years. It is entirely hardy throughout the lower South, being unaf
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