. Descriptive catalogue and price-list of the Glen St. Mary Nurseries : season 1887-8. Nursery stock Florida Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. GLEX ST. MARV NURSERIES. 17 build frames around those that were loaded the heaviest and tie the burdened limbs to the frames. This was done April i6th, two months before the photographs were taken from which the three engravings were made representing the Kelsey as it grows with me, that appear in this catalogue. The cut on the back cover of this Catalogue shows one of these trees as photographed June 15th, at which time the tree had on it four hund^-ed and sei
. Descriptive catalogue and price-list of the Glen St. Mary Nurseries : season 1887-8. Nursery stock Florida Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. GLEX ST. MARV NURSERIES. 17 build frames around those that were loaded the heaviest and tie the burdened limbs to the frames. This was done April i6th, two months before the photographs were taken from which the three engravings were made representing the Kelsey as it grows with me, that appear in this catalogue. The cut on the back cover of this Catalogue shows one of these trees as photographed June 15th, at which time the tree had on it four hund^-ed and sei'cnty-six plums averaging as large as hens' eggs and not then fully grown. The tree when photographed had been set out only two years and a half, and it was less than two feet high when set out. The other five trees (of the original six) were also heavily loaded, having all the fruit they could well carry. Two other trees set out in Febru- ary, 1886. in the same row as the original six, were also allowed to carry their full load of fruit, but in order to help them through with it they also had to be tied up. On one branch of one of these young trees there were sixty-eighl large plums, while the balance of the tree. A FLORIDA GROWN KELSEY. •' Tliis Plum was sent us by Jlr. Taber. from his orchard at Glen St. Marvs. and the en- fraving our artist shows the actual size of the fruit. It measured sj^xS-if Lnches in cireum- erence, and weighed 5)^ ounces.—Editor Florida Dispatch. ". Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Glen St. Mary Nurseries; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Glen St. Mary, Fla. : Glen St. Mary Nurseries
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