. Glen St. Mary Nurseries : 1899. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Glen Saint Mary Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Nut trees Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. i8 CLEN ST. MARY NURSERIES. writing Mr. Burbank when Wickson was first brought out, say : it prove as hardy as Burbank, you have a bonanza in Wickson. THE NEW WICKSON PLUM. ' The Plums are certainly very fine. Should Since the above was written, nursery trees of this variety are reported to have stood a temperature of 220 below zero without injury. When this variety was first offered by Mr. Burbank he set a
. Glen St. Mary Nurseries : 1899. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Glen Saint Mary Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Nut trees Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. i8 CLEN ST. MARY NURSERIES. writing Mr. Burbank when Wickson was first brought out, say : it prove as hardy as Burbank, you have a bonanza in Wickson. THE NEW WICKSON PLUM. ' The Plums are certainly very fine. Should Since the above was written, nursery trees of this variety are reported to have stood a temperature of 220 below zero without injury. When this variety was first offered by Mr. Burbank he set a price of $2,500 on the original tree. This offer was after- ward withdrawn, and grafting wood was offered at £1 per foot. We obtained graft- ing wood at this price, directly from Mr. Burbank, and got our start of this valua- ble variety directly from the originator. (See further account of this variety under "Varieties Described," page 21.) THE HALE PLUM. This new Plum, given to the public in 1896 for the first time, was originated by Luther Burbank, the "Wizard of Horticulture," who selected it from among more than 20,000 new seedling varieties, and who says of it: "In the hedge row of seedlings this was the most vigorous, most productive, handsomest, most uniform and, next to Wickson, the best flavored of any Japan Plum I have ever seen. No one who has tasted the fruit of Hale when ripe will ever say the fruit of any European Plum is superior. Many have compared it to Reine Claude or Green Gage, and I do not know of any fruit that will keep ; J. H. Hale, the well-known nursery- man, of South Glastonbury, Conn., who introduced this variety, having secured the original stock from Mr. Burbank, says beautiful and the most delicious'in flavor, while it is also Most vigorous of all the Japans. Fruit large, to Imperial Gage ; none so fine for of it: "Of all the Japan Plums, Hale is the most one of the largest. Nothing equal to it has been
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