. Catalogue of fruit and shade trees, ornamental plants and roses. Fruit trees Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Nut trees Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) California Santa Rosa Catalogs. CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST. 15 SharpleSS.—A mammoth variety which thrives almost everywhere in Cali- fornia. Monarch of the West.—Fruit large, pale red; one of the leading market berries on this Coast. Crescent Seedling".—Dwarf plant, exceedingly productive. ' Yokohama.—A Japan strawberry; large vigorous plant; productive; berries ^ medium size, pale red; Yery good.
. Catalogue of fruit and shade trees, ornamental plants and roses. Fruit trees Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Nut trees Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) California Santa Rosa Catalogs. CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST. 15 SharpleSS.—A mammoth variety which thrives almost everywhere in Cali- fornia. Monarch of the West.—Fruit large, pale red; one of the leading market berries on this Coast. Crescent Seedling".—Dwarf plant, exceedingly productive. ' Yokohama.—A Japan strawberry; large vigorous plant; productive; berries ^ medium size, pale red; Yery good. Price, 75 cents per dozen. Yosemite.—While on a vacation last summer in the wonderful Yosemite Valley, which is abundantly supplied with yvild strawberries, a single cluster of very large leaved, vigorous plants was found loaded with sweet, light scarlet berries, nearly, or quite, as large as the Crescent Seedling, with the true wild strawberry flavor. The cluster of plants was removed to the nursery', and is now (last of October) bearing another crop of delicious berries. I offer plants for sale this season, knowing that my customers will be pleased wnth them. Price, 15 cents each; |; per dozen. A class of trees to which California soil and climate are peculiarly adapted, and one which has been greatly neglected, but is beginning to receive the attention which it deserves. Most of the nut-bearing trees are longer than fruit trees in coming into bearing, yet some varieties, like the " Prseparturiens" and " California Soft- shell" walnuts, and the Spanish and Japan chestnuts come into bearing as soon as apple, pear, or plum trees. They are all elegant shade trees, remarkably free from the attacks of insects of every description, make fine shelter belts around a farm, are long lived, and add greath' to the value of land, whether planted as shelter belts, in groves, or along avenues. Nut-groves have proved to be much more profitable even than ora
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