. Descriptive catalogue of fruits and flowers. Nurseries (Horticulture) Georgia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Descriptive Catalogue of Fruits and Flowers. 23. Branch of Fruitmg Japanese Persimmon. NECTARINES. A most delicious smooth skinned fruit, whicli thrives wherever peaches will grow, but is liable to be stung by the curculio, and requires the same treatment as plums. Boston. Fruit large ; skin pale yellow, with a deep red cheek. First of September. DIOSRYROS KAKI. {JAPANESE PERSIMMON.) When the Japanese Persimmon was first presented to the
. Descriptive catalogue of fruits and flowers. Nurseries (Horticulture) Georgia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Descriptive Catalogue of Fruits and Flowers. 23. Branch of Fruitmg Japanese Persimmon. NECTARINES. A most delicious smooth skinned fruit, whicli thrives wherever peaches will grow, but is liable to be stung by the curculio, and requires the same treatment as plums. Boston. Fruit large ; skin pale yellow, with a deep red cheek. First of September. DIOSRYROS KAKI. {JAPANESE PERSIMMON.) When the Japanese Persimmon was first presented to the public in the light of a new and luscious fruit, and to fruit growers as a most profitable market fruit, the idea was deemed preposterous that a Persimmon could be worth}- of attention, our lips assuming an involuntary " pucker" at the bare name. Research and experience, however, are fast discovering the value of this fruit for the cotton-growing belt of the Southern states, where the tree is perfectly hard}-. The merits of this fruit are the early bearing age of the trees, as well as wonderful fertility, as it is quite common to see one-year-old trees planted in spring produce a crop of from twenty to fifty well developed Persimmons the following year. The tendency to overbearing should be checked by removing the largest proportion of its fruit when fully set, in April or May, and leaving onh- a number commensurate with the age and size of the tree. Hyakiime. Very large, varying from roundish oblong to roundish oblate, but al- ways somewhat flattened at both ends ; gen- erally slightl}- depressed at point opposite the stem ; diameter two and three-quarter inches longitudinally and three inches trans- versely ; color of skin rather a light yellow, nearly always marked with dark rings at apex : flesh dark, sweet, crisp and meaty, entirely free from astringency, and good to eat while still hard ; one of the best varie- ties : keeps well; tree of good growth and a free
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