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Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue and Price-List of the Glen St. Mary Nurseries, Glen St. Mary, Florida: Season of 1892-93 Gain we present a near edition of our Annual Catalogue. 'it has been thoroughly revised and the lists extended to include many new varieties em braced in our largely increased stock. The descriptions have been prepared with the greatest care, and in most instances directly from the mature trees and plants in our own orchards and grounds. These descriptions, together with the sug gestions given upon selection, handling, culture, etc., which are the results of our own experience and experiments, extending over a period of years, will, we trust, prove a reliable and comprehensive, though necessarily abridged, guide and manual for thousands Who have recently engaged in horticultural pursuits in the extreme South and elsewhere. And be, perhaps, not wholly without value to planters of longer standing. The large increase in our business for (our eleventh season) over previous years is a matter of gratification to us, and we desire to express our appreciation of the liberal patronage which has made this success possible. This encourages us to pursue _with energy our investigations and, experiments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.