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Southern Plant Lists - Southern Garden History Society

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1860 <strong>Plant</strong> List<br />

Texas Central Nurseries<br />

near Brenham, Texas<br />

Thomas Affleck, proprietor<br />

Thomas Affleck<br />

1860<br />

Texas<br />

The List of plants for sale from Affleck’s 1860 <strong>Southern</strong> Rural Almanac and <strong>Plant</strong>ation and <strong>Garden</strong> Calendar<br />

from a limited edition copied and published as a Texas Sesquicentennial project by The New Year’s Creek Settlers<br />

Association - Elinor B. Jacobs, Gay Hill, Texas. Compiled and submitted by George R. Stritikus.<br />

The nursery stock for sale both 1859 and 1860, consists of . . .<br />

Apple trees in great variety<br />

Pear, both dwarfs and standards<br />

Peach, embracing all the best kinds<br />

Nectarine<br />

Apricot<br />

Almond<br />

Fig, some 50 varieties<br />

Cherry, a few fine trees, dwarfs<br />

Plum, in variety<br />

Quince<br />

Grape, Extra fine plants<br />

American sorts: Isabella, Catawba, Diana, Clinton, Concord, Lenior, Hebremont, To-<br />

Kalon, Jaques (?), White Scuppernong<br />

European sorts: Bowker, Bishop or Portier noir, Chasselas de Fontainbleau, Golden<br />

Chasselas, Red Royal Chasselas, Rose Chasselas, Early Black July, Grizzly<br />

Frontignan, Red Frontignan, White Frontignan, <strong>Garden</strong> Tokey, White Gascoigne,<br />

Old Black Hamburg, Mill-Hill Hamburg, Macready’s Early White, Early White<br />

Muscat, Pitmastom White Cluster, Queen of Nice, Raisin de Calabre, Royal<br />

Muscadine, Syrian, Verdilho, West’s St. Peters, Xeres or White Nice, Zinfandel,<br />

Pink Chasselas<br />

Strawberry: Peabody’s New Hautbois, Hovey’s Seedling, Early Scarlet, Longworth’s Prolific, Black Prince, British<br />

Queen, Bishops Orange, Burr’s Rival Hudson, Crimson Cone, Genessee, Jenny Lind, Moyamensing,<br />

Prolific Orange, Scarlet Cone, Scott’s Seedling, Walker’s Seedling<br />

Gooseberry, New American Seedling<br />

Currants, in variety<br />

Pomegranate, fruit bearing<br />

Pecans, fine large trees of choice Texan sorts<br />

Blackberry, New Rochelle<br />

Raspberry, in variety<br />

Ornamental <strong>Plant</strong>s<br />

Roses<br />

Evergreen Trees and <strong>Plant</strong>s<br />

Magnolia Grandiflora<br />

Magnolia Fuscata<br />

Holly<br />

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