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Rosedale Nurseries.
VIM. WATSON, Sole PROP rietor.

When the useful ard the
beautiful are combined, a mas
ter-piece of industry and art
has been accomplished. This
truism finds a happy illuatra-
ton in the success with Which
the we'll directed labors of sew
enteen years have been crown
ed. Commencing in 1860, with
only forty acres OF land, the
proprietor of RosEDALE has
pushed his business ahead, un>
til his orchards and nurseries
include an area of o hundred
and seventy acres.
This year there are no fewer
than five thousand select peach
trees in Misunderstanding from
MAY till November. There are
fifty varieties of the ffeesthne
alone, and nearly as many of the
cling, besides twenty five varies
ties of new peaches. The most
OF the varieties are full bearers.
This will be apparent when it
is remembered that as many as
barrel of peaches have been
yielded by a single tree. Mr..
WATSON is the pioneer of fruit
growing in this county. He
was the first to demonstrate the
adaptability OF our soil and eli,
mate to the growing OF the fin
est fruits. An ounce of demon
stration, from actual experiments,
is worth more than ton of the
DRY. At Rosedale, MIR. Watson
has raised as fine early apples as
they do in Tennessee or Ken
tuc!zv. From young tree, on
II a few years old, he has gath
cred a barrel of apples. There
is over fifty varieties OF apples,
ripening from the middle OF
May till December. Many
thousands of these will be ready
for transplanting in the fall.
The pear trees, with their
beautiful fruit, half hidden in
thick green foliage, present a
most charming appearance. The
varieties os this fruit are very
extensive. In this climate they
do well. A gentleman who has
eaten pears in both henis-
pheres, told us recently that he
had eaten as fine ones at Rose
dale as he ever had seen any
where. This assertion will not
appear eStravsgant, when it is
re nembered that pears weigh
ing neatly a pound have been
raised here. This, in all reason,
is proof that the country is
adapted to the growth of the
rich, luscious fruit for which it
is so pre-eminently distinguish
sd in the fruit world. The va
riety Of this fruit grown here,
is very extensive, and there are
five thousand trees ready for
transplanting in the tall. The
variety OF nectarines and april
cots grown by Mr.. Watson, is
very extensive.
The success which has been
achieved at Rosedale in truit
growing, is something wonder
f'ul, and reflects the highest
credit on the energy and enter
prise of its proprietor. Enter
in. on the business with a full
determination to give it a fair
trial, the intelligent gentleman
who undertook it, wa, soon con-
WINGED of the practicability of
making fruit growing and the
nursery business a success The
results that have followed this
well conducted enterprise, are
well known to thousands OF the
citizens of Texas who have eat
en- OF the fruits. The health
and vigor of the trees which Mr..
Watson has grown here can be
attested by thousands and thou
sands OF those residing in the
State, scattered from Red river
to the Rio Grande, and who
have bought and cultivated the
fruit trees grown at this nursery.
Trees cultivated in this nur>
sery, have been transplanted
as tar solth and west as Browns
vile and Ell Paso, where they
thrive and bear we'll.
At Rosedale, there will be
more th2n ten thousand peach
trees ready for transpIanting
next fall. ard something APP
proximating the same number