LEMON TREE NURSERY

LEMON TREE NURSERY, a training and experimental establishment of Ufimsky Forestry Technical College. It specializes in creation of lemon varieties and hybrids, growing and selling of exotic plant sprouts, flower seedlings and other crops. Established in 1990 as part of Belsky Forestry Enterprise, since 1991 has its current name. Located in Ufa. Consists of: year-round greenhouse, plastic foil greenhouses for growing seedlings of vegetable crops and flowers, department for vegetative reproduction of exotic, wood- shrub, conifer and flower crops. Greenhouse area — 1 ha, forest nursery area — 1.5 ha. There are about 22 t of lemons and 100 thous. pieces of exotic plants seedlings produced annually. New varieties of lemon (Leysan, Salavat, Urman) and citron (Zilya, Uraltau) were created and are being grown in the nursery. The products of the L.t.n. were awarded the gold medal and diplomas of the International Flower Exhibition (Moscow, 2001, 2002). Laureate of the Interregional Best Goods and Services of the Volga region—Gemma Contest (2013), the Best Goods of Bashkortostan Contest (2008, 2011).