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Fairly productive, will never be discarded as a home berry though 

 not so well adapted to market purposes. Does well in heavy soil. 



SIR JOSEPH PAXTON. Early to medium, excellent, of English 

 origin. Colour dark glossy red. Flesh pale red, firm, and highly 

 flavoured. Plant strong and productive, will not suit every district, 

 but when it will succeed it is useful for all purposes, does well in a 

 light soil ; a good carrier. 



Sir J. Paxton. 

 (Two-thirds size.) 



Trollope's Victoria. 

 (Half size.) 



TROLLOPE'S VICTORIA. An excellent English variety, and very 

 popular in Australia. Fruit large, roundish, even outlines ; deep 

 bright red. Flesh pale red, tender, juicy. Plants vigorous and 

 prolific ; like Edith and Marguerite, adapts itself to varied con- 

 ditions but requires heavy loam to attain perfection, ripens after 

 these two varieties. 



PASSION FRUITS (Passiflora). 



The family of the Passion vine is largely represented in various 

 parts of the world. The most commonly grown species for the sake 

 of their fruit are the common Passion fruit, Passiflora edulis and 

 the Granadilla P. quadrangularis. The name of the genus is 

 derived from a fancied resemblance of the floral organs to the cross 

 and other emblems of the Saviour's crucifixion. 



All the Passion vines are rapid growers, and for that reason 

 great exhausters of the soil, which should be liberally manured. 

 The common Passion fruit vine does well in almost any soil, but 

 better in deep, moist, rich loam, where it bears most abundantly for 

 a number of years. The seeds are hard, and do not germinate very 

 readily ; they may be sown in beds like tomatoes, and when the 

 plants are strong enough they are planted oat and trained on 

 trellises. They may be profitably grown on trellises like grape 

 vines. For that purpose four or five wire trellises, about 5ft. high, 

 are erected at distances 10ft. apart, the Passion vines being also 

 planted 10ft. in the rows. Unless the situation is well sheltered 

 from the wind, the young plants do best when protected by a wind- 

 break, made of a strip of hessian or bagging fastened to three 

 stakes, driven in a triangle, round the vines. As the young plant 

 grows, the young shoots are tied to the wires until the vine is well 

 established. 



