MARTIN BENSON, SWANWICK, ILLINOIS. 



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These are the most interesting of all plants for pot or greenhouse culture. Most 

 of them are of the easiest culture, requiring no more care than ordinary greenhouse 

 plants. They are beautiful in flowers and foliage, and when in fruit are truly magni- 

 ficent, combining utility and beauty. A collection of these.when in-fruit will attract 

 more attention than any other class of plants grown. 



I offer a large colledlion, comprising many rare sorts never before offered or 

 seen in the north. My plants are fine, true to name, and when their rarity is con- 

 sidered, prices for them are very low. All collections of plants should have a selec- 

 tion of these. 



Pot in soil composed of one-third each rotten sod, fine sand, and thoroughly rot- 

 ten cow manure, and you will have an abundant supply of flowers, fruit and rich 

 foliage. 



Seeds can be supplied of all sorts marked thus (*). Price per packet, one-half 

 the price for a tree or plant of the same sort. Send orders early, as the supply is 

 limited. 



*ACAJOU TREE. 



$2 each. 



*ALEU RITES MOLUCCANA. 



Indian Nut. Has Palm-like;^ leaves and edible fruits. $2 each. 



ANONAS. 



The following all belong to the same genus. They are deciduous shrubs, and can be 

 wintered in the cellar. They bear most delicious and beautiful fruits. 



*Sugar, Apple or Siveet Sop. Fruit resembling an inverted cone, of a rich yellowish 

 green color ; a most interesting and delicious fruit, very sweet and 

 rich ; very productive and bears quite young. Fine plants, I1.50 each. 

 Sour Sop. {Anona Muricata.) A large green prickly fruit, six or eight 

 inches- long, containing a delicious soft -white juicy puJp ; foliage very 

 beaiitiful ; rare. $2 each. 

 Pond Apples. Fruit very handsome and .fragrant; a very beautiful 

 plant. 75 cts. each. 

 ANONA FRUIT Ja^^aica Apples. Fruit with bright red cheek ; a rich fragrant custrad, 

 very delicious and interesting ; \eryrare. $2.50 each. 

 *Chermioyer. (Anona CherinvoHa.) Spanish American bottle fruit ; very rare and 



curious. $3 each. 

 Custard Apple. A fine fruit ; its rich color, fragrant odor, and handsome appearance are' 

 well characterized in the expression, "apples of gold in pictures of silver;" very rare 

 and scarce. I3 to $^ each. 

 Anona Aurantiaca, Macrocarpa, ai»d Pyrlformis. $1.50 each. 



»AVACADO PEAR. 



A most peculiar fruit ; very large, brown, pear shaped fruit, eaten with pepper and salt ; 

 it is said to weigh as much as two pounds, and the flavor transcends that of the finest musk 

 melon ; extremely rare ; plant most peculiar and beautiful. I have but few plants to offer 

 at $i each. 



*AVERRHOA CARAMBOLA. 



East India Gooseberry tree. Produces a fruit about the size 

 and shape of a duck egg, of agreeable flavor. $1.50 each. 



BREAD FRUITS. 



Atrocarpus Incisa. A most remarkable fruit and plant. Plants | 



expected, at I3 each. 

 Purple-Iieaved Bread Fruit. Exceedingly ornamental foliage ; 



rich bronzy crimson, tinted with purple above, beneath of a 



vinous red, about one foot long and seven inches broad ; fruit 



very fine ; a magnificent plant, fi.50 each. bread fruit 



