RARE TROPICAL FRUITS AND PLANTS. 



CACTUS PITAYA. 



Climbing Cactus ; sometimes grows 20 feet high ; produces large and very beautiful 

 flowers, which last four or five days ; fruit very large, of a deep, brilliant currant color, in an 

 outside surrounded by a kind of bright green scalloped cup, which makes it yet more bril- 

 liant ; flavor very fine ; a most desirable and rare fruit ; one of the grandest of all the 

 Cactacae. {3 each. 



*CAMPHOR TREE. 



The genuine Camphor tree (Camphora officinarum.) A very ornamental plant; fruit 

 resembles black currants, jfi each. 



. *CINCHONA CALISAYA. 



The genuine " Quinine " tree ; interesting and having evergreen laurel-like leaves. 

 $1.50 each. 



*COFFEE TREE. {Coffaa Arabica.) 

 The Arabian Coffee Plant. A most beautiful and interesting shrub. $2 each. 



*CALABASH TREE. [Crescentia Cujete.) 

 Very curious and rare ; bears handsome and useful gourd-like fruits. $1.50. 



CURUBA. 



A splendid passion vine from Equador ; fruit pne of the very finest of all fruits ; 

 well in the open air in the north in the summer ; very rare. $3 each. 



grows 



The king of all fruit trees. 



CITRUS FRUITS. 



Inmonliun Trifoliata. The only hardy species of the Citrus fruits ; seems to be perfectly 

 hardy here. It forms a low shrub, with trifoliate leaves, and blooms almost constantly'. 

 The fruit is red, about the size of a pigeon's egg, of fine flavor, and bears most abund- 

 antly. This and the following are the best stock for dwarfing the orange, lemon, etc. 

 f 1.25 each. 



Otabeiti. Chinese dwarf orange ; trees will bear when but a foot high, and will bloom as 

 often as stimulated, at any time of the year. The fruit is very showy. A most desira- 

 ble plant, and a fine stock for dwarfing the orange, etc. jSi.25 each." 



ORANGES. 



My trees are all grafted on large stocks and grown for me 

 in Florida. They are worth double as much as the 

 trees grown By florists in the north, and will bear as 

 soon again. Grafted trees will bear in two or three 

 years ; seedlings will not bear for eight or ten years. 

 Extra Fine Standard Trees, all sorts, on good 



stocks, fi.soeach, $12 per doz. Bearing trees, large 



and stocky, 1% to 35^ feet high, %\ to $5 each. 

 Seedlings, line plants, of Oranges, Liemons and 



liimes. 25 cts. each,' $2:56 per dozen. 

 Knmquat. A very small orange, growing on a small 



bush ; fruit about the size of a small plum, and is 



eaten whole, being very sweet and pleasant. The 

 , bush, when covered with fruit, is most beautiful. 



T-wo sorts, round and oval. $2 each. 

 Golden Variegated. Leaves mottled with a rich 



golden color. %2 each. 

 Variegated. Leaf and fruit mottled with white, pale 



straw color and several shades of green ; most or- 

 „»„„„... namental. $2 each. 



LEMONS. 



A few lemon trees in pots or tubs, properly cared for, will furnish enough fruit for a 

 family. I have five or six good sorts ; prices same as for oranges. 

 Everbearing. Bears constantly ; one of the best lemons for pot culture. $2 to I3 each. 



