RARE TROPICAL FRUITS AND PLANTS. 



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HORSE-RADISH TREE. 



Has graceful ternately decompound leaves; grows very rapidly, and bears large clus- 

 tes of delicate flesh-colored flowers, followed by large pods, said to be edible while young. 

 The roots are similar in al respects to the ordinary horse-radish. This is one of the most 

 grand and beautiful of all plants, and will form superb plants for the greenhouse. Ready in 

 May and June ; large plants, $3 each. Let every florist try this plant. 



JUJUBE. 



A thorny shrub, producing fruit resembling dates ; nearly hardy here, and can be grown 

 like the Fig. |i each. 



lAPAN PERSIMMON. 



JAPAN PERSIMMONS. 



A great merit of this fruit is the early bearing age of the trees, as well as their wonder- 

 ful fertility — it is quite common to see one year old trees, planted in spring, produce a crop 

 of from twenty to fifty well developed persimmons the following year. The fruit is of im- 

 mense size (sometimes weighing a pound,) of most delicious flavor and most beautiful. It 

 is not entirely hardy in the north, but by training; loiv and growing as dwarf bushes and 

 planting and protecting as for the Fig, any one can grow this most luscious oriental 

 fruit very successfully in rnpst parts of the north. It will well repay all trouble. It also 

 makes a grand tub plant. There are a great many varieties, differing in color, size, shape, 

 quality and time of ripening — some ripen early and others will keep all winter. I offer the 

 largest collection in the United States, consisting of about fifty of the best, newest and 

 rarest sorts grown in Japan. 



' Fine trees 75 cents each ; one dozen, all diflTerent, best sorts, for I7; the entire collec- 

 tion, one each, $30. 



