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will be planted to it. It bears from seed the second season, and a young plant 

 set out in the spring grows six feet high and conies into bearing by Christmas. 

 The foliage is large and handsome, the branches spreading. The fruit, which 

 hangs pendant in clusters below the foliage, is the size of a large egg, of a beau- 

 tiful orange salmon color when ripe. It has a delicious sub-acid taste, slightly 

 resembling the tomato. It is delicious raw, served with sugar and cream, or 

 cooked as sauce, and for jelly or jam is very fine. It will keep for weeks, as it 

 does not bruise on account of its very tough skin and the solid nature of the 

 fruit covering the seeds, which are like those of the tomato. The fruit is so 

 handsome it would sell readily at sight, and if shipped Bast during the holidays 

 would be immensely popular. In Ceylon and India it is extensively grown, and 

 is known as the "Poor Man's Fruit." It is a showy plant for house and con- 

 servatory and a most beautiful plant in the garden. Plants 15, 25 and 50 cts. 

 each. Special rates on quantity. Seeds per pkt. 10 cts. 



NEW S.NOWY WHITE TE60MA. 



Jasminoides Alba. A beautiful variety like the old T. Jasminoides, except that the 

 foliage is a lighter shade of green, and the flowers pure white with a pale yellow 

 throat. They are also larger, of heavier texture, and the lobes of the flower tube 

 are fuller and overlap each other, giving a soft effect that is very beautiful. Young 

 plants 50 cts.; large $1.00. 



New French Violet "Princess of Wales". 



Princess of Wales is far ahead of "California" and all other Violets known. Of 

 hardy, vigorous growth, the plants are wonderfully free-flowering, with stems 

 from ten to twelve inches long; large green leaves of a thick, leathery texture. 

 The grand single flowers, of a true, violet-blue color that does not fade, are of 

 round, symmetrical form, almost as large as pansies, and of the richest, most de- 

 licious fragrance. So large and circular are the flowers that some blooms will 

 cover a silver dollar. 25 cts each. 



Tn ordering please make a second choice of plants to be substituted, as I 

 am sometimes out of varieties, and there is always a loss of time in writing for in- 

 structions. 





