RARE TROPICAL FRUITS 



POT cu LTU re: 



These make 

 plants for the 



the most interesting pot 

 house and are the easiest 

 'of all pot plants to grow. Some are 

 handsome in foliage, in blossoms, and 



howy, interesting and luscious i 

 ruit, and some of them fruit the greater 

 part of the year. 



EVERBEARING 

 POI©EROSA 



LEMON 



BUCKBEE'S 

 NEW EVERBEARING 

 PONDEROSA LEMON 



A Lemon lhat can be as easily grown in a pot as a 

 Geranium and which produces fruU weighing from one 

 lo ihree pounds eaoh. These enormous Fruits are borne 

 on plants one to two feet high, growing in 6 to 6 inch pots. 

 It is everbearing and its Fruit Is delicious For lemonade and 

 culinary purposes. It makes a beautiFul specimen plant (or the 

 house. Mas large, deep green leaves and pure, waxy-lilce flowers that 

 are fragrantas Orange blossoms. The enormous lemons have a thin rind 

 and are fuH of acid juice. Will thrive in any good soil either indoors or 

 ouL We have grown and sold this valuable plant for several years and have 

 never received a single complaint from a customer who purchased U. It is beyond 

 doubt one of the very finest plants For house culture ever introduced. 



MY PRICE FOR THE VERY BEST STOCK: Select, e«eh, pMipaid. 



25c. Smaller, thrifty plants, postpaid, I Oc lo I 5C each. Splendid 2-ye&r>old 

 plaJltA, by express, 50C, Extra larje plants, by express. $t 00 to $2,00, 



ORANGE 



SURINAM DWARF 

 CHERRY 



Ornamental as well as useFuI, both in flower 

 and fruit; and on account of its dwarf growth can 

 be grown in pots if desired lihe the Otaheite 

 Orange. The fruita are rich bright red in color 

 and most delicious flavor, bears two crops yearly 

 under favorable culture and conditions. The 

 handsome fruits and rich foliage makes it a most 

 desirable plant that will interest the Shutins " 

 for house culture. Price strong plants each 30c 



postpaid. 



SMYRNA FIGS 



A dwarf variety imported from the far East, 

 of compact, hardy Jrowlh, making little wood. 

 As * pot or tub plant it is extremely valuable, 

 cither Indoor or outside. It will winter safely in 

 an ordinary cellar, or it can be allowed to harden 

 of with a few frosts in the early fall and then 

 brought indoors for growing during the winter. 

 The fruit ib of medium aire, very sweet and al- 

 most seedless. For the South it is nearer a per 

 peluat bearer than any other variety of Figs, and 

 will produce three crops in a season. The ideal 

 Fig for pot culture in the North, and it is one of 

 the rare plants that you should not miss getting. 

 Strong plants on own roots, grown from fruiting 

 i wood which will commence to bear at once. 



Price Strong Plants each 30c postpaid. 



SURINAM 



DWARF 

 CHE 



OTAHEITE ORANGE 



An extra flne pot plant, with glossy leaves, 

 the true fragrant Orange blooms and abundant 

 little bright oranges that will hang on the little 

 bush like balls of gold for six months after they 

 are ripe. They will bloom and fruit in a two-inoh 

 pot ; and we have seen a plant in a common win- 

 dow, that was but 15 inches high, and had 23 

 oranges on It. W^ith good sunlight they are never 

 out of fruit from one year's end to another, and at 

 least two'thirds of the time are in flower also. The 

 fruit is very sweet and handsome. Could we have 

 but one plant in our window it would be an Ot«' 

 heite Orange, ^n beauty, grace and fragrance 

 there is nothing tike the delicate, leafy sprays of 

 bloom, so indescribable, exquisite, dainty, lovely 

 and adorable. Fine plants for blooming and fruit- 

 ing at once. My pflce for the very best 

 Plants: Select, each, postpaid 25c. Nice, 

 young thrifty plants, postpaid 10c to 15c 

 each. Fine 2'>year-old plants by express 

 50c each. Extra large plants by express 

 $1.00 to $2.00 each. 



STRAWBERRY GUAVA 



Another luscious tropica! fruit and 



charming house plant, rivaling the famous 

 Otaheite Orange in beauty. It is a njce. clean 

 grower, with thick glossy green leaves, and like the 

 orange, it bears both flowers and fruit at the same 

 time. The flowers are pure while and delightfully 

 fragrant. The fruit is large, nearly the size of a 

 walnut, and of a beautiful reddish color; the flavor 

 is delicious, sweet and spicy, and yet rich and 

 delicate, it is very rare and 'nteresting. The 

 plant begins to bloom and bear fruit while quite 

 small. Fruit makes the highly famed 

 '*Quava Jelly." Price stronji plants 20c each 

 postpaid. 



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