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MISS MARY E. MARTIN, FLORAL PARK. NEW YORK. 



Ornamental Climbing Gourds. 



These plants are very desirable for training over the 

 lattice work and shading the front of the piazza, for porches 

 and trellises, for covering fences, stumps, etc. The foliage 

 is dense and cooling and often grows 20 feet in a season. 

 Besides, thev furnish an endless source of interest and 

 delight watching the manv curious and oddly shaped fruits 

 of all sizes and colors develop from day to day. 



LARGE FRUITED GOURDS. This mixture contains the 

 Bottle, Corsican. Hercules' Club. Powderhorn, Dipper and 

 many other kinds. Packet, 5c. 



SMALL FRUITED OR PEPO GOURDS. This mixture 

 contains the Apple, Pear, Orange, Egg, flat, striped and 

 bicolor. Very curious. Packet, 5c. 



DIPPER GOUPD, 



Packet, 5c. 



Hibiscus PeacJiblow, 



HERCULES' 



CLUB, 



Packet, 5c. 



Mew Pink Hibiscus 

 " Peachblow." 



This is one of the finest 

 free flowering plant novel- 

 ties offered in recent years. 

 It is a "sport" from the 

 double red Hibiscus Resea- 

 Sinensis ; the flowers are 

 double and from four to five 

 inches in diameter; of a 

 charming, rich, clear, pink 

 color, with a small, deep 

 crimson center ; an entirely 

 new and most beautiful 

 shade; it blooms abun- 

 dantly and continuously 

 even on small plants during 

 the entire summer and fall 

 months; may beeasil;; win- 

 tered in greenhouse' or dwelling. Large plants, 

 two or three years old, make a magnificent show. 

 It will give great satisfaction to all who grow it, 

 either in pots or plants out in the garden. It is a 

 good winter bloomer in the greenhouse or sunny 

 window. First size: Strong, well-rooted plants, 

 each, 15c.; 2 for 25c. 



Japan Towel Gourd or Luffa. 



Seed sown like Cucumbers, will bear and ripen 

 an abundance of fruit before frost. The lace-like 

 network of fiber which forms inside the fruit is a 

 very useful article, and is used for various pur- 

 poses, such as dish-rags, sponges, and even for 

 bonnets and other millinery work, The flowers of S 

 this variety are also very numerous, large and | 

 showy, and'the plant as a whole is a most charming, 

 useful and interesting vine. Packet, 5c.; oz., 20c. 



Jifrican Horned Climbing Cucumber, 



Packet, 5c. 



Japanese Climbing Cucumber. 



Packet, 5c. 



BALSAM APPLE AND 

 , PEAR. 



Very curious climber, 

 with ornamental foliage 

 and golden-yellow fruit 

 which opens when ripe. 

 showing the seed and car- 

 mine interior. Apple and 

 Pear mixed. Packet, 5c. 



QUEEN ANNE'S SWEET= 



SCENTED POCKET 



MELON. 



This is not only a novelty 

 but a great curiosity and 

 useful fruit. Grows on trel- 

 lises, makes a prett%- vine, 

 and very showy fruit which 

 has a delicious perfume; 

 carried in the pocket or laid 

 ! on mantel or table imparts 

 !a delicious fragrance; 

 served with sugar makes a 

 1 dainty dessert. Packet, 5c. 



Japanese MesUEgg Gourd 



Resembling in color, shape and size the eggs of hens; 

 are uninjured bv cold or wet, and therefore make the 

 best nest-eggs ; also very useful when mending stock- 

 ings. Packet, 5c. 



