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



Ornamental Climbing Gourds. 



These plants are very desirable for training over the 

 lattice work and shadms? the front of the piazza, for porches 

 and trellises, for covering- fences, stumps, etc. The fohaj^e 

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

 Besides, they furnish an endless source of interest and de- 

 light watching the many 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, 35 seeds, 5c. 



Smalt Fruited or Pepo Gourds. This mixture con- 

 tains the Apple, Pear, Orange Egg, flat, striped and bicolor. 

 Very curious. Packet, 30 seeds, 5c. 



Dipper Gourd, 'P^t., 5c. 



Hercules' Clufe,Pkt.,5c. 



Seed sown like Cucumbers, will bear and npen 

 an abundance of fruit before frost. The lace-like 

 network of fibre 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 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., 30c. 



African Horned Climbing Cucumber. 



Packet, 50 seeds, 5o. 



Japanese Climbing Cucumber. 



Packet, 30 seeds, 5c. 



BALSAM APPIiE AND 

 PEAR. 



Very curiotis climber, 

 with p^iamental foliage 

 and golden-yellow fruit 

 which opeaS when ripe, 

 showing ihe seed and car- 

 mine interior. Apple and 

 pear mixed. Packet, 5c^ 



QCJEEN ANNE'S SWEET- 

 SCENTED POCKET 

 MELON. 



This is not only a novelty 

 but a great curiosity and use- 

 ful fruit. Grows on trellises, 

 makes a pretty vine, and very 

 showy fruit which has a deli- 

 cious perfume ; carried in the 

 pocket or laid on mantel or 

 table, imparts a delicious fra- 

 grance ; served with sugar 

 makes a dainty dessert. 

 Paeket, S@ seeds, Beo 



Japanese Nest-Egg Gourd. 



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

 are uninjured by cold or wet, and therefore make the 

 best nest-eggs , also very useful when mending stock' 

 in^s. Packet, 60o 



