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



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ORNAMENTAL CLIMBING COURPS. 



These plants are Ycry 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 they 

 furnish an endless soiirce of interest and delight watching the 

 many curious and oddly shaped fruits of all sizes and colors de- 

 yelop from clay to day. . . ^-u -r^ . 



Large Fruited Gourds — This mixture contains the Bat- 

 tle, Corsican, Herculae Club, Powderhorn, Dipper and many 

 other kinds. Pkt, 25 seeds, 5c. 



Small Fruited or Pepo Gourds— This mixture contains 

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

 curious. Pkt., 30 seeds, 5c. 



SCEHTED POCKET 

 MELON. 



This is not only a novelty 

 but a great curiosity and useful 

 fruit. Grows on trellises, makes 

 a pretty vine, and very showy 

 fruit which has a delioious 

 perfume; carried in the 

 pocket or laid on mantel or 

 table, imparts a delicious 

 fragrance ; served with sugar 

 makes a dainty dessert, -^ 



Pkt., 20 seeds, 8o. 



This plant is both very useful 

 and ornamental. The fruit is of 

 a yellowish-cream color and then 

 changes to canary, then deepen- 

 ing to orange, then turns into 

 pink, until it becomes a bright 

 shining scarlet. The fruit is of 

 the size of a plum. A plant loaded 

 with its fruit in all these shades 

 and colors at one time is a sight 

 not easily forgotten. It is easily 

 grown and does well in the house 

 and, of course, out of doors. 



Pkt., 6c. 



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flFRlCilli HORWEP CLIiWBIWG CUCUIWBER. 



An odd, curious, and, withal, a useful and beautiful 

 plant from Africa, of Missionary origin. The vine is a 

 thick and rapid grower, the fruit is oddly formed, of 

 a deep green when young, changing to an orange-scarlet; 

 grows very large, but should be eaten when quite small. 

 People who cannot eat ordinary cucumbers can eat 

 this with impunity; very pleasant and refreshing. 



Pkt., 30 seeds, 8c.; 3 for 20c. 



Japanese Climbing Cucumber— This is one of 

 the most desirable of all cucumbers; a strong, healthy, 

 continuous grower, bearing plenteously and continu- 

 ously through the summer. Fruits deep green, 10 inches 

 long, never bitter, crisp and pleasant. Pkt., 30 seeds, 5c. 



Very curious climber, 

 with ornamental foliage and 

 golden-yellow fruit which 

 opens when ripe, showing 

 the seed and carmine in- 

 terior. Apple and .. Pear 

 mixed. Pkt., 5c. 



Resembling in color, shape 

 and size the eggs of hens; 

 are uninjuied by cold or 

 wet and therefore make the 

 best nest-eggs; also very use- 

 ful when mending stock- 

 inga. Pkt., 5c. 



