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BUR BANK'S 1919 FRUITS, FLOWERS AND PLANTS 
Improved Pawpaw 
The Pawpaw is one of the most promising fruits for California. The improved 
Pawpaw is large and exceedingly delicious; in form like a banana, growing in 
clusters of three to six each. Trees bear as early as ordinary orchard trees and 
should be extensively planted, especially for home use. Young plants from a large 
fruiting very superior market variety: Each, 50c; three, $1.25; five, $2; ten, $3.50. 
Improved Pawpaws grown at my Sebastopol place. 
New Everblooming Poppy 
Several years ago I succeeded in crossing the Oriental (perennial) poppy with 
the Paeony flowering (annual) poppy. The result was a strain of single perennial 
everblooming poppies bearing enormous flowers on long stems, of various shades 
of scarlet, crimson and orange. Unlike all other poppies, these bloom all the time 
throughout the year in this climate and may perhaps be hardy in severe climates. 
Field grown roots, each, 40c; three, 90c; live, $1.25. 
Burbank Gladiolus 
One hundred thousand absolutely new varieties of about every form and color 
ever produced from this wonderfully variable plant, including scarlet, crimson, 
yellow, blue, purple, lavender, orange, salmon, and pink, with infinitely varied 
combinations of rainbow colors. Such a mass of brilliant colors can not be 
produced at many times the cost of these in any other flower. Last season people 
