TWENTIETH CENTURY FRUITS 
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countries and is shipped to England, where it brings fancy prices on 
account of the exquisite flavor of this most unique fruit. 
Each, 40c; three, $1; ten, $2. 
Strawberry Guava 
This is barely hardy at Santa Rosa and can be grown all along the 
Coast where the ground does not freeze more than one-half to one inch 
in depth. The variety which I offer is astonishingly productive, the 
plants producing almost a solid mass of fruit from root to top. This 
fruit is about an inch in diameter, pale yellow in color, and is much 
prized for jellies. 
Small plants, each, 25c; three, 60c; ten, $1.50; hundred, $8. 
Myrtus Ugni— Improved Chilian Myrtle 
This is the best wild fruit which grows in Chile, the size of very large 
huckleberries; bronzy red, spicy, and fragrant. Produced in greatest 
abundance on handsome evergreen shrubs two to three feet high. Hardy 
throughout most of California. 
Each, 10c; three, $1; ten, $2. 
A New Asparagus 
If any more delicious vegetable than crisp, well grown asparagus has 
been invented, tell us about it. And yet people who buy it in the 
markets seldom, if ever, get the best in its best condition. If you possess 
half a square rod of ground almost anywhere under the sun, you can 
produce a daily supply of this most healthful vegetable for a family 
for several months at so little care and expense that you will have good 
reason to laugh. Thoroughly fertilize the space allotted, spade deeply, 
add more fertilizer and spade again, making the soil rich, deep, and 
fine. The bed should be a little raised above the paths when finished. 
Plant the young plants lour inches under the surface, placing them 
eighteen inches to two feet apart. Do not cut the stalks the first 
season if you desire best results for the next fifty years, during which 
with very little care, never-failing crops will be produced. Many years 
ago I produced and introduced a new large, white asparagus, which 
excelled in flavor all others known. In the passing years since, even 
this has been greatly improved and I now lor the first lime offer this, 
the best asparagus ever grown. 
The "Quality" 
This produces very large, sweet, light colored stalks which will be a 
delight to all who grow or use it. You will find that it is "not like other 
asparagus." 
Yearling plants, ten, 75c; twenty-five, $1.50; hundred, $5. Select two- 
year-old plants, ten, $1.50; twenty-five, $3; hundred, $8. 
