MAT'S NOBTHEBN GROWN PLANTS, BEST FOR ALL CLIMES. 
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Brazilian Melon Fruit 
The Strawberry Guava. 
charming house 
plant, rivaling 
the famous Ota- 
heite Orange in 
beauty. It is a 
nice, clean grow- 
er, with thick 
glossy green 
leaves, and, like the orange, it bears both flowers and fruit at the same ^lie ^r?. 
era are purb white and deliehtfullv fragrant. The frmt is large, ^^'^'^^'^^y^^l^^'llf^^ 
nut, anS of a beautiful reddish color ; tTie flavor is delicious, sweet ^picj, and yet rw^ 
and delicate. It is very rare and interesting. The plant begms to bloom and bear mut 
while quite small. The plants are easily grown and will thrive with the same tre^tmra^^ 
, Slio Otaheite Orange. With the MeW Fruit, Lemon and Orange heremth offered, 
( a set of most interesting and valuable fruit and ornamental plants. 2Sc eacn , 
An ornamental fruit bearing tree 
that no one should fall to secure. 
A few years ago we Introduced this great plant novelty, and oiix experience 
mtb it and the many testimonials received from our patrons, aU praising its 
wonderful qualities, only confirm oar opinion expressed when introducing it, 
that it is the greatest plant novelty that has ever been offered the American 
trade. It is a native of Bouthern Brazil. It is not only an excellent and valuable 
ornamental plant, with rich green leaves that at once give it a foremost place m 
thelistof handsome foliage plants, but It also furnishe-s us with a most desir- 
able egg-shaped yellowish orange colored fruit, which liangs pendant in 
clusterl, iustI)elow the beautiful foliage. This fruit is of the most delight- 
ful flavor imaginable, having a slightly sub-acid J'^^J'^f'^ 
ent from any other fruit we are acquainted with. For eating out of h^d, 
slicing or making into preserves, it IS simply dehmou-s, and its lovely appear- 
ance in a dish on a table can only be equaled by the inest of tropical fnuts. 
As an ornamental plant it has tew equals Its splendid bushy habit, 
healthy growth and charming foliage giving it the preference over many or 
the weaker and more doUcate plants of the ornamental class. 
Mrs. T. B. Shepherd, Ventura. California, writes: "It is a fine shrub, ine 
foliage is large and handsome and the fruit of a beautiful orange salmon color 
when ripe, and has a delicious sub-acid taste." 
Note.-^It is desirable only for house culture and the open ground during 
the summer months, and must be taken into the house at the approach of cold 
^'^Theaeed. ^Wo'^^an supply the seeds of this valtiable plant,, and on each 
packet will be given full and complete cultural directions. This is very costly 
and consequently the packets will contain only a few seeds each. Pkt. 50c. 
SZ4-t.n-.-.7Uo.fi^r riitavfi Another luscious tropical fruit and 
btraWDCrry UliaVa. charming house plam. Thisisanative 
of Cuba and other West India islands, where its fruit is of great value for food, 
and also for making confections, which are exported to all parts of the world. 
Here, in our cli- 
mate, it makes 
given 1 
it forms a set of most interesting and vaiuarue rruii ana ornamem^i. r_ 
TU.^ rti-oViQifo Ot-o t-i(r<=> One of the grandest pot plants for flowering 
I ne Ulaneiie Urange. „o ^ave ever seen, and, being useful, as 
well as ornamental, should be grown by eyenrone. It i««;very dwarf va^^^^^ 
blSL^oms and fVu trfr'eSirwh^^^^ 1^ inches high. The delicately ,8centea b os- 
somrare produ«-d in great profusion. The fruit is quite small, being only about on&,h:ilf 
t he Ki7™ot tlie^^ is very sweet and delicious. For pot culture It i^ 
one oTfheVost nUl and inter^^^^^^^^^^ 
the entire soa-son, and one plant will scent a whole room. The stock we offer is strong 
A'lia'iVAj'«''WrtnHj-l- I f-mnn Another fine and valuable fruit for 
American WOnaer Lemon, house culture. The leaves are a deep 
glossy green like the Otaheite Orange, are easily kept clean and bright, J™"!''""^ Jbe 
IK nILt and attractive at all times, fn addition to this, its %vaxy, ^'''tt'i^?,?!*?* P'°n 
imna nrreluced in clusters, and followed by large, showy fruit, make this plant at all 
tKWiMW as wftl as useful. The fruit is verj large, of flue flavor, and superior to 
the ordinary lemons Of eonimeree, in every particular. „„uia valuable alike 
You will make no mistake in ordering this ni<ist Ixiautiful plant, as it is valuaDie aiiKt 
as an ornamental plant or as a fruit producing plant. 25c each. 
POUR FINE PLAINTS. 
FTamous for Pruit, Plowers and Poliage for SOc, Postpaid. 
I BRAZILIAN MELON FRUIT. 1 STRAWBERRY GUAVA. I OTAHEITE ORANGE. I AM. WONDER LEMON. 
Kumquat or Kin-Kan Orange. ^^deXr beTu^ 
tiful orange is a native of .Tapan, where it is known as Kin- 
Kan, which means (iold Orange; its other name, Kumquat^ 
is Chinese for the same meaning. It bears in the most mar- 
velous profiviion little minature oranges, no larger than a 
damson plum, of a rich golden color and glittering amid 
the dark foliage UkebniTiislied gold. The whole fruit, rind 
and all, is eaten, and people become extremely fond of them. 
The rind is sweet and the pulp agreeably acid, making a 
piquant combination. They are also delicious preserved and 
crystallized. The iiUints begin to bear just as soon as they 
have wood enough to hold fruit; and are loaded with fruit 
and flowers every year. We liave set^n little bushes only 20 
inches high carrying upward of 100 oranges. A small tree, 
not more than six feet high and five feet tlirough, bore over 
2,000 fruits, and this is by no means an extraordinary yield 
for this sort. The branches are slender, without thorns, the 
leaves narrow and oval, and the plant assumes a fine shape. 
As a pot plant it will create a sensation everywhere grown . 
nioa Pf510-fJin« (TEA OR SWEET OLIVE.) 
VJiea nrdgrdllS. one of the sweetest and most 
desirable of flowers. The white flowers are produce<l in 
clusters, and emit the most pleasing fragrance. It is well 
said that "each individual bloom has more sweetness than 
the most fragrant Lily." Asj a conservatory shrub it, will lie 
found Invaluable. The blooming peritxl begins m the fall 
and lasts for several months ; in fact, it is a true i>erpetual 
bloomer. It is of easy culture and especially d«!sirable as a 
window plant. In India and Buroi)e it is considered extreme- 
ly valuable. One of the best ever-blooming plants. 20c 
each. 
