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CHARLOTTE M. HAINES, ROCKFORD, ILL., SEEDS GROWN BY A WOMAN 
ORNAMENTAL FRUITS for POT CULTURE 
The most interesting- plants you can grow. 'Most of them are in fruit the entire year 
and all are very decorative. 
PLEASE NOTE—Quarantine laws prohibit shipping Orange and Lemon Plants to 
Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, 
Texas. Please do not ask us to. 
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Strawberry 
Guava 
Otaheite Orange 
Beautiful, Graceful and Fragrant. 
An extra fine pot plant, with 
glossy leaves, the true fragrant 
Orange blooms and abundant lit¬ 
tle bright Oranges that will hang 
on the little bush like balls of 
gold for six months after they 
are ripe. Nice young thrifty 
plants, postpaid, 25c to 35c. Ex¬ 
tra large plants, by express, $1.50 
each. 
Surinam Dwarf 
Cherry 
An Ornamental Plant as Well as 
a Tasty Fruit. 
Ornamental as well as useful, 
both in flower and fruit._ The 
fruits are rich bright red in col¬ 
or and of most delicious flavor. 
Being of dwarf growth, it makes 
a most desirable pot plant. Strong 
plants, each 45c; 2 for 85p, post¬ 
paid. 
Strawberry 
Guava 
New Everbearing 
Ponderosa Lemon 
Large Juicy Fruits. Easy To 
Grow. 
A Lemon that can be as eas¬ 
ily grown in a pot as a Gerani¬ 
um and which produces fruit 
weighing from one to three 
pounds each. These enormous 
fruits are borne on plants one 
to two feet high growing in pots. 
It is ever-bearing and its fruit 
is delicious for lemonade and 
culinary purposes. Select Plants, 
postpaid, 25c to 35c each. Ex¬ 
tra large plants, by express, 
$1.50 to $2.50 each. 
Delicious Flavor, Very Sweet 
and Spicy. 
Another luscious tropical fruit 
and charming house plant, rival¬ 
ing the famous Otaheite Orange 
in beauty. Like the 
orange, it bears both 
flowers and fruit at 
the same time. The 
flowers are pure white 
and delightfully frag¬ 
rant. The fruit is 
large, nearly the size 
of a walnut, of a beau¬ 
tiful reddish color, and 
of delicious, sweet and 
spicy flavor. The plant 
begins to bloom and 
bear fruit while, quite 
small. Strong plants, 
each 45c; 2 for 85c, 
postpaid. 
Smyrna Fig 
Sweet, Tender and of 
Fine Quality 
A dwarf variety imported 
from the Far East, of compact, 
hardy growth, making little 
wood. As a pot or tub plant 
it is extremely valuable either 
indoors or outside. It will win¬ 
ter safely in an ordinary cellar,f; 
or it can be allowed to harden 
off with a few frosts in the 
early fall and then brought in¬ 
doors for growing during the 
winter. The fruit is of medium 
size, very sweet and almost seed¬ 
less. Strong plants, each 45c; 
2 for 85c, postpaid. 
ALL SMALL PLANTS POSTPAID 
Large Sizes by Express Collect 
Otaheite Orange 
COLL ECTI 
One fine young plant ^ 
of each of the 5 fruits 
listed for only $1.60, post¬ 
paid. 
CULTURAL DIRECTIONS 
All Tropical Fruits do best in sandy loam soil. 
Should be grown out-of-doors in tubs in summer. 
Keep in a temperature about 45° to 50° in winter 
while in semi-dormant condition or can be grown 
in house all through the winter if so desired. None 
of the Tropical Fruits will stand frost or freezing 
weather. 
Tobacco Dust—Dust on plants for green and black aphis, insects, etc., 22c lb.; S lbs. $1.00. 
