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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y 
Floral Park plunks. 
T O tlic many good new fruits which 
we have introduced we add, this 
year a strain of Seedling Primus 
Maritima, which will be known 
as Floral Park Plums. It is a fruit of 
great hardiness ahd vigor, prolific and 
free from insect pests. The bushes at¬ 
tain a height of six feet though they 
fruit freely when less than two feet in 
height. The fruit is round, rather 
larger than a large grape, with a small, 
cherry-like pit. Color deep purplish 
red, and borne in the greatest abun¬ 
dance, the cut here shown being a true 
and average sample of a section of 
branch. The fruit is of fine flavor, 
never wormy , and tine to eat raw or 
cooked in any form. It makes the 
finest jelly of any fruit, while its yield is 
enormous, a few bushes giving bushels 
of fruit. It was never known to winter 
kill, and will thrive in any situation no 
matter how poor or exposed. Besides 
its value ns a fruit, it is one of the most 
beautiful of all flowering shrubs, for 
early in the spring it is one solid mass 
of lovely white flowers which show to 
great effect. When in fruit it is also 
exceedingly ornamental, tho great 
masses of luscious red plums looking 
very tempting. It bears freely in a 
year or two after planting, and is 
bound to bo largely grown, 50c. each; 
3 for $1.00. 
