JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
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XROPIGAIf JfRUITS. 
!t is with mnch pleasure that wo are ablo to offer several rare Tropical fruits, especially adapted for pot culture In the 
window or conservatory, Xorth, or for open ground culture in the Southern and Pacific States. Growing Itare Tropical 
Fruits opens up to the cultivator of plants an entirely new channel, and one that will afford interest and pleasure beyond 
conception. Our stock of everything offered is largo and very tine, and we cun recommend these varieties for pot culture. 
They will all succeed admirably. 
Passiflora pdiilis. 
An elegant vine with charming flowers and large, luscious fruit. This grand plant is very rare and expensive, even in 
the tropics, but we have succeeded in propagating a large stock of it and can offer it at a very low price. It is a large, rapid 
growing vine, producing an abundance of lovely flowers, which are followed by fruit the size of a goose egg, and of a bright 
purple color when ripe. The fruit is very fragrant and delicious to the taste, cool and refreshing. It is a plant worthy of 
general culture, not alone for its fruit, but for its great bundunco of lovely flowers. It sells usually at SI each, but we 
■can supply strong, healthy plants at25c. each, 5 for §1. 
Meloi* Pear, 
or Pepiijo. 
A grand tropical fruit which 
can De us-easily-grown as a 
tomato, either in the garden or 
in pots, and requires the same 
treatment. It is a fine plant, 
both in flower and fruit. It 
blooms f reely soon after plant¬ 
ing, and in three months the 
fruit will ripen and continue 
to ripen until checked by the 
frost. The fruit is t he size of 
a gooso egg, or even larger, 
and very much of the same 
shape. The color is lemon or 
pale orange, with streaks or 
waves of bright violet, the 
whole making a fruit unri¬ 
valed in beauty. The interior 
of the fruit is a solid pulp, 
; similar to that of a pear, also 
of a pale yellow color, and of a 
til taste much like a banana, only 
sweeter and very juicy, and 
which has besides a most 
charming acid. Plants bloom 
. when small, but do not form 
f- fruit, until quite Strong. Wit h 
us, small plants put out in 
_ June fruited in September, 
-- and grew to a large size. Price 
of Hne plants for fri iting this 
summer. 25c. each ; 6 for $1. 
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