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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
“I^apid Growing Ornamental Trees. 
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We are gUul to be able to oiler at low prices a few of the most desirable trees for ornament and shade. Every home, lx: it 
a mansion or cottage, is both beautified and greatly enhanced in value by a few good trees. There are none better t lain those 
here offered, and they are mostly such rapid growers that in a very few years they will be large, beautiful and useful. We 
grow these trees in such enormous quantities thut we are nble to sell them very low. They are strong, healthy young stock, 
und sent by mail, post-paid, at prices named; by express we can send larger ones. Our customers on the prairies, or any one 
in any pari of the count ry, desiring large, handsome trees, will have them in two or three years if they plant some Catalpas, 
Adamhus, Paulowniu, Russian Mulberries, Sc., at once. 
ftussiaif Mulberry* 
This valuable f ruitand ornamental tree was brought to this 
country from Western Russia by t lie Mcnuonites. The t ree is 
a very rapid grower; trees, the seed of which was planted six 
S ears ago, are now twenty feet in height and from six to eight 
ache's in diameter. The' tree grows to be very large*, often 
| reaching the height of fifty feet, and from three to five feet 
in diameter, and is perfectly hardy. It commences to bear 
when two years old. and is a prolific bearer, the fruit being 
■ about the size of blackberries. They have a line aromat ic 
I flavor, and sub-acid sweet taste, and arc used for dessert as we 
use blackberries of raspberries. I f is iu fact a beautiful, quick- 
growing tree for the lawn, while the fruit is valuable for 
table use. It is truly a grand t ree, both for ornament nud fruit. 
