PLATE NO. 10 
Rare tropical RrPits for Rot GilltPre. 
These make the most novel and interesting pot or tub plants, and are the easiest of all pot plants to 
Many are handsome in foliage, in blossoms, and all showy, interesting and luscious in fruit The most n't 
them fruit the greater part of the year. Growing the beautiful and rare fruits in pots opens up a new than 
m plant culture which is rich in interest and pleasure. Our friends will be delighted with them ° 
Figs. 
A most popular and easily kept tub plant that -will beau¬ 
tify the lawn or veranda all summer and winter safely in the 
cellar. Good growers, with a luxuriant growth of large, 
wide leaves, and bearing at a year old an abundance of 
sweet, pulpy fruit, unsurpassed for eating fresh. They are 
also very fine for preserving or pickling, or to dry. South of 
the Middle States can be grown in the open ground. Here on 
Long Island they are hardy outdoors if protected during"win¬ 
ter. Nothing is more luscious than Figs fresh from the tree, 
especially when eaten with cream like Strawberries. We 
have several fine sorts well adapted for pots, often bearing 
three crops in a season. A two-year-old tree bore over two 
hundred fine figs this season. 30c. each. 
Otafyeite O ra R2 e - 
An extra fine pot plant, with glossy green leaves, the true 
fragrant orange blooms and abundant little bright oranges 
that will hang on the little bush like balls of gold for six 
months after they are ripe. They will bloom and fruit in a 
two-inch pot: and we have seen a plant in a common win¬ 
dow, that was but 15 inches high, and had 23 oranges on it. 
With good sunlight they are never out of fruit from one 
year’s end to another, and at least two-thirds of the time are 
in flower also. The fruit is very sweet and handsome. Could 
we have but one plant in our window it would be an Otaheite 
Orange. In beauty, grace and fragrance there is nothing 
like its delicate, leafy sprays of bloom, so indescribable, 
exquisite, dainty, lovely and adorable. Fine plants for bloom¬ 
ing and fruiting at once. 
30c. each; 3 for 50c.; extra large , by express , 40c. 
KUipqUat Ov&T)oe. 
Another dwarf Orange for pots, or for the open ground 
South, and even finer than the Otaheite. It bears in marvel¬ 
ous profusion little miniature oranges, no larger than a damson 
plum, of a rich golden color and glittering amid the dark 
foliage like burnished 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 which is most delicious and refreshing. They 
are also delicious preserved and crystalized. In both flower 
and fruit this is a most beautiful pot plant, and is bound to 
become as popular as the Otaheite though entirely different. 
50c. each. 
The Strawberry QbaVa. 
A beautiful pot plant, with shining evergreen foliage that 
resembles Camellia leaves, and handsome fruit nearly the 
size of a walnut, and a fine strawberry-like flavor. The 
fruit makes the finest and most nutritious jellv that there is 
and blooms and fruits continuously the year round. It 
must be considered as useful as ornamental. A very heavy 
bearer, and the fruit is very handsome. 20c. each; 3 for 50c. 
Bapapa Cfripoco. 
This is a superb plant both in foliage and fruit. One of 
the finest Bananas for. pot culture, and fruits splendidly. 
The leaves are borne in a palm-like crown or cluster, each 
leaf three to five feet long, and two feet broad; of a clear, 
shining green, curved and crinkled in the most pleasing 
manner. This is even finer than Musa Ensette as a decora¬ 
tive plant. The most beautiful foliage plant that can be 
grown outside of a hothouse. Grand for bedding out in 
summer, or for conservatory 
or warm window decoration. 
Can be kept unwatered in 
a warm cellar over winter, 
if there is no room for if 
in the window. 30c. each; 
3 for 75c. 
Pipe <&pple. 
A picturesque plant. Al¬ 
ways a centre of attraction 
in conservatory or window. 
Fruits when but a year old, 
and the handsome conical 
fruit is very delicate, and 
finely flavored and highly 
fragrant. Not at all hard to 
grow, if kept i n a warm place. 
It will be a success if grown 
in a window where ordinary 
plants do well. Beally one 
of the most desirable plants. 
30c. each. 
Pear, or Pepiqo. 
A rapid-growing, dark-leaved plant, blooming when 
quite small. The fruit is the size and shape of a goose egg, 
and is very handsome; in color a pale lemon mottled with 
waves of bright violet._ Inside the fruit resembles a pear, 
and tastes somewhat like a banana, but is much sweeter 
and jucier. Very ornamental when in flower and fruit. 
An elegant pot plant; also fine for the garden. 20c. each; 
3 for 50c.; 7 for $1.00. 
SPECIAL OFFER. 
For only $1.50 we will send one each of the 7 fine Tropical Fruits 
offered on this plate, 
