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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1899. 
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. 
Wrown Turkey—Large, oblong, dark brown; rich and deli¬ 
cate flavor; very productive, often bearing three crops in 
a season. A two-year-old tree of this sort bore over two 
hundred fine figs this season. Best Fig for pots. 30c. 
>$ach. Extra large, by express, 50c. each. 
gaparm Qripoco. 
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 liner than Musa Ensette as a decorat¬ 
ive 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 it in the window. 
80c. each; 3 for 75c. Extra large by express, 60c. each. 
Strawberry GhaVa. 
A beautiful pot plant, with shining evergreen foliage that 
resembles Camellia leaves, and handsome fruit nearly the 
size of a walnut, and of a fine strawberry-like flavor. The 
fruit makes the finest and most nutritious jelly that there is 
and blooms and fruits continuously the year around. It 
must be considered as useful as ornamental. A very heavy 
bearer, and the fruit is very handsome. 30c. each; 3 for 50c. 
Dovfny Myrtle. 
A very handsome small evergreen shrub, from Northern 
India, bearing beautiful pink five-petaled flowers, resembl¬ 
ing in size a large Rose or Cosmos. The flowers appear in 
such wonderful profusion that the leaves of the plant are 
almost completely hidden, and the branches weighted to 
the ground. The flowers are followed by fruits about the size 
of a gooseberry, red in color and of an agreeable sviee.isn 
taste; fine for jam, etc. It should be grown in every Southern 
garden for its fruit, and at the North as an elegant pot- 
shrub. Price of fine plants, 25c. each; 3 for 50c. 
