SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1896. 
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The S^aWberpy GbaVa. 
A beautiful pot plant, with shining evergreen foliage that 
resembles Camellia leaves, ami 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 niust 
, be considered as useful as ornamental. A very heavy bearer, 
[and the fruit is very handsome. 20c. each ; 3 for 50c. 
CHOICE TROPICAL FRUITS. 
The following fruits are well adapter! to pot culture ! 
nd make unique and highly satisfactory pot plants, 
nyone will he successful with them who can grow a ] 
cranium. 
Melon pear, or pepipo. 
A rapid-growing, dark-leaved plant, blooming when 
•inite small. The fruit is the size and shape of a goose egg. 
and very handsome: in color a pale lemon mottled with 
waves of bright violet. Inside the fruit resembles a pear, 
and tastes something like a banana, but is much sweeter 
and juicier. Very ornamental when in flower and fruit. 
An elegant pot plant; also fine for the garden. 20c. each : 
8 for 50c. 
Fill*. 
A popular and easily kept tub plant that will beautify 
the lawn or verandaall summer and winter safely in the cel¬ 
lar. Good growers, with a luxuriant growth of large, wide 
leaves, and bearing at a year old an abundance «»1 sweet, 
pulpy fruit, unsurpassed formating fresh. They are also very 
line for preserving or pickling, or t«. dry. South of the Mid¬ 
dle States can be grown in the open ground. Here on Long 
Island they are hardy out-doors if protected during winter. 
Nothing is more luscious than Figs fresh from the tree, 
Mpecially when eaten with cream, like Strawberries. 
•town Turkey. Large, oblong, dark brown ; rich and deli- 
1 Cious 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. each. 1 
Rapapa ('aVcpdislp. 
Oavendishi is the finest Banana for pot culture, .as It is 
dwarf and does not grow over five or six feet high 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, mottled and spattered with blood- 
red in the most pleasing manner. Thisiseven finer than Musa 
Ensel te as a decorative plant. The most beautiful foliage 
plant that can be grown outside of a hothouse. Grand for 
i 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. 75c. each. 
