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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
The (’bilds Quince. 
This is a most remarkable new fruit, and will be hailed 
with delight, as it is such an improvement over all varieties 
of Quince thus far introduced. The fruit grows to an enor¬ 
mous size, larger than the largest Apples. In shape ir, is 
uearly round, resembling an Apple very much, with smooth 
skin. It is of very mild, pleasant flavor, so much so that 
when ripe it is delicious to eat raw from the hand as one 
would eat a good Apple. For cooking it is superb. Its flesh 
is so tender that it will bake or stew as readily as an Apple, 
and In less time. The tree is a large, rank, luxuriant grower 
with heavy foliage and bears enormously, beginning when 
they stand in the nursery rows and only a few feet in height. 
It is. indeed, a pretty sight to see these little trees, 
each bearing a number of Quinces of such tremendous size. 
Mr. Burbank, the originator, writes: “Two-year-old 
trees of the Childs Quince are now bending almost to the 
ground with their fruit which hang almost from the soil up 
the stems to the very tops. Some of these trees are only 
three and one-half feet high. I doubt if you realize what, a 
grand fruit it is. It is the earliest Quince to ripen, earliest 
to bear, productive to my astonishmentevery season, amour h, 
handsome, lemon-yellow fruit, very large, and cooks in five 
minutes.” 
This Quince has already become more or less famous 
through newspaper articles which have- been written in 
praise of its merits. Price. 75c. each : :* for $2.nt. 
-Apricot, BobgoUipe* 
A new sort from Japan, and the finest yet introduced. 
It is so very dwarf that it requires no more room than a 
good shrub, yet growing luxuriantly with large, healthy 
foliage in great abundance, and marvelous crops of deli¬ 
cious fruit, it can even be grown in a large pot or tub, like 
a Hydrangea or Oleander, and will fruit abundantly. It. is 
perfectly hardy and bears when only two to three feet high. 
Fruit ripens in early summer, before Reaches or any other 
good fruit, in fact the earliest of the Apricots. Fruit large 
and a beautiful golden color, rich, sweet and juicy, of finest 
flavor, and good, solid tle’sh. A most valuable new fruit. 
(Oo. each; 3 for *1.00. Extra large trees, by express, «0e. 
each; 3 for $1.50. 
