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JOHN LEWISV3HILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N Y. 
Grapes. 
0HOICEL AND^RARE BRUITS. 
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The Fruit Garden is an indispensable part of any rural home. It is a delight, a satisfaction, a convenience, 
& profit, and a source of the most healthful and delicious food supply any family can have. Beginning with the 
Strawberry in May, the supply Is never exhausted until the last winter Apples have gone. Juneberries, Cher- 
ries, Raspberries, Wineberries, Currants, Blackberries, Plums, Peaches, Pears, Grapes, etc., follow success¬ 
ively. They save expense, are luscious and convenient, and any place well stocked with fruits always finds a 
ready sale at a good price; they enhance its value often many times in excess of its cost. 
We have for years made a specialty^ of Choice Fruit Novelties and have introduced nearly all of the lead¬ 
ing ones for ten years past. The varieties here offered are all of recent introduction, and each and every one 
possesses great merit. The trees here offered are young and thrifty and will make a very rapid growth and 
bear quickly. When fruit trees or shrubs are received before they can be planted they may be safely kept for 
any length of time by having the roots packed in boxes of moist soil and stored in a cool cellar or shed. It is 
important to order fruit trees early that they may be planted out before the foliage starts. 
At prices named we send strong, robust, young stock, by mail, postpaid, but by express we can send much 
larger trees, especially Peaches, Apples, Plums, etc. Strawberries, Raspberries, Dewberries, Grapes, etc., 
are of course as well sent by mail as by express, as far as size is concerned. Our fruit stock is all vigorous and 
healthy, and whether you haveii sent by mail or express it will be sure to please you by its rapid and vigorous 
growth and early bearing. We have no San Jose Scale—See Certificate of last year. 
Choice Strawberries. 
Of all the fruits known 
to cultivation theStraw- 
berry is conceded to be 
the most luscious, and 
is a universal favorite ; 
yet it is not grown by 
one-half the people who 
might grow it just as 
I well as not. It is but a 
few hours’ work to plant 
1 a Strawberry bed and 
care for it through the 
year, and no work can 
possibly yield a better 
return. Strawberries 
bought in the market 
are not to be compared 
with the luscious, ruby 
beauties, fresh and ripe 
from the vines. The fol¬ 
lowing are the very best 
varieties in cultivation—the cream.of all—including extra 
early, medium and late sorts: 
Shuck I ess—It is not often that we have a more important 
novelty to introt 1 uce than this. It is a thorough depar¬ 
ture from the general run of-Strawberries, differing fiom 
all others in one Imost important respect, and in this 
point lies its great value, and we are sure our readers 
will appreciate it when we say that in picking the fruit 
the berry parts from the calyx something like the Rasp¬ 
berry, thus'avoiding vhe irksome task of hulling them 
before they can be placed upon the table. The hull re¬ 
mains upon the stems/ This one point should, and we 
believe will make this the most popular berry for home 
gardens that has yet beep introduced. Aside from this 
advantage, the berry is of large size, beautiful color, of 
nei: sweet flavor and a har dy\ robust grower, producing 
cue oi the largest crops of all berries. 50c. per doz.; 
$2.00 per 100; $15 per 1,000. 
Meeks?- Early— This is a most important new berry, inas¬ 
much as it is the earthiest and best of all early varie¬ 
ties It is a good week ahead of any other in ripening, 
and it is also of large size.- fine c uality and very produc¬ 
tive. No other early variety can compare with it, and it 
must find its way to every collec tion. 50c. per dozen ; 
$2.00 per 100; $15 per 1,000. 
Mlneola— For a general all-around Strawberry, we believe 
this to be the finest variety in cultivation. It originated 
on Long Island and has been culivated here for ten or a 
dozen years by a few growers, and was first introduced 
into general cultivation by us last year.; The fruit is of 
very large size and exceedingly sweet and luscious in 
quality, in this respect surpassing any other variety. It 
is a most vigorous grower, its foliage being of great size 
and wonderfully healthy and luxuriant. The fruit is 
borne on tall stems which hold them well up from the 
sand and dirt below. The berries are perfect in shape, 
beautiful in color, enormous in size and exceedingly pro¬ 
lific, succeeding well on all soils. Either as a market, 
home or exhibition berry it is par excellence. Could we 
grow but one variety this would be our choice. Fine 
plants 50c. per dozen ; $2.00 per 100 ; $15 per 1,000. 
Ocean City— A new berry of wonderful value. Its great 
points of value are, enormous size, surpassing almost any 
other .known sort, and enormously productive. Unlike 
all large berries, which are usually shy bearers, this one 
is very prolific. In beauty it has no equal, and always 
brings a larger price in market than any other. It is a 
hardy and vigorous grower, supposed to be a cross be¬ 
tween Wilson ancl Sharpless. From what we know of it 
we believe it is a variety of pronounced value. Fine 
plants, 60c. per dozen, $2.00 per 100; $16.00 per 1,000, 
SPECIAL OFFER. 
Six plants each of the above four finest Strawberries for 
01W; 12 plants each for $1.50; loo plants each for $6.00. 
Everyone -who has a bare fence, wall or outbuilding, ora 
few feet of vacant ground, can plant a few grape vines and 
reap an annual harvest of luscious fruit. Owners of country 
places, or even of city lots, need never be without an abund¬ 
ant supply of Grapes in season. There is no fruit that yields 
a more prompt or generous return. Everybody can grow it, 
and everybody should have it in abundance. The following 
sorts are the very cream of the hundreds of varieties which 
are before the public; they are mostly varieties of recent in¬ 
troduction and of improved quality. 
Early Ohio— This is the earliest of all Grapes, originated at 
Euclid, Ohio, in 1882, bein* a’chance seedling of the Con¬ 
cord. The third year from seed it set thirty clusters of 
fruit which were allowed to grow ; they ripened, August 
,20th. It has oorned large crops every year since, ripening 
in 1889 the 15th of August, and always as early as the 20th 
of the month; fully one week to ten days earlier than 
Moore’s Early. It is fully three times as productive as 
Moore’s Early, better in quality, and never drops from 
the stem, a fact that shippers will fully appreciate. On 
account of its earliness the fruit is readily sold in the 
market at 10 to 15 cents per pound at wholesale. Testi¬ 
monials received from all parts of the country corrobo¬ 
rate the foregoing in every detail. The introduction of 
this variety makes it possible to grow Grapes in any lo¬ 
cality.^. each’; A for $1.00. 
Moore’s Diamond —This is probably the finest of all white 
Grapes. The vine is hardy and healthy in growth, vigor¬ 
ous and perfectly free from mildew. Berries large, of a 
beautiful light straw color—almost white—and of a most 
delicious quality, having few seeds, and a pulp which 
melts in one’s mouth like snow. 20c. each; $2.00per dozen. 
Moyer —An extra early Grape, about the size and color of 
the old Dela are, but with a larger bunch. It is, perhaps, 
sweeter and more delicious than any other Grape grown, 
in this respect being superior to the Delaware. It has 
beautiful red berries, which are very handsome, ancl the 
vine is a hardy, robust grower, vigorous and productive. 
Originated in Canada. 20c. each; $2.00 per dozen. 
Niagara —No Grape has been so largely advertised as this, 
and none so extensively planted during the first few 
years and, we may say, none has proved more profitable. 
It is the leading white Grape of the day. Berries very 
large, borne in large bunches. Flavor sweet and delicious, 
there being but very few varieties which can equal it. It 
is exceedingly 7 productive and as hardy and robust in any 
locality as the Concord. 15c. each; $1.25 per dozen. 
Golden Pocklington— A very sweet and delicious Grape of 
a beautiful amber color. Hardy, vigorous and produc¬ 
tive. A magnificent sort. 15c. each; $1.50 per dozen. 
One each of above 5 grand Grapes for 75c. 
