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MISS MARY E. MARTIN, FLORAL PARK, NEW YORK. 
ORSfRmsprfSL GLiwmsiae oourds. 
These plants are very desirable for training over the lattice 
•work and shading the front of the piazza, for porches and 
trellises, for covering fences, stumps, etc. The foliage is dense 
and cooling and often grows _ 20 feet in a season. Besides they 
furnish an endless source of interest and delight watching the 
many curious and oddly shaped fruits of all sizes and colors de¬ 
velop from day to day. 
Large Fruited Gourds —This mixture contains the Bat¬ 
tle, Corsican, Hercules Club, Powderhorn, Dipper and many 
other kinds. Pkt., 25 seeds, 5c. 
SmaSS Fruited or Pepo Gourds —This mixture contains 
the Apple, Pear, Orange Egg, fiat, striped and bicolor. Very 
curious. Pkt., 30 seeds, 5c. 
IMEEW ANNE'S SWEET. 
Mfwrr o amnT 'xi. 
SGES3TE3 POCKET 
MELON. 
This is not only a novelty 
but a great curiosity and useful 
fruit. Grows on trellises, makes 
a pretty vine, and very showy 
fruit which has a delicious 
perfume; carried in the 
pocket or laid on mantel or 
table, imparts a delicious 
fragrance ; served with sugar 
makes a dainty dessert. 
Pit., 20 seeds, 8a. > 
WflLEtPQSCOPE PEPPED. 
This plant is both very useful 
and ornamental. The fruit is of 
a yellowish-cream color and then 
changes to canary, then deepen¬ 
ing to orange, then turns into 
pink, until it becomes a bright, 
shining scarlet. The fruit is of 
the size of a plum. A plant loaded 
with its fruit in all these shades 
and colors at one time is a sight 
not easily forgotten. It is easily 
grown and does well in the house 
and, of course, out of doors. 
Pkt., 6©, 
An odd, curious, and, withal, a useful and beautiful 
plant from Africa, of Missionary origin. The vine is a 
thick and rapid grower, the fruit is oddly formed, ol 
a deep green when young, changing to an orange-scarlet; 
grows very large, but should be eaten when quite small. 
People who cannot eat ordinary cucumbers can eat 
this with impunity; very pleasant and refreshing, A 
t' Pkt., 30seeds, 8c.; 3 for 20c. 
Japanese Climbing Cucumber— This is one of 
the most desirable of all cucumbers; a strong, healthy 
continuous grower, bearing plenteously and continu¬ 
ously through the summer. Fruits deep green, 10 inch ea 
long, never bitter, crispand pleasant. Pkt., 30 seeds, 5c. 
BALSAM APPLE AB3B 
PEAR. 
Very curious climber, 
with ornamental foliage and 
golden-yellow fruit which 
opens when, ripe, showing 
the seed and carmine in¬ 
terior. Apple and ,, Pear 
mixed. Pkt., 5©. 
JAPANESE WEST-EGG. 
Resembling in color, shape 
and size the eggs of hens; 
are uninjuied by cold or 
wet and therefore make the 
best nest-eggs; also very use¬ 
ful when mending stock¬ 
ings. Pkt,, 5e, 
