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MISS MARY E. MARTIN, FLORAL PARK, NEW YORK. 
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 de¬ 
light watching the many curious and oddly shaped fruits of 
all sizes and colors develop from day to day. 
Large Fruited Gourds. This mixture contains the 
Bottle, Corsican, Hercules’ Club, Powderhorn, Dipper and 
many other kinds. Packet, 25 seeds, 5c. 
network of fibre which forms inside the fruit is a 
very useful article, and is used for various pur¬ 
poses, such as dish-rags, sponges, and even for 
bonnets and other millinery work. The flowers 
of this variety are also very numerous, large and 
showy, and.the plant as a whole is a most charming, 
useful and interesting vine. Packet, 5c.; oz., 20c. 
Small Fruited or Pepo Gourds. This mixture con¬ 
tains the Apple, Pear, Orange Egg, flat, striped and bicolor. 
Very curious. Packet, 30 seeds, 5c. 
Dipper Gourd, Pkt., 5c. 
Hercules' Club, Pkt., 5c. 
JZfrican Horned Climbing Cucumber . 
Packet, 50 seeds, 5c. 
Japanese Climbing Cucumber . 
Packet, 30 seeds, 5c. 
BALSAM APPLE AND 
PEAR. 
Very curious climber, 
with ornamental foliage 
and golden-yellow fruit 
which opens when ripe, 
showing the seed and car¬ 
mine interior. Apple and 
Pear mixed. Packet, 5c. 
QIJEEN ANNE’S SWEET- 
' SCENTED POCKET 
MELON. 
This is not only a novelty 
but a great curiosity and use¬ 
ful fruit. Grows on trellises, 
makes a pretty vine, and very 
showy fruit which has a deli¬ 
cious perfume ; carried in the 
pocket or laid on mantel or 
table, imparts a delicious fra¬ 
grance; served with sugar 
makes a dainty dessert. 
Packet, 20 seeds, 5c. 
Japanese Nest-Egg Gourd. 
Resem bling in color, snapeand size the eggs of hens ; 
are uninjured by cold or wet, and therefore make the 
best nest-eggs, aiso very useful when mending stock* 
lags. Packet, 5c. 
