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MISS MARY E. MARTIN, FLORAL PARK, NEW YORK. 
Ornamental Climbing Gourds. 
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 develop from day to day. 
LARGE FRUITED GOURDS. This mixture contains the 
Bottle, Corsican, Hercules’ Club. Powderhorn, Dipper and 
many other kinds. Packet, 5c. 
SMALL FRUITED OR PEPO GOURDS. This mixture 
contains the Apple, Pear, Orange, Egg, flat, striped and 
bicolor. Very curious. Packet, 5c. 
DIPPER GOUPD, 
Packet, 5c. 
HERCULES’ CLUB, 
Packet, 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 
p ear mixed.. Packet, 5c, 
QUEEN ANNE’S SWEET- 
SCENTED POCKET 
MELON. 
This is not only a novelty 
but a great curiosity and 
useful fruit. Grows on trel¬ 
lises, 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. Packet,, 5s, 
Hibiscus Peachblow 
Hew Pink Hibiscus 
“Peachblow.” 
This is one of the finest 
free flowering plant novel¬ 
ties offered in recent years. 
It is a “sport” from the 
double red Hibiscus Resea- 
Sinensis ; the flowers are 
double and from four to five 
inches in diameter; of a 
charming, rich, clear, pink 
color, with a small, deep 
crimson center ; an entirely 
new and most beautiful 
shade; it blooms abun¬ 
dantly and continuously 
even on small plants during 
the entire summer and fall 
months; may be easily win¬ 
tered in greenhouse' or dwelling. Large plants 
two or three years old, make a magnificent show’ 
It will give great satisfaction to all who grow it 
either in pots or plants out in the garden. It is a 
good winter bloomer in the greenhouse or sunny 
window. First size: Strong, well-rooted plants 
each, 15c.; 2 for 25c. 
Japan Towel Gourd or Luff a. 
Seed sown like Cucumbers, will bear and ripen 
an abundance of fruit before frost. The lace-like 
network of fiber 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. 
African Horned Climbing Cucumber. 
Packet, 5c. 
Japanese Climbing Cucumber. 
Packet, 5c. 
Japanese MesUEgg Gourd 
Resembling in color, shape and size the eggs of hens; 
are uninjured by cold or wet, and therefore make the 
best nest-eggs; also very useful when mending stock- 
tegs, Packet,, 5s„ 
