Ornamental and Edible Fruits for Pot Culture 








Everbearing 
Lemon 
(40c Each) 
Everbearing Lemon 
A true everbearing Lemon that can be as eas- 
ily grown in a pot as a Geranium and which 
produces fruit weighing from one to three 
pounds each. These enormous fruits are borne 
on plants one to two feet high growing in pots; 
bear continually; delicious for lemonade and 
culinary purposes... Flowers are as fragrant as 
orange blossoms, which they somewhat resemble. 
Plants, 40c each; 3 for $1.00, postpaid. Bear- 
ing age, 2-year-old plants, $1.00 each; 3 for 
$2.50, postpaid. 

Pigmy Date Palm 
VELVET 
PLANT 
The dark green 
literally covered 
purple coloring 
Truly a fascinating sight. 
leaves and the stems are 
tiny hairs of a rich 
with 
which is even more intense along the veins. 
This makes the plant appear as if it were 
made of a richly colored velvet cloth. It 
grows upright and succeeds well in ordinary 
living room temperature. Vlants, 40¢ each; 
3 for $1.00, postpaid. 
Burgess Seed & Plant Co. 
GALESBURG, MICHIGAN 

DWARF ORANGE 
A fine pot plant, with glossy leaves, fragrant waxy-white 
blossoms, and an abundance of delicious little Oranges 
that’ will hang on the plants for six months after they are 
ripe. While it will grow 3 to 4 feet high and branch freely, 
it is not an uncommon thing to see little 5 to 6 inch plants 
full of bloom and even bearing one or two Oranges. Plants, 
40c each; 3 for $1.00, postpaid. Bearing age, 2-year-old 
plants, $1.00 each; 3 for $2.50, postpaid. 
DWARF LIME 
Our Dwarf Orange and Lemon trees have been so popu- 
lar for pot culture that we have this year added another 
citrus ‘variety that will do’ equally as well indoors. In 
habit of growth the Dwarf Lime is much like the Dwarf 
Orange, but the fruit is similar to the commercial Limes 
found in the fruit markets. Plants, 40e each; 3 for $1.00, 
postpaid. 
STRAWBERRY GUAVA 
Delicious—Sweet—Spicy 
This is a luscious tropical fruit which makes a useful 
as well as a charming and beautiful house plant. It bears 
both flowers and fruit at the same time. The flowers are 
pure white and delightfully fragrant. The fruit is about 
the size of a walnut, of a beautiful reddish color, and of 
delicious, Sweet and spicy flavor. Fine for eating out of 
hand, and unsurpassed for making jelly. These plants are 
usually grown from seed and begin to bloom and bear fruit 
while quite small. Seed, per packet, 10c; 3 pkts., 25c. 
Plants, 40c each; 3 for $1.00, postpaid. 

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DWARF FIG 
Our Dwarf Fig makes a very satisfactory and inter- 
esting house plant. Asa pot or tub plant it is an 
abundant bearer of the most delicious fruit. Plants 
bear the first-year and abundantly each year there- 
after. The fruit is very sweet and of fine quality. Pot 
-grown plants, 40c each; 3 for $1.00, postpaid. Yor 
larger, field grown plants, see page 71. 

87 Oranges on Tree in Illinois—Lemons Average 3 Lbs. Each 
Two years after purchasing one-year-old trees from us, an Illinois customer reports 87 oranges on one tree. 
Customer in New Jersey grows lemons and figs in his store window, and reports lemons weighing as much as 
2 pounds 11 ounces each. 
lemons averaging 3 Ibs. each. 
Customer in Texas reports plant laden with lemons nine months of the year and 
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Dwarf Beauty 
Pomegranate 
/ Magnificent Flowers and Fruits 
With the introduction of the Dwarf Beauty Pome- 
eranate, we are able to offer our customers another very 
ornamental, edible-fruited plant for pot culture. It is a 
most interesting plant which can be successfully grown 
in the ordinary home. The pretty foliage, the great 
abundance of exceptionally beautiful scarlet flowers and 
the handsome, attractive, crimson fruits, make it a plant 
that attracts the attention of every lover of choice flower 
novelties. In addition to their attractiveness and beauty, 
the fruits add a rich, exquisite flavor to fruit and vege- 
table salads. Plants, 40¢ each; 3 for $1.00, postpaid. 
PIGMY DATE PALM 
The Pigmy Date Palm is a close relative of the larger 
commercial variety. While in warm climates it will reach 
a height of ten feet, it seldom grows over two or three 
feet high indoors. From an ornamental standpoint, the 
Pigmy Date Palm is just as attractive and desirable as 
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other varieties of Palms, and in addition it will produce 
edible fruit in your own living room, under pot culture, 
as well as outside in the South. Plants, 50¢ each; 3 for 
$1.25, postpaid. 

IMPORTANT NOTICE 

Begonia Dracaena Cactus 
Calla Asparagus Fern peers Palm 
* eranium 
Chrysanthemum Heliotrope Pantone 
Coleus Cigar Plant Periwinkle 
Cyclamen Carnation Jerusalem Cherry 
You can secure a nice collection of House Plants at practically no 
This collection 
contains 16 or more varieties that can be easily and successfully grown 
The seed is put up in mixture of varieties, a few 
seeds of each, and at our price of 35c a packet, a large assortment of 
plants can be grown for less money than you would pay a florist for one 
Were you to buy these seeds in separate packets, they would 
cost you from $2.00 to $3.00. We have a good stock of these seeds and 
expect to be able to supply everyone who wants them, but should our 
supply of one or more varieties run short, we reserve the right to sub- 
stitute other choice varieties or return-your money. This is a bargain 
package that will please the most critical lover of house plants. 
each packet, we send full directions for planting the seed and caring for 
cost by sowing this seed in pots or boxes in the house. 
in the ordinary home. 
plant. 
same. Pkt., 35ce; 4 pkts., $1.00, postpaid. 
Owing to quarantines, we do not ship Orange, 
Lime or Lemon plants to Alabama, Arizona, Cali- 
fornia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Porto Rico. 
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