Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits for 1895 . This is botli a useful and highly ornamental shrub, bear-ing, as it does, great quantities of juicy acid fruit of thebnghtest scarlet color. The berries hang to the bush untilwell into the winter, and are very efiective. They are usedas one would use the common Cranberry, and make finesauce, tarts, pies, etc. The bush attains the size of a lilac, orlarger, and has luxuriant foliage. The berries are borne inlarge clusters. It is a fruit of iron-clad hardiness, and suc-ceeds in any location. 20c. each; 3 for 50c. 86 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL P
Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits for 1895 . This is botli a useful and highly ornamental shrub, bear-ing, as it does, great quantities of juicy acid fruit of thebnghtest scarlet color. The berries hang to the bush untilwell into the winter, and are very efiective. They are usedas one would use the common Cranberry, and make finesauce, tarts, pies, etc. The bush attains the size of a lilac, orlarger, and has luxuriant foliage. The berries are borne inlarge clusters. It is a fruit of iron-clad hardiness, and suc-ceeds in any location. 20c. each; 3 for 50c. 86 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Gl^estpiit, Japai) Giai^t. I Introduced recently from Japan, and a chestnut of enor-mous size, the nuts averaging fourtosii times larger thanour Amencan variety, and it is not unusual for burrs to con-tain four to seven of these large perfect nuts. They are al-most sure to commence bearing the second year after plant-ing, no matter how small the tree may be. They maturetheir fruit early and it drops at the first touch of prolific, tree highly ornamental and will provean attractive and novel thing on anyones place, 40c. each;S for SI. 00. Malbeppy. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher once said: I regardDownlngs Everbearing Mulberry as an indispensable addi-tion to every fruit garden, and I would rather nave a tree ofit than abed of Strawberries. One cannot wonder at thisremark when one sees this splendid fruit growing and tast«sIts luscious flavor. The tree attains a large size and beginsto bear when very small—in fact, when only a few feet inheight. The fruit is about one
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