Maule's seed catalogue : 1896 . snma Blood. 4 ripening In tlie order named and coverlne tlie entire season, 3 1 year old, $, postpaid; ii-year-old, $, by express at - pnrctiasers expense. 2 PAW PAW TREE. (Custard Appleor Northern Banana The Paw Paw Tree Is vigorous, healthyand handsome, comes to bearing youngproducing an abundance of fruit oftropical appearance resembling a ba-nana and described among the nativefruits of Mississippi valley as thePrince of fruit - bearingshrubs, and further statesThe pulp of the fruTt re-eembles Egg Custard in con-slstancy and has the same
Maule's seed catalogue : 1896 . snma Blood. 4 ripening In tlie order named and coverlne tlie entire season, 3 1 year old, $, postpaid; ii-year-old, $, by express at - pnrctiasers expense. 2 PAW PAW TREE. (Custard Appleor Northern Banana The Paw Paw Tree Is vigorous, healthyand handsome, comes to bearing youngproducing an abundance of fruit oftropical appearance resembling a ba-nana and described among the nativefruits of Mississippi valley as thePrince of fruit - bearingshrubs, and further statesThe pulp of the fruTt re-eembles Egg Custard in con-slstancy and has the same creamy feel-ing in the mouth and unitesthe tastes of eggs, cream,sugar and spice. It Is anatural Custard, too lus-cious for the relish of mostpeople. So many unexpectedtaistes are compounded In itthat it is said that a personof the most hypochondriactemperament relaxes intoa smile when he tastes aFaw Paw for the first cents each; 3 for 60 cents,postpaid; or larger trees, byexpress at purchasers ex-pense, 35 cents ROCKY MOUNTAIN DWARF CHERRY. But few new fruits have grown in popularity so rapidly aa > this. Its unbounded success throughout the entire country, the ^ [•eat productiveness of luscious cherries at two to three years *9 of age, and on bushes 4 to 5 feet high, has rendered the genu- H ine Rocky Mountain Dwarf Cherry a great favorite. Sixteen H iiarts of fruit are reported to have been picked off a 3 year- (5 old bush, and 80 cherries from a branch 12 inches long of a „, 2-year-old bush. The fruit is purplish black, and in size w ° iOmewhat larger than the English Morello. Season of m ripening after all others are gone. In flavor, akin to u the sweet cherries, and when fully ripe, to eat out of ^ hand or for preserves it has no equal fn the line of • pitted fruits, while the juice for pectoral or cordial Is 1^ both appetizing and delicious. The demand last year £ for this new cherry surpassed any novelty in fruits Si previously offered. 1-year
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