. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, grapes, currants, rhubarb and asparagus, apple, cherry, peach, pear : fall, 1896. Nursery stock New Jersey Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 12 PARRYS' POMONA NURSERIES. QUINCES. PRICE OF QUINCE TREES EACH. FULLER—1 year, mail or express $0 75 <« 2 « « 1 00 MEECH and REA.—1 year, mail or express 15 << « 2 " " 80 CHAMPION and ORANGE—1 year, mail or ex- press 15 '< " 2 years, express 25 3 «' " 35 COLUMBIA-JAPAN—1 year, m
. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, grapes, currants, rhubarb and asparagus, apple, cherry, peach, pear : fall, 1896. Nursery stock New Jersey Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 12 PARRYS' POMONA NURSERIES. QUINCES. PRICE OF QUINCE TREES EACH. FULLER—1 year, mail or express $0 75 <« 2 « « 1 00 MEECH and REA.—1 year, mail or express 15 << « 2 " " 80 CHAMPION and ORANGE—1 year, mail or ex- press 15 '< " 2 years, express 25 3 «' " 35 COLUMBIA-JAPAN—1 year, mail or express 25 » ** 2 '« express 30 DOZ. $ 7 50 10 00 1 50 3 00. 100. 10 00 20 00 10 00 15 00 20 00 15 00 20 00 CYDONIA (Pyrus) JAPONICA Japan Quince is widely known and extensively grown throughout the country as a very showy and popular shrub, producing in pro- fusion handsome bloom upon the first ap- proach of spring and before the foliage ap- pears, making a very striking effect. The fruit from this shrub has been so small as to be of little value. By years of careful selection and propagation, with the view of im- proving the fruit, we have produced the Col- umbia, a variety rivaling in size and shape the famous Belle Flower Apple, measuring 9 to 12 inches around, greenish yellow, with hand- some blush, surface ribbed like a citron and covered with small white dots. This fruit is so very fragrant that one specimen will soon fill a room with a delightful perfume. It cooks as tender as an apple and makes a jelly equalled only by the highly prized Guava. The valuable culinary properties of the Japan Quince are not generally known, though the enterprising proprietor of a large and fashionable seaside hotel, whose guests are enthusiastic in their praise of this delicious, unknown jelly, has for years engaged the en- tire crop in advance of its ripening. The tree is entirely hardy, healthy, free from blight, mildew and insect pests, enor- mously productive, and
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