. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : for the season of 1890. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 5 Ripley—Similar to the above, but considered of superior flavor and more juicy and melting. Very highly prized in Jamaica as the choicest Pine Apple Very rare. Price :i5c. each, 3 for $1. Port« Itico—The largest Pine Ap- ple grown; fruit often weighs from twelve to eighteen pounds. Flesh very delicate and well flavored. Very rare indeed. Price 45c. each. S for $, SFECIA L OFFER. For only .$
. Catalogue of rare Florida flowers and fruits : for the season of 1890. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 5 Ripley—Similar to the above, but considered of superior flavor and more juicy and melting. Very highly prized in Jamaica as the choicest Pine Apple Very rare. Price :i5c. each, 3 for $1. Port« Itico—The largest Pine Ap- ple grown; fruit often weighs from twelve to eighteen pounds. Flesh very delicate and well flavored. Very rare indeed. Price 45c. each. S for $, SFECIA L OFFER. For only .$ we will mail one plant of eiich of these five superb Pine .\i)ples (which amount, at catalogue iirices, to $), to any ad- dress. THK I''in,!:. Sapodilla or Naseberry. [Arhriis miiiolii ) Of spreading form, with thick, glossy leaves. The fruit can be compared to a apple, with the taste of a rich, sweet, juicy pear, with granulated pulp; almost equal to the Mango, and the taste doesnothavetobeacquired. Very choice and t are. Price 40c. each. The Tamarind, or Tamarindus Indica. A magnificent plant with delicate .Vcacia-like foliage, which closes at night, and small pinkish-white blossoms, followed pods enclosing a pleasant acid pulp, much used preserved in syrup or sugar, as the basis of a cooling drinks Highly ornamental as a pot or tub plant. Price each. Cattley Guavas. The common Guava is a most delicious fruit aft«r one has formed a taste for it, but it possesses a musky odor unbearable to some. are affected by the slightest frost, and must be of considerable size before will fruit. But in the two following varieties we have something distinct. No musky odor or flavor, the plants enough to stand any temperature above 20 degrees, and for frnitfulneas surpassing anything we ever saw. A plant eighteen months old has borne .500 fruits; we have seen a plant less than eighteen inches high 60 fruits, and a i)l
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