. 1902 trade list. Nursery stock Ohio Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. Hardy Phlox. See page â 2-2 lor descn{>iic)n. ORANGE KUMaUAT, OR KIN KAN. This unique and -wonderfully beautiful Orange is a native of Japan, where it is known as ilie Kin Kan, which means gold orange; its oilier nameâKumquatâis Chinese for the same meaning. It bears in the most marvelous proftision little min- iature oranges, no larger than damson plums, of a rich golden color and glittering amid the dark foliage like burnished gold. The whole fruit, rind
. 1902 trade list. Nursery stock Ohio Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. Hardy Phlox. See page â 2-2 lor descn{>iic)n. ORANGE KUMaUAT, OR KIN KAN. This unique and -wonderfully beautiful Orange is a native of Japan, where it is known as ilie Kin Kan, which means gold orange; its oilier nameâKumquatâis Chinese for the same meaning. It bears in the most marvelous proftision little min- iature oranges, no larger than damson plums, of a rich golden color and glittering amid the dark foliage like burnished gold. The whole fruit, rind and all is eaten, and people become very fond of them. The rind is sweet and the pulp agreeably acid, making a pi(iuant combination. They are also delicious pre- served and crysliillized. A small tree, not more than six feet high and hve'feet through, bore over two thousand fruits, and this is by no means an extraordinary yield for this sort. The brandies are slender, wiihout thorns, the leaves narrow^ and oval, and the plant assumes a fine shape. As a pot plant it will create a sensation wherever grown. The small but exquis- itely beautiful fruit hangs on tlie unique and handsome eyer- green trees all Winter. Fine plants, to bear at once, 50 cents eacli. OXALIS, ORTGIESI. Ujjrlglit Oxalls, or Star of Betlileliem.âFew new plants will ixive better satisfaction than this, as it is a X)erpetual bloom- er in every sense of t:ie word. It is full of bloom every day in the year w hen grown in a jiot of good soil and with ordinary care! It grows as freely as a (.cranium in any situation. It is a shrubby plant, like a (ici'aniiiui or 1-uchsia without buds, in wiiicli respect i' li '' oui oiher C)xalis. It grows twelve to incli i,branehiirg freely,and loaded at nil tini. < w ith ch. Jit golden star-sliailed flowers, which do close a 1 . â â : i oiherOxalis. Beautiful as i he Ih-weis are. it is still a spleiiili(i iilant without them, on acco\int of ils hig'dy orna
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