Fruit trees, evergreens, roses, etcfor Florida and coast belt of southern states . MUSA—Bananas. Harts Choice—Medium-growing plant;fruit of Fig Banana class; buncheslarge; an excellent variety. 50 cents . each. Sinensis, or Cavendishii—Of dwarfgrowth; produces very good seldom grow above six or sevenfeet. 50c. to $1. Orinoco—Taller growing than above,and with leaves of great ornamentaleffect; valuable for bedding out insummer. Fruit often matures in thislatitude. 50c. to $1. Daca—Of medium height; fruit small,but of excellent quality. 50c. to $1. V) Silk—Delicate foliage; undersid
Fruit trees, evergreens, roses, etcfor Florida and coast belt of southern states . MUSA—Bananas. Harts Choice—Medium-growing plant;fruit of Fig Banana class; buncheslarge; an excellent variety. 50 cents . each. Sinensis, or Cavendishii—Of dwarfgrowth; produces very good seldom grow above six or sevenfeet. 50c. to $1. Orinoco—Taller growing than above,and with leaves of great ornamentaleffect; valuable for bedding out insummer. Fruit often matures in thislatitude. 50c. to $1. Daca—Of medium height; fruit small,but of excellent quality. 50c. to $1. V) Silk—Delicate foliage; underside ofleaves of a silky gloss. 50c. Yitata—A dwarf ornamental variety ;underside of leaves purple; uppersidegreen, striped purple. 50c. to SI. Baraeoa, or Red Skin, ] All goodLarge Fig-, I fruit-bearing Magnifica, varieties of Martinique, J medium height. 50c. to duced there from China. We sent outa few plants, and then lost the years ago we found this varietyin South Florida, possibly a descendantfrom our original plants, and culti-vated as Yellow Catley, but as yet butlittle known outside of few plant is of bushy habit with shin-ing leaves. Fruit a little larger thanthe Red Catley; sweeter and of muchbetter quality. It is a refreshing fruiteaten raw, and makes the very best ofall the Guava Jellies. It is wonderfully prolific,and yields fruit nearly thewhole year round. As an in-„,>*• stance of its remarkable pro-ductiveness, a writer in theFlorida Dispatch states thatin Polk County, he measuredlately two bushes, each aboutfive feet from tip to tip ofboughs, and two and a halffeet high. One counted 1,423fruits, the other 1,616. Heestimates that 500 plants atfour years old, as were thosehe measured, would yield, ata very low estimate, 37,875pounds of fruit. Even halfthat quantity would be a re-markable yield.
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