. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual of Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. Catlleya Guavj. Kieff^ Pear. PSIDIITM Cattleyanum. The Cattley or Straw- berry GuAVA. The fruit is smaller than an English walnut, of a fine claret color, and with a flavor resembling that of a strawberry. Much better, to our taste, than the ordinary Guava, and likely to be held in better repute by those of the North, to whom the "
. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual of Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Seedlings, Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. Catlleya Guavj. Kieff^ Pear. PSIDIITM Cattleyanum. The Cattley or Straw- berry GuAVA. The fruit is smaller than an English walnut, of a fine claret color, and with a flavor resembling that of a strawberry. Much better, to our taste, than the ordinary Guava, and likely to be held in better repute by those of the North, to whom the "musky" flavor of the ordinary Guava is objectionable. As a jelly fruit, too, it is said to surpass the common Guava. Should be grown in rows, like the cur- rant, from four to eight feet apart. Foliage thick and shining, resembling that of the camellia. One j'ear pot-grown plants, 10 cts. V/ each, $1 per dozen, Isi^r 100. ^ P. lucidum. The hardy Yellow, Chinese or Commercial Guava. A delicious fruit, re- sembling the Cattley ; as hardy, or more so ; fruit yellow ; foliage almost indistinguishable from that of the Cattley Guava. Grown more extensively than the preceding, and commonly called "Yellow ; This is immensely prolific, and grows in any soil. One year pot- grown, 10 cents each, 81 per dozen, $5 per 100. Large, from 3 and 4-inch pots, 2% to 4 feet, 20 cents each, $2 per dozen, $15 per 100. PUNICA granatum. The Pomegranate. (Span- ish, Gi-anada.) Well-known and deservedly popular fruit and ornamental shrub. Attains the size of a small peach tree ; flowers red (except in one variety), and very showy. Varieties : .PUHICA, continued. V Hermosillo. From Mexico, by way of California. Described as an excellent va- riety. 25 c. ea., ^ . $ per doz. VSpanish Ruby, (New.) We copy descrip- tion of its in- trodu cer: " Fruit very large, as large as the largest apple; eye ver)' small; skin thick, pale yel- low with crim- son cheek; meat the most \ m ag n
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