. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. SPECIALTIES IN PLANTS, SEEDS AND BULBS. 7. MELON PAPAW. Produces flowers in long racemes, which are pale yellow, wax-like and exquisitely fragrant. Price of plants, 20c. each; 3 for 50c. Southern Beauty Hibiscus. (The Cuban Hollyhock.) We have learned since we gave this plant the name of Southern Beauty that it is a great favorite in Cuba and is known as the Cuban Hollyhock. In the open ground will grow to the height of 8 or 10 feet, if allowed to do so;
. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. SPECIALTIES IN PLANTS, SEEDS AND BULBS. 7. MELON PAPAW. Produces flowers in long racemes, which are pale yellow, wax-like and exquisitely fragrant. Price of plants, 20c. each; 3 for 50c. Southern Beauty Hibiscus. (The Cuban Hollyhock.) We have learned since we gave this plant the name of Southern Beauty that it is a great favorite in Cuba and is known as the Cuban Hollyhock. In the open ground will grow to the height of 8 or 10 feet, if allowed to do so; but it is better to keep it pinched back to a height of 4 or 5 feet. Every limb and twig is clothed with deeply 5-cleft leaves, the segments toothed and crimson-margined. In late sum- mer and fall (until checked by frosts) it covers itself with extremely hand- some and very striking flowers, in color deep crimson, shading deeper in the throat, which is almost black, and velvety. As a pot plant it com- mences to bloom while very small, and we have nad them in thumb- pots carrying flowers larger than the plants themselves. Plants, 15c. each. '' I received the plants yesterday. They came in fine condition and looked as fresh as if just taken up—was not wilted in the least. Thanks for promptness in filling ; MRS. GEO. L. UPDIKE, N. J. Melon Papaw- (Carica Papaya.) This remarkable tropical fruit plant makes a magnificent bedding plant for all parts of the country— North and South—and is as easy to grow as a Castor Bean. It forms a branchless, Pafon-like trunk clothed with the grandest leaves, each 2 to 3 feet in diameter, deeply cut and divided, of a rich dark-green color, with white midribs and veins, form- ing a beautiful contrast. If set out in good soil after all danger of frost is past, it will grow with amazing rapidity, attaining a height of 10 feet or more and standing the longest droughts with impunity, always look- ing fresh and vigorous. As a pot plant t
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