. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. TROPICAL AND SEMI-TROPICAL FRUITS. 41 gaijaijas. Almost everybody has seen and tasted the fruit of the . Banana, but very few know that the plants can be grown in the North as successfully as either Cannas or Corn. Such however is the case, and there exists no good reason why everyone should not possess their own Banana '* tree" and annually enjoy its magnificent growth. They make grand decorative plants when grown in large pots, kegs or tubs of ric
. Rare Florida flowers and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. TROPICAL AND SEMI-TROPICAL FRUITS. 41 gaijaijas. Almost everybody has seen and tasted the fruit of the . Banana, but very few know that the plants can be grown in the North as successfully as either Cannas or Corn. Such however is the case, and there exists no good reason why everyone should not possess their own Banana '* tree" and annually enjoy its magnificent growth. They make grand decorative plants when grown in large pots, kegs or tubs of rich soil, and they are particularly valuable for open ground culture in the centers of beds of foliage plants, moist situa- tions, etc. The cut on the opposite page gives some idea of tbe splendid form these plants assume, while the testi- monial at the bottom of the same page tells of the success which an Ohio customer attained with them the past summer. An Illinois gentleman tells in the following words how easily they are grown in rhe open ground ; " Last May I set out a very small plant of Hart'* Choice variety, not over 15 inches high, in an entirely unprotected situation. By fall it was 7 feet high and had leaves 6 feet long and 18 inches broad; the stalks measured over 20 inches in circumference at the ; But both of these records have been, greatly outdone at the North wbere small plants of the Orinoco Banana, set out in May. have attained a height of 18 feet by the first of October, with enormous leaves 10 feet long and 2 feet wide. Of course these plants were set in very rich soil and given an abundance of water and liquid manure. In planting dig a good sized bole, 18 inches or -more deep, fill with rich soil and plenty of well decayed manure (they thrive wonderfully in muck soil), set the plants in this, and keep well watered during the summer, and they will make an astonishing growth. Just before frost cut all the leaves off (but do not cut the stalk)
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