. Catalogue of fruit trees, evergreens, roses, etc. Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Georgia; Flowers Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 62 P. J. Berckmans1 Descriptive Catalogue. PSIDIUM LUCIDUM—Yellow Catley Guava. We received this variety from England in 1858, under the name of Psidium Lucidum, and then lately introduced there from China. We sent out a few plants, and then lost the stock. Three years ago we found this variety in South Florida, possibly a descendant from our original plants, and cultivated
. Catalogue of fruit trees, evergreens, roses, etc. Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Georgia; Flowers Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. 62 P. J. Berckmans1 Descriptive Catalogue. PSIDIUM LUCIDUM—Yellow Catley Guava. We received this variety from England in 1858, under the name of Psidium Lucidum, and then lately introduced there from China. We sent out a few plants, and then lost the stock. Three years ago we found this variety in South Florida, possibly a descendant from our original plants, and cultivated as Yellow Catley, but as yet but little known outside of few localities. The plant is of bushy habit, with shining leaves. Fruit a little larger than the Red Catley; sweeter and of much better quality. It is a refreshing fruit eaten raw, and makes the very best of all the- "Guava ; It is wonderfully prolific, and yields fruit nearly the whole- year round. As an instance of its remarkable productiveness, a writer in the "Florida Despatch" states that in Polk County he- measured lately two bushes, each about 5 feet from tip to tip of boughs, and 2\ feet high. One counted 1,423 fruits, the other 1,616. He estimates that 500 plants at four years old, as were those- he measured, would yield, at a very low estimate, 37,875 pounds of fruit. Even half that quantity would be a remarkable yield. Two-year-old plants, pot grown, 2 and 3 feet high, 50c. each;, smaller sizes, 25c. each. PEPINO, OR MELON SHURB. [Solanum Guatemalense.] (?) We have cultivated this plant four years, but although blooms were produced freely, we have failed to see any fruit so far. Fruit has, however, been produced in several places, and is of a pale- lemon color, slightly striped with purple, in shape and size resembling a goose egg; flesh solid, pale- yellow, in texture like a musk melon; sweet, but tempered with a refreshing, spicy and acid aroma. The plant attains 3 to 4 feet in h
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