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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y. 
SOLANUM JASMINOIDES 
GRANDIFLORA. 
A most beautiful new plant, which incliiKis 
to a trailing or climbing Juihit, but never at- 
tains a greater height than 3 to 5 feet, and can 
be ])inched back to a bush form. Its flowers 
rfre star-shaped, like a Clematis, and borne in 
enormous panicles or clusters, often a foot 
across. In color they are pure white, with a 
violet tinge on back of petals, and on the 
buds. In pots it is a fine bloomer both sum- 
mer and Avinter; but its grandeur for out- 
door culture ,/hen trained against a w'all or 
trellis, and _,nowing hundreds of th(»se mag- 
niflcent iianicles of bloom, cannot be de- 
scribed. It is a free and constant bloomer, 
commencing when only a foot high; and, like 
the Manettia, its tlowei*8 keep perfect a long 
time before failing. No more beautiful ob- 
ject can be seen than these two vines grooving 
side by side, and mingling their profusion of 
bloom. Strong plants, cts. each ; 5 for $1. 
THE MANETTIA VINE. 
Ts the most magaiacent aowering vine In 
cultivation, either for the house or garden, 
for it is loaded witli bloom every day in the 
year. In the house it can Ije trained nil around 
a window, and will be a solid wreath of bloom 
both summer and winter, in the garden its 
eiiarming beauty .surpasses everything. 
Flowers, intense scarlet, tijiped with yellow, 
the most brilliant aud striking combination, 
and borne by the thousand, each flower keep- 
ing perfect ov(^r a month before fading. It 
18 of the easiest culture and sure to thrive 
for anyone with ordinary care. It can 
m trained on a trellis, strings, or used for 
drooping from hanging baskets; in any way a 
perfect mass of the most lovely flowers and 
foliage from the root to the tips of the 
brunches. Plants continue to bloom most T)i*o- 
lusely tor many years, and its gi*eat Ijcautv 
and novelty attracts every eye. We never 
^iw a more beautiful or satisfactorv plant. 
Pnee of strong plants, already bud'ded and 
blooming, 25 cts. each ; 5for$l. 
LINUM TRIGYNUM. 
A winter-blooming plant of great beauty, producing, in 
the greatest prolusion, very large aud very showv blossoms 
of a bright yellow color. The plant is a complete mass of 
blooni for a long time, during winter, and is one the most 
beautifuJ winter bloomers it is possible to have. The flowers 
are about the size of a Morning (Jlory, and no matter hOAv 
small the plant is, it will bloom profusely. 25 cts. each. 
PRIMITLA. 
PRIMROSES. 
The Primula or Primro.se Is a valuable winter-hearing 
plant. We have a tine lot of young, healthy plants, which 
will bloom magnificently tin's winter. They are of the Si- 
ueusis nr large tlowering variety. 
Sinenels Fimbrlata - barge flowering: all colors mixed. 
20 cts. each ; 3 for 50 cts.; 7 for gl.00. 
