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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
Mooi^floWer 
The most popular quick growing vine cultivation. Its 
rapid, luxuriant growth, its thick, overlapping glossy foli¬ 
age, and its nightly scores of immense, silky blooms of rare 
fragrance, are merits that cannot be over estimated. By 
actual count, a strong vine will bear one to three thousand 
of its superb blooms in a season. Very fine for piazzas, 
arbors, etc. 
Ipomcea Noctlphlton-Grand foliage and magnificent snow- 
white blooms, four or five inches across. Stands drouth 
like a Salamander. Give it rich soil if possible. Fine 
plants, 15c. each; 4 for 50c. Seed, 10c. per packet. 
IPOMCEA LEAREI. 
Ipomcea Learel —A large vine, but not quite so rank grow¬ 
ing. Flowers of a lovely azure blue, with faint crimson 
bars. Texture almost as delicate as the spider s web. 
Lovely beyond description. 20c. each; 3 for 50c. Seed, 
10c. per packet. 
Pandurata v or Hardy Tuberous-Rooted Moonflower— 
This will stand a year’s drouth without a murmur. An 
immense subterranean root, weighing sometimes a hun¬ 
dred pounds, sustains the vine through any vicissitude 
of weather, until frost kills the vine to the ground. Each 
year it springs up stronger than before, until it becomes 
a large luxuriant vine, clothed with a luxuriant growth 
of pretty cordate leaves, and bearing great quantities, 
yes, thousands of large, thick-textured waxy flowers of 
a rich creamy-white, with a throat of violet-purple. It 
will grow in any soil, no matter how poor, and its blos¬ 
soms remain open all day, unlike other Ipomoeas. It is 
perfectly hardy in any climate, and a vine which will 
cover an enormous amount of space. 25c. each ; 5 for $JL 
Ipomcea Mexlcana— In a sheltered location the blossoms 
of this remain open all day. Almost a3 large as Ipomoea 
Noctipbiton. It has a large, tuberous root, that can b® 
preserved over winter like the Dahlia, and this gives th® 
plant a strong and early start each spring. Very hand¬ 
some, and graceful airy foliage, deeply incised or palm- 
ated. The blossoms are of an indescribable rosy crim¬ 
son with a shade of violet or blue and are very beautiful, 
resembling rich satin. 20c. each. 
Giant Pink Hybrid— A Hybrid Pink Moonflower of mar¬ 
velous growth. Seeds germinate very quickly and plants 
begin to bloom about as soon as a Morning Glory. Th® 
blooms are produced by the thousand all summer and 
fall. The vine makes a most rapid growth and covers 
more space than any other Moonflower, or other annual 
vine. It branches freely and its foliage is large, dens® 
and luxuriant. The blossoms open about four o clock in 
the afternoon and do not close until about noon the next 
day. Color, soft, lilac-pink. Seed, 10c. per packet. 
Mixed Moonflower Seed— Fine mixed seed: of all th® 
Moon flowers here offered. 10c. per packet. 
SPECIAL OFFER. 
One plant each of Noctiphiton , Learei , Pcmdurata and 
Mexlcana for 60c. 
