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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
Sbapdragoq 
Giant Whit©—This remarkable new plant has in one season 
jumped to foremost place among choice winter-blooming 
plants. No novelty in our greenhouses has attracted th« 
attention or received praise equal to this. It is a perpet¬ 
ual bloomer, compact and branching in habit, sending tyi 
flower spikes by the dozen, one to two feet in length, al¬ 
most as large and more beautiful than Gladiolus. Color, 
pure white, with lemon tinged throat, and of lovelv 
fragrance. Flowers keep two weeks after being cut. id 
has created a sensation in the New York flower market. 
Fine plants, 20c. each; 3 for 50c. Seed, 10c. per pkt. 
Giant Yellow—Exactly like the above except in cola?, 
which is a beautiful canary yellow. 20c. each; 3 for Ski- 
Seed, 10c. per pkt. 
Giant Mixed—Many fine colors. Seed, 10c. per pkt. 
One plant of each color for 30c. Three pkts. seed* one of 
each % for 95c. 
A rare and curious garden bull), with odd flower and 
luxuriant Palm-like foliage. The snathe of this Galla- 
shaped flower is two feet in length, with tapering point, and 
is of very largo size. Color of bloom, green on outside, in¬ 
side yellow spotted witli purple. Foliage vory large, lux¬ 
uriant like a Palm. Plant out in open ground quite early, 
or by corn planting time. 30c. each; 5 for $1,00. 
Amorphophallus Rlvleri -Another species having a flower 
the shape of a Calla Lily, but of enormous proportions. 
Stems and stalks green, spotted rose; leaves decompound, 
and often four feet across. Flowers usually a yard in 
length, the projecting spadix being dark red, and the 
spathe rosy-green. 20c. each; 3 for 50c. 
Tritoma. 
A plant of tropical lux¬ 
uriance. A large specimen 
is very beautiful with its 
many long, narrow, re¬ 
curved leaves which are 
crowned in midsummer 
and autumn witli long 
spikes of fiery, tubular 
flowers borne high above 
the foliage on stiff, lam- 
rod-like stalks. At a little 
distance the close heads of 
flaming orange and red 
flowers are very striking, 
and have earned the plant 
its common name of “Red- 
Hot Poker." We have seen 
them bloom well into Nov¬ 
ember and December. It 
blooms until the ground 
freezes up. Frost does not 
kill foliage or bloom. 
Corollnlanum— New, with 
narrow graceful foliage 
and showing a dozen 
spikes of bloom at once. 
Dwarf and compact, 
bright salmon scarlet. 
Pltzere —Of dwarf habit, 
large compact scarlet 
spikes of bloom 
Grand Iflora — Very tall 
and stately; deep scarlet 
tipped yellow. 90c. each; the S for 60c.; $i.. r >o per dozen. 
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