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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
Every garden, every cottage, every fence, wall, stump, or old tree is beautified by the graceful and profuse 
flowering vines here offered. Vines are nature’s draperies and are essential to any and every attempt to beau¬ 
tify one’s home surroundings. Beautiful, beautiful vines, many an unsightly object do they cover, many a 
lovelv screen, or fence, nr trellis, do they make, masses of beautiful blossoms and grateful shade do they fur¬ 
nish. The following selection is all that can be desired among annual climbers. Our Sweet Peas, Morning 
Glories and Nasturtiums are particularly fine. 
Gcqtrosenqa Qrapdiflora. 
This new vine lias come to stay. It is easy to grow,quick 
to bloom, beautiful in flower and leaf, and is a hardy peren¬ 
nial, lasting for years. It will flower the first season from 
seed, and autumn frosts will find it still in bloom. It is a low 
graceful climber, growing only six to eight feet high, which 
makes it far more suitable for a low trellis or lattice work, 
or to train around a door or window in summer, than a tal¬ 
ler, larger-leaved vine would be, and its masses of large in¬ 
verted pea-shaped blossoms, two inches or more across, and 
borne in clusters of four to eight flowers together, are very 
showy wild pleasing. Fill a small vase with its dainty,bright 
flowers and foliage alone, and see how lovely they are for 
cutting. In color they range from rosy violet and reddish 
purple, with exquisite feathering orbordering of pure white 
to pure snow white. The rosy violet shades are most com¬ 
mon, but as the buds and the back of the flowers of the dark 
varieties are pure white, each vine has the appearance of 
bearing different colored flowers at once. The winning way 
in which the flowers look up at one has won them the fanci¬ 
ful name of Rook-at-me Vine. Per pkt. 
Mixed -All colors.5 & 10 
Pure Whlte— A fine novelty of this year.10 & 20 
S\Veet Peas. 
For a complete list of our Sweet Peas, 'nearly 100 varie¬ 
ties, see colored plate. Our collection is one of the finest in 
the world, and our prices are the lowest. 
COBiVA SCAN DUNS. 
Gobsea. 
One of the finest of all climbers, equally good for out of 
door or for house culture. Pretty foliage and large, beauti¬ 
ful bell-shaped flowers that open a clear green, but turn to a 
lovely purplish blue. Plant seed edgewise in moist but not 
wet soil; cover to prevent evaporation, and do not water 
again unless soil becomes very dry. When seedlings ap¬ 
pear water with great moderation until out of the seed leaf. 
Scanflens --Fine bluish purple....5 & 10 
Alba -Fine pure white.10 & 20 
Gy press yipe. 
One of the prettiest vines imaginable: slender vines, 
thickly clothed with dark green, feathery foliage of great 
beauty and dotted with intensely bright, velvety little 
flowers that shine like little stars against their glossy back¬ 
ground of green. Fine for training to small trellises or to 
run up poles or strings. 
Mixed Colors —White, pink, scarlet.5 & 10 
Gap ary Bird plovVcr. 
A dainty vine with beautiful cut-leaves and pretty deli¬ 
cate flowers of a clear canary yellow. From the color of its 
blossoms, and also from a fancied resemblance of their 
shape to a bird with wings expanded, the plant obtains its 
common name. A pretty vine for the window or fora shel¬ 
tered location out of doors. 
Tropaeolum Canarlensis- or Canary Bird flower.5 & 10 
ipoEpcea. 
Closely allied to the Morning dories, but larger, and! 
the colors, if possible, more beautiful. Rapid growers, £ 
mostly with handsome foliage, and exceedingly lovely flow-1 
ers. While as a rule their growth is not so rapid as the* 
Morning dory, the flowers of the Ipomoea are muchlarg-t 
er and finer. 
Mixed Colors— Very ftne,Iall colors...5_'& Mb 
