JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
One of the finest of all perennials, and unsurpassed as a 
stately, imposing plant for backgrounds, screens, center of 
wide borders, t tc. Plants grow from four to six feet high, 
and bear pyramidal spikes of large rosette-like flowers of 
every shade and color, from pure whilst to almost black. 
The yellow, magenta, rose and black are intensely pure and 
dee]), while the pure white, pale lemon, sou pink and laven¬ 
der shades are exquisitely soft and deli ate. The pearly 
blooms of the pure white Holly nocks are a; line for all floral 
work as the most double Rose or C amel ia. If seeds are 
started very early, plants often bloom the next September. 
Per pkt. 
Double White Pure and true. .10 & 20 
“ Magenta -Fine bright color. 5&10 
“ Lemon Pure,bright lemon color.5 & 10 
“ Pink Very delicate and pretty.5&10 
Midnight— Doulde Black.10 & 20 
Double, Mixed Colors Very choice,'embracing over 
twenty different shades.10 & 20 
Cem of Yellow This is a new sort,very dwarf and very 
double, and of the finest brilliant yellow color. The 
flowers set so close on the stalks that it is one gigan¬ 
tic mass of bloom. It is the finest of all Holly¬ 
hocks.10 & 20 
One r>ai>rr each of the above seven 
(trie pa tier e< 
HONEYSUCKLE 
Everyone knows the 
Honeysuckle with its 
delicious fragrance, 
but everyone does not 
know that it is quite 
easily grown from 
seed, blooming the 
second season with 
ordinary eare. Fine 
young plants often 
spring up under our 
vines from self-sown 
seed. 5 & 10 
Hibiscus, Hurdy Hybrids. 
A fast growing perennial that in one season attains the 
height and dimensions of a shrub. Exceedingly fine for 
clumps or an ornamental hedge or screen, as they last al¬ 
ways, never winter kill, and in midsummer,when shrubbery 
flowers are scarce, they bear for weeks enormous flowers as 
large as tea saucers, white, blush, pale and deep pink, rose, 
etc.; the most of them with deeper-hued eye. Plants from 
spring-sown seed will bloom in September of the same year. 
Mixed Colors .10 & 20 
pipdn] Pereppe. 
Not entirely new, yet little known and rarely seen, al¬ 
though it is one of those flowers of dainty beauty that ia 
appreciated when seen; but can never be. justly described. 
We will not attempt to convey to our readers the impression 
of its great beautv; this they can never know until they see 
■ it, hut will say that it is a hardy perennial, sending up 
numerous stems which send out long, wiry branches, winch 
are clothed with a growth of small, almost hair-like foliage. 
\t the tips of the branches are poised large, salver-shaped 
blossoms, borne, with such airy grace that they appear to be 
floating in the air. The effect is charming. No garden in 
the land should he without this exquisite flower. 
Mixed Colors— Blue, white and pink.10&20 
