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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK QUEENS CO., N. 
Window or Greenhouse Thants. 
One may have a home grandly constructed, elegantly fitted and furnished in every particular, wanting 
nothing which money can purchase, yet if it does not contain a window of bright blooming plants it lacks some 
essential feature, and is, in fact, almost desolate, and its inmates must be regarded as lacking in some degree 
refinement and taste. On the other hand the humblest cottage is made a homo indeed, by the brightness and 
fragrance of its well-filled windows of plants, and when we see it we know that good taste, refinement and a 
whole-souled people dwell within. 
Plants are our natural home companions: they are bright, refreshing, cheery; winter tnay rage without, 
hut inside they make spring perpetual. A refined and generous nature craves plants and dowers. Nothing 
else can take their place; especially to the care-worn woman, whose elevated taste and love for refinement goes 
largely unsatisfied, plants and flowers are one of God’s richest blessings. 
7 he plant department of our business is most extensive. We have acres of greenhouses aud annually 
produce and send out over two million plants. Our system of packing is such that our plants carry success¬ 
fully through the mails to nearly all parts of ths world. Wo are careful to send out unly well-rooted,healthy 
stock, and to offer only such varieties as are sure to give satisfaction—the very best of tlicir kinds. l lie enor¬ 
mous (luantites which we grow enable us to offer the finest plants of the choicest varieties at a price so low 
that they are within the reach of all. These facts have made ours the greatest plant distributingestablishment 
in the world. 
Our System 
of Selling 
Plants. 
BY MAIL, POSTPAID. 
express we can usually 
price. 
Wo send fine, healthy, well-rootod, vigorous Plant* 
by mall, postpaid, at prices quoted. If ordered by 
send larger ones In that way than by mall, at samt 
I IDPC CDrriMtMC BY EYDDPCC A ® man * people desire to get Plant* 
LAlllIL OrLUlmtnOy Dl LArnCOO- a « large as possible, and are willing 
to pay more for large specimens, such as cannot be sent by mall, we offer of 
most varieties extra large sizes by express, at doublo prices. All express pack" 
ages go at buyer’s expense, but we add extras to offset express charges. 
Our customers can depend upon getting Extra Fine Plants from us either way— 
by mall or express. 
Kare Fuchsias. 
These are very fine varieties of 
recent introduction: 
Trailing Queen — Good plants 
for hanging pots are rare—as 
rare as tney are beautiful. 
This new Fuchsia never grows 
erect, but always trails down 
over side of the pot, and is the 
most beautiful or all plants for 
suspension. Luxuriant without 
being weedy, procumbent, with¬ 
out being sprawling, clothed 
with handsome foliage, and load¬ 
ed with hundreds of gracefully 
drooning flowers, nothing more 
could he asked for as a basket 
plant. A well grown plant of 
this Fuchsia is a weeping foun¬ 
tain of waxen-scarlet and violet- 
purple liells, and it remains in 
this condition for months at a 
time. Very robust and easy to 
grow, the branches reaching a 
length of four and five feet, 
blooming and growing nearly 
the whole year. The loaves 
are dark green, ribbed and 
rayed with red or crimson, which 
makes them luminous and hand¬ 
some. Flowers and buds long 
and graceful, borne in large 
clusters at the end of the vines. 
When expanded the flowers are 
very large in size, tube and sepals 
bright rosy scarlet, whilo the 
corolla at opening is a rich 
violet purple, changing the sec¬ 
ond day to a fine sliado of crim¬ 
son, t he two colors in the same 
cluster contrasting beautifully. 
A good specimen will show hun¬ 
dreds of llowers at once, and the 
effect when suspended in a win¬ 
dow, is truly glorious. 
Storm King— The double White, 
Perpetual Blooming Weeping Fuchsia. Its geaceful. 
weeping habit, and its superlatively beautiful flowers, 
more freely borne than those of any other sort, make 
the most valuable of Fuchsias. It is always in bloom, 
often as many as 200 buds and blossoms on a plant at once, 
llio branches droop most gracefully, and the blossoms are 
frequently as large as tea cuns. The buds, for two weeks 
Vxrv, oro t expand, are balls of glowing scarlet-crimson. 
Wnon expanded the enormous double flowers are almost 
pure white, capped by a calyx of glowing scarlet; and 
when a plant is loaded with buds and blossoms it presents 
a sight which for true grandenr and beauty no flower can 
surpass. They are of the easiest culture and will grow 
and bloom freelv with ordinary care in any window. 
Phenomenal-The largest of all Fuchsias, and also very 
distinct in its rich, dark colorings. Enormous double 
flowers, sepals scarlet, corolla a bright violet purple. 
Little Beauty—A perfect little gem of a Fuchsia, growing 
but 6 inches high and always full of bloom. 
Price, 20c. each; th for 60c. 
