PLUMBAGOS 
The Plumbagos are hard-wooded, shrubby plants, similar to Abutilons. They are most ex¬ 
cellent pot plants, flowering freely at all times of the year. South of Washington they are hardy 
m the open gronnd, and make desirable garden plants. Flowers are borne in large clusters and 
are exceedingly beautiful in color, the older sorts being light blue, dark blue and white; the new 
variety, Coccjnea, is intense rosy scarlet. They are all of very easy culture, growing in any 
situation as freely as Geraniums or Abutilons. In fact few pot plants can be found that will 
prove so easy to manage, and furnish such an abundance of exceedingly handsome flowers. We 
hope by this colored plate, showing the new scarlet variety with others, to stimulate a new in¬ 
terest in them, for they have never received the attention which they merit. The plate, how¬ 
ever, does not do them justice, either in size of bloom and cluster or delicacy and beauty of 
color. 
Capensis Blue —Large round clusters of long-tubed blossoms, of a light azure blue, a shade 
as delicate and beautiful as it is rare. 20c. each; 3 for 50c. 
Capensis White —Exactly like the above, but pure snow-white, and with the blue makes a 
fine contrast. 20c. each; 3 for 50c. 
Coccinea —New; having been introduced by us last year. Intense rosy scarlet, a color so bright 
as to be really dazzling. Flowers large and tube long, but instead of bearing its blossoms 
in large round clusters like the above, they appear in an oblong cluster or spike, large at 
the base and tapering to a point. This is one of the really superb novelties of recent 
times. 25c. each; 3 for 60c. 
Larpentae —Of low herbaceous growth, dying down to the ground each fall and springing up 
afresh from the roots each spring. Perfectly hardy in any situation, North or South, and 
makes a splendid border plant. 15c. each; 3 for 40c. 
SPECIAL OFFER —One eath 0/ the 4 sorts for 60c. 
Our Great Surprise Collection. 
Larger and Finer This Year Than Ever Before. 54.00 or 55.00 
Worth of the Choicest Flowers for only 51.00. 
We are obliged to grow enormous stocks of all kinds of Plants, Bulbs and Seeds, generally 
more than is necessary, to make sure of having enough. It is our custom, after the heavy spring 
business is over, in May, to take the surplus stock of various good things, make it into “Surprise” 
Collections, and offer them to our customers, giving them four or five times the value of their 
money. In fact, the “ Surprise ” is the great amount of fine things one gets for the money paid. 
These collections cannot be sent out until about the middle of May, and will be entirely of our 
own selection, from kinds of which we have a surplus. No collection will be made up for less 
than one dollar, and from that up to any amount the purchaser may desire. They will be sent 
free, by mail, unless desired by express, and in that case we can send very much more for the 
money than by mail. All “Surprise” Collections ordered previous to May 15th will be booked 
and shipped then, but we can continue sending them up to the first of July. We advise our 
friends to invest a dollar or more in this collection. We can guarantee that all will be pleased. 
JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, Floral Park, N. Y. 
LITHO BY H M.WALL,BROOKLYN, N Y 
