JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
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(Stanley’s CUash Tub., 
dueed from July to October, when flowers nro of such value. 
A hedge of it fully equals the wonderful Jessamine hedges 
of the South, both in beauty and charming fragrance. A 
most valuable shrub indeed, and should be included in all 
collections. Asa honey producer it is not excelled by any 
plant or shrub. 20c. each; 3 for 50c. 
A Croat African Wonder. Flowers the Size of a Tub. 
This, the largest flower the world has ever seen, has 
bloomed a few times in Europe, and created the greatest 
sensation ever known among flowers. 1 1 is fully illustrated 
and descrilteil in the London Gardener's Chronicle of June 
It!, 1880. We have, at gnat expense, secured from Africa 
15,000 tine bulbs of it. The bulbs grow to the enormous 
weight, of 8 or 10 pounds each, t hough they bloom when only 
weighing a pound or less. Planted in the spring, either in 
tubs or the open ground, they bloom soon (before the leaves 
start), sending up flowers which when expanded are two to 
four feet across, the size of a wash tub, anti which arc a 
curious mixture of color, rod, brown and black (or purple), 
thickly spotted with pure white and pink. The flower is fol¬ 
lowed by a largo spotted stem which rises to the height of 
three or four feet, and unfolds at t he top an umbell of beau¬ 
tiful, palm-like foliage which spreads out several feet like an 
umbrella. It is the greatest wonder among flowers which 
the world has ever Seen. A leading paper truly says of it, 
"The flower is certainly one of the most extraordinary in 
the whole world. The one recently in bloom at Kow meas¬ 
ured four and one-half feet and strikingly handsome." It is 
of the easiest culture, being simply a summer-flowering 
bulb, requiring exactly the same treatment as a Gladiolus. 
It is the most wonderful flower in the world and the most 
desirable one to possess. We are the only ones having a 
largo stock of it for stile. It has been given the popular 
though absurd name of Stanley’s Wush Tub. Fine bulbs $1.25 
each. 5 for $5.00. 
Doryapthes Excelsa. 
Wo have secured from Australia a limited number of this 
gigantic member'of the Amaryllis family. It sends up a 
flower stem from eight feet, to sixteen feet high, on the top 
or which is borne a great cluster of large, scarlet, lily-like 
flowers. It has the general habit of an Amaryllis in foliage 
and growth, but is, of course, gigantic in proportions. Few 
are found in cultivation, and those who have room for it can 
procure nothing more rare and novel. In the Southern and 
Pacific States ft is hardy and eau be grown iu the open 
ground. $5.00 each. 
Gletra s&lpifolia. 
A low growing shrub, with dense, pale green foliage, cov¬ 
ered with spikes of delight lull y fragrant white flowers, pro- 
