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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y. 
oar NEW CENTURY Surprise Collection. 
It Will Be Unusually Fine This Year, and Our Customers Will Find it a Great Bargain. 
MANY DOLLARS’ WORTH OF FINE PLANTS , BULBS AND SEEDS FOR $1.00. 
It is our custom each year, after the heavy spring business is about over, in May, to 
take the surplus stock of various good things, make it into “Surprise” Collections, and offer 
them to our customers, giving four or five times the value of their money. In fact, the 
“ Surprise ” is in the great amount of fine things one gets for the money paid. These 
collections cannot be sent 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 wll 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, particularly this year, for we are going to see how good it can be made. 
SPECIAL: “BARGAIN” COLLECTIONS. 
Below we offer Six Special Collections, made up entirely from our own Novelties of the past few years* 
It is needless to sax' that they represent the finest varieties of their kind, and the prices we offer these 
Collections at is merely nominal, not their true x r alue, which is much greater: 
10 P£TS. SUPERB FLOWER SEEDS FOR ONLY 50C. 
One pkt. Cosmos, Hybrids, 
One pkt. Golden Leaved Salvia, 
One pkt. Chinese Lantern Plant, 
One pkt. Datura, Sweet Nightingale, 
One pkt. Phlox, Childs’ Jubilee, 
One pkt. Pansy, Imperial German, 
One pkt. Poppy, Improved Shirley, 
One pkt. Japanese Morning Glory, 
One pkt. Verbena. Childs’ Prize, 
One pkt. Zinnia, Childs’ Improved. 
The above 10 pkts., all our own introduction, for 50c. 
5 BEAUTIFUL POT PLANTS FOR 50c. 
One Aloeasia. 
One Fuchsia. Trailing Queen. 
One Pigmy Boston Fern. 
One Palm, Filifera. 
One Bose, Winter Gem. 
These 5 grand Plants, of our own introduction, for 50c. 
10 PKTS.JFINEST VEGETABLE SEEDS FOR ONLY 50c, 
One pkt. Cabbage, Long Island, 
One pkt. Egg Plant, Giant Spineless, 
One pkt. Cucumber, Early Beauty, 
One pkt. Lettuce. Half Century. 
One pkt. Melon, Musk. Combination, 
One pkt. Melon. Water, Kleckley’s Sweet, 
One pkt. Onion. Early Radish, 
One pkt. Pepper, Celestial, 
One pkt. Tomato, Diadem, 
One pkt. Turnip, Early Ivory. 
The above 10 pkts., all our own introduction, for 50c . 
5 FINE BULBS FOR 50c. 
One Amaryllis, Auliea Platipetala. 
One Great Ismene. 
One Gladiolus, Childsi. named. 
One Amorphophalius Simlens 0 . 
One Zephyrantl Sulphure 1 
These 5 splendid B >- mr ou 1 r auction, for 50c. 
5 SPLENDID FRUITS FOR 50c. 
One Balloon Berry, 
One Tree Strawberry, 
One Wineberry, 
One Tree Blackberry, 
One Climbing Raspberry. 
The above 5 Fruits, of our own introduction, for 50c. 
5 HARDY PLANTS FOR 50c. 
One Rudbeckia. Golden Glow. 
One New Sylphium. 
One Chrysanthemum, Everblooming. 
One Iris, Kaempferi. named. 
One Tritoma, Everblooming. 
These 5 Hardy Plants, of our own introduction, for 50c. 
All 6 Collections, for only $ 2 . 50 . 
Floral park I^aWq Grass ,—Quick GroWirjg. 
Not even fine trees and beautiful flowers add as much beauty to the home surroundings as does a fine, velvety lawn. 
To secure a fine, close, even sward, it is absolutely necessary to use proper grasses. Good, deep, rich color and turfy, com-s 
pact habit, stooling out well from the bottom, and they must be able to stand the sun as well, and a considerable amount of 
drought, without injury. We have a mixture of grasses that meets all these requirements. We use it at Floral Park.where 
it has been much admired. We have sold it in every State and Territory in the United States, and it has given entire satis¬ 
faction in every location. It grows quickly, making a fine green sward in a few weeks. A whole season’s drought w r ill not¬ 
hin out this grass. It may dry and burn as brown as possible, yet the first good rain will immediately bring it up greeny 
and velvety. 35c. per quart; $2.25 per peck, postpaid ; by express, per peck, $1.25; per bushel. $4.00. 
OUR FALL CATALOGUE FOR 1901. 
Our Illustrated Catalogue of Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, Crocus. Sc-illas, Freesias, Crown Imperials, Snowdrops. 
Alliums, and all Hardy Bulbs and Plants, for fall planting and winter blooming, will be sent to our customers the first or 
September, It will also be sent free to all others who apply. Address all orders and other Communications to. 
JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, Floral Park, N. Y. 
