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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y. 
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A favorite little annual, because of its fragrance and 
abundance of bloom. As easy to grow as any weed, and 
blooms from early summer until severe freezing weather m 
fall. Sow seed very early in open ground. Dainty little 
plants for hanging baskets or small pots. Good for cutting 
or button-hole bouquet. Per pkt. 
Sweet Racemes of small cruciform white flowers, honey- 
scented, and never out of bloom. 5 
lUttle Gem An improved variety; much larger flowers, 
of a pure white, and, if possible, more floriferous than 
the old sweet. Plant is also more robust and spread¬ 
ing, a single plant forming a thick mat of flowers and 
foliage 12 to 15 inches across. Three and four hundred 
spikes of flowers in full bloom can be counted on a good 
plant at one time. 10 
5&qtirrhipom, Giaflt Scented, 
OR SNAPDRAGON. 
A new giant-flowered strain of the grand old Snap¬ 
dragon, which m size and beauty of bloom, either in pots 
or garden, almost equals, Gladiolus. Per pkt 
Giant White This remarkable new plant has jumped 
into foremost place among choice winter-bloomers. 
No novelty m our greenhouses has attracted the atten¬ 
tion or received praise equal to this. It is a perpetual 
bloomer, compact and branching in habit, sending up 
flower spikes by the dozen, one to two feet in length 
almost as large as and more beautiful than Gladiolus’ 
Color, pure white, with lemon-tinted throat and of a 
lovely fragrance. Flowers keep two weeks after being 
cut. it has created a sensation in the New York 
flower market ... in 
Giant Ye!iow -Exactly hke the above except 'in’color 
which is a beautiful canary yellow ’in 
Giant Crimson-Largest of all. Exceedingly fine.in 
Giant Mixed-Many colors, including the above, ail large 
and exceedingly fragrant. Try them, both in garden 
and pots. .. 7 . l0 
Ambrosia 
This is a hardy an¬ 
nual which has been 
known a long time, 
though it has never 
j been introduced. Its 
merits are long, spi¬ 
ral stems, covered with 
beautiful green foliage 
and seed buds, which are 
exceedingly fragrant. It 
is as desirable as the 
Rose Geranium as a 
plant with fragrant 
foliage, and for making 
up into bouquets and 
other floral work its beau¬ 
tiful long spirals of lovely 
green are unsurpassed. 
It is one of the easiest 
plants to grow, and seed 
can be sown early m the 
open ground. It takes its 
popular name, Ambrosia^, 
from the unsurpassed 
fragrance of its foliage. .1® 
AQhilegia, or G°lhrpbipe. 
( PJCRRNNIA R. ) 
One of the best of the early summer perennials. Curious 
flowers, extremely graceful and beautiful, and borne m 
great quantities high above the foliage, which itself is very 
beautiful and attractive. Extra fine for cutting. Per P^t- 
Prize Mixture —This strain embraces more than one hun¬ 
dred varieties, double and single, and of all shapes and 
colors........ 5 
Chrysantha— Large golden yellow ........ . 10 
