JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y. 
MISOELLAUEOUS SEEDS. 
Two pages of odd seeds, all of which may be very easily grown by anyone and all very desirable 
especially the Eantern Plant, Nymphaeas, Everbearing Strawberries, Japan Maples, etc. 
Ghipese j;nnlci*u 
Plaqt, 
A most magnificent plant 
tor the garden during sum¬ 
mer, or for pots. Treated 
like a SVeranium, it grows 
and fruits freely from seed 
the first season, yet the 
plants are perennial and per¬ 
fectly hardy in the open 
ground, or may be wintered 
in the cellar or grown in pots 
as a window plant. When 
in fruit during early fall and 
winter it is a superb pot 
plant. The plant produces 
numerous large white flow¬ 
ers, which are followed by 
large inflated husks, much 
the shape of Chinese lan¬ 
terns, at first a beautiful 
green color, changing to a 
yellowish hue and then to 
brightest scarlet, and as they 
hang suspended among the 
green foliage they present a 
most novel and strikingly 
beautiful appearance. Au¬ 
tumn frosts do not injure 
foliage or fruit, and it is a 
showy plant long after all 
others are killed. In these 
husks or “ lanterns ” a fruit 
is borne, in color a deep ruby- 
red, and good either for 
cooking, preserving or eat¬ 
ing raw, and keeps well into 
the winter. Branches of 
"lanterns” cut and dried 
retain their rich and brilli¬ 
ant color, and make most . 
beautiful winter bouquets 
when used with dried grasses 
or leaves. The plant grows 
from l}4 to 2 feet in height, 
elothed with luxuriant foliage, among which is suspended a 
number of bright ** lanterns ” all the time . .. .10 
This superb Lily grows freely from seed and blooms 
abundantly the second summer. A fine lot may be raised 
in this way ...„ .10 
Iris Kaentpferi. 
Seedlings bloom well the second summer, showing a great 
variety' of colors, and large wavy blossoms, some double 
and some single.. .. 10 
Nympbam. 
Lovely Pond Lilies of which everyone is so fond. Many 
of the new foreign varieties grow and bloom from seed the 
first year, and among them there are a great variety of 
colors, white, yellow, blue, purple, etc. Seed should be sown ;; 
in a pan or saucer of mud, just covered with water. In a 
warm temperature they will germinate quickly and grow 
rapidly. These Lilies have a fragrance rich and peculiar; 
considered by many to be superior to any other flower. 
Xanzibarensis, Blue — The grand day-blooming African 
Water Lily, with enormous incurved flowers of most 
exquisite, coloring, and so profuse blooming that a tub y 
ui them is never without flowers from early summer 
until frost. They grow so rapidly that they will bloom is 
in ten weeks from seed, and are so little trouble any- x; 
one can succeed with them. Give them a very rich , ' " 
soil, full sun, and shallow water to start in. The larger 
the vessel that contains them the ranker they grow, 
and the larger their flowers, but they will bloom in a 
common bucket, even. Seed should be sown in cups I 
of soil and tepid water . ............. 
Zanzibarensis, Red—Like the above, except in color, 
which is a fine purplish red ..... .- __ .11 
Oentata— (Night-Blooming Star Lily). There-is noth¬ 
ing among water plants finer than this. Opens about 
tour o'clock in the evening and closes at noon the next 
day. Star-like blossoms, pearly white, and blooms 
freely from seed the first season. 
CoeruSea— A lovely Pond Lily four inches across, and of a 
beautiful lavender blue color. It- has a remarkable 
fragrance, differing from all others. .10 
Alba— A lovely pure white Water Lily of great beauty and 
fragrance. . .. ... .. 10 
Nelumbium, or Egyptian Lotus— This is the grand and 
ancient Egyptian Lotus, a Water Lily of great size 
and surpassing beauty. It should be planted in rich 
mud, with* one or two feet of water. It flowers the 
nrst.season, its flower stems rising out of the water to 
the ,g ei ght of four or six feet, surmounted by a great 
double rank or white flower, which is a foot or more 
across. The beautiful, rank leaves are often over two 
feet across. Either in pots or tubs this plant is in 
bloom from July to October, and is an object of unsur¬ 
passed beauty . 20 
