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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y. 
Rare Fuchsias; 
.These are very fine varieties 
of recent introduction. 
Trailing Queen— Good plants for 
hanging pots are rare—as rare 
as they are beautiful. This new 
Fuchsia never grows erect, but 
always trails down oyer side of 
the pot, and is the most beauti¬ 
ful of all plants for suspension. 
Luxuriant without being weedy, 
procumbent without being- 
sprawling, clothed with hand¬ 
some foliage, and loaded with 
hundreds of gradefully drooping 
flowers, nothing: more could be 
asked for as a basket plant. A 
well grown plant of this Fuchsia 
is a weeping fountain of waxen- 
scarlet and violet-purple bells, 
and it remains in this condition 
for months at a time. Very ro¬ 
bust and easy to grow, the 
branches reaching a length of 
four and five feet, blooming and 
growing nearly the whole year. 
The leaves are dark green, 
ribbed and rayed with red or 
crimson, which makes them lu¬ 
minous and handsome. Flowers 
and buds long and graceful, 
borne in large clusters at the 
end of the vines. When ex¬ 
panded the flowers are very large 
in size, tube and sepals bright 
rosy scarlet, while the corolla at 
opening is a rich violet-purple, 
changing the second day to a 
fine shade of crimson, the two 
colors in the same cluster con¬ 
trasting beautifully. A good 
specimen will show hundreds of 
flowers at once, and the effect, 
when suspended in a window is 
truly glorious. 
AUTUMN WEAVES. 
F<icl)sia—Autumn Leaves* 
Now offered for the first time, and is probably the most 
beautiful foliage plant yet introduced. Plant of a decided 
weeping habit, with good sized -leaves, about half of which 
(those nearest the ends of the branches) are of various 
bright colors like autumn leaves. Yellow, orange, bronze, 
pink, crimson, varied with shades and tints of other 
colors make up the most curious and beautiful foliage color¬ 
ing. Flowers crimson and blue, single and borne very pro¬ 
fusely. Not a plant in cultivation like this or one with such 
superb beauty of foliage. For lack of space we were unable 
to offer this among “ Specialties and Novelties.” 30e. each; 
3 for 75c. 
Storm King— The double White, Perpetual Blooming Weep¬ 
ing Fuchsia. Its graceful, weeping habit, and its super¬ 
latively beautiful flowers, more freely borne than those 
of any other sort, makes the most valuable of Fuchsias. 
It is always in bloom, often as many as 200 buds and blos¬ 
soms on a plant at once. The branches droop most grace¬ 
fully, and the blossoms are frequently as large as tea¬ 
cups. The buds, for two weeks before they expand, are 
balls of glowing scarlet-crimson. When expanded the 
enormous double flowers are almost pure white, capped 
by a calyx of glowing scarlet; and when a plant is loaded 
with buds and blossoms it presents a sight which for true 
grandeur and beauty no flower can surpass. 
Phenomenal— The largest of all Fuchsias, and also very 
distinct in its rich, dark colorings. Enormous double 
flowers, sepals scarlet, corolla a bright violet-purple. _ 
Little Beauty —A perfect little gem of a Fuchsia, growing 
but 6 inches high, and always full of bloom. „ ■ 
5V3ad„ Bruant— Enormous size, very double, corolla fine 
heliotrope-blue, sepals deep coral-red. New and fine. 
Above 5 Fuchsias %0c. each; the 5 for 75c. 
