JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO. N. Y. 
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Ghiqese 
Gaptcrq 
Plaqt. 
A most magnificent plant 
for the garden during sum¬ 
mer, or for pots both sum¬ 
mer and winter, and a useful 
fruit. Not in years lias so 
unique and novel a plant 
been introduced. Wo enum¬ 
erate its good qualities as 
follows: 1st. Treated like 
a Geranium it grows and 
fruits freely from seed the 
first season, yet the plants 
are perennial and perfectly 
hardy in the open ground, 
or may be wintered in the 
cellar or grow n in pots as a 
window plant. When in 
fruit during early fall and 
winter it is a superb pot 
plant. 2nd. The plant pro¬ 
duces numerous large white 
flowers, which are followed 
by large inflated husks, 
much the shape of Chinese 
lanterns, 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 pre¬ 
sent a most novel and strik¬ 
ingly beautiful appearance. 
Autumn frosts do not injure 
foliage or fruit, and it is a 
showy plant long after all 
others are killed. 3rd. In 
these husks or “ lanterns” a 
fruit is borne, in color a deep 
ruby-red, and good either 
for cooking, preserving or 
eating raw, and keeps well 
into the winter. 4th. Branches of “lanterns” cut and 
dried retain their rich and brilliant color, and make most 
beautiful winter bouquets when used with dried grasses or 
leaves. The plant grows from \ V\ to 2 feet in height, clothed 
with luxuriant foliage among which is suspended a number 
of bright “lanterns” all the time. An elegant pot or garden 
plant, and one which we can strongly recommend. It is in 
many particulars the most unique plant we know. Wo can 
supply both seed and strong plants. The plants will bloom 
and fruit at once. Seed, 10c. per pkt.; 3 pkts. for 25c. Plants 
from seed fruit well first year if started early. Strong planl s, 
15c. each; 2 for 25c. 5 for 50c.; 12 for $ 1 . 00 . 
Ginpt Sceqted Spapdragop. 
Giant White— This remarkable new plant has in one season 
jumped ILto foremost place among choice winter-bloom • 
ing plants. No novelty in, our greenhouses has attracted 
the attention or received praise equal to t his. It is a per¬ 
petual bloomer, compact and branching in habit, sending 
up flower spikes by the dozen, one to two feet in length, 
almost as large and more beautiful than Gladiolus. Color 
pure white, with lemon tinged throat and of a lovely 
fragrance. Flowers keep two weeks after being cut. It 
has created a sensation in the New York flower market. 
Glnnt Yellow Exactlv like the above except in color, 
which is a beautiful canary yellow. 
Giant Crimson— Largest of all. 
PRICE Fint, plants 20c. each; the S for 50c.; or $1.50 per doz. 
Seed, separately or mixed. 10c. per pkt.; one 
packet each of the three for S5c. 
