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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO , N. Y. 
s^chiipepes. 
A most beautiful flowering bulb for pot culture, and 
requiring much the same treatment as Begonias and Glox¬ 
inias. They are very easily grown, and produce a wonderful 
profusion of flowers all summer, some varieties blooming 
even up to Christmas. Colors, white, crimson, blue, rose, 
heliotrope, etc. Many of the sorts have highly ornamental 
foliage, as line as the best Coleus. Wo have some 25 different 
named sorts, including some of the liner varietiesof Tvdaes, 
a bulb near akin to the Acliimenes. These bulbs should bo 
potted as soon as received, but wo shall book orders and not 
send the bulbs until planting time, Fino Mixed Bulbs of 
Achimenes and Tydaes, 80c. per dozen, 6 for 50c. 
Heliotrope piceiola. 
A dwarf, large flowering variety. Plant robust, with 
fine, healthy foliage, but a dwarf, compact grower, making 
it, particularly desirable as a pot plant. Flowers, which are 
of a fine violet blue color with large white center, are of 
enormous size and borne in immense panicles. In bloom all 
the time; exceedingly fragrant. Fine plants, 20c. each. 
jRhtterfly pily. 
This magnificent East Indian plant is one of the most 
desirabie acquisitions to a collection of flowers imaginable. 
While the cut gives an excellent idea of the general appear¬ 
ance of the plant, it conveys hut a slight idea of the chaste 
beauty of the large, snow-white and exquisitelv fragrant 
(like a Jasmine) flowers looking almost like a bevy of large, 
white butterflies hovering over the plant. The roots may bo 
wintered in a dormant condition (in the soil) if stored in a 
warm, dry situation; or if kept moist and warm enough the 
plant will flower the whole year round. Fine roots, 20c. each. 
COLD STANOARD.-Truly a giant among Chrysanthe¬ 
mums. With us it produces flowers 10 to 12 inches across 
on stems0 feet long. The flowers are double to tin* very 
•center, flat, with incurving petals, the cuter petals being 
long, grading down shorter and shorter toward the cen¬ 
ter. t'olor, finest golden yellow. Perhaps the most 
beautiful, and certainly the largest, variety. 
TASMANIA.-A new sort, producing a great big double 
flower, which isa maroon purple freely variegated with 
white. Sometimes just one-half of the blossom will be 
white and the rest maroon, or nearly all white or 
maroon, but generally the variegations will be about 
as shown in the cut—maroon with great patches or 
blotches of pure white. There is nothing like it and it 
will he the chief attraction in any collection, especally 
nt shows. 
MAUDIE KLEIN, or White Maud Dean.—A sport from 
Maud Dean, which originated with us and is exactly like 
that queenly pink variety, except in color, which is pure 
white. The large, beautifully shaped, double blossoms 
are truly exquisite. No white variety can surpass it. 
Price of above new sorts, Sue. each ; the 3 for i>oc, 
