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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
Rudbeckia Rnci plata, £L pi. 
“G°ldep GIoW.” 
Offered for the first time last year. A hardy perennial plans 
growing eight feet high, brandling freely, and bearing by 
the hundreds, on long, graceful stems, exquisite double 
blossoms of the brightest golden color and as large as Cac¬ 
tus Dahlias. The cut represents a plant in bloom, as photo ji 
graphed. Mr. William Falconer the best authority on plant* 
in this country, says of it: “When T saw the double-flower¬ 
ing form of Rudbeckia Laciniata in bloom in your grounds 
at Floral Park, in summer last year 1 was amazed, for not. „ 
withstanding my long and intimate acquaintance with 
plants I had never before seen a double-flowered Rudbeckia: 
and I was delighted with the fulness and gorgeousnfessof 
the blossoms and their clear, bright yellow color. You gave 
me a plant last spring and it was set out in good garden 
ground. It grow vigorously and threw up strong branching 
flower ^sterns six feet high, laden with sheaves of golden 
blossoms as large as fair Chrysanthemums, and all having 
an elegant graceful appearance, without any of the stiffness 
in habit or blossom peculiar to sunflowers. Matty eminent 
florists and amateurs have seen it here, and all admired it. 
As cut flowers the blossoms last well. In fine, I unhesitat¬ 
ingly regard it as the most desirable introduction among 
hardy perennials since we got Clematis Paniculata. “It U 
the most effective flowering plant for August and Septem¬ 
ber in cultivation. 
Strong plants, which will bloom freely this season, 20c, 
each; 4 for 60c.; 10 for $1.00; 25 for $2.00. 
