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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N Y. 
Porthlaca. 
The Portulaca will stand'more abuse than almost any 
other (lower. They do not like deep shade, or wet, damp soil, 
but in any other situation they only ask the sowing; they 
will take care of themselves afterwards. The dryer the 
weather and the hotter the sun, the more they flourish, car¬ 
peting the ground with their mat of succulent foliage, that 
during the lore part of the day is almost hidden by clouds of 
gay blossoms In every color of t he rainbow. Fine for border¬ 
ing walks, rock work and bedding. Beautiful in ribbon beds, 
and as they can be transplanted even in full bloom it is easy 
enough to remove any single or off-colored ones and replace 
t hem with others as they bloom. Six inches high. Per pkt. 
Crandlflora, Mixed Colors —fVhite, crimson, rose, scar¬ 
let. yellow, st riped, etc. Very brilliant. .5 & 10 
Double Rose-Flowered, Mixed Colors— Barge blos¬ 
soms, as double as Boses, and of the greatest variety 
of colors and variegations. Our seed is extra choice 
and will produce largo double flowers.10& 20 
Double Yellow— Fine brilliant color. 5 & ]o 
Double Scarlet— Clear and bright..5 & 10 
Double White— Pure and beautiful. ......r, s 10 
Polygonum Orientale Variegata. 
Platycodop, Qrapdiflora. 
A companionable flower that is attractive in the border, 
pretty in balcony boxes and very line for vases and cut- 
flower work. Blooms first year from seed, though it is a 
hardy perennial, the plants living in the ground over winter 
and blooming profusely year after year in the same spot. On 
this account it is very valuable. The pretty,star-:ike flowers 
are three inches across,and the colors are very clear. It is a 
most beautiful and satisfactory plant which blooms freely 
all the season, one plant often having a hundred or more of 
its large line blossoms at one time. A gem for any garden. 
Mixed —Several colors.. .10 & 20 
A charming garden 
plant growing 8 to 10 feet 
high, and bearing long cat¬ 
kin-like racemes of delicate 
pink flowers. The large 
heart-shaped leaves are 
beautifully striped spotted 
and marbled with white. 
Very ornamental.5 & 10 
Pfjacelia Gampanulafa. 
An easily grown annual 
that will commence to 
bToom a month from the 
time seed is sown in open 
ground. Erect, cup-shaped 
flowers of a lovely blue. 
Flowers profusely and a 
longtime. Its shade of color ! 
is one of the rarest and I 
loveliest seen among blues. | 
It isa superb pot plant.5 & 10 ! 
Picipds JXapzibarcpsis. 
*\ re severa l varieties of this superb new Ricinus, 
all or which are characterized by extra large and handsome 1 
leaves, compact, branching growth, forminga perlect pvra* I 
mm of elegant foliage. The seed are very large and each ? 
kind ot a different color, white, black, scarlet, brown, etc. I 
All beaut i fn 1 ly marked and mottled. They are so beautiful 
that they are worth the price asked just to look at. All 
kinds mixed.. jq 
