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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
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Salvia 
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An exceedingly beautiful (lower, and an extra fine and 
brilliant bedder. Large, lovely, funnel shaped blossoms of 
velvetv toxin re, and with deeply sunken veins, penciled and 
shaded with the richest tracings on a groundwork of the 
most pleasing colors. It stands the sun well and some of 
the showiest hods we have ever seen have been of this beau¬ 
tiful and easy grown annual. Per pkt. 
Crandiflora, Mixed Colors A grand new strain with 
enormous blossoms possessing the most varied, bril¬ 
liant and fantastic markings imaginable. The stain¬ 
ing, pencilling and blending of the colors is wonder¬ 
fully fine.. 5 & 10 
Sprugbaea IJiqbellata. 
A. singular plant in both leaf and flower. The wooly pink 
and crimson flowers are borne in umbels above the foliage. 
The flowers remain perfect a long time and are often dried 
and used for winter bouquets. The leaves are of a dark 
bronze color, odd and attractive, and very curious. ...5 & 10 
Sal Via.’ 
The Salvia is now a standard bedding plant, and wel, 
does it deserve its honor. It stands heat and drouth re 
markabiy well, and its colors are very showy and intense 
Seed is best started under glass, though self-sown seed fre 
quently comes up in great numbers where a bed of these 
plants has been the year previous. Cuttings are easily root 
cd in Aug. and Sept, and make fine winter-blooming plants 
Patens -A most lovely shade of blue.10 & 2t 
Carduacua Light blue.5 & ft 
Spiendens Compacta Fine dwarf habit very free 
flowering, and of intense brilliancy. This is the 
finest of all Salvias and one of the very finest plants 
for garden or pots that it is possible to have. It 
blooms profusely all the year, beginning in about 
three months from the time of sowing the seed. A 
perfectly exquisite window plant. In the. garden 
its masses of fiery blossoms are very attractive_10 & 20 
Spiendens Mixed— Scarlet, white, striped, purple and 
golden leaved, all exceedingly fine.10 & 20 
VINCA. 
..— - - t* —.flower is everywhere a favorite,and 
it. is a regret to most cultivators of flowers that it cannot be 
grown in this country .as well as it can in England. This is 
owing to the fact that it is not hardy enough to stand our 
winters In the open ground without being killed or severely 
injured and as the old varieties do not bloom until the second 
year from seed they can be successfully wintered only 
in frames. This serious difficulty is obviated in this new 
strain which flowers early the first season from seed. Seed 
sown in the open ground the first of May will commence 
Mourning by tin* first of July, and if started earlb-r in the 
house or in hot, beds they can be had in } vofusion from early 
In June until late autumn as they continue booming through 
autumn frosts without Injury. The blossoms are of large 
size and borne in compact, short spikes or clusters, and are 
exceedingly sweet, scented. The. plants at e not. injured by 
fall frosts and bloom profusely till snow flies. The color's 
range from yellow to dark brown, striped, etc.5 & 10 
mUMi 
qqual, Mixed. 
Vir>ea. 
Lovely garden or not plajits. producing a profusion of 
bright blossoms at all times. Seed started early in pots 
makes lovely blooming plants by early summer, which will 
continue in growth and oloom for a year. Their soft and 
delicated colors and profuse blooming habit make them at 
all times attractive. Mixed colors . 5 & 10 , 
Yerbeseqa Occideqtalis. 
Blooms profusely from June to Oct., the blossoms being 
large, richest and brightest, golden yellow in color, closely ! 
resembling a Cosmos, and borne on long, graceful stems. 
Seed sown in pots at any time during winter will be up and 
blooming within a few weeks .5 & 10 
