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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
SWeet Peas. 
Out Great Collection of Grand New Varieties. 
One of the dear old flowers that will nevei go ont. of 
fashion. Everyone who has a yard ought to grow quantities 
of this sweetest of all flowersy that is not only a beautiful 
low-growing vine for garden and decoration, but one of the 
most useful of all in furnishing material for vases,bouquets 
and all cut flower work. Plant quantities of these lovely 
flowers and cut them with a lavish hand. Their presence 
will bring pleasure in the sick room, adorn your frends’ 
otherwise empty vases, and make happy the flower-hungry 
children, with no pretty yards and flowers of their own: for 
every flower you pick, two will come to fill its place. Easy 
to grow anywhere if sown early, very enrly. For the largest 
and finest blossoms, dig a trench six inches deep. put. in two 
inches of rotten manure, a little earth, and sow the seeds 
over this three inches ap irt in the row,covering an inch and 
a half tieep. Do this as early as the ground can possible he 
worked in the spring, and as the plants grow, fill up the 
trench around them with rich earth. Such planting will 
produce enormous quantities of flowers of the largest size. 
NEW DWARF SWEET PEA “CUPID.” 
See colored plate front of Catalogue. 
TRAILINC PEAS. 
These are of a trailing and not of a climbing habit, and 
are the largest and most beautiful of all flowering Peas, 
they also commence blooming three weeks earlier. Colors, 
sky-blue and pure white both mixed. 5 & 10 
50 Grandest Named Sweet Peas. 
All at 5 cts. per pkt, ioc, per oz. 
Adonis— A fine shade of carmine rose. 
Alba Magnlfica- A fine pure white of good size. 
America -Beautifully striped white and scarlet. 
Apple Blossom— Lovely pink and rose standards, wings 
pale pink; large and fine. 
Aurora— White, flaked and striped bright orange salmon 
Immense size. 
Blanche Ferry Extra Early— The prettiest pink and white J 
variety of all. Vine unusually bushy ana compact. New , 
extra early. 
Blanche Burpee— Pure white, enormous size; three on a 
stem. Finest of its color. 
Blushing Bride— Lovely blending, pink and white. 
Boreatton Deep maroon, large aim stout. 
Bronze King Fine copper-red with pure white wings. 
Butterfly Pure white, laced with blue. 
Cardinal Fine rich cardinal red. 
Captain of the BIues— Purple-blue, with lovely blue wings 
Celestial Soft lavender: extra large and fine. 
Countess of Radnor Soft lavender, delicate and fine. 
Crown Jewel Creamy, tinted and veined with rose. 
Catharine Tracy Claimed to be the largest size.finestiorm fc 
and most delicately colored pink variety yet sent out. ^ 
Daybreak White wings, red standards; fine* 
Dorothy Tennant -Fine rose manve ; exquisite color. 
Empressof India Clean soft rose. Grand. 
Emily Henderson —Lovely pure white ; large size, really the 
finest white variety. 
