116 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
MEXICAN PKIMKOSE. 
The Mexican priiqrose. 
Rare Fuchsias 
A plant for everybody, and one which will thrive in 
rich or poor, wet or dry soil, or in sun or shade, and bloom 
profusely the year round in pots, or all the spring* summer 
and fall in the garden. The superb colors, combined with 
airy grace and beautiful form, goes to make a flower which 
is perfection itself. The plant seldom grows over ten inches 
in height, but inclines to a trailing habit, sweeping its 
branches out over the ground, or drooping over the sides of 
the pot, holding its large silky flowers erect, so that their 
unsurpassed beauty is seen to best advantage. Asa window 
plant it combines great hardiness and ease of culture with 
unsurpassed beauty and delicate loveliness and profusion of 
bloom. In the open ground it grows freely and blooms 
profusely. 
Ohramlng-Bright deep pink, veined with scarlet, and with 
a light center. A superb color. 
Snowflake—Pure snow-white, enormous size. 
Apple Blossom—White, tinted blush, and bordered with 
satin pink. An extremely delicate color. 
Hermosa Tinted—A lovely shade of light soft rose. 
Price , 15c. each ; the 4 for hoc. Extra large specimens , by 
express, 80c. each; 4 for 80c. 
ITORM KINO. 
These are very fine varieties of recent introduction. 
Phenomenal—Ihe largest of all Fuchsias, and also very 
distinct in its rich, dark colorings. Enormous double 
. » r9 ’ SP P als scarlet, corolla a bright violet purple. 
L tt , ,e ® eau . ty A perfect little gem of a fuchsia, growing 
but 0inches high and always full of bloom 
Mad- Bruant-Enormous size, very double, corolla fine 
heliotrope blue, sepals deeo coral red. New and fine. 
Trailing Queen Good plants for hanging pots are rare- 
as rare as they are beautiful. This new Fuchsia nevet 
grows erect, but always trails down over side of the pot, 
and is the most beautiful of ail plants for suspension 
Liuxuriant without being weedv, procumbent without 
being sprawling, clothed with handsome foliage, and 
loaded with hundreds of gracefully drooping flowers, 
nothing more could be asked for as a basket plant. A 
\vell grown plant of this Fuchsia is a weeping fountain 
or waxen-scarlet and violet-purple bells, and it remains 
in this condition for months at a time. Very robust and 
easy to grow, the branches reaching a lengt h of four and 
nve feet, blooming and growing nearly the whole year, 
ihe leaves are dark green, ribbed and rayed with red 
or crimson, which makes them lnminousand handsome, 
it lowers and buds long and graceful, borne in large 
clusters at the end of the vines. When expanded the 
flowers are very large in size, tube and sepals oright rosy 
scarlet, while the corolla at opening is a rich violet 
purple, changing the second day to a fine shade of •rim- 
son, t he two colors in the same cluster contrast ing beau¬ 
tifully. A good specimen will show hundreds of flowers 
at once, and the effect when suspended in a window is 
truly glorious. 
8 torm King—The double White, Perpetual Bloooming 
vv eeping Fuchsia. Its graceful, weeping habit, and its 
superlatively beautiful flowers, more freely borne than 
those of any other sort, makes the most valuable of 
Fuchsias. It is always in bloom, often as many as 2XJ0 
buds and blossoms on a plant at once. The branches 
droop most gracefully, and the blossoms are frequently 
as large as tea cups. The buds, for two weeks before 
they expand, are balls of glowing scarlet-crimson. When 
expanded the enormous double flowers are almost pure 
white, capped by a calyx of glowing scarlet; and when 
a plant is loaded with buds and blossoms it presents 
a sight which for true grandeur and beauty no flower can 
surpass. They are of the easiest culture and will grow 
and bloom freely with ordinary care in any window, 
toe, each; the 5 for 80c . Extra large plants by express 80 c, 
