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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
N^vV jAbtitiloqs. 
These are of the beautiful Infanta Eulalia type intro¬ 
duced by uh a few years ago. Unlike the ordinary Abutilons 
of scraggy growth, they are very compact and short jointed, 
making a neat pot plant. The flowers are the most beauti¬ 
ful we have seen among Abutilons, being very large yet 
short and beautifully cupped, and of the most lovely colors. 
They produce flowers by the score both summer and winter. 
It is safe to say that these varieties will produce five times 
as many flowers as any other Abutilon under the same 
conditions. 
Infanta Eulalia— This is perfection itself. Plants dwarf 
and short jointed, producing exquisite large cupped 
blossoms by the score from the time the plant is four 
inches high. Blooms all the time, summer and winter. 
Color a most beautiful soft satin-pink. No finer pot 
plant for windows than this. 
Wm. McKinley— Exactly like the above except in color, 
which is a beautiful clear lemon yellow of exquisite 
loveliness. 
Savltzli The most beautiful in foliage of all Abutilons. 
Each leaf has a broad distinct margin of pure white, 
making a most conspicuous plant. The long stemmed 
flowers are golden yellow color veined with scarlet. It 
is a remarkably free bloomer, either in pots or bedded 
out during summer, and is always a most attractive 
specimen plant, especially for exhibiting. The leaves 
are so very large and so distinctly marked with white, 
and the flowers so showy that ail admire it. An im¬ 
proved Sour, de Bonne. 
Snowstorm --Large, pure white: finest of its color. 
Crandiflora Rich golden yellow. An extra flno grower. 
20c, each; 8 for 60c.; 5 for 76c. Extra large specimen*, bu 
express, 30c. each; 3 for 80c. 
Thhfibergia Harrisi. 
. A hard-wooded plant of a trailing or creeping habit, 
which is perfectly magnificent for hanging baskets or 
bracket pots. I he branches grow to a considerable length, 
and droop most gracefully, producing in winter large mini- 
hers of beautiful purple-blue blossoms, 3 to 4 inches across. 
I he effect is most charming and cannot be produced with 
an\ other plant. Plants bloom when very small. One of the 
very best things offered in this catalogue. 30c. each; 3for 50c. 
Rhyncospermum Jasminoides. 
A most hoautiful plant with itlossv evergreen foliatre. 
V‘ » h <: Breatest. profusion the most delicate, 
sweet-scented, .tnsraim-like Mowers of tie- purest white -V 
well crown plant, will he completely smothered with Mowers. 
It blooms when very small, nml we have seen cuttings only 
2^°eac t h- 1 3fo 1 r ntto S long bearing clusters of perfect Mowers. 
Grotops. 
..T_ h ???_ a . re bnt little known among general collections of 
beauty of a Croton, even when yer>“smallTtSt?. each; 3 "for 5o£ 
Plumbagos. 
They are most excellent pot plants, flowering freely at 
all times of the year. South of Washington they are hardy 
in the open ground, and make desirable garden plants. 
Flowers are borne in large clusters and are exceedingly 
beautiful in color, the older sorts being light blue, dark 
blue and white; the new variety, Coccinea, is intense rosy 
scarlet. They are all of very easy culture, growing in any 
situation as freely as Geraniums or Abutilons. In fact few 
pot plants can be found that will prove so easy to manage, 
and furnish such an abundance of exceedingly handsome 
flowers. 
Capensis Blue Large round clusters of long-tubed blos¬ 
soms, of a light azure blue, a shade is delicate ani beau¬ 
tiful as it is rare. 
Capensis White Exactly like tin* above, but pure snow- 
white. 
coccinea- New. Intense rosy scarlet, a color so bright as 
to be really dazzling. Flowers large and tube long, but 
instead of bearing jts blossoms in large round clusters 
like the above, they appear in an oblong cluster or spike, 
large at the base and tapering to a point. This is one of 
the really superb novelties of recent timer. 
Larpentae—Of low herbaceous growth, dyin/: down to the 
ground each fall and springing up afresh rom the roota 
each spring. Perfectly hardy in any situation. North or 
South, and makes a splendid border plant. 76c. per doz 
30c. each; one each of the 4 sea ts for GO c 
copyright 
1897 
BYJ.L.CHIUA. 
Chinese pi apt. 
The Chinese Tea makes an interesting plant, as well 
an ornamental one. The leaves are bright glossy green ai 
the flowers pretty. As a pot plant it is well worthy of ct 
ture, and a good specimen of it. will be a feature among ai 
collection ot plants, no mutter how choice. Everybody w 
want to see it. It is of a shrubby nature not at all hard 
grow, and will stand a great deal of abuse. 20c. each;3 for 5( 
CCJPYRl C1HTE0. 
