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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO. N. Y. 
Gljii>ese 
lxai)tcri> 
Plapt, 
A most magnificent plant 
fertile garden during sum¬ 
mer, or for pots both sum 
mer and winter, and a useful 
fruit. Not in years has so 
unique and novel a plant 
been introduced. We enum¬ 
erate its good qualities as 
follows: 1st. Treated lil£e 
a Geranium it grows and 
fruits freely from seed the 
first season, yet the plants 
are perennial and perfectly 
hardy in the open ground, 
or may be wintered in the 
cellar or grown in pots as a 
window plant When in 
fruit during early fall and 
winter it is a superb pot 
plant. 2nd. The plant pro ¬ 
duces numerous large white 
flowers, which are followed 
by large inflated husks, 
much the shape of Chinese 
lanterns, at first a beautifai 
green color, changing to a 
yellowish hue and then to 
brightest scarlet, and as 
they hang suspended among 
the green foliage they pre¬ 
sent a most novel and strike 
ingly beautiful appearance. 
Autumn frosts do not injur© 
foliage or fruit, and it is a 
showy plant long after all 
others are killed. 3rd. In 
these husks or “ lanterns ” a 
fruit is borne, in color a deep 
ruby-red, and good either 
for cooking, preserving or 
, , „ , , m eating raw, and keeps well 
into the winter. 4th. Branches of “lanterns” cut and 
dried retain their rich and brilliant color, and make most 
beautiful winter bouquets when used with dried grasses or 
leaves. The plant grows from 1J4 to 2 feet in height, clothed 
with luxuriant foliage among which is suspended a number 
of bright “lanterns” all the time. An elegant pot or garden 
plant, and one which we can strongly recommend. It is in 
many particulars the most unique plant we know. We can 
supply both seed and strong plants. The plants will bloom 
and fruit at once. Seed, 10c. per pkt.; 3 pkts. for 25c. Plants 
from seed fruit well first year if started early. Strong plants, 
15c. each- 9 for 25c. 5 for 50c.; 12 for $1.00. 
Giaxjt Scented gpapdragop. 
Giant White —This remarkable new plant has in one season 
jumped into foremost place among choice winter-bloom- 
ing plants. No novelty in our greenhouses has attracted 
the attention or received praise equal to this. It is a per¬ 
petual bloomer, compact and branching in habit, sending 
up flower spikes by the dozen, one to two feet in length, 
almost as large and more beautiful than Gladiolus. Color 
pure white, with lemon tinged throat and of a lovely jj 
fragrance. Flowers keep two weeks after being cut. It i 
has created a sensation in the New York flower market. 
Giant Yellow —Exactly like the above except in color, 
which is a beautiful canary yellow. 
Giant Crimson —Largest of all. 
PRICE— Fine plants, 20c. each; the 3 for 50c.; or $ 1.50 per doz. 
Seed, separately or mixed, 10c. per pkt.; one- 
packet each- of the three for 25c-. 
