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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
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By j.l.(hilds. 
SALVfA r 
Splendens' 
<°M PACTA-. 
^alpigiossis 
An exceedingly beautiful flower, and 
,.,7. ■luvici, emu an ciura une ana 
brilliant bedder. Large, lovely, funnel shaped blossoms of 
velvety texture, 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 beds we have ever seen have been of this beau¬ 
tiful and easy grown annual. Per pkt 
Grandiflora, 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 
SpragHaea JJxpbellata. 
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 
The Salvia is now as" ’ - - 
does it deserve its honor. L 
markably well, and its colors ar- 
started UT ‘der glass, thoui 
quently comes up ir — 
plants has been the > ct u urevio 
pU^« Ug \ and Se , pt - and make w 
Carduacua—" shade of blue. 
Splendens Coir;pac 
flowering, and of 
a s t ar jdard bedding plant, and well 
in-r.™.. It S fc a nds heat and drouth re¬ 
's are very showy and intense. 
& la ' ss \ though self-sown seed fre- 
-> U £m> n great numbers where a bed of these 
5 y ® a I. previous. Cuttings are easily root- 
! fine winter-blooming plants. 
; u e ht biii----:" g 
habit very free 
finesVof a'lfs* l a ns ® brilliancy. This is the 
for ^ ^ler Vlr no^ - of tb e very finest plants 
sainen or pots that it is possible to have Tt 
blooms profusely all the year, beginning ffiabont 
three months from the time of sowing thl seed A 
perfectly exquisite window plant. In the garden 
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Wallflower, Mixed. 
The old English Wallflower 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 sfand our 
winters in the open ground without being killed or severely 
inj ured 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 
blooming by the first of July, and if started earlier in the 
house or in hot-beds they can be had in profusion 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 comuact, short spikes or clusters, and are 
exeeedingly sweet, scented. The plants are not injured by 
fall frosts and bloom profusely till snow flies. The colors 
rarge from yellow to dark brown, striped, etc.5 & 10 
bright blossoms at all times Seed sta?tlq a « Pr ? fu ? ion of 
makes lovely blooming plants by early s,, a il ® arly , . ln Pots 
continue in growth and bloom for a year which will 
delicated colors and profuse blooming hahit bWi 11 ' and 
all times attractive. Mixed colors. make them at 
Yerbesepa Occideptaiis!* W 
Blooms profusely from June to Oct., the , . 
large, richest and brightest golden yellow in oru 0rns ,b em 8 
resembling a Cosmos, and borne on long, gracef, closely 
Seed sown in pots at any time during winter will tT stem s. 
blooming within a few weeks...... 06 U P and 
