JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y, 
Our Great Collection of Grand New Varieties. 
One of the dear old flowers that will nevei go out of 
fashion. Everyone who has a yard ought to grow quantities 
of this sweetest of all flowers, 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 trends’ 
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 early. For the largest 
and finest blossoms, dig a trenc.b six inches deep, put in two 
inches of rotten manure, a little earth, and sow the seeds 
over this three inches ap >rt in the row.covering an inch and 
a half deep. Do this as early as the ground can possibly be 
worked in the soring, 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. 
TRAILING 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 
All at 5 cts. per pkt, xoc. per oz. 
Adonis — A fine shade of carmine rose. 
Alba Magniflca— A fine pure white of good size. 
America— Beautifully striped white and scarlet. 
Apple Blossom—Lovely pink and rose standards, wing* 
pale pink: large and fine. 
Aurora —White, flaked and striped bright orange salmon. 
Immense size. 
Blanche Ferry Extra Early — The prettiest pink and white 
variety of all. Vine unusually bushy and compact. New 
extra early. 
Blanche Burpee— Pure white, enormous size; three on » 
stem. Finest of its color. 
Blushing Bride— Lovely blending, pink and white. 
Boreatton —Deep maroon, large and stout. 
Bronze King —Fine copper-red with pure white wings. 
Butterfly—Pure white, laced with blue. 
Cardinal— Fine rich cardinal red. 
Captain of the Blues— Purple-blue, with lovely blue wingfl. 
Celestial—Roft 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.finest form 
and most delicately colored pink variety yet sent out. 
Daybreak— White wings, red standards; fine. 
Dorothy Tennant —Fine rose mauve ; exquisite color. 
Empress of India —Clean soft rose. Grand . 
Emily Henderson—Lovely pure white ; large size, really th* 
finest white variety. 
