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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO. N. Y. 
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Hollyhock. 
One of the finest of all perennials, and unsurpassed as a 
stately, imposing plant for backgrounds, screens, center of 
wide borders, etc. Plants grow from four to six feet high, 
and bear pyramidal spikes of large rosette-like flowers of 
every shade and color, from pure white to almost black. 
The yellow, magenta, rose and black are intensely pure and 
deep, while the pure white, pale lemon, soft pink and laven¬ 
der shades are exquisitely soft and delicate. The pearly 
blooms of the pure white Hollyhock are as fine for all floral 
work as the most double Rose or Cameiia. If seeds are 
started very early, plants often bloom the next September. 
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Double Wh ite - Pure and true.10 & 20 
“ Magenta— Fine bright color.5 & 10 
“ Lemon -Pure, bright lemon color.5 & 10 
“ Pink— Very delicate and pretty.5 & 10 
Midnight — Double black.10 & 20 
Double, Mixed Colors —Very choice, embracing over 
twenty different shades...'_10 & 20 
Cem of Yellow— This is a new sort, very dwarf and very 
double, and of the finest brilliant yellow color. The 
flowers, set so close on the stalks that it is one gigan¬ 
tic mass of bloom. It is the finest of all "Holly¬ 
hocks.10 & 20 
One paper each of the above seven sorts UOc. 
HONEYSUCKLE. 
Everyone knows the 
Honeysuckle with its 
delicious fragrance, 
but everyone does not 
know that it is quite 
easily grown from 
seed, blooming the 
second season with 
ordinary care. Fine 
young plants often 
spring up under our 
vines from self-sown 
seed .5 & 10 
pixpin? Pererfije. 
Not entirely new, yet little known and rarely seen, al¬ 
though it is one of those flowers of dainty beauty that is 
appreciated-when seen; but can never be justly described. 
We will not attempt to convey to our readers the impression 
of its great beauty; this they can never know until they see 
it, but will say that it is a hardy perennial, sending up 
numerous stems which send out long, wiry branches, which 
are clothed with a growth of small, almost hair-like foliage. 
At the tips of the branches are poised large, salver-slia.ped 
blossoms, borne with such airy grace that they appear to be 
floating in the air. The effect is charming. No garden in 
the land should be without this exquisite flower. 
Mixed Colors— Blue, white and pink.10 & 20 
Wallflower. 
A favorite English flower somewhat like Ten-weeks 
Stocks. A half-hardy perennial; very fragrant and fine for 
cutting or for pots. Where winters are not very severe the 
Wallflower will live with protection and will bloom very 
early in spring. 
Double Mixed Colors...5&10 
Perer^rjial Pea. 
,, No praise can be too high for this lovely iron-clad vine, 
that, blooms constantly from early summer until late 
autumn, minding neither heat or cold, rain or drought. 
Plants of vigor and healthfulness, bearing a profusion of 
long-stalked clustered flowers, white, pink and deep rose in 
color, each flower an inch or more across. It is strange that 
they are so rarely seen, for they are easily grown, perfectly 
hardy, and so beautiful that we have never yet seen a person 
who did not admire their cheerful flowers and clear green 
foliage. Four to six feet in height. Per okt 
Mixed, All Colors. "St 10 
Pure White— Superb.." ’. 5 & ]0 
