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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO,, N Y 
MEXICAN PRIMROSE. 
XXexieui} PriEppose. 
A plant for everybody, and one which will thrive in 
rich or poor, wet or dry soil, or in sun or shade, and bloom 
profusely the year round in pots, or all the spring, summer 
and fall in the garden. The superb colors, combined with 
airy grace and beautiful form, goes to make a flower which 
is perfection itself. The plant seldom grows over ten inches 
in height, but inclines to a trailing habit, sweeping its 
branches out over the ground, or drooping over the sides of 
the pot, holding its large silky flowers erect, so that their 
unsurpassed beauty is seen to best advantage. Asa window 
plant it combines great hardiness and ease of culture with 
unsurpassed beauty and delicate loveliness and profusion of 
bloom. In the open ground it grows freely and blooms 
profusely. 
Chraming- Bright deep pink, veined with scarlet, and with 
a light center. A superb color. 
Snowflake— Pure snow-white, enormous size, 
Apple Blossom— White, tinted blush, aud bordered with 
satin pink. An extremely delicate color. 
Hermosa Tinted —A lovely shade of light soft rose. 
Price, 15c. each; the 4 for UOc. Extra large specimens, by 
erpress, 30c. each; 4 for 80c. 
These are very fine varieties of recent introduction. 
Phenomenal— The largest of all Fuchsias, and also very 
distinct in its rich, dark colorings. Enormous double 
flowers, sepals scarlet, corolla a bright violet purple. 
Little Beauty —A perfect little gem of a fuchsia, growing 
but 6 inches high and always full of bloom. 
Mad. Bruant— Enormous size, very double, corolla fine 
heliotrope blue, sepals deep coral red. New and fine. 
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as rare as they are beautiful. This new Fuchsia never 
grows erect, but always trails down over side of the pot, 
ancl is the most beautiful of all plants for suspension, 
luxuriant without being weedy, procumbent without 
being sprawling, clothed with handsome foliage, and 
loaded . with . hundreds of gracefully drooping flowers, 
nothmg more could be.asked for as a basket plant. A 
well grown plant of this Fuchsia is a weeping fountain 
'Y^ xen-S c?>'rlet and violet-purple bells, and it remains 
in this condition for months at a time. Verv robust and 
easy to grow, the branches reaching a length of four and 
, e L blooming and. growing nearly the whole year, 
1 he leaves are dark green, ribbed and rayed with red 
or cnmson, which makes them luminousand handsome, 
a ? < \ kuds long and graceful, borne in large 
ciusteis at the end of the vines. When expanded the 
akoZfJf ar ® y er T 1 al- ge in size, tube and sepals bright rosy 
scarlet, while the corolla at opening is a rich violet 
Purp e, changing the second day to a fine shade of crim- 
?PP’ j-be two colors in the same cluster contrasting beau¬ 
tifully. A good specimen will show hundreds of flowers 
at once, and. the effect when suspended in a window* is 
truly glorious. 
‘’■Wjn M.ng-ine double White, Perpetual Bloooming 
Weeping Fuchsia. Its graceful, weeping habit, and its 
superlatively beautiful flowers, more freely borne than 
those of any other sort, makes the most valuable of 
r uchsias. It is always in bloom, often as many as 200 
buds and blossoms on a plant at once. The branches 
droop most gracefully, and the blossoms are frequently 
as large as tea cups. The buds, for two weeks before 
they expand, are balls of glowing scarlet-crimson. When 
expanded the enormous double flowers are almost pure 
white, capped by a calyx of glowing scarlet: and when 
a PwPt is l® a bed with buds and blossoms it presents 
a sight which for true grandeur and beautv no flower can 
^rpass. They are of the easiest culture and will grow 
and bloom freely with ordinary care in any window. 
20c. each; the 5 for 80c. Extra large plants by express SOc. 
