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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
ROT SHRUBBERY. 
Sard-Wooded Shrubbery Plants, the showiest class of all, from their imposing size and greater profusion 
of bloom. They have an advantage over other pot plants, also, in that they can be wintered in the cellar with¬ 
out injury, if window room is scarce, as it often is. All the care they need is a little pinching now and then to 
keep them bushy and compact, and occasional top-dressing of rich compost or rotted manure and water givenin 
abundance to soak the entire ball of their roots through. So treated each plant will be a solid bouquet of bloom 
—many sorts remaining in bloom the whole year. Grand for conservatory or window, hall or drawing room 
<or for piazza or yard decoration. We are doing our friends a kindness in urging them to grow plenty of Tub 
Plants, that will last a life-time and improve in beauty each year. 
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B^g£Qapsia. 
Arborea— Called also Angels’ Trumpets and Wedding Bells. 
One of the grandest bard wooded plants we know of. 
and easy to grow. It grows several feet high, and is 
quite bushy. The foliage is large and tropical, and its 
bo 'Y sba Jl w° , (lesci 'ibe what words cannot pic- 
Im agine a little bash three feet high with twenty 
or thirty pendulous blooms open at once; great creamy- 
white blooms, eleven, twelve or thirteen inches long arid 
eight inches wide, of a texture resembling thick, fluted 
+ me . th . es ? creamy trumpets pouring fragrance 
forth till the air is heavy with fragrance. Imagine all 
this, then remember the blossoms last for days in perfec¬ 
tion, and that new buds are constantly coming on, and 
you will see why we value it so highly. It can be win- 
rn^, < ^t 1 ^ iWa i ;ei8d V? a cellar or Pit- Grand for Easter or 
Ohiistmas decorations or for yards. 25c. each-3 for fiOc 
Double Flowered— Very beautiful and fragrant.’ 50c. 
Sarsgulnea— Rare scarlet flowered variety. Extra fine. 50c 
Extra, large specimens by express (too large to mail) double price. 
Chinese Hibiscus. 
1+0 ^ her ^ Can we a more striking plant than this with 
turf? n nd l* l l Se flowers of satin-like tex- 
J 01 winter it is always budding and bloom¬ 
ing, and if it becomes too large for the window can be win 
tered in the cellar. Pots of Hibiscus are extm fine for pC 
S°ntB^i ny ’ and for bedding out in summer. P 
A graceful single flowered variety, with wide 
n?A+ 6< * • fl °i Wers - eight and ten inches across, and of the 
strikiriAll ® r ” uso i l scarlet. Indescribably rich and 
liVe a hriShf fl fl lng A°Y ch; snre to Please those who 
iike a blight flower and plenty of it. 
^ 7°i rimsol l.? owers and superb foliage marbled in 
Mlnneatus-A S i 'I hlte - r03e a nd green. One of the best of all. 
f n i Soigeous and fine as the best Paaony, and 
fully as large. Bush blooms when but a foot high 
Blossoms a burning crimson, very double g 
h ancf a HUfij, S b + e a cross between an Abutilon 
of wii b T+ U K1 certain iy it seems to show characteristics 
of. both. It blooms as perpetually as the Abutilon but 
nlhamler fl ° Flowed Hibiscus ’ andsix "riches 
iu diameter. r lowers flat and saucer-like of a Hear 
.bright canary yellow, with black eye or center 1 1 ’ 
' Me. each; the k frreo^ Extra large specimens by express. 
