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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
Ne\V ^butilops. 
These are of the beautiful Infanta Eulalia type intro¬ 
duced by us a few years ago. Unlike the ordinary Abutilons 
of scraggy growth, they are very compact and short jointed, 
making a neat pot plant. The flowers are the most beauti¬ 
ful we have seen among Abutilons, being very large yet 
short and beautifully cupped, and of the most lovely colors. 
They produce flowers by the score both summer and winter. 
It is safe to say that these varieties will produce five times 
as many flowers as any other Abutilon under the same 
conditions. 
Infanta Eulalia— This is perfection itself. Plants dwarf 
and short jointed, producing exquisite large cupped 
blossoms by the score from the time the plant is four 
inches high. Blooms all the time, summer and winter. 
Color a most beautiful soft satin-pink. No finer pot 
plant for windows than this. 
Wm. McKinley— Exactly like the above except in color, 
which is a. beautiful clear lemon yellow of exquisite 
loveliness, 
Savitzii—The most beautiful in foliage of all Abutilons. 
Each leaf has a broad distinct margin of pure white, 
making a most conspicuous plant. The long stemmed 
flowers are golden yellow color veined with scarlet. It 
is a remarkably free bloomer, either in rots or bedded 
out during summer, and is always a most attractive 
specimen plant, especially for exhibiting. The leaves 
are so very large, and so distinctly marked with white, 
and the flowers so showy that all admire it. An im¬ 
proved Souv. de Bonne. 
Snowstorm— Large, pure white: finest of its color. 
Crandiflora —Rich golden yellow. An extra fine grower. 
Price, 20c, each; 3 for 50c.; 5 for 75 c. Extra large specimens, by 
express, 30c. each; 3 for 80c. 
Tbdpbergia JJarrisi. 
A hard-wooded plant of a trailing or creeping habit, 
which is perfectly magnificent for hanging baskets or 
bracket pots. The branches grow to a considerable length, 
anti droop most gracefully, producing in winter large num- 
bers of beautiful purple-blue blossoms, 3 to 4 inches across. 
L he effect is most charming and cannot be produced with 
any other plant. Plants bloom when very small. One of the 
very best things oflfered in this catalogue. 20c. each; 3for50c. 
Rhyncosperrmim Jasmsnoides. 
A most beautiful plant with glossy evergreen foliage, 
and producing in the greatest profusion the most delicate, 
sweet-scented, Jasmine-like flowers of the purest white A 
well grown plant will be completely smothered with flowers, 
it blooms when very small, and we have seen cuttings onlv 
two or three inches long bearing clusters of perfect flowers. 
20c. each; 3 for oOo. 
Grotoijs. 
These arc blit little known among; general collections of 
bouse plants, yet they are not exceeded in beauty of foliage 
by any foliage plant, not even Palms. The leaves are long, 
narrow and graceful, and are most oharminglv spotted and 
variegated. The sorts we offer are hardy and" vigorous and 
will succeed m any window. The cut gives a good idea of the 
beauty 01 a Groton, even when very small. 20c. each; 8 for 50c. 
Pldipbados. 
ii .T he y are most excellent pot plants, flowering freely at 
all times of the year. South of Washington they are hardy 
m the open ground, and make desirable garden plants, 
f lowers are borne in large clusters and are exceedingly 
beautiful in color, the older sorts being light blue, dark 
blue and white; the new variety, Coccinea, is intense rosy 
scarlet, they are all of very easy culture, growing in any 
situation as freely as Geraniums or Abutilons. In fact few 
pot plants can be found that will prove so easy to manage, 
and furnish such an abundance of exceedingly handsome 
flowers. 
Capensis Blue— Large round clusters of long-tubed blos- 
SPP 1 , 8 ’ °f n light azure blue, a shade as delicate and beau¬ 
tiful as it, is rare. 
Capensis White Exactly like the above, but pure snow- 
white. 
Coccinea— New. Intense rosy scarlet, a color so bright as 
to be really dazzling. Flowers large and tube long, but 
instead of bearing its blossoms in large round clusters 
like the above, they appear in an oblong cluster or spike, 
large at the base and tapering to a point. This is one of 
the really superb novelties of recent times. 
8-arpentae— Of low herbacepus growth, dying down to the 
ground each fall and springing up afresh from the roots 
each spnng. Perfectly hardy in any situation. North or 
bouth, and makes a splendid border plant. 75c. per doz. 
tJ'c. each ; one each of the 4 sorts for 60c. 
copyright, 
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YJ.L.CHILD3. 
Chinese piapt. 
on Tea makes an interesting plant, as well as 
.The leaves are bright glossy green and 
tnno^o W ^ rS pret k‘ A . s a P°f plant it is well worthy of cul- 
nnim a jF°? c ^ s P ec: >f>ieu of it will be a feature among any 
collection of plants, no matter how choice. Everybody will 
"' al A to ® ee J fc is of a shrubby nature not at all hard to 
glow, and will stand a great deal of abuse. 20c. each;3 for 50c. 
