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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK. QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
MoopflovVcrs. 
The most popular quick growing vine in cultivation. Its 
rapid, luxuriant growth, its thick, overlapping, glossy foli¬ 
age, and its nightly scores of immense, silky blooms of rare 
fragrance, are merits that cannot be over estimated. By 
actual count, a strong vine will bear from one to three 
thousand of its superb blooms in a season. Very fine for 
piazzas, arbors, etc, 
Ipomcea Noctiphiton. Grand foliage and magnificent 
snow-white blooms, four or five inches across. Stands 
drouth like a Salamander. Give it rich soil if possible. 
Fine plants, 15c. each. 4 for BOc. Seed, 10c. per packet. 
Blooms well first summer from seed, if started early. 
Ipomcea t-earel. A large vino, but not.quite so rank grow¬ 
ing. Flowers of a lovely azure blue, with faint crimson 
bars. Texture almost as delicate as the spider’s web. 
Lovely beyond description. 20c. each; 3 for 50c. Seed, 
15o. per packet. 
Ipomcea Mexloana. In a sheltered location, the blossoms 
# of this remain open all day. Almost as largo as 
Ipomcea Noctiphiton. It has a large tuberous root, 
that can be preserved over winter like the Dahlia, 
and this gives the plant a strong and early start <eoch 
spring. Very handsome and graceful airy foliage, 
deeply incised or palmated. The blossoms are of an 
indescribable rosy crimson with asbadoof violator blue, 
and are very beautiful, resembling rich satin. 23c. each; 
3 for 69c. 
Heavenly Blue. Blossoms five inches across, of the most 
beautiful form and airy grace, and borne in clusters. 
Color, a lovely shade of clear sky blue, too beautiful and 
delicate to describe. Seed, per pkt.. 13c.; 3 pkts.. 30c. 
Clant White Hybrid. Enormous flowers, the largest of 
any; pure white and a free bloomer. Grows freely and 
rapidly and blooms much earlier than any other white 
variety. A splendid novelty. Pkt., 15c ; 3 pkts., 30c. 
Giant Pink Hybrid- A Hybrid Pink Moonflower of mar¬ 
velous growth. Seed germinate very quickly and plants 
begin to bloom about as soon as a Morning Glory. The 
blooms are produced by the thousand all summer and 
fall. The vine makes a most rapid growth and covers 
more space than any other Moonflower, or other annual 
vine. It branches freely and its foliage is large,, dense 
and luxuriant. The blossoms open about four o'clock in 
the afternoon and do not close until about noon the next 
day. In color they are of a most exquisite, soft, lilac- 
pink, reminding one of the delicately colored pink Or¬ 
chids. It will succeed wherever a Morning Glory will do 
well, in all localities. If one has not a garden tills choice 
flower may be grown in pots, trained around a window 
or veranda. It is a cross between the Giant Moonflower 
and the great pink Brazilian Morning Glory. Packet, 
loo.; 3 pkts., 30c. 
Pandurata, or Hardy Tuberous-Rooted Moonflower. 
This will stand a year’s drouth without, a murmur. An 
immense subterranean root, weighing sometimes a hun¬ 
dred pounds, sustains the vine through any vicissitude 
of weather, until frost kills the vine to tile ground. Each 
year it springs up stronger than before, until it becomes 
a large, luxuriant vine, clothed with a luxuriant growth 
of pretty cordate leaves, and bearing great quantities, 
yes. thousands of large, thick-textured waxy flowers of 
a rich creamy-white, with a throat of violet-purple. It 
will grow in any soil, no matter how poor, and Its blos¬ 
soms remain open all day. unlike other Inomceas. It is 
perfectly hardy in any climate, and a vine which will 
cover an enormous amount of space. 25c. each; 5 for $1. 
Folir FiiRc Roots for 75c. 
For only 75c. we will send one fine root eaeli of the fol¬ 
lowing four Moonflowers: Noctiphiton, Leari, Mexicans, 
and Pandurata. 
FiVe Rackets S e ^d for 35c. 
For only 35o. wo will send one packet seed each of the 
five finest Moon flowers, as follows: Noctiphiton, Leari 
Heavenly Blue, Giant White, and Giant Pink. A superb 
collection. 
Mixed MoopflovVer Seed. 
Fine Mixed Seed of all the Moonflowershere offered. 20c- 
per packet; 3 packets for 50c. A packet, of this seed is one 
of the five packets which are given us premium to every 
Mayflower subscriber. 
