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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
Superb \c\V Dahlias. 
These nine new Dahlias, of recent introduction. are, in 
our estimation, the finest in cultivation. 
Price, 30c , each; 8 for 75c.; the 0 for $2.00. 
Bello of Springfield. This is a real gem. It is exceedingly 
dwarf, branching freely and forming a very compact, 
bushy plant, not over two feet in height, though it blooms 
from the time, it is six inches high. Five hundred 
blossoms have been counted at one time on a fair- 
, sized plant, while one hundred blossoms is the usual 
\ number which a plant shows at all times. The flowers 
j are 1 Vz inches across, bright scarlet in color, perfectly 
_ double, and imbricated to the very center. It is the 
most lovely flowering plant imaginable, and equaly val¬ 
uable for growing in the garden or in pots. It. blooms 
profusely all summer and long into winter, if potted. 
E. H. Janker. Exactly like the aboveexccpt in color, which 
is a warm buff yellow. Contrasts beautifully. 
Floral Park Jewel. The most beautiful Dahlia in cultiva¬ 
tion. Flowers of many colors, from deep maroon to blush 
white, including beautiful spotted in variegated forms, 
are borne in great profusion on the same plant, at the 
same time. In fact, a plant will hardly ever produce two 
flowers alike. Blush-white, crimson-maroon, white 
suffused with maroon, maroon suffused with white, 
crimsou-red, purple spotted, marked or marbled with 
. white, spotted, marbled and striped with maroon, 
f pink or crimson, or several colors suffused in an odd 
and irregular way. Often one-lialf of the flower will 
be white and the other half maroon, or the ceutcr 
white while the outer half will he deep crimson maroon. 
The exceeding beauty of a plant loaded with flowers and 
each one of a different, color, can he better imagined than 
described. The blossoms are perfectly double, large and 
of perfect shape, and borne by the hundred. 
Camellia-flora. Very distinct; unlike any other white 
Dahlia whatever. Plant, a robust grower, with the long 
stemmed flowers poised high above it. and around it like 
snow-white birds just ready to alight. Flowers of ala¬ 
baster whiteness, with long-toothed and quilled petals, 
their shape perfection. It is easily the very finest white 
Dahlia in cultivation. 
tdvonla. Much like Camellia flora, except the flower stems 
are not quite so long, and the color of the large, perfect 
blossoms is a soft, sweet , sea-shell pink, a color as rare as 
it is beautiful. 
Fire King. Superb, immense flowers of the deepest scarlet, 
glowing like fire. An early bloomer, and every flower is 
perfection itself. 
Jamaica. An enormous flower, like Fire King, but of a 
bright milliontiu-reii color. One of the very largest and 
best. Dahlias ever seen. 
Emperor. Flower of gigantic size, petals wide, shape per¬ 
fect, double to the very center, and a great bloomer. 
Color is a fine coal-black, odd and beautiful beyond con¬ 
ception. This new Dahlia is one of the sensations of the 
day. 
Double Floret. A grand Dahlia which may be said to be a 
double double, as it has two florets in place of one, one 
snuglv rolled inside the other. The flower is therefore 
more perfectly double than any other, and is a great 
beauty. Color, rosy scarlet. 
1IKI.I.P OP SPKISOFfELD 
Dahlia S cc ‘d. 
Blooms elegantly the iirst summer. All colors and vari¬ 
eties, often giving better satisfaction and more bloom than 
roots. For full list of Dahlia, seed, see page 30. 
Large Flowering, All Colors. Mixed. Packet, 20c. 
