JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
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Every garden, every cottage, every fence, wall, stump, or old tree Is beautified by the graceful and 
profuse flowering vines here offered. Vines are nature's draperies and are essential to any and every 
attempt to beautify one's home surroundings. Beautiful, beautiful vines, many an unsightly object do they 
covet, nutny a lovely screen, or fence, or trellis, do they make, masses of beautiful blossoms and grateful 
shade do they furnish. The following selection is all that can be desired among annual climbers. Our 
Sweet Peas, Mornjng Glories anti Xasturtiums are particularly fine. 
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Geptroseipa Qrar^diflora. 
This new vine has come to stay. It is easy to itrow, quick 
to bloom, beautiful in flower and leaf, and is a hardy p-ren- 
nlal, lasting for years. It will flower the first, season from 
seed, and autumn frosts And it still In bloom. It Is a low, 
graceful climber, growing only six to eight feet high, which 
makes it far more suitable for a low trellis or lattice work, 
or to train around a door or window in summer, than a 
taller, larger-leaved vine would be, and Its masses of large, 
inverted, pea-shaped blossoms, two inches or more across, 
and borne in clusters of four to eight flowers together, are 
very showy and pleasing. Fill a small vase with its dainty, 
bright flowers and foliage alone, and see how lovely they are 
for cutting. In color they range from rosy violet and reddish 
purple, with exquisite feathering or bordering of pure white, 
to pure snow r white. The rosy violet shades are most com¬ 
mon, but as the buds and the baek of the flowers of the dark 
varieties are pure white, each vine has the appearance of 
bearing different colored flow'crs at once. The winning way 
in which the flowers look up at one has won them the fanci¬ 
ful name of Look-at-ine Vine. 10 
Gy press Vine. 
One of the prettiest vines imaginable; slender vines, 
thickly clothed with dark green, feathery foliage of great 
beauty, and dotted with intensely bright, velvety little 
flowers that shine like little stars against their glossy back¬ 
ground of green. Fine for training to small trellises or to 
run up poles or strings. 
Mixed Colors. White, pink, scarlet. 5 
GOURPS 
Gapary Bird Flow’d*. 
A dainty vine, with beautiful cut-leaves and pretty, 
delicate flowers of a clear canary yellow. From f he color of 
its blossoms, and also from a fancied resemblance of their 
shape to a bird with wings expanded, the plant obtains its 
common name. A pretty vine for the window or for a shel¬ 
tered location out of doors. Per pkt.. 
Tropseolum Cariarlensla, or Canary Bird Flower_ ;» 
Gobica. 
One of the lineal of all climber**, equally good for out of 
door or for house culture. Pretty foliage, and large, beaut i¬ 
ful bell-shaped flowers that open a clear {freon, but turn to a 
lovely purplish blue. Plant seed edgewise in moist but not 
wet soil; cover to prevent evaporation, and do not water 
again unless soil becomes very dry. When seedlings appear 
water with great, moderation until out of the seed-leaf. 
Scandens. Fine bluish purple. 10 
Alba. Fine pure white. 20 
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Gourds. 
Well-known climbers. With the most fantastic and gro¬ 
tesque fruits imaginable. Fine for covering sheds, training 
over fences or brush piles, and always sure to attract the 
attention of the children, who love to play with the pretty 
striped and oddly crooked fruits. ■ Many of these fruits keep 
B -rfect. for years, being hard-shelled. 
Ilxed Sorts. All sizes, shapes and Colors. ID 
Fragrant. Oval round fruits 2 to » inches long, and 
nearly as thick through. Pretty striped or mottled 
shells, the inside tilled with musk melon-like flesh 
and seeds. Children carry the cunning little fruits 
around as playthings, and housekeepers place them 
on mantels and brackets us ornaments. One fruit 
will perfume a room with the most, delicious odor, 
and will last for weeks without rotting. 10 
Alaurapdya. 
This vine is not 
grown half as much as 
it deserves to be. It has 
an exceedingly grace¬ 
ful habit, very hand¬ 
some, dense foliage, 
pretty foxglove - like 
blossoms borne in great 
profusion, and keeps 
green until after severe 
frosts. A beautiful vine 
for hanging baskets, 
with its dainty white, 
maroon, and rose-col- 
oreci blossoms. 
Mixed Colors. 
Whit e, pink, 
purple, etc. 5 
