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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
Seeds for Window or Greer^odse Gdltdre. 
-Acacia. 
Shrubby plants with tine fern-like foliage. and pretty, 
fragrant tassel-like flowers. Profuse bloomer, and exceed¬ 
ingly graceful. Hardy in tile Southern Slates. Fine for pots. 
Choicest Sorts. Mixed.. If, 
Farneslnna. Lovely yellow: sweet. in 
beautiful of all wii 
GopVolVtiUis \Ia<iritai>ic<is. 
Acknowledged to be one of the finest basket plants in 
existence. Beautiful trailing plant, completely covered with 
large, wide open.mnrning-glory-like flowers of a lovely shade 
of blue. Very healthy and vigorous. and grows readily from 
either seed or seedlings. Blooms all the'ear. 10 
,>gf 
Mr 
(’alccolaria. 
One of the most, beautiful of all window plants, hand¬ 
some in foliage, and bearing great quantities of lovely 
flowers of wax-like texture, and exquisitely soft, delicate 
shades. Seeds are very fine and need care in sowing, but 
the flowers repay all rare given. Seedlings bloom in from 
five to eight months' time. 
Tuberous-Rooted Hybrids. Largely grown for bedding 
1 ,urposes, or for slimmer conservatory decoration. 
llossums- very large and showy. ~~> 
Tuberous-Rooted Hybrids, Double. Very fine. .'SI 
Mixed Seed. Many kinds. Craml for window culture. :£> 
Vernon. A grand new perpetual blooming sort. .'SI 
Not one In ten of cm* customers have ever seen a Calceo¬ 
laria in bloom, yet It. is one of the handsomest and most 
striking pol plants we know of. Seeds tine, and must In- 
sown with care, but after they are fairly up they grow finely. 
and will bloom the next winter. Kacli plant bears hundreds 
of pocket-like flowers, spotted and marked In the most 
curious manner. 
Dwarf Hybrids. Large flowering mixed colors. 
Rugosa, Mixed. Fine bedding plants. IS 
(’br.v.snijtljeiiHiHjs. 
(-liryisunthemum seed sown in the spring will produce 
largo, vigorous plants by fall, which will give a great pro¬ 
fusion of flue flowers,■even more Ilian old plants. The seed 
we here oflVr is from a prize col¬ 
lection < f over t wo hundred vari¬ 
eties. including all the latest, 
novelties in all classes— Japanese, 
Chinese. Incurved, Anemone- 
flowered. Pompons, etc., and will 
produce a magnificent away of 
varieties. No matter how many 
plants you raise, no two will be 
alike, and some are likely to he 
very valuable. All colors, shapes, 
sizes and varieties will be pro¬ 
duced. The great beauty of a col¬ 
lection of seedling Chrysanthe, 
mums cannot he appreciated until 
it is seen. They are grand, and 
are very easily raised. Heeds 
germinate freely and quickly, and 
the plants being of a hardy and 
robust nature, make a rapid 
growth. 
Extra Choice. All colors and varieties, mixed. 2T> 
Ostrich Plume. Fine mixed, all colors of hairy varieties. 80 
(cyclamen and Gloxinia. 
For our cholpe strains of Cyclamen and Gloxinia see 
colored plate. 
Fuchsia. 
Lovely pot plants, which bloom profusely at all times. 
Grows readily from seed, aad many flue new sorts will ap- 
K ar. 
Ixed, Double. 
Finest seed from best named sorts.. 
The satisfaction derived front the cultivation of house plants is not alone in seeing them hloom. There 
is joy in seeing them grow and develop day by day, and the one who starts a plant from seed and rears it 
up to bloom gets a ' the pleasure there is in the plant culture. Geraniums, Carnations, Chrysanthemums, 
Gloxinias, BegOfr Heliotropes, etc., are easily grown from seed, and it is really fascinating to raise them 
in this way, wateu.tig each plant as it unfolds its tirst hloom, noting its form, color and other characteristics, 
and when occasion.-liy n*e discover an immensely fine one much superior to any we have ever before, seen 
or heard of the highest pleasure anil satisfaction possible to get from plants and flowers is ours. It is from 
seed that all fine new varieties of house plants are produced, and it is not uncommon for u seedling Chrys¬ 
anthemum or Carnation to he worth more than a thousand dollars. Our strains of all these seeds are much 
finer than arc usually sold. They are the choicest which can he grown. 
Abutiion* 
As indispensable for the window or greenhouse us the 
Petunia is for the flower garden. Will stand more abuse 
and neglect than almost any other house plant. Grows 
rapidly from seed, and is soon in bloom. Leaves are very 
ornamental, and a.re often beautifully variegated. Lovely 
bell-shaped flowers, borne the year around, in all colors 
white, pink, yellow, orange, red. eto. Per pkt. 
Choicest Hybrids, Mixed. All colors. Blooms soon 
after planting.. '•*' 
