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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS. FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
flardy Pyretljrtiin. 
Charming plants whlohare profusely In bloom on Deco¬ 
ration Day, and furnish an abundance of the very choicest 
blossoms for cutting. 
Snow Ball. One will go a long way before ho will see so 
desirable a hardy perennial plant as this. It is perfectly 
hardy, living, nourishing and blooming year after year 
Its foliage is fernlike, lying in a beautiful tuft upon 
the ground. The flower stems are loug. wlrv and 
graceful, springing from the crown of the plant in'great 
numbers, and each liaring an enormous flower as white 
as snow and double and perfect to the center. Flowers 
often3to4inche.sneroRs.and beautiful beyond expression. 
It blooms most profusely in June, when rare gems are 
particularly scarce. 30c. each ; 4 for $1.00. 
Ooublo Scarlet. Like the above except in color which w 
a fine deep scarlet, making a most charming contrast 
30c. each; one each of the two sorts for 50c. 
ivi i s c e: i_ l a ini e o u s 
Price of the folhnciny Beautiful Hardy Plants, i.v. 
Asters. Hardy. Two lovely and free-blooming varieties 
one deep purple, the other lavender. 
Aplos Tuberosa. The well-known and lovelv Tuberous 
Rooted Wistaria; a superb vine. 
Blackberry Lily. Very ornamental. 
Calilopsls Lanceolata. A superband constant bloomer 
with large golden blossoms. 
Eulalias. Elegant ornamental grasses, growing ten feet 
high, with beautiful foliage and large feathery plumes. 
We have three varieties—Zebrina, Japonica arid Gracil- 
lima. Should be in every garden. 
Lychnis Viscarls. One of the best herbaceous perennials 
with tall spikes of handsome crimson flowers, very- 
double and profuse. It is doubly useful because it comes 
so early in the season, while flowers arc yet scarce. 
Hop, Colden Cluster. A picturesque vine'with Its wealth 
of dark green deeply-cleft leaves and its long, festooning 
sprays of golden-yellow Hops with their grateful, home I v 
fragrance • and graceful beauty ns well as usefulness 
Hemerocallis, Lemon Lily. The clear yellow lily-like 
flowers are borne on long, stiff stalks, making 'them 
superior flowers for large vases or for pulpit bouquets 
Olcentra Spectabllls. The old Bleeding Heart, the flower 
of onr childhood, which is as lovely to-day as then 
though not so common. Bears in early spring long 
graceful chains of pendulous bloom of exquisite, beaut.v 
Hibiscus, Childs Hardy Hybrids. For full description 
and cut. see page 73. 
Sweet Mary This plant was known in olden times only as 
Sweet Mary, producingan abundance of beautiful leaves 
all summer, which are indispensable for boquels and cut. I 
flowers. This lovely old plant has almost gone out of 
cultivation, and we know that many of our customers 
will thank ns for re-introducing it. 
Galystegia piibesceqs. 
A fine double perennial Morning Glory. Variously 
••ailed Rose Y r ine, Double Morning Glory, California Rose, 
etc. A hardy perennial vine, coming from the roots each 
spring, and bearing quantities of pale satiny-pink flowers, 
as full and double as roses. Just the vine for rockeries, 
banks, poor, hard soil, where nothing else will grow, or a 
hundred oilier places, where a rarely handsome trailing 
or climbing vine is needed that is able to take care of itself. 
The vines we send out will bloom the first season, and con¬ 
tinue all summer. Its long vines, wreathed in a profusion 
of large double Rose-like blossoms are very attractive. Also 
blooms well in the house. 30c. each; 3 for 50c. 
HARDY PLANTS. 
. ( arli, * for £5c., 5 for 50c., nr more at 10 c, each. 
Mountain Fleece. One of the latest, bloomers we have 
flowering with the Chrysanthemum. Its great sprays of 
feathery white bloom are not only pretty in the garden, 
but are in great demand for all sorts of floral work. 
Statice, or Thrift. This is a dainty little plant, forming 
compact tufts of narrow green foliage, which makes It 
C articularly valuable for edging. The flowers are a clear 
right pink, and borne in clusters on tall stems. It 
blooms all summer long, and is a very pretty, desirable 
and useful flower, really the best of all hardy plants for 
edging walks, beds, etc. 
Splrea Flllpendula. Grows two feet high, with large 
feathery plumes of the most charming white blossoms. 
Splrea Elegans. Pure white, in large, compact spirals. 
Splrea Ulmarla. Fine foliage and elegant flowers. 
Piatycodon Crandlflora. A lovely free blooming plant. 
See cut on page 60. 
Yucca Fllamentosa. The stately clumps of stiff, bayonet¬ 
like leaves, bristling out from the center in every direc¬ 
tion, are extremely ornamental, but in mid-summer 
they take on an added glory. Thick, woody flower stalks 
a.re thrown up, 'growing as high as a man’s head, and 
and bear at their summit immense compound paniclesof 
creamy, bell shaped flowers, each floret two inohes 
across. A single panicle will contain 300 or more florets, 
and will be two feet in length. 
Phlox Subulata. One of the finest of low, turfy-f. rowing 
plants, line for carpeting under trees, around rock work, 
edging beds, etc. Early in spring is very showy with its 
cloud of bright pink blossoms. We do not understand 
why this is not more widely grown, for it Is perfectly 
hardy, and once planted will take care of itself. 
