108 JCUHN LEWIS' CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
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J.L.CHILDS 
Spow’ball. 
New Double White. The grand old Snowball will never 
go out of fashion. One of the most ornamental of all 
shrubs when heaped with its mimic snow. This new 
variety is a marked improvement on the old Snowball, 
both in foliage and flower. Its immense balls or rosette- 
like blooms are grand, :10c. each ; 4 for §1.00. 
S'Veet Pea 
The shrub of shrub* for bouquet makers. When it is in 
bloom ifc ( is really but a hip bouquet itself, so full isit of dainty 
sprays of large, lovely rose-pink blooms to which the 
graceful pinnate foliage is an admirable background, 
very hardy and robust, and commences to blooin 
when but a foot higli. Its glorious flowers are borne 
in clusters and are the size and shape of the most 
lovely Sweet Peas, but its color is more beautiful. 
The amount of bloom which one of these little shrubs will 
carry is astonishing, and the sight presented is one of remark¬ 
able beauty. Blooms profusely in.lune a mi July and to some 
extent all summer. 20c. each ; 3 for fiOc.; 7 for $1.00. 
Spiccn, Japanese. 
Tli, -s.- newSpireas bloom from early summer until frost, 
ami are not only ver\ handsome in the flower garden, hut 
are unite indispensable for cutting, furnishing the lino, 
feathery, fluffy spikes so necessary to bring out the full 
beauty of a lionquet. Very easy to grow and entirely hardy. 
Bumalda. So dwarf and c<impact It call be grown where 
larger shrubs would he out of place. A cloud of lovely 
rose-pink flowers fur months. Very fine. 20o. each. 
Fortunel Rosea. A medium-sized shrub, and a great 
bloomer. Panicles of delicate pink flowers of wonderful 
beauty. 20 c. each. 
Fortune! Alba. I. ike the above, but pure white. 20c. each. 
Splrea Van Houttl. In early spring a weeping fountain of 
bloom, that cannot be counted for numbers. Solid 
wreaths of snow-wliite flowers. Two and three feet long. 
Grand beyond expression. 16c. each. 
Thunbergl. A lovely shrub, with pretty, dense, fern-like 
leaves that in autumn take on the most glowing high 
colors. The hush is a sheet of white hlosso us in early 
spring, and grows to a good size. 15c. each: 4 for 50c. 
Aurea. A grand shrub to group with the Purple-leaved 
Berberry. Leaves larger tlmn other Splreas; trl-lobed, 
and shading from a light golden-green to a rich orange 
yellow; llowars white. Truly superb. 20c. each. 
I Mi’, each of the.-'/ or Spireasfor Mr.. 
Oeiitzia. 
Favorite small shrub, completely covered with flowers 
when in bloom. Unsurpassed lor specimen clumps and for 
cutting, bouquet making, etc. 
Crenata, fl., pi. Four l'cet high, in June is covered with 
double white blossoms, like tiny roses, in lovely panicles. 
Exceedingly pretty. 15c, each. 
Rosea, fl., pi. Exactly like above, but, of a lovely rose 
color. Very fine. 25c. each. 
Cracllls. Grows only two feet, high, but is weighted to the 
ground with its load of white I.ily-of-the-Valley-like 
blossoms. Fine for forcing in winter. 15c. each. 
Qa l.vcai*ttj fls Florida. 
The "Sweet Shrub" so long a favorite in gardens. The 
purplish flowers have an exquisite pine-apple fragrance of 
which one never tires, and a spray of which will perfume a , 
whole room. Can not, be omitted from any lawn or garden. 
15c. each; 3for 40c. 
