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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
Verqoq. 
No other kinds’of flowering Begonias can begin to com¬ 
pare with the varieties of B. Vernon for beauty and con¬ 
stant bloom. They are so much superior to others that we 
have concluded to offer none but these. Plants flower per¬ 
petually all the year round, the plant being completely cov¬ 
ered with bloom at all times, especially during winter. 
Crimson—Produces a profusion of dark crimson flowers. 
Many of our customers regard this as the very finest pot 
f 'lant for perpetual blooming inexistence. It iscertain- 
y a plant which must be in every collection. 
White — Splendid large blossoms, pure white. 
Pink—Lovely blush and pink shades In other respects ex¬ 
actly like the above, and a plant of perpetual beauty. 
Yellow Leaved—This new variety of Begonia Vernon has 
pure white blossoms slightly shaded or bordered with 
exquisite silky pink, while the foliage is of a charming 
yellowish color. The flowers are borne perpetually both 
winter and summer, and the exquisite beauty added to 
the superb color of the leaves makes a plant exception¬ 
ally odd and striking. 
Price, 15c. each; the four sorts for 50c. 
Geqista^ 
Shower of 
Gold. 
As a plant for late winter 
and early spring blooming, 
(especially for Easter), it is 
almost without an equal- 
Flower golden yellow very 
fragrant, and borne in large 
drooping racemes, and in 
such quantity as to almost 
hide leaf and branch — most 
truly a “Shower of Gold/’ 
It is one of the easiest 
plants to grow we ever saw, 
and is absolutely sure to 
bloom profusely in any win¬ 
dow. As a plant for rare 
beauty, delightful fra¬ 
grance, and ease of culture 
it has no superior, and 
should adorn every home. 
20c. each; 3 for 50c. 
GIANT WHITE SCENTED SNAFRAGON 
This remarkable new plant has in one season jumped to 
foremost place among choice winter-blooming plants. No 
novelty in our greenhouses has attracted the attention or 
received praise equal to this. It is a perpetual bloomer 
compact and branching in habit, sending up flowers spikes 
by the dozen, one to two feet in length, almost as large and 
more beautiful than Gladiolus. Color, pure white, with 
lemon tinged throat, and of lovely fragrance. Flowers keep 
two weeks after being cut. It has created a sensation in 
the New York flower market. Fine plants, 20c. each; 3 for 
50c. Seed, 15c. per pkt. 
Giant Yellow—Exactly like the above except in color, which 
is a beautiful canary yellow. 20c. each; 3 for 50c. Seed 
15c. per pkt. 
One plant of each color for 30c . One pkt. seed of each. 2Oc. 
Dwarf Wintsr-Bloaming Canna, Star ’91. 
A very Dwarf 
Canna which will 
show bloom every 
day in the year, its 
flowers being borne 
in great compact 
panicles, often as 
large as a man’s hat, 
and of the most in¬ 
tense Are scarlet color 
rayed and bordered 
with pure gold, is a 
novelty of an entirely 
new departure—a 
new garden flower 
and a perpetual 
blooming pot plant of 
unsurpassed grand¬ 
eur. 
As a pot Tplant for 
blooming, both sum¬ 
mer and winter this 
Canna is a novelty of 
immense import¬ 
ance. It has already 
become recognized as 
the most valuable 
and important flow¬ 
ering plant among 
those who know it. It is utterly impossible to have a plant 
which is more easily grown or more effective in bloom. The 
enormous panicles of flowers which are borne continually 
even on plants only a foot or two in height and in small pots 
is indeed marvelous, and the intense color of the blossoms 
makes such plants objects of the most effective beauty. We 
honestly believe it to be the finest of all winter-blooming 
plants, and as a garden flower nothing can eurpass it. Fine 
plants for immediate blooming. 25c. each; 3 for 60c. 
