JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
PRICE: Ail Plants on this and the next page, 1 Sc. each ; 3 for 30c.; or more at 10c. 
each; forfine, healthy plants, by mall, postpaid. We can send by express large spec¬ 
imen plants, (too large for mailing,) at 30c. each; 3 for 60c.; or more at 20c. each. 
NeW Perei}i*ial Phloxes. 
Those who remember the thin petaled white and the dull- 
hued purple Perennial Phlox of old fashioned gardens can 
scarcely recognize these new Phloxes as the same flower. 
These new varieties are in bloom from June until frost, and 
are in huge panicles of close bloom, like a Hydrangea, while 
the individual florets are twice the size of the old time Phlox, 
and the shades of color the brightest, richest and clearest. 
There are no finer or more useful perennials than the Peren¬ 
nial Phloxes, or which will give more complete satisfaction. 
The varieties we offer are new and fine, and the plants we 
send out will bloom magnificently the coming summer. They 
are cheap and we hope that all our customers will plant them. 
AtheIs— Beautiful rosy-scarlet tinged with salmon. Very 
bright and showy. 
Snow Cloud— White, suffused with purple. Extra fine. 
Charlotte Saisson— White, suffused with pink, deepening 
towards the center to bright vermilion. 
Lasoilei— Enormous flower and truss, individual flowers 
being 1J4 inches across. Color, light crimson tinged with 
lilac and shaded lighter towards the center. 
Diplomat —Beautiful light lilac with crimson eye. Very 
large flower and truss. 
Eel ai re— Deep, bright purplish-crimson. Extra large. 
Master Clarence Hulse— Pure white. Flowers and truss 
of very large size and exceedingly beautiful. 
Master Sylvester Hulse— Beautiful lilac-rose. 
Miss Hattie Hulse— Pure white with beautiful pink eye. 
Phlox Subulata— One of the finest of low, turfy-growing 
plants, fine 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. 
Anthuricum Liliastrum, Major —A superb plant with 
spikes of large pure white lily-like blossoms. . _ 
Asters— Graceful plants, that in autumn are almost hiddes 
beneath a cloud of single Daisy-like blossoms of purple 
and lavender. Fine for naturalizing, woodland walks, 
or by rockeries, etc. Perfectly hardy and very attractive. 
Chapmani Large, beautiful lavender. 
Nova Angleca— Rich deep purple blue. 
Achillea Crandlflora— A most useful and beautiful hards 
perennial plant which furnishes a profusion of the choic¬ 
est double, white flowers all summer. It commences to 
bloom by the first of July and is a perfect mass of bloom 
until frost as many as 5.000 flowers having been counted 
upon the plant at one time. Flowers pure white, per¬ 
fectly double, and ai'e productive in large sprays, and are 
unsurpassed for all sorts of cut-flower work, bouquets, etc. 
It is perfectly hardy anywhere, and so vigorous that it 
will take care of itself among weeds. For cemetery 
planting there is nothing finer, for it is sure to live, thrive 
and bloom profusely year after year. 
Calliopsis Lanceolata— Each plant is a sheet of golden 
yellow blossoms borne high above the foliage on long 
wiry stems. This is the true Lanceolata, a far inferior 
varity sometimes being sold for it. 
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 are yet scarce. 
Hop, Colder. 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, homely 
fragrance and graceful beauty as well as usefulness. 
Hemerocallls, 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. 
Poppy, Perennial— If there is a more gorgeous flower any¬ 
where than the Perennial Poppy we fail to know it. The 
most indifferent observer stands spell-bound in the 
presence of its magnificent fire-like scarlet flowers with 
their silken texture and foil-like heart of innumerable 
purple-black stamens. Each bloom is as large as a saucer 
and sits perched like a bird on the end of a swaying, 
hairy, slender stem, high above the handsome foliage. 
Pyrethrum Snow Ball— One will go a long way before he 
will see so desirable a hardy perennial plant as this. 
It is perfectly hardy, living, flourishing and blooming 
year after year. Its foliage is fernlike, lying in a beau¬ 
tiful tuft upon the ground. The flowers stems are long, 
wiry and graceful, springing from the crown of the plant 
in great numbers, and each having an enormous flower 
as white as snow and double and perfect to the center. 
Flowers often 3 to 4 inches across, and beautiful beyond 
expression. It blooms most profusely in June. 
