OUR GREAT SURPRISE COLLECTION. 
$4.00 or $5.00 Worth of the Choicest Bulbs for Only $1.00. 
We are obliged to grow and import enormous stocks of all kinds of Bulbs, generally more than is necessary, to 
make sure of having enough. It is our custom, after the heavy fall business is about over, in November, to take 
this surplus stock of various good things, make it into “Surprise” Collections, and offer same to our customers, 
giving them four or five times the value of their money. In fact, the “surprise” is the great amount of Bulbs one 
gets for the money paid. These collections cannot be sent out until about the tenth of November and will be entirely of 
our own selection, from kinds of which we have a surplus. No collection will be made up for less than ONE DOLLAR, 
and from that up to any amount the purchaser may desire. They will be sent free, by mail, unless desired by express, and 
in that case we can send very much more for the money than by mail. All **Surprise*' Collections ordered previous to 
November 10th will be booked and shipped then, but we continue sending them up to the end of December We advise our 
friends to invest a dollar or more in this collection. We can guarantee that they will be greatly pleased. 
New Everblooming Chrysanthemum, 
Pure White, Perfectly Double, Biooms at All Times. 
It may be used either as a garden or pot plant, and is 
perfectly hardy in the open ground. The flowers are of the 
Chinese type, pure show-white, perfectly double, and pro¬ 
duced by the hundreds. No other sort can equal it in pro¬ 
fusion. 'Plants of dwarf habit. 18 to U inches high, with 
bright, healthy foliage and numerous branches, all of which 
produce bloom. A new Chrysanthemum which may be 
grown either in the garden or in pots, and which will produce 
such a crop of fine, double, white flowers anytime of the 
year, is certainly a great novelty. 
W. R. Carroll, of Plainfield, N. J.. writes, May 10, to The 
Mayllower, as follows: "About four weeks ago I ordered 
three of Childs’ Everbearing Chrysanthemums. Every 
lover of flowers should add it to liis collection. It is simply 
a wonderful plant. To-day one of them is in full bloom and 
the others in bud, and none of them over eight inches in 
height. The readers of The Mayflower would certainly 
appreciate them could they see them. 1 trust others may 
have the same pleasure in seeing them bloom that I have." 
We have grown a fine lot of plants for blooming at once, 
and during early winter. 25c. each; 3 for 50c.; 7 for $1.00. 
OUR TRIAL COLLECTIONS. 
60 BULBS 20 SORTS FOR 50c. 
For only 50c. we will mail a collection of 60 Bulbs. 3 each 
of 20 different kinds, of onr selection. They will be suitable 
either for pots or the garden, and affords one an opportunity 
of testing a good many kinds at little cost. 
10 WINTER-BLOOMING PLANTS FOR 75c. 
For 75c. we will send a collection of 10 fine Winter-bloom¬ 
ing Plants, our selection, all different. The collection will 
surely please anyone, as all of the plants will be fine, and 
some of them very rare and expensive. 
10 GRAND NEW FRUITS FOR $1.00. 
For only $1.00 we will send one each of the following Id 
fine new Fruits: 
Tree Strawberry, 
Tree Blackberry, 
Iceberg Blackberry, 
Balloon Berry, 
Climbing Raspberry, 
A fine lot, worth fully $2.00. 
Hybrid Berry, 
Mayberry, 
Japanese Wineberry, 
Clant Ruby Currant, 
Dewberry, 
Our Album of Floral Park Views, 
At Reduced Price, S Cents. 
We publish a beautiful album of half-tone photographic 
pictures of Floral Patk, showing the beautiful lawns, flower 
beds, summer houses, fountains, buildings of various kinds, 
greenhouses, seed stores, residences, Mayflower printing 
office, etc. It also contains a fine portrait of Mr. John Lewis 
Childs. This album of Flora! Park views is gotten up to 
accommodate those of our friends and customers who have 
asked for something of the sort, and is offered at cost price. 
Price of Album by mail, postpaid. 5 cents. 
Our Great Iris Picture for 10c. 
Size 16x33. in eighteen colors, showing thirteen varieties 
of the finest double Iris Kaempferi in natural colors. It is 
useless to attempt to describe the beauty of this loveliest of 
all floral paintings. The great flaming blossoms in the 
loveliest tints stand out in all their silken lustre and charm 
the eye with their matchless beauty. Postpaid for 10c. 
OUR CATALOGUE FOR 1900. 
1875 — 5 &prfiVersary Edition — T^ehtydiVe Years — 1900. 
It Will Be a Great Book, Containing More Good Things Than Was Ever Offered Before. 
The magnitude of our business makes our Catalogue naturally the leading one of its kind; but as complete^and 
attractive as it has usually been, the one which we are now preparing to issue in January next will surpass al P 1 '^;' 0 ”® 
efforts. Tlie list of articles offered will be the most valuable, novel and interesting ever presented together. «' 
make a large book, elegantly illustrated and with numerous colored plates, devoted to SEEDS, both flower and vegetable, 
all the best novelties and standard varieties; also BULBS and PLANTS, such as Summer-flowering Bulbs, Hardy Bulbs, 
Hardy t erenniais. Window and Bedding Plants, Roses. Ornamental Shrubs, etc., and rare new Fruits of various kincts. 
It will have many new features, a review of our twenty-five years of business, and some Special Anniversary ers. 
This great Catalogue will be sent free to all who apply. Customers will receive it without apply ing. 
Address all orders, etc. 
JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, Floral Park, N. Y. 
