JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y, 
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Select Groctis. 
The Crocus is the recognized harbinger of spring. Be 
tween the lulls of late winter’s tempest its brave little flowers 
first appear, minding not the least frosts or flurries of snow. 
For six weeks its bright flowers smile saucily at us, quite 
sure of their welcome. Their cost is so trifling that all can 
afford to plant them, freely The Crocus has been much im- 
g roved late years in size of blooms and variety of colorings. 
focus are extra fine for borders, etc., and are particularly 
charming dotted by twos and threes over the lawn. When 
up, they come in earliest spring and peep through the grass, 
as the wild flowers do in the meadow. 
Fine Mixed Crocus— Of all colors. Fine, select bulbs, 10c. 
per dozen; 60c. per 100; $4.09 per 1,000. 
Faqcy gained G r °chs. 
The following are extra fine named sorts of odd and 
beautiful colors: 
Dandy— Fine blue, white edged; lovely. 
Othello— Rich purple-black. 
Montblanc -Large, snow-white; grand. 
Purpurea CrandIflora— Rich purple; enormous. 
Cloth of Cold— Bright yellow, black, spots. 
Van Speyk— Extra large, rich violet-purple, striped white; 
the finest of the large-flowered striped sorts. 
Sir John Bright- Lovely azure blue, large, fine flower, and 
a profuse bloomer. 
15c. per dozen; $l.oo per 100; 6 each of the 7 sorts for 50c.; 12 each 
for 90c. 
BY J.L.CHILD^ 
Giapt YelloW Grochs. 
It is astonishing the amount of blooms a single bulb of 
this Crocus will furnish The handsome flowers are very 
large and brilliant and a row of them is a wave of gold. 
Not another flower of its season makes such a display of 
brightness or becomes such a complete mass of bloom. More 
than twenty blooms have been counted from a single bulb. 
Bulbs are about the size of a Tulip and bloom extra early. 
2 for 5c.; 12 for 20c.; 100 for $1.40. 
Giapt FloWered G r ocbs. 
A few special extra large-flowering sorts of •which w« 
offer extra fine bulbs for winter blooming. 
Giant White— Enormous pure white lily-like blossoms. 
Clant Yellow— Gigantic bulbs which produce large golden 
blossoms in great masses. 
Clant Striped (Lord Fielding)—Great blossoms beautifully 
striped violet on white ground. 
Clant Blue (Sir J. Franklin)—Largest and finest blue. 
PRICE of above Crocus. Sc. each; 20c. per dozen. One each of 
the h sorts for 10c.; 3 each for 25c.; 12 each for 80c. 
Clant-Flowered Mixed— This strain is a special mixture of 
the best new sorts and improved seedlings, prepared for 
as in Holland by those who make a specialty of these 
bulbs. Only those sorts with the largest flowers and best 
colors are admitted in the mixture. Either for garden or 
house this Crocus mixture cannot be surpassed. Crocus 
for the house do not thrive under dry heat or gas, but do 
well in any sunny window of moderate temperature; 
they can even be grown in rooms almost destitute of fire 
heat. This strain of Crocus will be to our customers a 
revelation of beauty such as they cannct anticipate. 
Try them, both in the garden and in pots, by all means. 
Do not miss the beautiful treat they will afford you. 15c; 
per dozen; $1.00 per 100. 
