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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y. 
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We can furnish fine plants propagated from the original 
plant of this great new Verbena. Its great merits are color 
and fragrance like the Trailing Arbutus or Mayflower. The 
greatest novelty this year. 15c. each; 3 for 30c.; 6 for 50c % 
Otaheite 0 1>a bge. 
An extra fine pot plant with glossy green leaves, the true 
fragrant orange blossoms and abundant little bright oranges 
that will hang on the little bush like balls of gold for six 
months after they are ripe. They will bloom and fruit 
in a two-inch pot, and we have seen a plant in a common 
window, that was but 15 inches high and had 23 oranges on 
it. When good sunlight they are never out of fruit from 
one year’s end to another, and at least two-thirds of the time 
are in flower also. The fruit is very sweetand handsome. 
Could we have but one plant in our window it would be an 
Otaheite Orange. In beauty, grace and fragrance there is 
nothing like its delicate leafy sprays of blooms, so indescrib¬ 
ably exquisite, dainty, lovely, and adorable. Fine plants for 
blooming and fruiting at once, 20c. each; 3 for 50c. 
gegopia, Verqop. 
No other kinds of flowering Begonias can begin to com- 
•are with the varieties of B. Vernon for beauty and constant 
loom. They are so much superior to others that wo have 
concluded to offer none but these. Plants flower perpetu¬ 
ally all the year round, the plants being completely covered 
with bloom at all times, especially during winter. 
Crimson— Produce a profusion of dark crimson flowers. 
Unlike the ordinary Autilons of scraggy growth, they 
®^e very compact and short jointed, making a neat pot plant, 
rhe flowers are the most beautiful we have seen among 
AbutiJons, being very large yet short and beautifully cupped* 
ami of the most lovely colors. It is safe to say that these 
varieties will produce five times as much bloom as others. 
Infanta Eulalia— This is perfection itself. Plants dwarf 
and short jointed, producing exquisite large cupped blos¬ 
soms by the score from the time the plant is four inches 
high. Blooms all the time, summer and winter. Color a 
most beautiful soft satin-pink. 
Wm. McKinley— Like the above except in color, which is a 
beautiful clear lemon yellow of exquisite loveliness. 
Price 20c. each; the two for 30c. 
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 ex¬ 
quisite silkv pink, while the foliage is of a charming 
yellowish color. The flowers are borne pefpetually. 
Begonia Erfordle— A most lovely sort, and a great bloomer 
the vear round either in pots or garden. It has large 
clusters of light pink blossoms, resembling large Tuber¬ 
ous-rooted varieties. It is a free grower and a superb 
sort. 
Price 15c. each; the 5 for 50c.; or $1.00 per dozen. 
