. Childs rare flowers, vegetables, and fruits. Fruit Varieties United States Catalogs; Flowers Varieties United States Catalogs; Vegetables Varieties United States Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Fruit; Flowers; Vegetables. StPobilaptfyes ]3yeriai)Os. A new house and bedding plant sent out last year in England at $ each, and to which was awarded the gold medal offered by the King of Belgium at the Ghent Exhibi- tion. It forms a compact bush 18 inches high, with leaves 6 to 9 inches long, 3 or 4 inches wide, and of the most intense metallic purple color, shading into light rose with a l
. Childs rare flowers, vegetables, and fruits. Fruit Varieties United States Catalogs; Flowers Varieties United States Catalogs; Vegetables Varieties United States Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Fruit; Flowers; Vegetables. StPobilaptfyes ]3yeriai)Os. A new house and bedding plant sent out last year in England at $ each, and to which was awarded the gold medal offered by the King of Belgium at the Ghent Exhibi- tion. It forms a compact bush 18 inches high, with leaves 6 to 9 inches long, 3 or 4 inches wide, and of the most intense metallic purple color, shading into light rose with a light green margin, a combination unapproached by any other plant. The flowers are a lovely violet-blue, very beautiful, of a Gloxinia-like appearance. For a bedding plant it has few equals. In an exposed position its foliage colors highly, and is superbly ornamental. Creates a sensation wherever seen. 25c. each; 3 for 60c; 12 for $ Abiitiloi), S°*iV. dc Bowe. The most beautiful in foliage of all Abutilons. Each leaf has a broad distinct margin of pure white, making a most conspicuous plant. The long stemmed flowers are of golden yellow color veined with scarlet. It is a remarkably free bloomer, either in pots or bedded out during summer, and is always a most attractive specimen plant, especially for ex- hibiting. The leaves are so very large, and so distinctly marked with white, and the flowers so showy that everyone is attracted to it. 20c. each; 3 for 50c. Abutilon, Snowstorm. Large, pure white; finest of its color. 15c. each. Abutilon, Crandlflora. Rich golden yellow. Anextrafine bushy grower. SPECIAL OFFER, One each of above U best Abutilons, for 50c. Resiirrectioi) piarjt. This is something that always interests the children and the older folks alike. There is a shrunken rounded ball of tightly folded leaflets, dry and dead. We drop it in a bowl of tepid water, and soon one frond-like tip curls slowly out- ward, then another, and another, until in a short
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