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Title: Childs' combination catalogue for 1910 : flower seeds vegetable seeds summer bulbs hardy bulbs and plants house plants shrubs new fruits and dutch or full bulbs
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Commercial catalogs Seeds Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Flowers Catalogs Fruit trees Catalogs John Lewis Childs (Firm) Commercial catalogs Nurseries (Horticulture) Vegetables Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Flowers Fruit trees
Publisher: Floral Park, N.Y. : John Lewis Childs
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Wallflower- Early Mixed—Flowers early the first season from seed,blooming in profusion from early June until late autumnfrosts without injury. The blossoms are large size andborne in compact, short spikes or clusters, and are ex-ceedingly sweet-scented. The plants are not injured byfall frosts and bloom until December; are also hardy andbloom well the second year. Colors range from yellow todark brown, striped, etc 5 Double Mixed Colors—A favorite English flower, some-what like Ten Week Stocks. A half-hardy perennial,very fragrant and fine for cutting. Sometimes blos-soms first summer -. 10 SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1910. 29 ORNAMENTAL CLIMBERS. Every garden, every cottage, every fence, wall, stump, or old tree is beautified by the graceful and profuseflowering vines here offered. Vines are natures draperies and are essential to any and every attempt to beautifvones home surroundings. The following selection is all that can be desired a mong annual climbers
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The Khdza Vine- New Japanese Flowering Bean. This is the most rapid growing vine known (12 inches inone day.) It has a tuberous root, which is perfectly hardyeverywhere, and in spring sends up vigorous shoots, whichwill quickly shade an entire piazza front. It will grow 50feet the first summer from seed sown in the open ground inMay. Its foliage is very luxuriant, and its rose-colored fra-crant flowers are produced in large clusters. For coveringporches, arbors, fences, stumps, dead trees, etc, with a lux-uriant curtain of foliage, and in the shortest possible spaceof time, there is no climber that can equal it 10 FloWerjbQg geai). Flowering Beans are as beautiful as Sweet Peas, and fine as tall, luxuriant climbers Finely scented. Japanese White, or Wistaria Bean—This new floweringBean is from Japan and produces its long clusters offine pure white flowers in the greatest profusion. Theseflowers so closely resemble the glorious White Wistariaand are borne in such fine Wistaria-like c

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