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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, and fruit for 1906
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_11 (find matches)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Vegetables; 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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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1906. 37
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CHUDS' GIANT IMPERIAL. A new strain with gigantic b'.ossoms as large as Moonflowers, colors, markings, and variegations never before seen, and o£ indescribable beauty. Seed germinate quickly, and the vines grow rapidly and are soon in bloom. The flowers are borne by the hun- dreds, are of enormous size, five or six inches across, and of the most delicate, vivid and blending colors to be seen in any flower. Some will be pure white, others crimson, brick- red, light and dark blues, pinks, etc., while others show a rich and vivid combination of colors blended together in a most enchanting way: spotted, blotched, striped, stained, penciled, bordered, mottled and variegat ed in every conceivable manner. To add to their beauty the leaves of many of the varieties are richly marbled and variegated white and green. Nothing among flowers can furnish a more beautiful sight than a. screen, hedge, or trellis of these Giant Morning Glories, To secure the beautiful varieties which we here offer our agent traveled in Japan, from garden to garden,collecting a little seed from each one, as the best cannot be bought in auantity, and is not to be compared with any Japanese Morning Glory seed which may be put upon the market. Mixed, All Colors—More than 100 kinds (oz. 50c) , 10 Giant Mikado-The newest and grandest strain with enormous blossoms, and the greatest range of beautiful colors and fantastic variegations 20 Ceres—Extra fine. Bright magenta, with wide white border. Foliage variegated 10 Aurata—Elegant yellowish foliage, often marbled white; flowers of various colors .10 Antigone—Marbled foliage, large sky-blue blossoms 10 Giant Yellow—A most novel and beautiful color, being a fine yellow, often spotted and marked with other colors. Very valuable 15 Double Mixed Colors—Many plauts from this seed will produce double blossoms 20 FUCHSIA-FLOWERED MORNING GLORY. A perfect gem of a vine, being of very slender graceful growth, with beautiful foliage and climbing rapidly to a good height. Its lovely blossoms are about the size of a Fuchsia and droop in the same manner, hanging by long thread-like stems. Color fine lilac pink. A decidedly lovely and novel vine 10 COMMON MORNING GLORY. Mixed Colors—The old-fashioned climbing Morning Glory (oz. 10c.) 5 Dwarf or Bush Morning Glory—Fine mixed colors. Grows in bush form 5 333 ByoX.CHH.D5.

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