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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_19 (find matches)
Year: 1916 (1910s)
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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32 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, INC-, FLORAL PARK, N. Y.
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IMPERIAL JAPANESE MORNING GLORY. Japaij Morr)ir>o Glory. CHILDS' GIANT IMPERIAL. (Climber.) A new strain with gigantic blooms as large as Moon- flowers, colors, markings ana variegations never before seen, and of indescribable beautv. Seed germinate fruickly, and the vines grow rapidly and are soon in bloom. The flowers are borne by the hundreds, 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, pink, etc., while others show a rich and varied combination of colors blended together in a most enchanting way; spotted, blotched striped, stained, penciled, bordered, mottled, and vari- egated in every conceivable manner. To add to their beauty the leaves of many of the varieties are richly marbled and variegated white and green. Per pkt. 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 beau- ' tiful colors and fantastic variegations... oo Ceres—Extra fine. Bright magenta, with wide white border. Foliage variegated 10 Aurata—Elegant yellow foliage, often marbled white- flowers of various colors. Perfectly exquisite... 'lo Antigone—Marbled foliage, large sky-blue blossoms .10 Double Mixed Colors—Many plants from this seed will produce double blossoms 20 Above 6 pkts. for 50 c. ' ' COMMON MORNING GLORY. The fine old Morning Glory is as lovely now as when it was the pet of our grandmothers. Give the dear old vine a place. Mixed Colors—The old-fashioned climbing (oz., 10c.) 5 MooqfloWer. (Climber.) Its rapid, luxuriant growth, its thick, overlapping- e-i0s- sy foliage, and its nightly scores of immense silkv blooms of rare fragrance, are merits that cannot be over- estimated. By actual count a strong vine will bear one to three thousand of its superb blossoms in a season Very flne for piazzas. Ipomoea Noctiphiton—Grand foliage and magnificent snow-white blossoms four or five inches across 10 ipomoea Learei—A large vine. Flowers lovely azure blue 10 Ivy-Leaved—A new Moonflower which opens 'early 'in the morning and remains open nearly all day it is the greatest bloomer of all vines, a single plant pro- ducing thousands of flowers each day. Flowers pink or creamy white; leaves ivy-shaped and pro- duced in great masses, making a dense shade. ... 10 Mixed Moonflower Seed—All the above, and others 15 Trailing Mori)li>g Glory. (Convolvulus Mauritanicus.) Acknowledged to be one of the finest basket plants in. existence. Beautiful trailing plant, completely covered with large, wide-open, morning-glory-like blue flowers which remain open all clay. For a basket on veranda or m window or as a trailing plant in the garden'it is just splendid. Blooms winter as well as summer 10

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