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Title: Childs' catalogue of fall bulbs that bloom plants, seeds, shrubs, fruits etc. with a treatise on the culture of bulbs indoors and out.
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs John Lewis Childs (Firm) Nurseries (Horticulture) Bulbs (Plants) Flowers Vegetables
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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the bestvase flower of the spring. Most of the garden sorts are particularly showy inmasses, and-do not require frequent re-setting to keep in vigor and flower,needing no care, in fact, beyond the planting. Others ofthis family are among our best pot bulbs, their clusteredstars and stately trumpets of white and cream, lemon,orange and yellow, giving variety, fragrance and warmth ofcolor to our window gardens. In pots they may be had inb-loom from Christmas until April. Out of doors, from theearliest to the latest, they last fully two months. Ourmotion is a particularly choice one and true to name.offer our bulbs at a low price to encourage extensive plant-Trv a few bulbs, both (or the house and garden. Theywill prove so beautiful and increase so rapidly yQU will feeldoubly repaid for your outiay. They can be grouped alongthe border of shruboeries, or at the foot of rockeries, oruad°r trees. Evervone should have early, medium and latesorts, as well as some of each of different types.
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We offer the various classes of Narcissus m mixtures—not a few cheap varieties thrown together, but a wide rangeof the best standard sorts, and large fine bulbs that willevery one bloom splendidly next spring, and forever after-When once planted Narcissus to a large extent take care ofthemselves, flowering finely and increasing in numbersyear after year. SINGLE MIXED. More than 30 fine varieties. Ail colors, forms and sizes.Large bulhs, 30c. per dozen ; $2-00 per 100: $18.00 per 1000. MIXED. A fine assortment, and all extra large bulbsdozen : $2.25 per 100: $20 per looo. POSTICUS MIXED. All sorts. Splendid for massing and for naturalizing-30c. per dozen : $2.00 per loo: $18.00 per 1000. POLYANTHUS MIXED. More than 20 of the leading named sorts. All-fine bulbs.60c- per dozen: $4.00 per 100. WINTER BLOOMING, MIXED. A special mixture for pot culture. All extra fine sortseoc per dozen. FALL CATALOGUE OF BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1914. 17

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