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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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n good land. Price, by Mail postpaid, per oz- 10c;lbs- $1-25. By express or freight at buyers expense. Peck, 60c; bushel,$2.00; 3 bushels $5.oo. Wheat Pride of America. A red winter Wheat of great value. It is the greatest cropperknown, and as to hardiness nothing can surpass it, as it stands thesevere Northern winters without the slightest injury. It is about theonly wheat that will produce a fine paying crop here in the East. Theheads are large and beardless, straw stout and erect, while the grain isof great size and weight and of a splendid color. Owing to its greathardines, productiveness, weight, beauty and fine quality, it should bethe most popular Winter Wheat of the future. It make* a flour of unsur-passed quality. It produces 47 pounds of the nicest flour to the bushel.Price, by Mail postpaid, oz. 10c-; lb. 30c; 3 lbs. 75c; 7 lbs. $1.50. By expess or freight at buyers expense. Per peck 75c; bushel $2.50;bushels $7,00. pride o: AMEBIC i 62 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y.
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14 HARDY PERENNIALS FROM SEED *hese are all hardy plants which, live in the garden year after year, blooming every spring or summer withlittle or no care. Sown in late summer or fall they bloom finely next season. Aster Alpina. One of the most charming hardy perennial plants wehave ever seen. Its flowers are borne in profusion early inspring, and are the size of a large wild Daisy, about threeinches across, composed of a double row of intensely bluepetals surrounding a golden yellow center. It is double thesize of any other hardy Aster and closely resembles a largeParis Daisy in shape and general appearance. Anotherimportant point is its extreme earliness, beginning to bloomusually in May. Mixed—Blue, white, and several fine colors. Pkt 5c, Aquilegia or Columbine. One of the best of the early summer perennials. Curiousflowers, extremely graceful, and borne in great quantitieshigh above the foliage which itself is very beautiful and at-tractive. Extra fine for cutting. Friije Mixture

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