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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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t under good conditions in thislocality will bear more than 10,000 berries. So if your bestplant cannot beat this save yourself the trouble of enteringit for a prize. All plants must be grown from seed purchased from usthis year. $10,000.00 Cash for a DistinctNew Sunberry. We will pay Ten Thousand Dollars cash for a new Sun-berry showing valuable, ne-v, distinct and superior points.Such a new form is liable to appear with any one. as a•sport or freak. The Sunberry being a hybrid is liableto sport in many ways, and we are expecting to hear thatsome one has found among their seedling plants one of dis-tinct and novel qualities. A seedling might happen to bearfruit as large as a cherry, or a white or red fruit instead ofblack, or a habit of growth in the plant that would be agreat improvement—possibly, a tall upright grower or aclimber. Watch your plants for any new departure, and ifyou are the lucky one to strike a real valuable novelty tkissummer you can get $10,000 from us for it.
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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1910. 5 NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES IN GHOIGE SELECT FLOWER SEEDS. Our Special Improved Strains of Leading Annuals, Perennials and Climbers, The Most Worthy Late Introductions, Including Novelties of this year. Only Select Seed of Improved Strains Offered. The ordinary commercial grades of flower seeds, such as are usually sold, can be and are sold at a verylow price. They are grown and harvested in large crops, much like grain. They are produced cheaply, soldcheaply, and are, in fact, cheap in every sense of the word; and hes who sows them has no right to complain attheir poor qualicy. They cannot possibly be anything but poor. Seed of high quality can be produced onlyby thorough, careful, painstaking and expensive methods. We do not offer our customers the ordinary commercial grades of seeds. Our stocks are special strains of special varieties bred up to the highest mark of per-iection and selected with great care, and for this reason we

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