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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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ew Miniature, Mixed—A perfectly wonderful plantgrowing orily 4 to 6 inches high and Searing great num-bers of double blossoms of various colors. It is sodwarf and compaet that a plant lo«>Us like a tasty bou-quet set in the ground, the mingling of bright blos-soms and foliage being .very effective 5 Fire Ball—Dwarf habit, double blossoms of intense scar-let, as round and perfect as a ball. It makes a fineborder or mass, its bright color and perfect habit show-ing to great advantage 10 Snow Ball—Exactly like fire Ball, except color, which is snow-white and makes a charming contrast 10 I/illiput, Mixed Colors — This strain is the acme ofperfection in Zinnias. Plants small and of bushygrowtheach one bearing scores of beautiful little blossoms ofthe most perfect shape and brilliant colors. Thesecharming little Zinnias are gems indeed, and should be in every garden 5 Gold Bug—Plants grow a foot high and branch freeiy intobeautiful little compact bushes, which are at all times
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From early childhood the Zinnia lias been a specialfavorite with us, and the strain which we cultivated inour first little garden we still sell and grow as our im- 1proved. We have selected the stock seed every year forover thirty years. This careful attention has brought it towonderful perfection. This Zinnia is a robust, free grower,furnishing an abundance of large, double blossoms whichare of varied and brilliant colors, during the entire sum-mer and fall. Each flower keeps perfect for six weeksbefore fading, and each plant is a great mass of bloomall the time, making a showing which is peculiar. Noth-ing else can 1111 their place. Seed should be started insideor sown in the garden about corn-planting time.Childs Improved, Mixed Colors—Saved only fromselect flowers, perfect in shape and color- The fine-est strain of Zinnias in cultivation. Every piant willproduce immense double blossoms of various colorsfrom white to deep crimson, maroon, pink, yellow,orange, scarlet, violet, pri

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