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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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thegiant-flowered type. A grand mixture and will show a wide variety of beautiful forms and new colors 25 DOUBLE GIANT-FLOWERED PETUNIAS.This is the choicest double Petunia seed that the world can furnish, and we stake our reputation upon it. A larger per cent, will produce double flowers than any other, and the flowers will be larger and better. Giant-Flowered Double, Fringed, Mixed Colors-The largest and finest colored Double Petunias yet seen. Their =ize and beauty will be a revelation to all 20 Double White—Fine, pure white flowers, very double—20 Double Crimson—Intense crimson, large double 20 Double Rosea—Pink and white, beautifully mottled 20 Double Heliotrope—Beautiful heliotrope blue 20 One package each of the four colors for 50c. TSlevf glde Petunia, Nornm, This fine novelty is offered on colored plate. A beauti-ful rich and velvety purplish blue, with star-shaped whitecenter. Very effective as it is a prodigious bloomer 20 18 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y.
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Poppies. Universal garden favorites from the days of our grand-mothers. There is nothing more grand than the silkyblooms of the single Poppies, nodding at the apex of theirlong wiry stalks like so many tropical butterflies that a pass-ing zephyr might waft from their airy perch. There is noth-ing more gorgeous than the double Poppies, bursting withfullness, glowing with color, and like great Peonies, orSnowballs in size. There are few flowers easier to grow, ifthe precaution is taken to sow early, and cover lightly, andnone more useful to light up dark masses of shrubbery,mixed borders, or dull bits of landscape. Do not wait forwarm weather to sow your seed, but sow very early in thespring, that the plants may have their growth made, readyto bloom at the coming of warm weather. Per pkt. Improved Shirley —No better flower seed novelty has been offered than this new strain of Shirley Poppv, grown, selected and improved by Mr. Wilks the orig-inal introducer of the Shirley. Habit of pla

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