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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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Grape Hyacinths. One of the sweetest flowers imaginable, and in massesvery striking, making a wave of intensest blue that catchesevery eye. As hardy as an oak, and as it increases rapidlyshould be planted in every garden. Its spikes are just thesize for buttonhole bouquets, while its long stems enable itto be used to advantage in all bouquets or cut-flower work.If you want a M pot of blue, that will make your window athing of beauty for a month in mid-winter, plant half a dozenbulbs in a 5-inch pot, and treat as other Hyacinths, and youAvill have your desire. They never fail to bloom, each bulbsending up two or more flower stalks. Sky Blue—Most fairy-like. I Snow White—Milky white*Indigo Blue—Tipped white. ; Mixed Sorts. Sc. each ; 15c. per dozen; $1.00per 100; 3 eacli of S sorts, 15c. 144 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y.
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COPYRIGHT 19 GHIkDS GORGEOUS TULIPS. There is no question that the Tulip is the most popular spring flower that grows. The soft, seductive breezes havescarce whispered in our ears that spring is at hand ere our eyes, wearied by winters dull, sombre, lifeless tints, are dazzledby a sudden blaze of Tulips in rainbow shades, ribboning the earth with warmth and color. From the first Due Van ThoJ.scarce peeping above the ground, to the last Gesneriana Tulip, holding its flaming cup high aloft, there is a constant suc-cession of:Tulip beauties—single, double, dwarf, tall, early, medium and late, with blossoms cup-shaped, star-formed,bowl-like, Paeony-flowered, imbricated like a Rose, twisted, waved and horned, like the plumage of some fantastic bird, Noearden can be complete without plenty of Tulips, Have some of all kinds, they are so cheap. Grand Double Thlips. Double. Tulips produce very large double flowers, manyof which are as large and showy as a Peony. The brightcolors of the large

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