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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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e in extra large clusters.The fragrance is rich and powerful. All colors mixed.G for 15c: 12 for 25c: loo for $1.50.Good Mixed—15c. per doz-: Sl.oo per 100. All fine bulbs.BI,TJE AND CARDINAL FREESIAS.It is somewhat misleading to call these Freesias thoughin foliage and general habit thev are similar. Treated like aFreesia they produces snikes of large.well open flowers of themost intense colors. They are very easily grown and sure tobloom in pots during winter, ami are hardy enough to bloomin the oppp ground south of Mass. Cardinal Preesia or Tritonia—Large wide-open blossomsof a rich cardinal red ; verv brilliant, and continues longin bloom. 5e. en eh : 4 for 15c; 12 for 30c Mixed Hybrid Tritonias — All colors, crimson, orange,yellow, white, pink, striped, etc Among these are themost brilliant and striking combinations. 20c per doz. Blue Freesia —(Babiana Edith) — Magnificent spikes ofbloom equaled only by Gladiolus. Ultramarine blue:perfectly exquisite. 5c each: 6 for 25c
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GRAND Oxalis. These varieties of Oxalis are all for winter blooming.They make the most beautiful hanging pots and baskets,producing a mass of flowers all winter, which in brilliantand beautiful colors are truly charming. Winter bloomingOxalis are always sure to please Plant five and six bull,sinn 6-inch pot. They commence growth immediately afterplanting and need not be set away to form roots like mostother bulbs. They bloom during the entire winter, a thingwe can expect of very few plants or bulbs, and are for thatreason doubly valuable. Our bulbs are large, sound and line.Giant Cut-I/eaved Yellow A new Oxalis with elegantfoliage and flowers of encrmoussize and glowing yellow-It is a superb winter bloomer and a really grand novelty.Bermuda Buttercup-A fine, robust growing^ large flower-ing sort. Blooms in enormous panicles, each flowerbeing as large as a silver half-dol la rand of a clear brightyellow color. Bulbs commence blooming soon afterplanting and continue all winter without a

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