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Title: Childs' fall catalog : "bulbs that bloom" plants shrubs, fruits, etc.
Identifier: childsfallcatalo00john_11 (find matches)
Year: 1918 (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; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Vegetables; Bulbs (Plants); Seeds; Flowers
Publisher: Floral Park, N. Y. : John Lewis Childs, Inc.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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The Grandest Hardy Flowering Shrn Nothing can take the place of Shrubbery for the lawn, for hedges and specimen clumps, Shrubs thrive in any situation, are beautiful all summer, producing some of the choicest outdoor blossoms. The list here offered is a select one, including only the very finest and most desirable new or rare and choice sorts. Price—A!l Shrubs, 25c; 3 for 60c; 7 for $1.25; or, $2.00 doz. Large specimens, 40c; 3 for $1.00; $3.50 doz. Azalea Amonea — A lovely, hardy evergreen Azalea with beautiful foliage and fine compact, bushy growth. In May or June the plants are densely covered with rich violet-red blossoms, which are exceedingly showy. Every leaf and twig is hidden by the quantity of flowers. Azalea, Amonea Superba—This is as hardy as an oak and the most profusely flowering shrub ever seen, its mass of burning color making a great effect. Color, intense deep crimson. We can recommend it as a shrub that will give great satisfaction. Blooms profusely when plants are very small. Flowers of large size. Azalea, Snowbank — Finest of all new hardy Shrubs. This Azalea is perfectly hardy in the open ground anywhere; blooms profusely, the flowers being pure white, of the same size and general appearance as the well-known greenhouse variety (Indica). As a hardy flowering Shrub it is most superb. Buddlea, Butterfly Shrub—Clusters of large, sweet- scented flowers, measuring twelve to eighteen inches in length, closely resembling a Lilac in color and gen- eral appearance, but continues to bloom all summer in great profusion and until after the first frost. It is a vigorous growing, hardy shrub, and when better known is certain to become as popular as the hardy Hydrangea for shrubberies. Without doubt the best new shrub of recent introduction. It also makes a splendid pot plant. Daphne Cneorum — A hardy Shrub wrhich trails over the ground in a most beautiful manner. Extra fine for any position, and being evergreen, it is the most desir- able plant we know of for cemeteries. The plant is composed of spiral branches of dense evergreen leaves. The flowers are lovely pink color, in clusters, and are borne profusely in early spring, and during summer and fall. It is one of the most fragrant of all flowers. Deutzia Lemoinei — This is the greatest recent novelty in flowering shrubs. It makes a low, compact bush which in June is loaded down with large, round, snow- ball-like clusters of pure white flowers. We know of nothing more beautiful /or the garden, yet it has the added merit of being a grand pot plant for winter- blooming. It is not too large for a pot and blossoms very finely at any time during winter. It is be- coming very popular for Easter. Forsythia, or Golden Bell—Very early in the spring, while yet leafless, the Golden Bell hangs out its rows of drooping, bright golden bells. The leaves that come later are of a dark, almost myrtle-green, turning early in fall to a rich bronzy-purple, and remaining long on the bush in that condition. The bush grows rapidly, and forms a weeping fountain four to six feet high. One of the best. Deutzia Crenata SVIagnifica — A Shrub of phenomenal beauty and unlike any other Deutzia. Stem large, bronze-green, middle-sized leaves, pointed and finely toothed. Numberless double white flowers in the form of crowded panicles, round, opening in large, full, double blossoms. It blooms freely in May. Deutzia Elegantissima Pink — Flowers borne on long branches or stems, straight and slender, carrying each fifteen to eighteen round blooms, well open, and of a beautiful light-rose color. This distinct Shrub has a long fowering period and is one of the most beautiful. Hydrangea Snowball — This might be called a perpetual blooming Hydrangea Paniculata Grancliflora. It is cer- tainly superior to that grand old sort, in that it begins blooming in May or June and continues in great pro- fusion until frost, while the old variety only begins to bloom in August and September. The flowers of the Snowball Hydrangea are pure snow-white, the clusters almost as round as a ball and large as a man's hat. Hydrangea Paniculata—Generally considered the most valuable and ornamental Shrub in existence. - Bushy and robust, every branch tipped in mid-summer with an immense close panicle of flat snow-white flowers of gigantic size. The trusses of bloom are ten to twelve inches long and nearly as thick through, lasting for two or three months,' turning pinkish toward the last. No other Shrub makes such a show on the lawn or 13 so universally admired. Grand for cemetery use, and always blooms finely the first summer. New Double Syringa (Mock Orange) — This is a new Syringa with flowers double the size of the old variety, of pure white color, and mostly very double, like im- mense white roses. The bush begins to bloom when very small, but eventually grows to a considerable size and the flowers are produced in greatest abundance during May and June, but it blooms to some extent all summer and fall. The abundance of flowers is mar- velous, the Shrub being literally smothered with the profusion of its large, pure, rose-like blossoms of powerful and unexpected fragrance. Hardy and robust in any situation. The finest new Shrub in many years. Sweet Shrub, or Calycanthus Florida — Long a favorite in gardens. The purplish flowers have an exquisite pineapple fragrance of which one never tires, and a spray of them will perfume a whole room. Can not be omitted from any lawn or garden. Sweet Pea Shrub (Robinia Hespida) — When in bloom it is really a big bouquet, so full is it of dainty sprays of large, lovely rose-pink blooms, to which the graceful pinnate foliage is an admirable background. Very hardy and robust, and commences to bloom when but a foot high. Its glorious flowers are borne in clusters and are the size and shape of lovely Sweet Peas.

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