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Title: Childs' rare flowers, fruits and vegetables
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_17 (find matches)
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Vegetables; 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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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1914 115
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Boston Fern—(.Original)—Of all decorative plants for house culture, this is perhaps the most imposing aud satisfac- tory- It is so hardy that it will stand and thrive in most any situation in a room even if out of the sun's rays. Plants form an immense number of graceful, drooping fronds, varying in length from two to five feet and al- ways of a fresh, healthy and beautiful green color. Scotti—A decided acquisition. It is a dwarf, compact grower, and has two or three times as many frond.- as the Boston Fern. It makes symmetrical, handsome plants in either large or small sizes. Pierson's Boston Fern—Immense wavy fronds, of the Os- trich Plume type, but longer and more beautifully feath- ered. Without doubt it is the most magnificent Fern grown, and possesses all the hardy, robust and easy grow- ing qualities peculiar to the common Boston Fern and its varieties. Pierson's Baby Boston Fern—A great novelty and a great beauty. Like Piersons Fern, only smaller in size and far more feathery and plume-like. It is perfectly exquisite. Superbissima—New; long dark green fronds in great clus- ters, each frond rolled, curled andjcrinkled in an odd and beautiful way. Mrs. Roosevelt—A great improvement on the old Boston Fern. It is more upright, in growth, grows faster and makes about four fronds to the old varieties one. It is also a deeper and richer color, Teddie Jr.—A superb dwarf form of the splendid Mrs Koosevelt Fern. New. Amorpohlii—This to our mind is the most graceful and beautiful of all the Boston Ferns. It is very much su- porior to the Fern Bali, and well adapted to a hanging pot. Fronds broad, finely cut and waved like ostrich plumes. No other Fern fronds so beautiful as this.

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