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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. 47 Fire Ball—Dwarf habit, double blossoms of intense scar- let, as round and perfect as a ball. It makes a line border or mass,its bright color and perfect habit show- 1 ing to great advantage 10 Snow Ball—Exactly like Fire Ball, except color, which is snow white and makes a charming contrast 10 Iriliput, Mixed Colors—This strain is the acme of per- fection in Zinnias. Plants small and of busny growth, < each one bearing scores of beautiful blossoms, of the most perfect shape and brilliant coiors. These charm- ing little Zinnias are gems indeed 5 Gold Bug—Plants grow a foot high and branch freely into beautiful little compact bushes, which are at all times covered with beautiful golden-yellow blossoms as i double as roses 5 SPECIAL OFFER. i To encourage the free use of our Improved Zinnias, we will send one packet each of the seven here offered for only UOc.
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Double £ii)qia. This Zinnia is a robust, free grower, furnishing an abundance of large, double blossoms which are varied and brilliant colors, during the entire summer and fall. Each flower keeps perfect for six weeks before fading, and each plant is a great mass of bloom all the time, making a showing which is peculiar. Nothing else can fill their place. Seed should be start ed inside or sown in the garden about corn-planting time. Per pkt. Childs' Improved, Mixed Colors-Saved only from select flowers, perfect in shape and color. The finest strain of Zinnias in cultivation. Every plant will produce immense double blossoms of various colors from white to deep crimson, maroon, pink, yellow, orange, scarlet, violet, primrose, buff, strip- ed, etc. Every plant will give fine double flowers...10 Improved Striped—A good strain representing all the leading colors, but all striped. Really the finest strain of striped or Zebra Zinnias in cultivation ...10 New Miniature, Mixed—A perfectly wonderfufplant growing only 4 to 6 inches high and bearing great numbers of double blossoms of various colors. It is so dwarf and compact that a plant looks like a tasty bouquet set in the ground, the mingling of bright blossoms and foliage being very effective.. 5

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