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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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TUBEROSE EXCELSIOR PEARL- Guilds' Superior Tuberoses, The one flower the rich man must have and the poor man can not do without. We all love its massive spikes of thick waxen blooms of rich, creamy whiteness, and delicious fra- grance. Excelsior Pearl—First introduced by us years ago. It is the finest bloomer of all Tuberoses; habit dwarf, flower stalks short, spikes and blooms enormous in size and very double and fragrant. The finest for pots as well as for the garden. Tall Double—The old popular variety. Splendid for the open ground. Variegated—The leaves of this variety are bordered with creamy white; flowers single but very large and of ex- quisite fragrance. It makes a most magnificent plant. Single Orange-Scented—A fine sort, bearing very early in ' the season large spikes of beautiful single orange-like blossoms. Very fragrant. loo. each: 3 for 9Qc.; the Ufor S5c.; 50c. per dozen; $3.50 per 100. One of the most showy of all summer bulbs, and blooms from mid-summer until frost, growing two feet high, with large wide-open triangular blooms, four to six inches across. The colors and markings are very brilliant and peculiarly odd and attractive, and clumps of them in the border have a most gorgeous effect. It is difficult to name a flower of such unique and exquisite beauty. They are easily grown and al- ways more than satisfactory. One cannot without seems them realize how truly beautiful they are. Canariensis—Fine bright yellow. Concniflora—Yellow, spotted orange. Grandiflora Alba-White, fine crimson spots. Speciosa—Deep red, fine purple spots. Rosea—Magnificent r >sy pink. I/ilacea—Crimson violet. Immacnlata—Pure white without spots, immaculata Yellow—Pure canary yellow. No Spots. 10c. each ; the S for 70c; $1.00 per dozen. Grandiflora Hybrids Mixed—3 for 20c: 12 for 15c.

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