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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. 81 Choice Gladiolus, Carinas, Dahlias, Lilies The following pages, (white paper) are devoted to our superb Gladiolus, Cannas, Dahlias, Lilies, Paeonies, glorious New Amaryllis, and a few other rare bulbs. THE GLADIOLUS. For 20 years we have been the largest growers of Gladiolus in the world and our stocks are recognized the world over as being the largest, choicest, and best. We have had customers in Europe order a million bulbs at one time. We have sold in a single season a million bulbs of Gladiolus America alone, and never had enough of it to supply the de- mand. On our Flowerfield Estate we grow several hundred acres of Gladiolus, practi- cally the world's supply, and in quantity, quality, and prices we are not to be outdone. The Gladiolus is the must satisfactory, the most desira- ble and the most popular of all garden bulbs. Nothing else of the kind costs so little, and nothing else grows and blooms so rapidly for anybody and everybody, in any soil or cli- mate. It is, in short, the most satisfactory garden flower, thriving and blooming, as it does, with the least care and attention, and makes a display which for brilliancy and beauty of coloring few bulbs can equal and none surpass. J CUI/YURB-Glaiiiohis are of easy culture. Plant at any time from April to July, in any fairly good soil, well spaded. Set in rows three inches apart, or in masses, four inches apart each way. Plant in full sun, if possible, and keep down weeds. After fall frosts, lift the bulbs, remove the tops, and let them dry a few weeks under cover. Then, after remov- ing the roots, store them in a cellar, or any cool, dry place, away from frost, for planting again in spring.j
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Our Superb Mixed Gladiolus. Our mix^d Gladiolus are not the poor dull colors, old dis- carded red sorts and worthless seedlings usually sentoutas mixtures. On the contrary they are made up from splen- did named sorts, brightest and most varied colors, white, yellow, pink, rose, blush, intense scarlet, carmine, violet, striped, blotched, variegatad, etc. Common and poor sorts have been discarded and this mixture is the highest grade. Gandavensis, Mixed All ColorsâLarge flowering bulbs. 25c per dozen: $1.75 per 100: $15.00 per 1000. Childsi Mixed, All Colorsâ30c per dozen : $2.25 per 100: $2moiiipi. This is absolute- ly th" fippst mixture of Gladiolus pv< r â ffer- d. Every one is Worthy of a name. 75c. per dozen ; 30 for $150.

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