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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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T^e Gra)Rdest Hardy flowering Scrubs. 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 out-door blossoms. The list hero offered is a select one, including only the very finest and most desirable new or rare and choice sorts. t PRICE—All Shrubs, zoc. each ; 3 for 50c; 7 for $1.00 ; or $1.50 per dozen. Large specimens double price. Azalea Amonea—A lovely hardy evergreen Azalea with Dentsia Crenata Magnifica — A shrub of phenomena ft^™u^i,™s^$j^£8$kifc and «nu.k«\r7 °fr Deutzia-. s,tem^ '„arg,e' let-red blossoms, which are exceedingly showy. Every bronze green, middle-sized leaves, pointed and nnely leaf and twig is hidden by the quantity of flowers. toothed. Numberless flowers in the form of crowded panicles, round, opening in large, full, double blossoms. It blooms freely in May.
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Althea—A fine tall-growing shrub, that once planted is good for a lifetime. Blooms when but a slip of a plant, but eventually reaches the size of a small tree. Always a symmetrical upright grower, well clothed with a dark green foliage, and bears every year, without fail, a pro- fusion of large, showy double flowers that closely resem- ble Hollyhocks in shape and colors, but ofteh larger in size. They bloom from midsummer until frost,at a time when few other shrubs are in bloom. Fine for cemetery planting or for growing upon the lawn. In Europe this is the most popular of all flowering shrubs. Bentsia I^emoinei—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 for 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 becoming very popular for Easter. DEUTZIA CEENATA MAGNIFICA. ,, Dentsia J31egantissima 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 . flowering period and is one of the most beautiful we have ever seen. Deutsia Elegantissima White—A sport from the above, and is exactly like it except in color which is pure white. Forsythia, or Golden Bell—Very early in the spring.while yet leafless, the Golden Bell hangs out its rows of droop- ing, 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 push m that condition. The bush grows rapidly, and forms a weeping fountain four to six feet high. One of our best Woiiberry—Of dwarf, low branching habit, forming a dense globular bush with fine glaucous foliage and pink blos- soms. Its special beauty however is in its great crop or beautiful round snow white berries which last well in- to the winter. Highly ornamental.

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