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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. 135
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THIS CUT WAS MADE FROM AN ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPH IX OCTOBER. NeW and JP^e, barge praitcd Fall Bearing Strawberries. (Extra Fine and Cheap this Spring.) There has been so much disappointment over so-called FaM-bearing Strawberries in years past, that we have hesitated about offering the new sorts listed below and do it only after two or three years of careful trial which has proved beyond question of doubt that Anierious, Produc- tive, Iowa and Superb are true and reliable fall-bearers of large-fruiting types. They have been grown in all parts of the couurry, in different soils and climates, and are the same everywhere. They differ from other Strawberries only in that they blossom and fruit continuously from June till November, but the crop in September and October is the larg- est, and may be made much heavier if the blossoms are kept picked off up to August. Parties in this state are now growing these varieties, and shipping crates of berries as late as the second week in November and receiving enormous prices. Young plants set out this spring will produce a good crop of berries next fall, and all the runners they make will fruit freely from spring until fall, of next vear, while the plants set this fall, which will then be established, will produce berries in snch numbers as to be almost beyond belief. They require nothing special in the way of cultivation. Any conditions that will produce a good crop of ordinary garden Strawberries will suit these fall or everbearers. All have perfect flowers. By all means plane a few of these wonderful berries. Superb— Plants fine growers with vigorous healthy foliage. Berries are very large, glossy, regular shape and beautiful color. One of the very best all around variety. $1.00 "per dozen; $6-00 per 100. Productive-Plants model growers: strong, deep-rooted and hardy. Berries medium to large in size, and ship well. Flavor, extra fine. The crop produced bythis varietv is simply enormous, berries laving about the plants in heaps and piles. 75c per dozen; $5-00 per loo. Americas—Plants medium siz^ with heavy root system, and the blos- soms strongly staminate. Fruit light red, heart-shaped and of good quality. Stems stout, holding the fruit well off the ground. It is not uncommon for spring-set plants to produce from six to twelve well- loaded fruit stalks by the end of October. 75c. per dozen. Iowa—A very large and fine new fall bearer of great promise. Webelieve it will prove to be extra fine in every way. $1.00 per dozen. Progressive—A wonderful new fall bearer, which is probably the heav- iest cropper of them all. It has fruited finely with us from soring set plants. The introducer says of it. "We have had it on trial for two seasons. The berries are just about the size and color of the Dunlap and produces good paying crops in the fall of both the first and second years. During the past season we removed the blossoms once in May from plants that had been set the year before and these plants began fruiting in July and lasted until snow came. The amount of fruit that we picked from 500 plants set in the spring was almost be- yond comprehension. Per dozen $1.00: per 100 $7.50- £F ECIAI, OFFER—6 plants each of above5 for$2.0Q; 12plants each. $3.75. MIXED SEEDI,INGS-(Fall Bearing.) Runners from seedlings of last spring:, mixed, givine a variety, Xliost of which fruited during summer and fall- Per dozen. 75c-

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