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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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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N- Y.
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(Ji'cLud-Flow'ered pansy. These new Pansies take their name mainly from their superb tints and variations in color which remind one of the gorgeous shades sepn in Orchids. In addition to this they are large of flower, vigorous ami healthy in growth and abundant in bloom. It is the most novel and distinct strain of Pansies seen in many years. Mixed Colors—Hundreds of tints and shades. 20c. per pkt. Hibiscus Hardy Hybrids. Median's Giant Mixture. A. fast growing perennial that in one season attains the height and dimensions of a shrub. Exceedingly fine for clumps or an ornamental hedge or screen, as they last al- ways, never winter-kill and in midsummer, when shrubbery flowers are scarce, they bear for weeks enormous flowers as large as t^a saucers, white, blush, pale and deep pink, rose, dark crimson, etc, the most of them with deeper- hned eye. Plants from spring-sown seed will bloom by midsummer and prove exceedingly showy. Pkt., 10c. Ne^? lobelias. Charming little plants for small beds, edging baskets.. etc Graceful and pretty, and colors exceedingly clear. A. most charming pot plant for window culture, blooming in. four weeks and making the prettiest little pot flowers. Sapphire—A glorious new sort that stands our hot dry summers and blooms profusely from May to November in the garden, (or pots.) It fairly carpets the ground with a mass of vines and foliage, tnickly set with large Sapphire blue flowers that have a large clear white center. One of the very finest recent novelties 10> New Trailing—It makes a most beautiful plant for a hanging pot or basket, the long drooping stems bear- ing elegant Mue flowers with white center in pro- fusion, the effect of which is most charming lo Crystal Palace-Dark blue best for bedding.. 5 Dwarf Mixed Colors—All the best, some with golden foliage 5 Double Dwarf—(Wonder)—A grand new Double Lobelia of great beauty and profusion. Mixed colors 10

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