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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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Scabiosa< This is one of the very best bouquet flowers of our entire list, and is also fine for masses or clumps in the flower gar- den. Each plant bears a profusion of beautiful flowers, rich, velvety, glowing, and unlike any other flower, while the long wiry stems fit them for use in bouquets and vases. i â Mixed Colorsâ(Mourning Bbide) 5 Double Mixed ColorsâDwarf habit, fine colors 5 Snow BallâLarge, perfectly double, white as snow-.. 10 SI)00-Fiy Plaint. (House.) A plant of the Physilis family. It is claimed that flie3 will not stay in a room where it is grown if they can con- veniently escape and our test shows such to be the case, though what there is about it that repulses them is not clear, as the plant or flower has no odor. Aside from this most remarkable quality it is a most beautiful flowering plant, and blooms m a short time (60 days) from seed. It is partic- ularly valuable as a winter bloomer, the blossoms being- large, cup-shaped and of a lovely light blue color, with a white center. It is a profuse bloomer in pots both summer and winter. In the garden it grows too rank and weedy to be any value, but as a pot plant it is exquisite. Seed 19
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SWeet WHliclID. (Perennial.) The favorite flower of our grandmothers. One of the best edging plants for the border, bearing in early summer large heads of the richest and most varied colors. Very fragrant and a favorite with everyone for vases and bouquets- Improved Mixed ColorsâPerfect in form, large in size, brilliant and varied in colors 5 Double Mixed ColorsâFine double blossoms 10 SOHlaX. (House.) Not only a fine window vine, but exceedingly fine for out- doors. In the open ground it grows luxuriantly, furnishing great quantities of its dainty,glossy-green sprays that are exquisite for bouquets. In the house it requires good light and freedom from dust. Its feathery little blooms are deli- cately fragrant 5 Stokesia or Cornflower Asters. (Perennial) A lovely hardy perennial and a free bloomerail summer. Plants grow 18 to 25 inches high and begin blooming early. The blossoms are Aster-like, and very handsome. Grows well in any situation, and is immensely popular. BlueâLovely s White-New and fine 10

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