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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_3 (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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 CHfLDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y.
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Poppies. Universal garden favorites from the days of our grand- mothers. There is nothing more graceful than the silky blooms of single Poppies, nodding at the apex of their long wiry stalks like so many tropical butterflies that a passing zephyr might waft from their airy perch. There is nothing more gorgeous than the double Poppies, bursting with full- ness, glowing with color, and like greatPeonies or Snowballs m size. There are few flowers easier to grow, if the precaution is taken to sow early, and cover lightly, and none more use- ful to light up dark masses of shrubbery, mixed borders, or dull bits of landscape. Do not wait for warm weather to how your seed, but sow very early in the spring, or even in the late autumn before, that the plants may have their growth made.ready to bloom at the coming of warm weather. We grow an acre or more of Poppies every year, and no finer eeed than we offer can be procured anywhere. Per pkt. Shirley A lovely single Poppy with petals that seem stamped out of the most lustrous silk, and of the softest, most delicate colors, or of the most brilliant hues, each flower widely margined with some other shade. No one can help admiring these beauties...5 & 10 Giant Carnation Flowered -Flowersof the very largest size, extremely double, and of very brilliant colors. Many colors mixed 5 & 10 ChUds' Great Peony-Flowered—A Btrain selected after \ .'.-irs of high cult ivation find careful selection. Plants attain a height of three feet or more, and bear many flowers of most brilliant colors 5& 10 Feacock (PAPAVA UMBROSA.) Daz/.lingly beautiful. Fiery pcarlet flowers with vivid black centers, and borne on long wiry stems. One of the showiest of nil 5& 10 Double Shirley -This is a double form of the magnifi- cent Shirley Poppies. It does not differ from them in any respect, except t he (lowers are. double Instead of single 5 & 10 Blushing Bride-The plants arc of dwarf, stout growth, like Snowdrift, and belong to the Peeony- .flowered type. The blossoms of enormous size per- fectly double to the center, and beautifully fringed. Color, snow-white, with lovely bright crimson festooning above the edges of the frilled petals. It Per pkt. is difficult to imagine a more charming combination. When sown early this Poppy is one of the earliest double varieties to bloom, yet. if the seed is sown later, say during June, the plants will bloom profusely through the fall months, even into November, at a time when all other Poppies have faded and gone. 10 & 20 Nankeen Yellow—A fine novelty. Large double blos- soms of a fine Nankeen yellow color 5 & 10 Angel of Midnight—Black. A most unusual color and an odd and interesting one. It contrasts finely with the brighter colored sorts, its dull, sombre color being very conspicuous 5 & 10 Snowdrift—This grand variety was introduced by us, and there is no finer Poppy grown. Flowers as pure as the driven snow, large, double and full, yet soft and loose like a great ball of snow. A mass of it in bloom is a grand sight. Its habit of growth is stout and compact, not attaining the height of most other large Poppies, which makes its enormous blossoms show to better advantage 5 & 10 Rosebud—Some of our customers think these Poppies the prettiest of all. Dainty little flowers, like silken rosettes, cupped like Roses. Some of these are ex- quisitely mottled and shaded, while others are solid colors, margined with other shades. The coloring of these Rosebud Poppies is something wonderful, and must be seen to be appreciated. Intense scarlet crimson, pink, rose, white blush, mottled, fringed, etc 5 & 10 Nudicaule or Iceland Popples Perennials, but bloom first year. "Very handsome and graceful, and partic- ularly desirable because they furnish us with a coloi* hitherto lacking in these flowers. The yellow and orange shades are particularly fine, and the white is very pure - 5 & 10 Tulip Flowered - A new Poppy of great brilliancy and beauty, having a flower which in shape and color re- sembles a great flaming Tulip. Its color is most in- tense scarlet, and it blooms at least two weeks earlier than any other Poppy. One of the most valuable novelties last year 5 k 10 SPECIAL OFFER. For only 50c. wt will send one packet each of these twelve Poppies.

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