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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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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1898.
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Twepty-£)ayExpressRadish. Is fit for the table in twenty days from the time of sow- ing the seed and is fully grown in twenty-five days, at which time the Radish is about one inch in diameter at the top, three inches in length, and tapering to a point. Color bright- est, richest scarlet, tipped with white. Quality very mild, crisp and delicious. By far the best flavored Radish we have yet seen, and the most desirable for table use. In our esti- mation this is the finest, and without doubt the earliest Radish in cultivation. It seems to combine all good points —earliness, beauty, good size and superior quality. Really a great acquisition. Pkt., 10c; oz., 30c; lb., $3.00. Water M^loi^, Qoldei) N^get. 'Anew melon of a splendid golden color: beautiful be- yond imagination. Very delicious quality. Flesh crimson, sweet and juicy, with small seed. The golden colored rind makes this a most superb novelty. Pkt., 15c. NeW Japanese 'furpip, Teppoji. Japan has for years been sending us charming new flow- ers and trees, but lately she has taken to vegetables; the result of which is a new mammoth Radish, and this enor- mous Turnip. We hope that other novelties as important as these may follow. The Tennoji Turnip is a mammoth flat variety of excellent quality. It is impossible to say just how large it will grow under favorable conditions, but the Japanese claim is something incredible. Here in our trial grounds under the disadvantage of a crowded test-bed it has grown to the largest dimensions we have ever seen in a Turnip. Finest seed, just imported from Japan, lUo. per pkt.; 3 pkts. for 25c; oz„ 35o. Radish, Sakurajima Mammoth. One of the good new things from Japan. In our trial grounds last year it proved to be a very fine novelty indeed. It is of very quick growth, reaching an enormous size in * short time. Color pure white, almost like a piece of ivory. Very crisp and tender and of remarkably mild and pleasant flavor. Most people at once pronounce it to be the ideal table radish. It certainly is as far as beauty and quality goes. Pkt., 10c; oz., 40c.

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