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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. 133 The following are rare sorts of the grandest of all flowers, the Night Blooming Cereus. Gereus CrandIflora—(The true Night-Bloom- ing Cereus.) The most beautiful flower in the world. Its flowers are a foot across, of a pure satiny white, with outside petals faintly tinged with reddish-brown. It is also deliciously fragrant. Imo description can do justice to its wonderful beauty, or portray the magnificence of its pure cup, filled with thousands of silky stamens. Truly a flower of the gods, and one which seems not of earth, as its beauty is unfolded only in midnight's darkness. Nothing can compare with the soul-stirring beauty of this flower. O. McDonaldl — (Yellow Night-Blooming Cereus.) Like above, but with larger blooms, and a fine straw color tint. CRostratus—(Red Night-Blooming Cereus). A slender climber, with magnificent flowers in the style of Cereus Grandiflora, but of a rich wine-red outside, and a lighter shade inside. Grand to contrast with the lighter sorts. 9m Triangularis—The largest of all. Enor- mous white flower of surpassing loveliness, a foot or more across.
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Phyllocactus Hookerl—Much like Latifrons, but a more moderate grower. Quite dwarf and compact. Phyllocactus Jenkensoni—Large silky flowers of the deepest, richest blood-red, as large and deep as a good- sized tea-cup. The flowers are open day and night for about a week, and are borne by the score. f'fiyllocactus Latifrons—(Queen Cactus.) It divides the honorj with Cereus Grandiflora as to being the most l)eau«rul of all Cacti. The plant is a strong, large, rapid grower, that will succeed in any warm window, and is covered each season with bloom. And such bloom! Words fail to describe it. "As big as a dinner plate," says one. Smooth, satiny white, delicately flushed. Phyllocactus Speclosa—Much like above, but fioweraare not quite as large and are a soft pink in color* Price* fioo. each; 8 for 5Qg* A poor vine is little but an eyesore; but a thrifty Manet- tia is lovely beyond all question. It can be grown either in the house or garden, and is in full bloom every day in tha year. In the house it can be trained all around a window^ and it will be a solid wreath of bloom, both summer ana winter; in the open ground during summer it will grow ten feet, branching freely and covering a largo space of trellis, arbor or wall, showing at all times thousands of its brighfc blossoms. The flowers are 1% to 3 inches long, and of the most intense fiery scarlet, shading off to a bright yellow tip. They are also covered with a scarlet moss or hairy substance which adds much to their beauty, and each flower keeps perfect for weeks before falling. No plant is easier to grow, and it commences to bloom at once from the smallest cut- tings, and continues to bloom most profusely at all times. There is not a da y during its life that it is without flowers, if it has any sort of decent care. It being quite un- known and of such striking beauty, either for screens, baskets, vases, windows, trellises, stumps, etc., that it attracts the admiration of every eye. Price, 15c.each; 8 for 80c.; extra large plants by express, 80c. each; 8 for 60c. A grand center plant for large baskets, pots or vases. The long, narrow, pinnate fronds arch gracefully in every direction, growing from 3 to 6 feet long. Per- fectly hardy and fine for rock work, or the garden also. No Fern endures the heat and dust of living rooms so well as this, hence its great value for window decoration. A charming ornament. 20c. each; 3 for 50c. Extra large, by express, 50c, each; 3 tor $1.00,

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