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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_4 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (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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28 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO. N. Y.
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Rudbeckia ^acipiata, fl. pi., Golden GloW.' Offered for the first time lust year. A hardy perennial plant growing eight feet high, branching freely, and bearing by the hundreds, on long, graceful stems, exquisite double blossoms of the brightest golden color and as huge as Cac- tus Dahlias. The cut represents a plant in bloom, as photo- graphed. Mr. William Falconer, the best authority on plants in this country, says of it: "When I saw the double-flower- ing form of Rudbeckia Laciniata in bloom in your grounds at Floral Park, in summer fast ysar, I was amazed, for not- withstanding my long and intimate.acquaintance with plants I had never before seen a double-flowered Rudbeckia; and I was delighted with the fulness and gorgeousnessof the blossoms and their clear, bright yellow color. You gave me a plant last spring and it was set out in good garden ground. It grow vigorously and threw up strong branching flower stems six feet high, laden with sheaves of golden 11 blossoms us large as fair Chrysanthemums, and all having in ele":int graceful anp- 'iram i-, without any of the stiffness in habit or blossom peculiar to sunflowers. Many eminent florists and amateurs have seen it here, and all admired it. As cut flowers the blossoms last well. In fine, I unhesitat- ingly regard it as the most desirable introduction among hardv perennials since we got Clematis Panicnlata. 'It 18 the most effective flowering plant for August and Septem- ber in cultivation. , , , , , . on« Strong plants, which will bloom freely this season, MC / each; 4 for 50c; 10 for $1.00; 25 for $2.00.

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