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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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140 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y.
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Peactjes. There is no tree which makes a more rapid growth and comes into bearing sooner after planting than the Peach. Trees small enough to go by mail will bear in three years, and their cost is so little that every home in our land should abundantly supplied with this most valuable fruit. The Everbearing Peach. This is one of the most remarkable of Peaches, as it combines many desirable quali- ties which make it of great value for family use. 1. Its long continued bearing period. The first ripening begins about in July and successive crops are produced until the be- ginning of November. Fruit' in all stages of developmentâripe and half grownâmay be seen upon the tree at the same time. Two- year-old trees bear freely. 2. As the tree blossoms during a long period, a complete failure of fruit has never happened since the original tree first began to bear, ten years ago. 3.- The fruit is creamy white, mottled and striped with light purple and with pink veins; oblong in shape, and tapering to the apex; flesh white, with red veins near the skin ; very juicy, vinous, and of excellent flavor: quality very best. Freestone, of the Indian type. No praise can do justice to this magni- ficent novelty. It is really one of the finest things we ever offered. Good M/.e. proline, best-qualitv and bears continually for three months. WMiat more can be desired? Fine trees for fruiting nest year by mail, 30c. each; 3 for 75c;. 7 for $1.50. jjoldcrbaunj Peael,. Mountaii low zero. This Champion of all Peaches originated in 1880, in Somerset. Pennsylvania, one of the highest and coldest points on the Alleghany, o where the mercury often drops to 28 degrees he- The original tree is now 25 feet high and 10 inches â meter at the base, with foliage surpassing anything ^S^^-S'of^e^v^^^^ ,s immense. manV^P "-iinens measurine- from 13 to 1JH"^"/^^ ference. In color it is,of alight cream-yellow, with n be.,,,, I'^l V'tV.1-~ 1, ! ^ - i, i â ll" ^-1 ^'-K" Uw\i from the surface fine quality, and a perfect free-stone. The pit is very small at li tt Mi \e.^"\ one nf ,.he earliest of all free-stone to th« center, and of most exquisite flavor It ripens about .AU. 11 n- â ^ ⢠R Caches. 25c. each; 5 for $1.00. varieties. For hardiness, vigorous growth and long life it is certainly tne uuampiou loBsoms

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