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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_8 (find matches)
Year: 1903 (1900s)
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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f^W' Obconica or J Moparcl) Prirproses. These are the new large-flowering Obeonica-Sinensis Hybrids of various colors, as large and fine as Primula Sinensis. Colors, pink, violet, blush, rose, lilac, white, etc. Very charming flowers, being borne in large trusses, and at all times of the year in great profusion. They ploom very quickly from seed, and the large showy blossoms are borne continuously for a year, and when we realize that these flowers are as large as P. Sinensis, and almost as varied in colors, their great value is at once apparent. Plants very vigorous and easily grown as a Geranium. Seed—All Colors Mixed, 15c, per pkt. Plants—Fine healthy stock, ready to bloom, 20c. each: 3 for 50c.; 7 for si.oo. Baby Primrose. Plant is exceedingly graceful and ornamental, with slen- der flower stalks rising above the light green leaves, and bearing many dainty-colored flowers. New flower stems are constantly appearing as fast as the old ones fade, and the same plant is always in bloom. The foliage grows in a tufi v compact mass, while the graceful flower stems reach high above it. Very hardy and easily grown in window gardens and apartments. Beautiful for cutting. One of the most charming pot plants grown. Seed—loc. per pkt. Plants—Fine blooming plants, 15c. each: 3 for 40c. PrinjUla Sinensis. Easy to grow, pretty in leaf, handsome in flower, and continuously in bloom for months at a time. These merits alone would earn it a place in every window, but when w7e add that It is one of the plants never attacked by insects, and that it will blossom in a su.iless window, where a Gera- nium or Heliotrope would never show7 a bud, it is clear that the smallest collection would never be complete without it. Young, vigorous plants are always the best, and are easily grown if the seed is sown on light, porous soil, underlaid with charcoal, and kept moist, but not wet, until the seeds germinate, which will be in about two weeks. Give young plants plenty of air and plunge pots in the summer in cool, shady places. Our seed is saved from the choicest strains and can be be relied upon to produce the largest flowers and finest colors. Pkt. Mixed—Very good; from a fine collection 10 Fimbriata Cristata Hybrids—Fine new hybrid strain, with crisped foliage, and producing a great diversity of colors, from white to deepcrimson 15 Fimbriata Filicifolia — Mixed (fern-leaved); beautiful cut-leaved foliage 20 Fimbriata Ciobosa—Mixed colors; this is a new sf rain of Fimbriata, with unusually large flowers of great sub- stance, and colors very clear and pleasing, such as pure white with large lemon eye. deep red, carmine, steel blue, white and pink, striped, flaked with other colars, etc. Extra fine for pot culture 20 Fimbriata, fl. pi., Double, Mixed Colors—The double Primulas are among the choicest of all window plants, and the admiration of all who see them. The seed we offer is the choicest to be had, and will produce a large per cent, of magnificent double blossoms 25

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