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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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A vegetable at once healthful, toothsome and beautiful. Said by physicians to be of great benefit in all diseases of the nerves and kidneys. Deliciously fresh, crisp and nutty to the taste, and with the broad stalks ivory white, waxy yellow or rose red, tipped with finely compound leaflets of pale, glaucous green, are ornaments to the finest table. Sow early in house or hot-bed and transplant, or sow out- doors when the ground becomes warm, making the soil very smooth. When plants are four or five inches high trans- plant, giving six inches between plants in the row. Have the soil very fine and rich, plant in trenches, and as the plants grow draw the earth closely around them, to blanch the stems. Never do this in wet weather, or the stems will rust. South of the Ohio, Celery can remain in the ground all winter with a little protection. In the North, plants should be taken up and stacked closely together, with soil formed around the roots, and kept in cellar or pit for use. Ciant Pascal—A sport from the Golden Self-Blanching, of immense size, broad, thick, stringless stalks, remarkably crisp and nutty, easy to blanch, and the very best keeper of any Celery. The huge stalks of this kind will "snap"' like glass, they are so tender, and they never are watery or strong. Fine market sort, and one of the very best for the home garden. Pkt., 10c.; oz., 30c.; lb., $1.75. American Beauty — A fine hardy Cauliflower, especially adapted to American soil and climate, as it is an Ameri- can strain and American grown seed. Heads early, size large, quality the very best. Pkt,, 10.; oz., $2.25. Earliest Dwarf Erfurt—Valuable for garden culture and an extra fine forcing sort. Our strain of this is the finest to be had in Germany, and it is considered to be the perfec - tion of all Cauliflowers. Pkt., 20c.: ^oz., $1.00; oz., $3.75.
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GOLDEN SELF-BLANCHIXQ. White Plume—One of the most beautiful of all. and the earliest. Brittle, fine grained and the easiest known sort to blanch. Pkt.. 10c.: oz.. 25.; lb., $2.00. Golden Self-Blanching—Fine to follow White Plume. An exceedingly fine flavored sort: blanches easily to a beau- tiful golden yellow, and is very brittle and crisp. No gar- den complete without it. Pkt., 10c.: oz., 30c.: lb., $2.50. New Rose—A fine rose-colored Celery of high flavor, crisr and nutty. Much liked. Pkt., 10c.; oz., 50c. Ciant Turnip-Rooted, or Celerlac—Bulbs like a §V nip. with a pronounced Celery flavor, excellent - cooked for stews, salads, soups, etc. Pkt.. r

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