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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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Pfylox )3rUirjii)oi)di. One of the very best of all bedding annuals is the Phlox Drummondi. surpassing almost everything else in dazzling brilliancy. We may -well be proud of this distinctively American flower, lor it is extremely beautiful, neat in growth and an extraordinary bloomer. The newer sorts of Phlox are so far ahead of the older varieties that we have discarded all the latter, and offer none but those beautiful new ones of recent introduction. The Phlox make beautiful ribbon beds when different colors are sown side by side, and are also grand for masses of solid color. Per pkt. Mixed—Thirty different colors. Fine for large beds and masses. Per oz., $1.00 5 Coccinea—A rich, velvety scarlet 5 Fancy Striped—Very novel and beautiful. Many distinct colors, but all striped with white 5 Crover Cleveland-A grand bedding sort; large, pure white flowers, with radiant crimson centers. Very fine and effective 5 Rosea Alba Oculata—A clear, deep rose, with large, pure white eye. A charming color ' 5 Violet Alba Oculata—A rich shade of violet, with large white center 5 Yellow—Good for contrast: not as brilliant in color as the scarlet and crimson varieties 5 Alba—Large pure white, without markings of any kind. Fine for cutting 5 Stellata—Of the most dazzling, deepest scarlet, with a contrasting eye of the snowiest white. This is a won- derfully brilliant bedder, giving a blaze of color that can be seen a long way 3 Double White—This Phlox was introduced some years ago. but so small a per cent, of the plants produced double flowers that we did not offer it at first The strain here offered is most excellent and a large per cent, of the plants will produce fine double flowers in great clusters and as white as snow 10 Double Yellow—Like the above, but yellow 10 Nana Compacta—Small growing, very compact varieties in many brilliant colors. They attain a height of only six inches and make a very brilliant carpet of colors all summer 10 Childs' Jubilee—This strain of Phlox Drummondi is as superior to other Phloxes of regular outline as our new Star Phloxes are to the ordinary strains of Fimbriata Phlox. The flowers of Childs' Jubilee Phlox are of great substance, beautiful form and uncommon size, while the colors are extraordinarily rich and varied, glowing crimson, dazzling scariet, deep rose, soft pink, pale blush, maroon-black, lavender-purple, pure white, and numberless other rare shades, many with con- trasting eyes, stripes or featherings. In habit these new Phloxes are erect rather than procumbent, and bear their velvety blossoms in great profusion, making them unrivalled for bedding. They are of dwarf, stout, branching habit always standing erect, and the in- dividual flowers are the size of a twenty-dollar gold coin. The grandest of all Phloxes of any type yet known to cultivation. They are superior even to the grand Perennial Puloxes, which are so very beautiful. .10 Childs* Star—Nothing else in the Phlox line has created such a sensation as the unique German strains of Fimbriata Cuspidata and Star of Quedlinburg, when introduced a few years ago. Their large size and their curiously pointed, fringed and toothed blooms—utterly unlike anything else—took the floral world by storm. Unfortunately these flowers were muddy and indistinct in coloring. This we undertook to remedy by hybrid- ization between the new incised sorts and the old brilliant sorts of regular form, and we are more than satisfied with our success. We have succeeded in re- taining the much admired forms of the German strain while the colors of our improved hybrids are of every conceivable shade, more than a hundred distinct tints, shades, colors and combinations having been counted among them. Scarcely two plants can be found of the same shape and color. If you want something odd, new and striking, try Childs' Star Phlox 10 SPECIAL OFFER.—For only 7:>c. we will send on-e packet each of these fourteen finest Phloxes.

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