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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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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1903. 89
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Gloxirjia ^oVelties. The following grand varieties "were leading Gloxinia novelties last year. Seed and Bulbs we offer are of our own growing, and extra fine and true. Coliath—Enormous size, opening flat and wide. Outside pearly white, inside ultramarine blue with wide white border, dark, rich and velvety. A grander flower it will be hard to find. Large Bulbs 25c. each. Seed, 20c. pkt. I Leopard—Light delicate pink, thickly spotted scarlet. 20c. each. Seed. 15c. pkt. Snow Queen—The largest and finest of all pure white sorts. A flower for the gods. Vigorous, and great bloomer, 20c. each. Seed. 15c. pkt. Scarlet Queen—Large, wide-open flowers of a dark, deep. rich crimson-scarlet. The finest and brightest colored sort. 15c. each. Seed, loc. pkt. Othello —Deep rich purple-black. Magnificent; darkest color yet seen in Gloxinias. 15c. each. Seed, 10c. pkt. Tricolor Spotted— Various colors, all beautifully tigered and spotted. Exceedingly- handsome. 15c. each. Seed, We. pkt. Venosa-Various colors all charmingly veined, and many also spotted. 15c. each. Seed, loc. pkt. 1 Bulb each above 7 sorts for Sl.oo. 1 Pkt. Seed each above 7 sorts for 75c. Guilds' G*ant Gloxinia. The grandest of all summer-blooming bulbs for decora- tion of the window, veranda or conservatory in summer. Everyone is spellbound at their regal beauty. We have seen people pay $2.00 for a small plant with four or five blooms on it when they coidd have bought the bulb two months before for 25 cents, and potted it themselves. They are no trouble at all to grow, and bloom constantly until autumn, when they should be allowed to die down, and the pots kept dry in some warm place until next spring, when the bulbs can be started into growth again. Our new'Glox- inias are great improvements over the older sorts, with large, luxuriant leaves that recurve in such a manner as to conceal the pot they grow in, and erect, large-throated wide-lobed flowers borne above the foliage like a floral crown. These flowers are very large and satin-like and of the most exqtiisite coloring, soft, clear or brilliant, some- times self-colored but more often tinted, spotted or edged with contrasting colors, but always rich and beautiful. Gloxinias grow well from seed, and, if given good care, will bloom in five months from the time of sowing seed, giving large and beautiful blossoms. Our seed is extra choice. Mixed, Ail Colors—Our strain of mixed Gloxinias includes the finest and most varied varieties rroin best European collections, including the beautifully spotted and tinged strains. Fine bulbs, loc. each; 3 for 35c: 12 for 80c. Seed, 10c. pkt. Chllds' Clant—Originated by us. and is a flower of most extraordinary size and widely open. In shape it is perfect, manv of the petals being beautifully frilled and fimbriated. Colors rich and veined, some of the combinations being unique and beautiful beyond description. Plants vig- orous, with enormous leaves, and often as many as 40 or 50 of these gigantic flowers showing at one time on a plant. A regal giant, and perfectly exquisite. Bulbs, 20e. each; 3 for 50c.; 12 for $1.50. Seed, 20c. pkt.

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