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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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94 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y.
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In the house it can be trained all around a window, and it will be a solid wreath of bloom botli summer and winter; in the open ground, during summer, it will grow ten feet, branching freely and covering a large space of trellis, arbor or wall, showing at all times thousands of bright blossoms. The flowers are lH to 2 inches long, and of the most intense fiery scarlet, shading off to a bright yellow tip. They are also covered with a scarlet moss or hairy substance, which adds much to their beauty, and each flower keeps perfect for weeks before falling. No plant is easier to grow, and it commences to bloom most profusely at all times. 15c. each; 3 for 35c. QleaFraorai)S .-(Fragrant Olive) This is the sweetest flower that blooms, belongs to the Olive family and is a perpetual bloomer, never without flowers, either summer or winter, though the plant may not be a foot in height. The flowers are small, creamy white and borne in immense clusters. Each individual blossom, though no larger than the head of a shawl-pin, has more sweetness than the larg- est and most fragrant Lily. Its fragrance is also delicate and charming, really the finest of all flowers, and you cannot pass a plant without noticing it. It succeeds well in any window. 30c, each ; 3 for 70e. passifloras. Fine foliage and graceful climbing habit. Very peculiar corona-like flowers, but very beautiful and unlike any other flower. Easy to grow either in window or open ground. Pfordti—Blooms when but a foot high, large, handsome, fringed flowers,exhibiting a min- gling of white, pink, brown and bine in its col- oring, making a flower of fascinating beauty. Constance El liott—Flowers pure white. Very graceful. Princeps Coccinea— Intense scarlet blossoms borne in large, graceful racemes two feet in length with 20 or more blossoms. One of the hand- somest of all greenhouse vines. Very rare. Loudoni—New and very fine. Like Princeps it has long drooping panicles of bloom of a lovely wine or purplish red color. 20c. each ; the 4for 75c. Seed—Fine Mixed Passifloras, 10c. pkt.

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