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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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118 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y.
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♦Hardy (Jr)QaiI)el^al Fl°^eri)Qi S^raks. Nothing can talce the place of Shrubbery for the lawn, for hedges and specimen clumps. Shrubs thrive in any situation, are beautiful all summer, producing some of the choicest ont-door blossoms. The list here offered is a select one, including only the very finest and most desirable sorts, mostly new and very rare and choice. (See prices next page.) Azalea Mollis—(Hardy)—Among the rarest and choicest of all garden flowers. Great flaming masses of bloom are produced by these new Hardy Azaleas, making a show the glory of which one cannot describe. Suffice it to say that the blossoms are often larger than the hot-house Azaleas, and more brilliant and fiery in colors, scarlet, red, orange, yellow, pink, etc., often flamed and varie- gated in a lovely manner. Perfectly hardy anywhere in the U. S. and the most brilliant flowering shrub known. Azalea Amonea—A lovely hardy evergreen Azalea with beautiful foliage, and fine compact bushy growth. In May or June the plants are densely covered with rich violet- red blossoms, which are exceedingly showy. Every leaf and every twig is hidden by the enormous quantity of flowers produced. Althea—A flne tall-growing shrub, that once planted is good for a lifetime. Blooms when but a slip of a plant, but eventually reaches the size of a small tree. Always a symmetrical, upright grower, well clothed with a dark green foliage, and bears every year, without fail, a pro- fusion of large, showy double flowers that closely re- semble Hollyhocks in shape and colors, but often larger in size. They bloom from midsummer until frost, at a time when few other shrubs are in bloom. Fine for cemetery planting or grouping upon the lawn. In Europe this is the most popular of all flowering shrubs. •Calycanthus Florida—The "Sweet Shrub" so long a favor- ite in gardens. The purplish flowers have an exquisite pineapple fragrance of which one never tires, and a spray of them will perfume a whole room. Cannot be omitted from any lawn or garden. Clematis Davld.ana—(Bush Clematis)-This is a lovely species of Clematis, growing in a bush form three or four feet high, and yielding through the summer great panicles of lovely blue flowers, which are exceedingly handsome and very fragrant. The foliage is large and luxuriant, and the plant is, all in all, one of exceptional beauty. It is perfectly hardy in any locality. Oeutzla Lemoinei - This is the greatest recent novelty in flowering shrubs. .It makes a low compact bush which in June is loaded down with large, round, snowball-like clusters of pure white flowers. We know of uothing more beautiful for the garden, yet it has the added merit of being a grand pot plant for winter blooming. It is not too large for a pot and blooms very finely at any time during winter. It is becoming very popular for Easter. Japan Judas-A shrub which blooms in early spring, before its leaves start, the flowers are pea shaped, clinging close to the branches and in such profusion that every branch is a solid wreath of bloom. Color dark rosy red. Showy. Kerra Japonica, fi. pi.—This grand shrub blooms in May, producing hundreds of large double Dahlia-like flowers, of brightest yellow. One of the most showv of all easily grown shrubs, and one of the few that bear double blossoms.

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