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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_9 (find matches)
Year: 1904 (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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2^croclii)ian). Probably the most beautiful everlasting known. Flowers pure pearly white, or an exquisite soft ciear shade of pink, with bright golden center. Cut the first day they open, or the center becomes discolored. Hang the bunches, heads downward in the shade to dry, and the flowers will appear as perfect as when gathere.d. 1 foot high. New Double Mixed Colors—Large full, and fine 10
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Gonjpltrerya. Remove cottony covering from seeds, and start in heat if possible. Good for garden, and make neat pot plants. Plants bear great quantities of clover-like blooms, altogether dif- ferent in appearance from any other everlasting, and very attractive buds as well as full blown flowers, extra fine for winter bouquets. All Colors Mixed—White, crimson, orange, etc 5 Rfyodarftfye. A fine everlasting, good for the garden, and a pretty pot plant. The most delicate and graceful of this useful class. Try it by all means and cat blooms early for drving. One of the most useful of all everlastings. Plants grow two feet high, and are very hardy, blooming until late autumn. An easy plant to grow, and flowers are very bright. The white and light colored varieties color easily, and are often dyed in shades not otherwise obtainable in everlastings, and used in wreaths, crosses, and winter bouquets. Flowers should be picked before fully expanded, especially for dyeing. Monstrosum—Mixed colors, very large 5 Dwarf—Mixed colors, compact and free flowering 5 X e r a p 11) e n) a n>. An easily grown everlasting, and furnishes the only shades of blue and purple to be found in this class. Mixed Colors 5 % Glasses, OrPairJel*tal* The everlasting would be quite useless without their setting of soft, pretty grasses in winter bouquets. Grow a good quantity of these elegant grasses. There are many of them quite ornamental in the garden and are all useful for cutting for summer bouquets, as well as for drying for win- ter or for dyeing. Mixed Dwarf Annual Crasses—Many fine sorts 5 Mixed Tall Annual Crasses 5 SPECIAL OFFER—One packet each of all these Everlast- ings and Grasses for only 30c. Mangiesl—Bright clear pink and pure white mixed 5 THE MAYFLOWER for December, will be devoted to EVERLASTING FLOIVERS and GRASSES, giving modes of culture* how to cure and make up into bouqxiets, wreaths, etc. Do not fail to see it.

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