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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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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1904. 75
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Fapcy Galadiiinjs. Easy to grow in summer, either in beds or pots. For piazza or summer conservatory decoration they are un- rivaled. Their beautifully shaped and glossy foliage is elegantly variegated in the most telling manner. One, per- haps, is regularly dotted with round raised spots of white, another is ribbed and veined with pink or scarlet, or yellow, while still another is flashed and marbled with white or marked with delicate and vivid colors as to make them as showy as great and peculiar flowers. The small early leaves do not always show all the fine colors of the large ones which comer later. Our collection is superb, comprising over 80 named kinds of which the following are the best. Bejiflora-Lovely large leaf of shining light pink with dark rose, and light green blotches. Baron de Ma mm ore—Large leaf.ground color white heavily interlined with light green, crimson and pink stripes. Center dark crimson. Ribs scarlet- One of the best. Candidum—Large, heart-shaped leaf, color satin white with green spots, and dark green ribs. One of the best. Princess Alexander—Ground color of leaf delicate pink, the mid-rib and veins being dark olive-green. Aymore—Leaf larsre, white transparent center. Eibs pink. Green zone covered with irregular purple splashes. Curupa—Light irreen with large carmine center: white ribs. Bebevibe—Light green interspersed with white spots. Center beautiful soft, transparent pink. Ribs deep pink. Don Pedro—Large, yellowish green leaf with white center and pink ribs, the whole surface heavily splashed with light rose-colored spots. Bendigo—A most beautiful leaf of large size. Color a soft pink with dark green splashes. Ribs dark green. Cacapoca - Yellowish leaf with carmine ribs, which color extends from the ribs towards the zone, gradually disappearing as it approaches the border of the leaf. Itapoca—Yery large leaf of dark crimson color, over which is spread a metallic lustre. A narrow border of dark green. Lynchomatum-Dark rose center with green border, which is freelv mottled carmine. Price 2oc. each; S for 50c; the 12 for $2.00. GRAND NEW SEEDLINGS. The following 4 grand Fancy Caladiums are our own seedlings and we believe they are the most lnagiiicent sorts in cultivation. They must be seen to be appreciated. Truce—Large leaf almost pure white, red splash at heel. Lydia Oakley—White tinted yellow, heavily ribbed dark crimson. Yery showy. Ivory—Yery large, ivory white. Adolf Jaehlclce—Ivory white, with purplish pink mottlings all over leaf, and a stitch hemmed like border. White Flag - Immense leaf, pure white with transparent, blue-tinted blotches. Torch Light—Fine light red bordered with bottle-green, veined with deep crimson Elaborate—Bright red, veined crimson. Large, wide mot- tled border of yellow tinted white. Extra fine. Fascination—Pink, freely veined with deep crimson, dark- green mottled edge. Perfectly grand. hoc. each. 3 for $1.00; the S for $2.25 MIXED SEEDLINCS. "We grow thousands of Seedling Fancy Caladiums, and from these have made a careful selection of the most odd, beautiful and brightest-colored sorts which we here offer as an extra f ne lot of mixed seedlings. Many of them are equal in beauty to the above named sorts, and among them one will get the greatest variety of blended colors. Price for fine bulbs, 15c. each; 3 for 40c.: 6 for 75c.; 15 for $1.50. FANCY CALADIUM SEED. Fancy Caladiums flower and seed only in June. The seed ripens in a week or two from the time the plant blooms and is usually gathered and sown at once, as it will not hold its vitality for more than two or three months. We grow a large variety of the finest sorts for seed, crossing and re-crossing them by hand fertilization. From these we get our new magnificent seedlings. We can offer this seed at 20c. per packet : 3 pkts. for 50c., to be sent out in June or early in Juiy as soon as the crop ripens, and it should be sown very soon after it is received. The young seedling plants are not at all difficult to raise.

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