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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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94 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y.
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jIev/ T^ITOM^ THE EVERBLOOMING TRITOMA. Everblooming Scarlet—The grandest bedding plant ever introduced, surpassing the finest Cannas for attractiveness and brilliancy, equal to the Gladiolus as a cut flower and blooms incessantly from June until December, regardless of frost. Plants are perfectly hardy in open ground all winter south of Philadelphia: further north they must be protected or win- tered in a cellar like the ordinary Tritoma, Just bury the roots in sand; nothing more is required. Should be planted out very early in spring, and will commence growth and bloom at once, growing larger and finer every day. Plants show from 6 to 20 grand flower stalks all the time, each holding at a height of 3 to 4 feet a great cluster of flame-colored flowers of in- describable beauty and brilliancy. Each cluster keeps perfect several weeks, and when it fades 2 or 3 more are ready to take its place. Fall frosts do not kill it or stop its blooming, and it is as brilliant as ever long after all other garden flowers have been killed. For cutting it is unsurpassed, and the beautiful long spikes keep several weeks in water. Without a single exception, it is the most desirable garden flower. It has created a sensation in the New York cut flower market. Strong plants that will soon bloom. 25c. each; 5 for $1.00: 12 for $2.oo. Everblooming Yellow—This is like the above in every respect, except color, and possibly spikes are more compact. Color much lighter, being a bright orange-yellow. Very fine indeed, and contrasts magnificently with the scarlet, 40c. each; 3 for $1.00. One each of the two sorts for 50c. Tritoma Seed—3Iixed; if sown early will bloom first summer. 15c. per pkt.

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