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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
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HAnettTajI * geadtifal GUnjbipg plants. These are the best window or greenhouse climbers. Asparagus Sprengeri—A new variety of the finest or- namental qualities. For hanging pots or bracket pots when the mass of rich foliage can droop in its natural grace, it is one of the loveliest objects it is possible to find for window decoration. For cutting it lasts weeks in water. Plants also blossom freelvand bear large red berries which add greatly to the beautv of the waw foli- age. Nothing finer for decorating, or for bouquet mak- ing. Seed loe. Ipomcea Noctiphiton — Grand foliage and magnificent snow-white blossoms, four or five inches across. Stands drouth like a Salamander. Give it rich soil if possible. Seed, inc. per packet. Ipomcea Learei—A large vine, but not quite so rank grow- ing. Flowers of a lovely azure blue, with faint crimson bars. Texture almost as delicate as the spider's web. Lovely beyond description. Seed, lOe. packet. Wanett.a Vine—In the house it can be trained all around a window, and it will be a solid wreath of bloom both summer and winter, showing at all times thousands of bright blossoms. The flowers are IK to 2 inches long, and of the most intense fiery scarlet, shading off to a bright vellow. Passiflora Pfordti—Blooms when but a foot high, large, handsome, fringed flowers, exhibiting a mingling of white, pink, brown and blue in its coloring, making a flower of fascinating beautv. Passiflora Constance Elliott—Flowers pure white. Passiflora Princeps Coccinea—Intense scarlet blossoms borne in large, graceful racemes two feet in length with 20 or more blossoms. One of the handsomest of all greenhouse vines. Yerv rare. Passiflora Loudoni—New and very fine. Like Princeps it has long drooping panicles of a purplish red color. Mixed Passiflora Seed 10c. pkt. Smilax—The dainty, yet luxuriant masses of the glossy Smilax are as handsome in the window as any other flowers. A beautiful climber for the arch of a plant stand, wreathing it in a bower of the loveliest green. The finest foliage for bouquets, cut flower work. etc. Jb lowers white, profuse and fragrant. Seed, loc. pkt, Climbing Fern—A highly beautiful and valuable Fern which produces a slender graceful vine that will grow up 4 or 5 feet in a window, showing a mass of lovely foliage. Above fine Climbers 15c. each; any Ufor50c; the 10 for $1.00. Notice Seed is also offered of some kinds. NEPETA^ 6 Elegant Trailing Plants. These are the finest things for hanging pots or baskets and are indispensable among window plants. Nothing is more elegant and beautiful in a bay window than a few pots of elegant foliage trailers like Crassula, Parrot's Feather and Nepeta, or blooming plants such as KusseIlia and Lantana. Nepeta, Ciechoma—This new Nepeta is hardy, fragrant and pretty, its small, round leaves finely marked with white. Tery fine for hanging baskets, standing any abuse and looking cheerful under it. One of the prettiest things in the world with which to carpet graves, as it roots wherever it touches the ground and forms an impenetrable net work of vines through which weeds and grass cannot creep. It will grow in any kind of soil, in sun or shade, ever a mass of green and white. Russellia, Crandiflora—This plant has long, wiry stems which grow in graceful, drooping masses. On these stems are, borne quantities of long, tubular flowers of the most vivid scarlet color, something like a Manettia bloom, but more numerous. It is a novel and beautiful plant, suitable either for beds in summer or pot culture. In pots it blooms the entire year, especially during the winter. The great drooping masses of bloom are like a fountain of coral, scarlet and green. In any climate it is one of the very easiest of all plants to grow, and cer- tainly one of the most brilliant and persistent bloomers. Crassula, Trailing—No trailing plant can be more lovely than this beautiful succulent. Leaves thick and heavy, closely placed about the stems, which are long and droop and curve beautifully. Exceedingly odd. Parrot's Feather—A lovely, mossy plant, with long, trail- ing stems covered with plumy, feathery foliage of the freshest, loveliest green imaginable. Is fine for aqua- riums, where few plants do well, and makes the water much more healthful for the fish. Grows nicely also -m water tubs or ornamental pools, and is much admired when grown in hanging pots or baskets of soil. It grows as well in soil as in water, if it is kept well watered. It is one of the most charming trailing and drooping plants, and grows so rapidly that it can be cut freely. Weeping Lantana—This new trailing plant is a real beauty and highly desirable for bracket pots and hanging baskets. The slender trailing growth, and abundance of rich blossoms making it a plant of peculiar beauty. Color, fine lilac, very fragrant, graceful, and easily grown in any situation. Lily of the Valley Plant—A splendid trailer. See page 105 for illustration. Price of above fine traiWig plants 15c. each; the 6 for 60c; or more atioc. each.

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