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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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126 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL. PARK, N. Y.
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Fine Hardy Jjilies, The brush cannot paint or the pen portray the exquisite I purity and delicacy, yet magnificent grandeur of the stately Lily. It is the plus ultra of floral beauty, and we urge our friends to each year add a few Lilies to their collection. No . other flower will so adorn our homes when in bloom, and they constantly improve after planting. As a rule. Lilies are \ of the easiest cultivation, especially the following, which j have been carefully selected as the hardiest, handsomest and best. We grow about five acres of Lilies, and the bulbs we ; offer are large, healthy, vigorous and cheap. Auratum—(The G-oldex Banded Lily of Japan)—We can say that this is the grandest of all Lilies, and certainly the most popular. 20c. each; 3 for 50c. Elegans Bicoior—Tlie blossoms are large and of exceed- ing bright and striking colors; robust, hardy and free bloomer. Exceedingly showy, being of a brilliant red color, flamed with yellow. 15c. each; 3 for 30c. Elegans—Very hrilliant and early. ioc. each : 3 for 25c. Longiflcrum— White, trumpet-formed, very fragrant. A lovely Lily, being almost exactly like the Bermuda Easter Lily, but blooming a little late, and hardy. 15c. Pardalinum—Rich scarlet and yellow flowers, spotted with rich brown. Robust and free flowering. A superb Lily, and will give great satisfaction. 15c. each: 3 for 30c. Superbum—Fine tall grower with magnificent orange and scarlet blossoms. 15c. each. Tigrinumfl. pi—This is a plant of stately habit, growing from 4 to 5 feet high; foliage is dark green and very large, bearing an immense number of double bright orange- red flowers, spotted with black. 10c. ^ach ; 3 for 20c. Tigrinum Spiendens—Improved Tiger Lily. 10c.: 3 for 20c. Urn be I latum—Fine, blooming in June or July, with very large perfect flower. Colors range from blaek-red.through all the shades of crimson, rose, yellow, buff, apricot, etc., many being finely spotted- 10c- each ; 3 for 25c. Waliacel—This Lily is very floriferous. each bulb throwing up from 4 to 6 flower stems, each one of which is crowned with 8 to 10 beautiful upright blossoms, of a delicate, bright apricot color. It is very perfect in form and a most desirable sort. 5c. each; 3 for ioc.; 12 for 30c, I each of above 10 finest IAlies, $1,00. We have a large, fine stock of this gem of Lilies, and offer it at a very low price. It is a great beauty. The bright- est of all Lilies. Grows 20iuches high, with finely cut foliage, slender stems and beautiful shaped flowers of a brilliant coral-red. One ought to grow it by the dozen, it is so fine for cutting, and makes such grand clumps for the lawn. Blooms very early. Having grown an enormous stock of this exquisite Lily we can offer it at the exceedingly low price of 15c. each: 3 for 3i>c.; 6 for 50c.: 15 for $1.00. Grand Speciosunt Lfilies. These are the hardiest, most robust and free flowering of all Lilies, while in beauty they are second to none. Rubrum—Deep rose, freely spotted crimson and mottled white: perfectly exquisite. 20c. Melpomene—Words cannot describe the beauty of this va- riety Frosted white, spotted, clouded and bearded with pinkish crimson. Petals deeply recurved and widely bordered. 30c. Preecox—Large, perfect and beautiful. Frosted white, with a tinge of blush at top of petals. 25c. Monstrosum Album—Broad, flat stems and immense heads of flowers, often fifty in a cluster. Pure snow white. 20c. Henryi-New and exceedingly rare.. Tall, etror.s grower producing flowers in great profusion of a fine apricot- yellow color. The yellow Speciosum. $1.00 each. Opal—We had thought that no Speciosum could exceed Melpomene, but this new Lily is even larger, grander, and.it possible, more richly colored. It is frosted glis- tening white, delicately clouded and suffused with rosy blush and spotted with rosy scarlet- The deeply re- curved petals are snowy white at the tip. gradually deep- ening in color to the base of each petal. $l.oo each.

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