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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, and fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_15 (find matches)
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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 1911. 5c
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Easy to grow, pretty in leaf handsome in flower, and continually in bloom for months at a time. These merits alone would earn a place in every window but when we add that it is one of the plants never attacked by insects and that it will bloom in a sunless window, where a Geranium or Heliotrope would never show a bud it is clear that the small- est collection would never be complete without it. Young, vigorous plants are always the best, and are easily grown if the seed is sown on light porous soil, underlaid with drain- age, and kept moist, but not wet, untii the seeds germinate, which will be in about two weeks Give young plants plenty of air and plunge pots in summer in cool shady places Our seed is saved from the choicest strains and can be relied upon to produce the largest flowers and finest colors. Perpkt- Mixed—Very good; from a fine collection 10 Fimbriata Filicifolia — Mixed (fern-leaved); beautiful cut-leaved foliage, 15 Fimbriata Globosa—Mixed colors: this is a new strain of Fimbriata with unusually large flowers of great sub- stance, colors very clear and pleasing such as pure white with large lemon eye, deep rose, carmine, steel blue, white and pink, striped and flaked with other colors, etc Extra fine —20 Fimbriata, fl. pi., Double, Mixed Colors—The double Primulas are among the choicest of all window plants, and the admiration of all who see them- The seed we offer is the choicest to be had, and will produce a large per cent- of magnificent double blossoms 25 Obconica or Monarch—These are the new large-flower- ing Obconica Sinensis Hybrids of various colors, and fine as Primula Sinensis, Colors, pink, violet, blush, rose, lilac, white, etc Yery charming flowers, being borne in large trusses, and at all times of the year in great profusion- Plants offered in Plant. Department.15 Monarch, Double Mixed—One of our very finest novel- ties. Abundance of large double blossoms 25 Baby Primrose—Plant is exceedingly graceful and orna- mental, with slender flower stalks rising above the light green leaves, and bearing many dainty-colored flowers. New flower stems are constantly appearing as fast as the old ones fade, and the same plant is always in bloom. Yery easily grown in any window 10 One pht. each of the 7 for $1,00, OFYRIGHTED i333 BY JJ-.CHILCS.

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