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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, and fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_16 (find matches)
Year: 1913 (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 1913 29
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DOUBLE GEBAXIUM. These two cuts show the beautiful habit, and free flower- ing qualities of our new Giant-Flowering Geraniums. Geranium, Giant Flowered, Habit compact, -with large healthy foliage. Flow- ers perfect in shaoe, round and sometimes beauti- fully cupped. Trusses immense and the blooming qualities of the piant truly wonderful. In coloring they are perfeet marvels, showing combinations and brightness of tints hitherto unknown. The spotted or speckled varieties are very novel and extremely attractive. Flower quickly from seed and in every respect are superior to all other Geraniums.Per pkt. SINGLE GIANT 20NEAL GERANIUMS. Mixed Colors-All types with varied and brilliant colors. Saved from more than 50 magnificent sorts, all finest named varieties, plants of which are offered elsewhere in this catalogue.10 Pure White-Extra large and fine 10 Pink—Exquisite shades. io Scarlet—All very brilliant io Spotted and Striped—All superbly variegated.. .15 27/e 5 for UQc. DOUBLE FLOWERED GIANT GERANIUMS Double White-Extra fine pure whife 30 Double Mixed—All colors and a magnificent lot- Saved from our own superb Hybrids. Seed will produce some of the grandest double Ger- aniums ever seen 25 Bruant Mammoth Double—A new French strain of Geranium, plants of which grow to an im- mense size, one-half larger than any other- sort. The flowers and trusses are also enor- mous and double. All colors mixed.. 30 IVY-tEAVED GERANIUMS. Double Mixed — Extra fine, with magnificent trusses of bright colored flowers and a beauti- ful trailing habit, with rich, ivy-like foliage.. .25 Single Mixed - Bright and showy in color, and very profuse in bloom 10 FANCY GERANIUMS. Bronze, Silver and Gold-Mixed, superb foliage varieties exquisite coloring 20 Apple Scented—Lovely foliage, highly perfumed like ripe lucious apples. Extra fine for bou- quets, etc io Pelargonium or I,ady Washington — Fine mixed. These are perfectly magnificent, but seed is so scarce that only a very little can be given in a pkt. Our collection is a superb one.25 Tricolor—Beautiful iu leaf and bloom. The fin- est of ail tricolor Geraniums. Its large thick leaves are rayed and zoued with scarlet, gold, pink, green, salmon, etc, like a rainbow 25

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