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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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SULPHUR KING. OUR GREAT YELLOW- SULPHUR KING. The Great Yellow. Beautiful, clean, sulphur yellow, finest and clearest of Fellow sorts: without any doubt this is the very best yellow Variety yet introduced. 25c each.: 3 for60c; 12 for $2.00; 115.00 per 100. The delicate tinged. WILD ROSE. A remarkable variety of Childsi and one that will gain in prestige as it becomes known for it ranks with the very best. Color very bright rose or blush tint.exceedingly delicate and pretty, and needs only to be seen to be appreciated: we pre- dict a great future for it. Iu its particular color it stands alone. Exceedinglv fine for forcing under glass. 15c each; $1.50 per dozen; $10.00 per 100. 3 Fine Variable Qiadiolas. All Varieties of G. Childsi. Variabilis—Enormous size and vigor,standing nearly seven fee \high with the largest spikes ever seen on any Gladi- olus. But this is not the ouly great merit. Tlie flowers range iu color from dull deep pinic, flaked with blue- black, to a solid blue-black color of smoky hue. flaked with pink. Some spikes will be one color and some the other, while flowers of both colors are often seen on the same spike. Scribe-Tinted white, streaked and variegated fine crim- son; sometimes crimson varied with white; frequent- ly these beautiful variations wiil showin the same spike. Large spike and flower, gloriously beautiful. E,ydia—Immense flower and spike. Color a fantastic mott- ling of pinkish white and deep rich crimson, in some flowers the white predominating and in others the crim- son; no two alike. Above 3 lovely and interesting varieties for 15c. each; the 3for30c.; $1.00 per dozen.
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