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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, BUL9S AND PLANTS FOR 1913 41
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Ptylox Drtinwoitcli. One of the very best of all bedding annuals is the Phlox Drummondi, surpassing almost everything else in dazzling brilliancy. We may well be proud of this distinctively Ameri- can flower, for it is extremely beautiful, neat in growth, and an extraordinary bloomer. The newest sorts of Phlox are so far ahead of the older varieties that we have discarded all the latter, and offered now none but those beautiful new ones of recent introduction. The Phlox make beautiful ribbon beds when different colors are sown side by side, and also grand for masses of colors. Per pkt- Grandiflora Mixed—Thirty different colors. Fine for large beds and masses. Per oz., $1.00 5 Childs' Star—Large size and curiously pointed, fringed and toothed blossoms—utterly unlike anything else- colors of every conceivable shade, more than a hundred distinct tints, shades and combinations having been counted among them. No two same shade and color..13 Cicily—A new very dwarf compact form of Phlox bearing extra larg" and showy blossoms. Many fine colors mixed, and the best of all the very dwarf Phloxes 10 CHADS' PHLOXES. Flowers of great substance, beautiful form and uncom- mon size, while the colors are extraordinarily rich and var- ied, glowing crimson, dazzling scarlet, deep rose soft pink, pale blush, maroon-black, lavender-purple, pure white and numberless other shades, many with contrasting eyes, stripes or feathering. In habit these new Phloxes are erect, and bear their velvety blossoms in great profusion, making them unrivalled for bedding. They are of dwarf, stout, branching habit, and the individual flowers are the size of a twenty-dollar gold coin. Grandest of all Phloxes. Jubilee Alba—Large; pure white 10 44 Coccinea—Kich velvety scarlet 10 44 Atropurptirea—Dark velvety crimson-black...... 10 44 fctrtea—Fine primrose yellow 10 4* Rosea—Beautiful bright glowing rose 10 44 Stellata, Mixed—Many fine colors, all with pure white eye. Very effective 10 Jubilee Striata, Mixed—Many fine colors, all striped with white. Splendid 10 Jubilee Mixed, All Colors—More than forty different shades and combinations of rich and brilliant colors..10 One pkt. each of the above 8 for only 50c. Pereijpial ptjiox. The Perennial Phlox is now one of the most popular and most magnificent of garden flowers. The new large flow- ered hybrids are large, brilliant and beautiful, and bloom freely all summer. Seed is uncertain in germination to a certain extent, unless sown in fall, or sown in soil and allow- ed to freeze. New Hybrids.—All colors mixed, perfectly magnificent. Sow in fall or very early in spring during freezing weather, if possible.. 10

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