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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_18 (find matches)
Year: 1915 (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 1915. 125 Azalea Amoena "SUPERBA"
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Deutzia ;EM01NE1 COPYPIGh I90- BYJ.LC *¥l\e Grandest Hardy JloWerii)© Scrubs. Nothing can take the place of Shrubbery for the lawn, for hedges and specimen clumps. Shrubs thrive in any situation, are beautiful all summer, producing some of the choicest out-door blossoms. The list here offered is a select one, including only the very finest and most desirable new or rare and choice sorts. PRICE—All Shrubs, 20c. each; 3 for 50c; 7 for $1.00 ; or $1.50 per dozen. Large specimens 30c. each; 4 for $1.00; $2,50 per dozen. Asalea Amonea — A lovely hardy evergreen Azalea with Azalea, Amonea Superba—This is as hardy as an oak and beautiful foliage, and fine compact bushy growth. In the most profusely flowering shrub ever seen, its mass May or June the plants are densely covered with rich vio- of burning color making a great effect. Color intense let-red blossoms, which are exceedingly showy. Every deep crimson. We can recommend it as a shrub that leaf and twig is hidden by the quantity of flowers. will give great satisfaction. Blooms profusely when plants are very small. Flowers of large size. Althea—A fine tall-growing shrub, that once planted is good for a lifetime. Blooms when but a slip of a plant, but eventually reaches the size of a small tree. Always a symmetrical upright grower, well clothed with a dark green foliage, and bears every year, without fail, a profusion of large, showy double flowers that closely resemble Hollyhocks in shape and colors, but often larger in sizf. They bloom from midsummer until frost, at a time when few other shrubs are in bloom. Fine for cemetary planting or for growing upon the lawn. In Europe this is the most popular of all fAlTHE/^ flowering shrubs. /Itl ntn Daphne Cneorum—A hardy shrub which trails over the ground in a most beautiful manner. Extra fine for any position, and being evergreen it is the most desirable plant we know of for cemeteries. The plant is com- posed of spiral branches of dense evergreen leaves. The flowers are lovely pink color, in clusters, and are borne profusely in early spring, and during summer and fall. It is one of the most fragrant of all flowers. Deutzia I/emoinei—This is the greatest resent novelty in flowering shrubs. It makes a low compact bush which in June is loaded down with large, round, snow-ball-like clusters ot pure white flowers. We know of nothing more beautiful for the garden, yet it has the added merit of being a grand pot plant for winter blooming. It is not too large for a pot and blossoms very finely at any time during winter. It is becoming very popular for Easter.

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