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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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116 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y. )\eW EVerbloonjiijg Pelargoniums. See Colored Plate on Cover (Inside.) These new Pelargoniums are considered by many to be the finest pot plants in cultivation. Surely they are the greatest novelty in window plants that have been introduced in twenty years. Habit, strong, compact, and bushy, with the strongest constitution and the greatest wealth of beau- tiful luxuriant foliage to be found in any Pelargonium or Geranium. The plants are perpetual in blooming habit, especially from March to September. They are like the largest speci- men plants of the most exquisite Azaleas, with flowers equally large, the petals beautifully curved and cupped, and borne in endless profusion. Two plants in five-inch pots produced respectively from April to June 31st., 139 and 126 tresses of magnificent blooms, five or six immense flowers to each tress. No plant is easier to grow in any window or garden. In this respect it is as much superior to. the old sorts as it i« larger and more magnificent in flower and foliage. Easter Greeting-Brilliant rose, each of the 5 large petals being marked with a large brown-black spot in the center. The spot being bordered with scarlet daintily penciled with crimson. The combination is very strik- ing and at once catches the eye of the most careless ob- server. The florets are very large, from 2% to s% inches in diameter and are very durable either on the plant or when cut. Easter Morn — A sport from the above and just like it except m color which is a light lavender pink, the lar-e brown-black blotches being beautifully penciled, feath- ered and flushed brilliant scarlet. Blooms continually. Strong Plants, hoc. each; the 2 for 75c.; $3.50 per dozen. New' £)oUble ploWered Orange. For sweetness, for purity and for exquisite loveliness the Orange blossom has held undisputed sway for ages. Is a double Orange blossom superior to a single? Yes, as much so as a double rose is superior to a single rose, and this is the first introduction of a double-flowered Orange. A plant of dwarf bushy growth, suitable for pots, but in orange sections it is the most beautiful flowering tree for the garden ever seen. Flowers as large as a silver half dollar, full, double and of much great- er fragrance than the single. Blooms profusely as a small plant in pots, like the Otaheite, but always growing larger, and it bears fruit too. One of the most important novelties we ever brought out. Price, fine young plants, fi.oo each. Large plants from 5-inch pots #5.00 each.
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NEW PERPETUAL PELARGONIUM — EASTER GREETING- Pelaroopiu ids. These giant-flowered Pelargoniums are really "-mark- Hawaii-A splendid tinted white, with laree, rich vpWv maroon and rose splashed in upper petal?6 ExtralaSe -u*°»-En°rmou3siz<V°und.wide-openshane, purewhite v'°'et-maroon blotches. Quite new as to shane Marion-The same plants bear flowers of different cSlorc; One cluster of bloom will be white markpd witherw~ while another will be fine??os? m^arked purple Cnmson' Samoa-Very dark velvety crimson, shading on black. 30c. each ; the h for $1.00. PANSY PELARGONIUM. Pansy Pelapgorntin). (A superb old variety now quite rare.) The Pansy Pelargonium is a very profuse bloomer in spring and summer. The flowers are like good sized pan- sies in large clusters and show to wonderful advantage, being of beautiful tinted white with large dark velvety blotches making them very conspicuous. It is a robust, hardy free growing pot plant that is sure to give great satis- faction. 20c, each : 3 for 50c,

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