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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_19 (find matches)
Year: 1916 (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. 129 CHOICE AND RARE FRUITS. The Fruit Garden is an indispensable part of any rural home. It is a delight, a satisfaction, a convenience, a profit, and a source of the most beautiful and delicious food supply any family can have. Beginning with the Strawberry in May, the supply is never exhausted until the last winter apples are used in May or June.
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THE BOWERBERRY-Greatest of all Garden Fruits. Most valuable of all Garden Fruits. Grows twenty to forty feet in a season. Bears abundant- ly when one year old. Thirty-eight quarts have been picked from a two year old plant. Cannot be injured by cold or drought in any climate. Vines perpetual like a Grapevine. Fruit in large loose clusters and the very sweetest of all berries, As a vine for bowers, shade or screens it is also valuable and beautiful with its immense clus- ters of large snow white blossoms. Do you realize what it means to have a vine that will do all this and furnish bushels of delicious Blackberries every year so long as you live ? You have only to plant it once and give it space. You can cover arbors, trellises, or fences with it, or make beautiful bowers over walks or paths. It is so much superior to the Himalaya Berry, Grape Vine Blackberry or the Mammoth Climbing Black- berry, that we have discarded them all for this. Good as they all are the Bowerberry is hardier, healthier, a bigger grower, bigger cropper, bigger and better fruit and fruits at once, while it takes three years for the others, and it is decidedly the sweetest and most delicious of all the Blackberry tribe. We have had the Bowerberry under observation for three years. It has already proved its worth in a thousand different places all over the country. It is exactly what is claimed for it in every partic- ular and more too. It has been called the "Star " and the "Wonder" Blackberry. Strong Tip Plants, 20c. each; 3 for 50c; 12 for $1.75; 100 for $8 00. May fruit at once, Two Year Transplanted Plants, 30c. each; 4 for $1.00; 12 for $2.50; 100 for $10.00. These will be pretty sure to fruit this summer.

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