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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables and fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_20 (find matches)
Year: 1917 (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 Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Vegetables; Fruit
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 1917 75
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E^RLY TOMATO Tomatoes Tomatoes are indispensable among- vegetables. City dwellers with almost no room can train them to their own walls and raise quantities of fine, fresh fruit for their own use. Start early in the house or hot-bed, transplant just after a gentle rain, and tie plants to stake or trellis. They stand drouth remarkably well. Just before frost pick all the well-developed fruits, spread them singly in a light, frost-proof place, and they will continue ripening for two months. Childs' Early Baseball—In many ways this is about as fine a vegetable novelty as we ever introduced, not ex- cepting the Everlasting Cucumber, Half Century and Crisphead Lettuce, Rosy Nugget, Watermelon, and Long Podded Lima. We will not say it is the earliest of all Tomatoes, but it is as early- as any and very much earlier than any other large first-class sort. Unlike other early Tomatoes, Baseball is not small, but extra large; one of the very largest, and by all odds the smoothest, heaviest and most solid variety in cultiva- tion. It has very little seed cavity, but has solid flesh pulp, tender and free from all trace of coarseness or green core. It is a rich crimson color throughout and of unsurpassed quality. By all odds the Tomato for both the home garden and the market gardener. 10c per pkt.; oz., 40c; lb., $4.00. Childs' Ruby Queen — Tomato of enormous size, and as smooth as an apple. Its color is the deepest and dark- est crimson-red, very rich and beautiful. It is very solid, very thin skin, and its flesh throughout is most tender. It has not a particle of coarseness or toughness. Much like Golden Jubilee. Pkt., 10c; oz., 30c. Childs' Picture Rock — Fruit bright scarlet, fair size and so perfect and uniform that they look as though each one was molded with the same stamp. Its quality is extra fine and it commences to ripen its fruit early and continues in bearing until frost, a most remark- able quality. Its keeping qualities are, however, the most wonderful. Keeps in perfect condition for weeks. Pkt., 5C; oz., 25c; lb., $2.50. Childs' Golden Jubilee — A fit companion to the Ruby QUeen and, like it, of enormous size, specimens having been grown that weighed over two pounds each. The fruits are round and solid, with few seeds; flesh meaty and like all yellow varieties, very sweet and mild in flavor. A beautiful table sort especially when ar- ranged with the deep, rich slices of Ruby Queen on the same dish. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts., 25c; oz., 50c, Beefsteak, or Two-Pound — The popular conception of a perfect Tomato is a large, solid, meaty fruit that will cut into thick ruby slices. The new sort is probably the largest of all Tomatoes, and the richest crim- son color. It is absolutely solid with few seed and seed cavities. Most Tomatoes bear the seed in large clusters near the skin. This seed and seed- pulp is acid and unpleasant, while the acid pulp is likely to be hard and lacking in flavor. In Beefsteak this defect is overcome, for the large fruits contain very small seed cavities. Each cavity has but very few seed which are distributed all through the Truit; be- ing a really ideal mixture that is exceedingly palatable without the excessive acid of large seed cavities or the unpleasantness of solid pulp. Will grow to the enor- mous weight of two pounds. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts. for 25c.

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