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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits for 1895
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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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Great trusses of snowy blossoms of exquisite ^ ChiVds-pHze Scarietr uke S in foior, wiiicli is a very intense scarlet ^ SPECIAL OFFER. One packet each of Hie ten sorts Jor Si.oo. ©2 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. Per pkt. Improved Striped. A good strain, representing all theleading colors, but all striped. This is really thefinest strain of Striped or Zebra Zinnias in cultivation. 10 Fire Bail. Dwarf habit, large double blossoms of in-tense scarlet, as round and perfectas a ball. It makesa fine border or mass, its bright color and perfecthabit showing to great advantage 10 Snow Bail. Exactly like Fire Ball except color, whichis snow white, and makes a charming contrast 10 Lilllput, Mixed Colors. This strain is the acme ofbeauty and perfection in Zinnias. Plants small andof bushy growtli, each one Ijcaring scores of beautifullittle blossoms of the most perfect shape and brilliantcolors. These charming little Zinnias are gems in-deed, and should be in every garden..
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From earliest childhood the Zinnia has been a speciallavorile with us, and the strain which we cultivated inour first little garden we still grow and sell as our im-proved. Wc have selected the stock seed every year fortwenty-five years. Tliis carelul attention has brougiit itto wondi iiul perfection. Tlic Zinnia is a robust freegrower, lui nisliiiig an abundance of large double blos-soms, which aie of Varied and brilliantcolors, during theentire sununer and fall. Each flower keeps perfect forsix weeks before fading- and each plant is a great mass ofbloom all the time, making a sliow which is peculiar.Nothing else can fill their place. Seed should be st^irtedinside or sown in tlie garden about corn-planting time.Chifds Improved, Mixed Colors. Saved only froms<lect flowers, jpcrlcct in sliapc and color. Tliefinest strain ot Zinnia in cultivation. Everyplant will produce immense double blossomsof various colors, from white to deep crimson,maroon, pink^ yellow, orange, scarlet, violet

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