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Title: Childs' rare flowers vegetables and fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_21 (find matches)
Year: 1918 (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 1918 133
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Our Great New Hydrangeas For tubs or bedding1 what is more beautiful or classy than big bushy Hydrangeas standing in large pots or tubs adorning porches, verandas or the lawn. They are easily grown and any one can have them who will plant the fof- lowing superb new sorts. They are also tine lor bedding out in summer and produce clusters of bloom by the score, as large as a man's hat. Winter plants in a cellar or pit. Sea Shell â Probably this is the most magnificent of all pot plants. It is a new color running to a most exquis- ite soft soft sea shell-pink or a blue tinted pink or pink tinted blue, there being some variations. The clusters of bloom are simply enormous, as many as twenty ap- pearing on a year-old plant at one time. Very small cutting plants also bloom when only a few months old. One of the very best things we ever had. Mam. Manillara â This is truly a giant-flowering Hy- drangea, with flowers fully three to four times larger than any other. Single florets three inches across are produced on well-grown plants. It is so much larger and finer than any other sort that there is no com- parison. Color pure white. Blooms when plants are . very small. Avalanche â â Exactly like Sea Shell except in color, which is pure white and perfectly magnificent. Bouquet Roseâ: Flowers a foot across, fine dark pink tinged amber. Emile Monillere â Flowers very symmetrical, and freely borne. Pure white with a fine carmine-pink center. Very attractive and beautiful. Entirely distinct and unlike any other Hydrangea. Renel Gaillard â Thick woody habit; enormous size and perfect bearing. Creamy white with fringed edges. Anges Bar i I letâ A most fioriferous variety of splendid habit. Flowers large, round, soft creamy-white. Ex- cellent for forcing for winter. 25c each; 3 fop 60c; the 7 fop $1.25 New Crimson Fountain Grass (Pennisetum Cupreum) As a show plant for beds or borders it is most superb, the cut above being photographed from our lawn last summer. This magnificent Grass succeeds equally well as a pot plant for window or veranda or in the garden. The abundance of gracefully-curved foliage is (except when the plants are very young and small) a deep rich crimson color at all times. During summer and fall the plants throw up numerous stems bearing long graceful plumes of rich crimson color and superb silky texture. Plumes six to twelve inches long and very ornamental. May be cut and cured for dry bouquets. Plants from seed produce blooms in about five months, but best re- sults will be had from plants already established Strong Plants â 25c each; 3 for 60c; $2.00 per doz. Seed â Will flower first year. 10c per pkt. Baby Honeysuckle, Nitida A very dw'arf bush Honeysuckle with foliage that is almost evergreen. Makes a very pretty pot plant. 20c. Oleander What home is complete without its tub of Oleander? A very attractive plant that can be grown in almost any soil or situation, kept growing all the year, or rested in the cellar. Its dark green, willow-like foliage is in itself neat and pleasing; but when it blooms it is beauti- ful beyond expression with its many large, delicate satin- like flowers. Pink â Large blossoms of fine rosy-pink. Very double. White â Magnificent large snow-white double blossoms. Crimson â Fine deep crimson-red. Extra. Yellow â Large and very beautiful. VariegataLeaves bordered with creamy-white; flow- ers pink, very double. A magnificent plant, the con- trast of foliage and delicate color of blossoms being- very striking. Price, 25c each; the 5 for $1.00

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