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Title: Childs' seeds that satisfy bulbs that bloom plants that please
Identifier: childsseedsthats00john_0 (find matches)
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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, Inc.
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 Catalog of Seeds. Bulbs and Plants for 1920 141
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SEE COVER FOR COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS OF LYTHRUM, IYIONARDA AND NEPETA New Early DWARF LAVENDER Large-flowering and Hardy. A new Lavender of dwarf habit, adapted to pot or garden culture, perfectly hardy anywhere. It throws Bp'most exquisitely beautiful dark blue flowers in grace- ful spikes and of unexcelled fragrance. Both flowers and foliage are highly scented. This delicious and refreshing- lavender odor lasts for many months and dried sprays of foliage or flowers laid among clothes in bureau drawers imparts a delicious and durable fragrance to them. Do not confound this new variety with the old tall-growing sort, for it is infinitely better with flowers twice as large and blooms a month earlier. Our cut is a good photograph of a plant in bloom this spring alter wintering outside. All our plants showed 50 to 100 spikes of bloom. This Lavender propegates slowly and our stock is not large. When sold out we will hold orders till more is ready. We have all there is m the country. 60c each; 5 for §2.00. MONARDA, Cambridge Scarlet A luxuriant tall-arowing plnnt ^SiX^dee'n'scarVt period of two months a profusion of bi ght deep scanet blossoms, as brilliant as I obelia Cardinalis. »otj ti°^rs and foliage possess a strong, refresh mgr. pun?.ent ™a trance on account of which the plant is always PJizea. Easy to grow and always good after once piantea. 25C each; 3 for 60c. The Lovely ROSY SHOWFLOWER, or Lythrum, Rose Queen One of the very finest perennials we ever grew and as hardy and robust as an oak. In early summer plants send up a dozen or more slender wirey stems from eacU crown to the height of four or five feet. These carry beautiful foliage and about three feet of lovely star-like blssooms and buds, as shown on plate inside front cover. Color rosy scarlet, very showy and brilliant. These great flaming torches of bloom show for two months. A freo and easy grower anywhere. Strong pot-grown plants, 40c each; 3 for $1.00; 7 for $2.00. NEPETA GLECHOMA This new Nepeta is hardy, fragrant andPreUy, its leaves finely bordered with white. One of the prettiest things in the world to carpet graves, as it roots wherever it touches the ground and Torms an impenetrable network of vines through which weeds and grasses cannot creep. It will grow in any kind of soil, in sun or shade, hot or cold location, and is ever a mass of green and white, refreshing to the eye. Unsurpassed for vases hangmgr pots or baskets. 20c each; 3 for 50c; 12 for $1.75.

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