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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 157
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OLEANDER OTAHEITE ORANGE An extra fine pot plant with glossv leaves, the true fragrant Orange blooms and abundant little bright oranges that will hang on the little bush like balls of gold for six months after they are ripe. They will bloom and fruit in a two-inch pot; and we have seen a plant in a common window that was but fifteen inches high and had twenty-five oranges on it. With good sunlieht they are never out of fruit from one year's end to another. The fruit is very sweet and handsome. Could we have but one plant in our window it would be an Otaheite Orange. In beauty, grace and fragrance there is nothing like the delicate, leafy sprays of bloom, so exquisite, dainty, lovely and adorable. Fine plants for blooming and fruit- ing at once. 3 5c each. Extra large, 70c each. New Double-Flowered ORANGE For sweetness, for purity and for exquisite loveliness the Orange blossom has held undisputed swav for ages. Is a double Orange blossom superior to a single? Yes, as much so as a double Rose is superior to a single Rose, and this is the first introduction of a Double- Flowered Orange. A plant of dwarf, bushy growth, suit- able for pots, but in Orange sections it is the most beautiful flowering tree for the garden ever seen. Flowers as large as a silver half-dollar, full, double and of much greater fragrance than the single. Blooms pro- fusely as a small plant in pots, like the Otaheite, but always growing larger, and it bears fruit, too. Price—Fine one-year plants, §1.00 each. WONDER LEMON A Lemon that can be as easily grown in pots as a Ger- anium and which produces fruit weighing from one to three pounds each. These enormous fruits are borne on plants one to two feet high, growing in five- or six-inch pots. It is everbearing and its fruit is delicious for lemonade and culinary purposes. It makes a beautiful specimen plant for the house. Has large, deep green leaves and pure, waxy-like flowers that are fragrant as Orange blossoms. Will thrive in any good soil, either indoors or out. 3 5c each; extra large, 70c. NEW OTAHEITE LEMON A superb novelty in the form of a very dwarf Lemon for pot culture, which corresponds in all respects to the Otaheite Orange. Blooms freely even when 'only six inches high and bears an abundance of beautiful little lemons which are as handsome as the blossoms. A splendid companion/ plant to the beautiful Otaheite Orange. 50c each. OLEA FRAGRANS (Fragrant Olive) This is the sweetest flower that blooms, belonging to the Olive family and is a perpetual bloomer, never with- out flowers, either summer or winter, though the plant may not be a foot in height. The flowers are small, creamy white, and borne in clusters. Each individual blossom, though no larger than the head of a shawlpin has more sweetness than the largest and most fragrant Lily. Its fragrance is also delicate and charming, really the finest of all flowers, and you cannot pass a plant without noticing it. Succeeds well anywhere. Exceed- ingly rare and scarce. $1.00 each. DOUBLE CHINESE HIBISCUS Where can we find a more striking plant than this with its glossy leaves and huge flaming flowers of satin-like texture? Summer or winter, it is always budding and blooming. Pots of Hibiscus are extra fine for piazza or balcony, and for bedding out in summer. Peachblow—This is one of the finest plant novelties of- fered in recent years. The flowers are double, and from four to Ave inches in diameter; of a charming rich, clear pink color, with small deep crimson center- an entirely new and most beautiful shade. Aunantica—\ ery large double orange-yellow. Makes a fine contrast with Peachblow and Minneatus. Minneatus—As georgeous and fine as the best Paeony and fully as large. Bush blooms when but a foot high. Blossoms a burning crimson; very double. Cooperi—Most exquisite foliage, being variegated green, white, pink and red. A righly ornamental plant. Fine Plants, 40c each; 4 for $1.25.

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