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Title: Condensed catalogue of specialties, novelties and special offers in choice, new and rare bulbs, plants, seeds and fruits
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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 Fruit trees Catalogs John Lewis Childs (Firm) Commercial catalogs Nurseries (Horticulture) Seeds Flowers 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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totheir beauty, and each flower keeps perfect for weeks be-fore falling. No plant is easier to grow, and it com-mences to bloom at once from the smallest cuttings, andcontinues to bloom most profuselv at all times. There tonot, a day during its life that it is without flowers, if ithas any sort of decent care, lac. each; 3 for 30c.; 0 for 50c Passiflora Pfordti The best for pot culture, as it. blooms when but a foot high; large, handsome, fringed flowers,exhibiting a minding of white, pink, brown and blue inits coloring, making a flower of the most fascinatingbeauty. 15c. each ; g for 30c. Passiflora Constance Elliot One of the most graceful ofall vines, worth a place in every home for its exquisitefoliage. The shining, leathery, five-flngcrcd leaves airilyfringing the Blender stems, after the snows of winter be-gin to fall. Flowers pure white. 15c. each; 3 tor 30c. SPECIAL OFFER. One each of thesix Glorious Flowering Vines for onlu 80c CATALOGUE OF SPECIALTIES AND NOVELTIES FOR 1900.
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Guilds DWapf EVeP-bloonuqg Galla. This is of a d varf habit, and does notgrow tall and scraggly like the old variety,but is strong and compact, with a greatabundance of lustrous dark green foliage.It is a true everbloomer, its flowers appear-ing in great abundance both summer andwinter when grown in pots, or it will bloomprofusely all summer long in open ground,and being potted in September will con-tinue blooming without inrerrcfission allwinter. The same plant will grow andbloom for years without once ceasing, andthe quantity of bloom which a good plantwill produce is astonishing. It is estimat-ad that six plants of the old sort will notproduce so many flowers in the course of ayear as will one plant of this new dwarfvariety. A large plant is hardly ever with-out one or more flowers, and its dwarf,compact habit makes it a much more de-sirable pot plant than tho old variety. Itsflowers are of largo size and snowy whitein color. Price 35c. each ; 3 for 60c. Spotted QnWa, The leaves of

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