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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, and fruit
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_10 (find matches)
Year: 1905 (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; 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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76 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y.
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kins'?mll'klssuSr^ls^16'&nd When C°°kedlikePumP" Ford Hook-A long golden yellow Squash, with very drv and fine-grained flesh. This is one of the best winter abashes, and an extra fine keeper, and the plants areso robust that failure is very rare. Resists the attacks of the Squash borer better than most kinds: maturesi early Sil>?nd is a sure cropper. Pkt.. 10c.; oz.. ise. • lb. $1.25 * S.bley-Another fine winter Squash that keeps well nearlv a > winter. Shell hard and flinty; pile greenin color Flesh a brilliant orange-red; very dry and rich n flavor' «3 fl!ie )H\U\% variety. See page 83. • Metcalf-A Maine variety of extra line quality, fine grained anddry No better eating Squash can be found an%- S£ aoc.fIb.?si^ per'good tin spTiDg- Pkt • : Pef,!?f' CT?1n^_'T)1.is sort is g%od both for summer and winter flav\rTWi.i1klnned> , ne gained and of very pleasant ma Sf^ih iee0p any lenSth of time. See page 83. Mammoth ^hili-Speeimens of this have been grown to ™nc p?,lmd£ in ^fetot Notwithstandi ggit.nnor- Ma^m?t,h fWha'e-4 new French variety of the enormou' an S'-h v'^t ^ndred T more rounds- F™» t fck and an ashy-gray color, and tapers toward the end Flesh It^lWRl °range-yelbw. and of excellent qui fty Stftj^jB feeinn^soflVett^ R .? a? pYt1.:^1: ^ .rsir espeeiaiiy for «h« W«nS Clant Summer Crookneck—A new erookneck wWl, i= little earlier than the old vzriJ^dffi^&Xk™ being nearly two feet in length. It is of extra fine mm ftV" handsome in appearance, and finds a read v sale at good' Baffin™7 market. Pkt. sc.: oz.. inc.: II... si oo. 5 nfa? W?P^n®ariLsn?Smersorfc Very Ane and pop- ular, t Kt,.5c; oz . loc.: lb..6oe. it 7wfvo ?*abet-Its l-eeuliareharacteristic. from which It derives its name, is in the fact that its seeds are disu tiuctly marked on both sides with el araetersw) h \u- Sfalf°,bei J?paneie letters- and it is s d t at th, f: Pan- ese alphabet may be selected from a handful of seed Be that'Is no^lT- Vv^nri))y ^,rio'!s a»d interesting, hut j SB ii2 I I S1! We v.nd the Squash to be superior t.i the °ld H?bbard In quality, and a much stronger and freer grower, as easily raised, in short, as pumpkins. For nies • fc?pTfeyfScS a" other^uashesPrpumpkiWk^ j Improved Hubbard-(PRrvATE Stock.)-No more popular Squash than the Hubbard has ever been grown OfT'u- years it has largely lost flavor because .ft^MmTC be- come badly .mixed with inferior strains Our stock ia quite limited but is absolutely true and will produce the ^a^n&.?£::^?m^we an One packet each of the ten tort*. 75c.

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