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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_8 (find matches)
Year: 1903 (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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S\Vair>sot>ia, or S^Dflower. It will be hard to uarne a plant now in cultivation which can equal this in beauty and general good qualities. It has a most beautiful fern-like foliage and blooms per- petually every day in.the year, its blossoms being the shape and nearly the size of Sweet Peas, and borne in great clus- ters of twenty to forty. These clusters appear at the axils of the leaves, ana a single branch shows many clusters of blooms at all times. The plant is a free and rapid grower, beginning to bloom in three or four weeks from cuttings, and continuing for years. It is easier to grow and manage than a Geranium, thriving in any soil or in any window, and is a superb bedding plant for the garden in summer. We believe there is no plant so easy to grow, or one that thrives and blooms better under all conditions. Pure White—Large milky white; exquisite. Deep Red—Fine dark red, with large white blotches. Pink—New; bright pink, white center. Prire, 20c. each : 3 for 50c. Seed, 10c. pfct. Strobilai)tI)es Dyeriarjus, A new house and bedding plant of great beauty. It forms a compact bush 18 inches high, with leaves 6 to 9 inches long, 3 to i inches wide, and of the most intense metallic purple color, shading into light rose, with a light green margin, a combination unapproached in any other plant. The flowers are a lovely violet-blue, very beautiful, of a Gloxinia-like appearance. For bedding plant it has equal. In an exposed position its foliage colors highly, and is superb. 15c. each; Sl.oo per dozen. Sn)ilax, The dainty, yet luxuriant masses of the glossy Smilax are as handsome in the window as any other flowers. A beautiful climber for the arch of a plant stand, wreathing it in a bower of the loveliest green. The finest foliage for bouquets, cut flower work, etc. Flowers white, profuse and fragrant. Plants 15c. each; 3for 30c. Seed, 10c. pkt. Golden IjeaVed Sa^ia- Habit, compact, short-jointed and branching, with an abundance of foliage, which is of a fine yellow shade, hardly a trace of green about it. The flowers are a light transparent scarlet of exceptional brilliancy. The brilliancy of the flow- ers against the yellow foliage produces the most striking effect. Not only is the plant a fine bedder but it is also a magnificent pot plaut, blooming at any and all times of the vear without intermission. For winter it is particularly fine, and the most brilliant plant that can be grown in one's win- dow. Strong plant. 15c. each: 5 for 50c. Seed, (will bloom in 3 months), 10c. per packet.

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