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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, and fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_15 (find matches)
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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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/•OPYRYGHT. 1900 erJ.LC-HlLD5 f^f^T.1^ firs^ appearance, in 1889, caused a great luroreui the market. People were loud in its neW exclaiming that it surpassed all other Sons n pointof excellence, with a flavor like that of the StbavSee- 55 henee. fte. n«me. ^ grows to a desirable tablelfze from six to eight pounds each. Its outside an pea ra nop lTeSaV01^(yivithtl,e Gree» S?g ofPoPkl tu?n! ing to a yellowish hue as it were.over ni«-ht,when rino Tfr<* ?^??'h;.dee-p of an attractive kimon-redI color! f«ft w the tnld ?nd exceptionally delicious. It is lev- °f the IS'?st attractive and best flavored Melons yet grown. Pkt., 10c ; oz., 30c. f Burre11 Getn-Wearegladtobe able to offer this year a new strain of the famous Rocky Ford Melons and one which we think is far superior to all others, particularly for general cultivation. This melon is the result of many years of careful breeding at Rocky Ford and has the closely laced gray netting of the origiual Rocky Ford Cantaloupe, but a slightly wider space between the ribs m size it is somewhat larger, averaging nearly two pounds. The flavor is rich and spiev, the meat thick fine grained and very rich. Its carrying qualities are much superior to the original Rocky Ford, and owing to tins and other points of superiority it sells at from two t v Thl^mplfn £^b, Per dozen or crate as the old varie- ^Ion *s t-0 b? Particularly recommended for S3 no under lrrieation. Per pkt, ioc; oz., soc: lb.,
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