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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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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1911. 29
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Ten-Weeks Stocks. To our raind we do not catalogue a finer flower than the Ten-Weeks Stocks. It has every merit of a perfect flower— a compact habit, many and long spikes of closely-set, large, double flowers, each as double as a rose, waxv of texture- exceedingly sweet, and varying in color from snow-white to dark maroon-brown, and through all intermediate shades of red, blue and yellow. It is a gran.I bedder, and a fine pot plant blooming the winter through. It develops in its greatest perfection in the cold atmosphere of our Northern States. In the South and West a cool situation should be chosen, sheltered from the mid-day sun. This plant requires rich, mellow soil, and must never be allowed to suffer for water Poor care will result in poor flowers. It is worse than useless to plant inferior seed of this flower, that has been brought to its present high standard by careful breed- ing and high cultivation Our seed is extra fine. Per pkt. Early Ten Weeks—12 of the finest colors mixed 10 " -Pure white, very sweet 5 " " —Kich crimson 5 4 " 44 -Clear blue 5 ' " 44 —Yellow, new and fine 5 Dwarf German—Mixed colors. An extra fine strain of large-flowering Stocks 10 New Iyarge Flowering Pyramidal—One of the finest of all. Immense spikes of grand flowers, in almost rain- bow colors. We have counted twenty-three different shades in a single bed of flowers 10 Perpetual Branching, (Recent Novelty)—This new Ten- Weeks Stock has proved to be the finest variety in cultivation. It blooms very quickly from seed, the plants being stout, branching, and compact, with numerous flower spikes of very large size. The individual flowers are large, very double, and perfect in form. For pots it is greatly superior to any other variety, and as a pot plant it is just superb, flowering for a long period and at any time of the year, according to time of sowing. Another great point in its favor is the fact that only a very small per cent, of the plants raised from seed will be single, nearly all producing magnificent double flowers. It is one of the grandest flower seed novelties we ever introduced, and one that will give far greater satisfaction than can be anticipated. We cannot say anything too good for it. Perp. Branching, Rich Crimson—Deep rich crimson....15 " " Brilliant Rose—Very handsome 15 " " Royal Purple—Kich purple.. . 15 " «« Snow White—Perfectly elegant 15 " " All Colors Mixed 15 Giant Perfection—One of the finest for the open ground, growing to the height of 2K feet; flowers also of im- mense size. Many beautiful colors mixed 20

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