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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_18 (find matches)
Year: 1915 (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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120 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y. ose Wipter Gent- A Tea Rose of remarkably strong and vigorous growth, and a prodigious bloomer all the.year. It flowers all the time, particularly during winter, hence its name. The blossoms aro borne on long graceful stems, are of large size, and a lovely crimson pink color. Buds perfectly exquisite, and the open flower full and double. It is the strongest, heaviest, most vigorous and rapid growing Tea Rose in cultivation. One plant of i t will produce more good Roses in a year than 12 plants of any other Tea Rose grown. The plant will bioom continuallv, a n d nothing but killing it outright will check it. 20c each; 3 for 50c; 7 for $1-00.
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Baby Rambler Roses. HULTIFLPRAj SEEDUHGF^Sq BABY KA3IBLEE. Very striking and satisfactory pot or bedding Roses for general cultivation. Crimson Baby Rambler—This Rose is a dwarf everbloom- ing Crimson Rambler, bearing great clusters of bright crimson double blossoms all the year round just as Crim- son Rambler does in June. It is really valuable as a pot or garden Rose and blooms profusely summer, winter, spring iand fall. Fleshy rooted cutting plants when only a few inches high begin to bear most beautiful clusters of bloom, and as the plant grows larger it beeomes a marvelous bouquet of beautiful foliage and bright flow- ers- Perfectly hardy in the open ground where it blooms all the time, and as a pot plant it will produce 25 flowers to one of any other sort. White Baby Rambler-This does not differ from the above except in color which is purest snow white. I/ittle Dorothy—One of the best new Roses in a long time. Bush very dwarf and completely smothered in large bright pink blossoms at ail times. Often 100 blooms in a cluster. It is one of the most attractive pot or garden plants ever grown, and always in bloom. 20c, each; the 3 f<yr 50c.; $1.75 per dozen. Guilds' c&i)i)iVersary Sal^ia- See cut page 45. A new Salvia which is so dwarf and compact, and its flowers so large and numerous that it is the most brilliant bedding or pot plant. It flowers all summer long, from May until frost, making a carpet!orJmass of the brightest colors yet seen. As a pot plant it is a solid bouquet of bloom all the fall,winter and spring. Fine flowering plants. 15c each : 3 for 30c ; 12 for $1.00: 25 for $2.00; 100 for $7.00. * COPYRIGHT. 1699 a.XrCtiiLPS. 5 Fir*e Tea Roses for 60cts. For only 60 cts. we will send a collection of 5 of the very finest Tea Roses for pots or bedding, all different colors, white, yellow, pink, crimson etc. Our customers can de- pend upon this collection being all axtra fine varieties. Parrot's Feather. A lovely mossy plant, with long trailing stems covered with plumy, feathery foli- age, of t h e freshest, loveliest green imagi- nable. Fine for aquar- iums, where few plants do well, and make the water much more healthful for the fish. Grows niecly also i n water tubs or orna- mental pools, and is much admired when grown in hanging pots or baskets of soil. It grows as well in soil as inwaterif it is kept well watered. It is one of the most charming trailing and drooping plants, and furnishes an abundance of the most lovely fohage tor bouquets. It grows so rapidly that it can be cut with the greatest freedom. loc. each; 4 for 50c.

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