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Title: Childs' catalogue of fall bulbs that bloom plants, seeds, shrubs, fruits etc. with a treatise on the culture of bulbs indoors and out.
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs John Lewis Childs (Firm) Nurseries (Horticulture) Bulbs (Plants) Flowers Vegetables
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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Ftictjsias, Well known and highly prized pot plants.Elm City-Large double purple with scarlet sepals.Glorie de Merches—Large double white with scarlet sep-als. Very fine.Trailing Queen—A lovely drooping habit, hanging downover the side of the pot, displaying a mass of beautifulfoliage and large flowers of rosy sea rletaud violet purplecolor. Flowers borne in great clusters, buds long andgraceful. Tropkee—Double: buds quite round and beautiful deep redcolor; onen flower, dark purple and very beautiful. Rosains Patri—A variety unsurpassed among alltbe Fuch-sia-, with white corolla. Tube and sepals are brilliantdeep scarlet, thick and leathery in texture; corolla isvery large; double and pure white- Snow Storm-Immense double white. Blue Bottle—A fine big single purple-blue. 15c. each; the 7 for 75c. FALL CATALOGUE OF BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1914. 45.
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ptjoepix Roebeliiji. The newest, and in every respect the finest and the mostbeautiful Palm grown, with the most graceful and beauti-ful foliage, and it is the most easily grown of all Palm-, andjust the one that will succeed in any window. Nothing cansurpass it as a decorative plant. Finest Palm for outdoorculture in the Southern or Pacific States. The whole worldhas gone wild over it. We have the oniy large stock of it inAmerica. 2 yearold, 40c.; 3 for $1.00. 3 year old $1.00. Felicia ^njelloides. This new and most superb pot plant was sent us by Mr.William Trelease, director of the Missouri Botanical Gar-dens, at St. Louis, who pronounces it one of the best intro-ductions of late years. It begins blooming in Septemberand keeps on until May. The plant we had a year ago wascut freely for propagating and did not bloom until Christ-mas, but from that on until the middle of June it was onemass of the loveliest sky-blue blossoms ever seen. Eachblossom keeps perfect four or five weeks bef

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