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Title: Childs' condensed catalogue of novelties and specialties in seeds, bulbs and plants
Identifier: childscondensedc00john_1 (find matches)
Year: 1912 (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; Fruit trees Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; 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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CATALOGUE OF SPECIALTIES AND NOVELTIES FOR 1912.
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This is a flower for everybody. Few high-priced and rare plants can begin to compare with the Petunia for beau- ty* and not half a dozen others flowers on our list are as Showy in beds or masses. The smallest yard or the finest park is not complete without these butterflies among fiow- ers.taatmind neither heat, drouth or rain, but bloom in pro- fusion until the winter is almost upon vis. The seed is best started in the house, and the young plants transplanted to open ground one foot, apart, but if the soil is made very fine seed can be sowu in the open ground and covered lightly. NEW GIANT-FLOWERED PETUNIAS. A giant-flowered strain which originated in California. They are truly magnificent in every sense of the word, and show great improvements over the best European strains. Flowers all beautifully fringed and fimbriated, of extra- ordinary size, and great variety of exquisite colors. Per pkt. Fringed Perfection—A highly perfected strain, the petals of which are deeply ruffled, and the ruffles in turn ex- quisitely fringed. A superb strain of the richestcolors-10 Giant-Flowered Single, Mixed Colors-Enormous single flowers of a good variety of superb colors and fancy . markings. Exceedingly beautiful 15 Ruffled Giant—Flowers of this new strain are exceeding- ly deep-throated, and very large. They are ruffled, fluted and fringed, striped, blotched, and of solid in- tense colors, with many combinations new in Petun- ias. It is a great strain which will surprise 20 Childs' Monster Mixture—All sorts and varieties of the giant-flowered type. A grand mixture and will show . a wide variety of beautiful new colors 25 DOUBLE GIANT-FLOWERED PETUNIA. This is the choicest double Petunia seed that the world gan furnish, and we stake our reputation upon it- A larger percent, will produce more double flowers "than any other, and the flowers will be larger and better. Giant-Flowered Double, Fringed, Mixed Colors—The largest and finest colored Double Petunias yet seen. Their size and beauty will be a revelation to all 20 N^W M^ltiflora Roses. Roses from Seed, Blooming in 6o Days. With seed of these Roses plants may be had in bloom in 60 to 90 days from the time of sowing. Plant at any time. They grow quickly and flowers appear in large clusters, and in such quantity that a plant looks like a bouquet- Perfect- ly hardy in the garden, where they bloom all summer. In pots they bloom both summer and winter. From a packet of seed one will get Poses of various colors—white, pink, crimson, etc., no two alike, and mostly perfectly double and very sweet. Rose Polyantha Multiflora Hybrids—All colors mixed. Choicest seed, 15c. per pkt.; 2 pkts., for 25c.

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