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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_3 (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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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26 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. SPECIALTIES AND NOVELTIES. The choicest and best Bulbs and Plants of recent introduction are offered here. They are -worthy of special attention, and our friends will do well to add many of them to their collection offLoral treasures. Dur* ing the last ten years we have led the world in the introduction of valuable Plant and Bulb Novelties.
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A new plant for winter blooming which surpasses any novelty that has been brought out in many years. In fact, it will be hard to name a plant now in cultivation which can equal it in beauty and general good qualities. It has a most beautiful fern-like foliage and blooms perpetually every day in the year, its blossoms being the shape and nearly the size of Sweet Peas, and borne in great clusters of twenty to forty. These clusters appear at the axils of the leaves, and a single branch shows many clusters of bloom at all times. The plant is a free and rapid grower, beginning to bloom in three or four weeks from cuttings, and continuing for years. It is easier to grow and manage than a Geran- ium, thriving in any soil and in any window, and is a superb bedding plant for the garden in summer. We be- lieve there is no plant so easy to grow, or one that thrives and blooms under all condi- tions as does this charming Swanflower. Pure White—Large, white; exquisite. Deep Red—Fine dark red, with large white blotches Price, t5c. each; the two for UOc

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