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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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50 JOHN LEWIS CHfLDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y.
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dry weather, inulch liberally with old manure or coarse litter, and do not let them suffer for water. Our list of vari- eties is a fine one. There is not a poof sort among them all. Per pkt. New Rose—Tall sort, about two feet in height. One ot the very best varieties, and a profuse bloomer. Outer petals are fully recurved, and inner petals beautifully incurved and imbricated like the rose. Mixed colors. A favorite sort 5 & New Rose, Pure White—Pure pearly white; exquisite for cutting or wearing 5 & New Rose, Dark Red—Very rich, clear color. 5 & New Rose, Blue—A beautiful shade of clear blue. The white, red and blue sorts are admirable for ribbon bedding, contrasting finely with each other 5 & TrurTaut's Peony-Flowered—A valuable and standard variety. The most perfect peony-type known. Tall- growing, and bearing an enormous quantity of extra large double flow- 10 10 The acknowledged queen of au- tumn annuals. Indispensable for the flower garden, fine as a show plant f( fairs and exhibitions, and charming pot plants. Very profuse bloomers, with exceedingly beautiful flowers of most exquisite colors and almost per- fect form. There are several forms of Asters, some being imbricated like a Rose, some loose and globular like a Peony, while others are partly in- curved like the Chrysanthemum. In regard to height they are classified as tall, half-dwarf and dwarfs. The tall varieties are fine for the center of large beds and for cutting, as their flowers are borne on long stems; the dwarfs are particularly fine for bor- ders or masses of one color, as they are so compact and bloom so pro- fusely as to seem like so many bou- quets set in the ground; the semi- dwarf are good for all purposes, and extra fine for pot culture. It is a good plan to make two or more successive sowings, two weeks apart, to prolong the season of bloom; seeds can be sown in hot-bed or house and afterwards transplanted, or they can be sown in open ground. In hot,

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