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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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J"OHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y
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FeVerfeW. Fine border plants that are always in flower. They bloom quickly from seed, and are extra good for cutting. They also make fine plants for winter blooming in pots. Flowers large and double, like Roses, and very profusely borne at all times of tbe year. Habit, dwarf and compact, making them very desirable either for garden or for pots. Little Belle—Fine snow white, very dwarf 5 & 10 Little Fred—Pure golden yellow, very dwarf 5 & 10 Gapen8is*fl.pl.—The fine old double white Feverfew..5 & 10 Cxlmia Crandlflora— Flowers enormous in size, as double as Roses, and pure snow white. A most superb pot plant, blooming all the year round 10 & 2o Colden Feather—Beautiful yellow foliage 5 & lo Selaglnoldee—The lovely fern-leaved Feverfew;extra.5 & lo Eschscholtzia. The Eschschoitzia is one of the hardiest and most easily grown of our annuals. It is also a very showy one, grow- ing rapidly and coming into bloom soon after the plants are above ground. The foli- age is finely cut and hand- some, and the flowers exceed- ing! y showy, large and freely produced. It is a fine flower for blooming in pots.especial- ly in winter. Per pkt. Callfornlca—Fine golden yellow. A most showy flower 5 & 10 Double White—New...5 & 10 Mixed Colors-Many sorts 5 & 10 Maritima — A new sort with whitish grey foli- age,finely cut and fern- like, and large, light canary colored bios- ESCH5CH0;p^ARlTlMA CS^^ w Gof!etia.-(Saim now.) A handsome flower, and particularly useful because t will grow in shady places where so few really fine flowers can be grown. They bloom a long time and so profusely that the foliage if almost hidden by the manj large, wide-open flowers ol shining, satin texture, and ?>f the most delicate and ovely colors. This flower trows more popular each year, and it well deserves the partiality shown it. Mixed Colors—All shades 5* 10

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