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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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150 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y
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Tree Strawberry, Or Strawberry-Raspberry. The Largest and Most Beautiful Berry in the World, and the Most Productive and Easily Grown. This is one of the most unique and at the same time the largest and most beautiful berry of any kind that has yet appeared before the public. It comes to us from Japan, and is of the Raspberry family, though in many respects it re- sembles a Strawberry, growing on a bush two feet high. The plant is entirely hardy in any location, and a most prolific yielder, ripening an enormous crop of fruit in July and Aug- ust, and more or less all the time up to November. In qual- ity the fruit is called good, though not so finely flavored as either the Strawberry or Raspberry, but quite as good as most Blackberries. It is very fine when cooked, and makes a jelly which has a unique flavor and is superior to the jelly of any other fruit. Inhabit of growth the plant is distinct from both the fruits named. The root is perennial, throw- ing up numerous strong branching shoots, which are covered with its large, beautiful berries the whole summer, from early in July until freezing weather, rendering it a perpet- ual bearer. The canes or shoots die to the earth in winter, new ones being thrown up the following spring, which begin blooming and setting fruit at once. The foliage is light green in color, bright, clean, cheerful and pleasing, and ex- empt from attacks of all insects and diseases. The berries are globular, slightly oblong in form, monstrous in size, a rich, glossy, ruby-red color, sweet and melting and of such transparent beauty as to cause everyone to shout with amazement upon first seeing a plant in bearing. The blos- soms, too, should not be overlooked. They resemble in ap- pearance single roses (the petals being cupped) snow white in color, and are deliciously fragrant. As these exquisite flowers are produced constantly from early spring until autumn, the plant is well worthy of cultivation if it pro- duced nothing but flowers. This berry is so hardv and vig- orous that it may be planted in any waste or out of the way place, along fences, etc.. where it will naturalize, take care of itself and bear enormously as a wild berry. The pa«t season we gathered thirty bushels of berries' from three rows, each BOO feet long. Strong plants, 20c. each; 3 for 50c: * for $1.00; If) tor $2.00; 30 for $3.00. Seed, 15c. per pkt. Childs' Golden Japanese Mayberry. This most remarkable fruit grows in sturdy tree form^ six to eight feet high and ripens its fruit before Strawber- ries, a month before the earliest Raspberries. The bushe? are distinct from other berries, with spreading, tree-like tops, large, bell-shaped, pendulous blossoms, which hang along the entire length of the branches in pairs or triplets These large, handsome blossoms are followed by great ber- ries which are of a golden-yellow color, and in quality swee? and luscious beyond description. It is not a wild or native berry of any country, but a Hybrid raised by Luther Bur- bank, from Japanese species. PRICE—Strong, two-year-old plants, from open ground, 15c, each; 4 for 50c; 10 for $1.00; 25 for $2.00.

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