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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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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS AND PLANTS FOR 1898.
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Phlox Drtin)n)oi)di. One of the very best of all bedding annuals is the Phlox Drummondi, surpassing almost everything else in dazzling brilliancy. We may well be proud of this distinctively American flower.forit is extremely beautiful,neat in growth and an extraordinary bloomer. The newer sorts of Phlox are so far ahead of the older varieties, that we have dis- carded all the latter, and offer none but those beautiful new ones of recent introduction. The Phlox make beautiful ribbon beds, wben different colors are sown side by side,and are also grand for masses of solid color. Per pkt. Mixed—Thirty different colors. Fine for large beds and masses. Per oz. $1.00 5 & 10 Cocclnea—A rich, velvety scarlet 5 & 10 Fancy Striped—Very novel and beautiful. Many dis- tinct colors but all striped with white 5 & 10 Crover Cleveland—A grand bedding sort, large, pure white flowers, with radiant crimson centers. Very fine and effective 5 & 10 Rosea Alba Oculata—A clear deep rose, with large, pure white eye. A charming color 5 & 10 Violet Alba Oculata—A rich shade of violet, with large white center 5 & 10 Yellow—Good for contrast, not as brilliant in color as the scarlet and crimson varieties 5 & 10 Alba—Large, pure white, without markings of any kind. Fire for cutting 5 & 10 Stella^a—Of the most dazzling, deepest scarlet, with a contrasting eye of the snowiest white. This is a won- derfully brilliant bedder, giving a blaze of color that can be seen a long way. Every one should trv this sort * 10 & 30 Double White—This Phlox was introduced some years ago, but so small a per cent, of the plants produced double flowers tbat we did not offer it at first. The strain here offered is most excellent and a large per cent, of the plants will produce fine double flow- ers in great clusters and as white as snow 10 & 20 Double Yellow—Like the above, but of a good yellow color 10 & 30 Nana Corn pacta—Small growing, very compact varie- ties in many brilliant colors. They attain a height of only six inches and make a very brilliant carpet of color all summer ^ 10 & 30 Per pkt. Chi ids' Star—Nothing else in the Phlox line has ever created such a sensation as the unique German strains of Fimbriata,Cuspidata and Star of Quedlin- burg, when introduced a few years ago. Their large • size, and their curiously pointed, fringed and toothed blooms—utterly unlike anything else—took the floral world by storm. Unfortunately these flowers were muddy and indistinct in coloring. This we under- took to remedy by hybridization between the new incised sorts and the old brilliant sorts of regular form, and we are more than satisfied with our suc- cess. We have succeeded in retaining the much ad- mired forms of the German strains while the colors of our improved hybrids are of every conceivable shade, more than a hundred distinct tints, shades, colors and combinations having been counted among them. Scarcely two plants can be found of the same shape and color. If you want something odd, new and striking, try Childs' Star Phlox 10 & 30 Chllds' Jubilee—This strain of Phlox is as superior to other Phlox of regular outline, as our new Star Phlox are to the ordinary strains of Fimbriata Phlox. The flowers of Childs' Jubilee Phlox are of great sub- stance, beautiful form and uncommon size, while the colors are extraordinarily rich and varied, glowing crimson, dazzling scarlet, deep rose, soft pink, pale blush, maroon black, lavender purple and number- less other rare shades, many with contrasting eyes, stripes or featherings. In habit these new Phloxes are erect, rather than procumbent and bear their vel- vety blossoms in great profusion, making them un- rivaled for bedding. They are of dwarf stout branch- ing habit, always standing erect , and the individual flowers the size of a twenty dollar gold coin, The grandest of all Phloxes 10 & 30 SPECIAL OFFER—For orOff 75c. we will send one packet each of these fourteen finest Phloxes. t^°Fnr several years one of the chief attractions at Floral Park,and one which pleased visitors greatly has been the acre patch of Childs' Jubilee Phloxes, which we annu- ally grow. Such large flowers, such varied colors, and such a great mass of dazzling brightness cannot be found else- where in this country.

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