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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, and fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_16 (find matches)
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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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42 JOHN LEWIS CH1LOS, FLORAL PARK, N- Y Df^lMULA-
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pritpula Sii)er>sis. Easy to grow, pretty in leaf, handsome in flower, and continually in bloom for months at a time. These merits alone would earn a place in every window, but when we add that it is one of the plants never attacked by insects and that it will bloom in a sunless window, where a Geranium or Heliotrope would never showabud.itisclearthatthesmall- est collection would never be complete without it. Young, vigorous plants are always the best, and are easily grown if the seed is sown on light porous soil, underlaid with drain- age, and kept moist, but not wet, until the seeds germinate, which will be in about two weeks. Give young plants plenty of air and plunge pots in summer in cool shady place. Our seed is saved from the choicest strains and can be relied upon to produce the largest flowers and finest colors.Per pkt Mixed—Very good: from a fine collection 10 Fimbriata Filicifolia — Mixed (fern-leaved); beautiful cut-leaved foliage 1 Fimbriata Globosa—Mixed colors; this is a new strain of Fimbriata with unusually large flowers of great sub- stance, colors very clear and pleasing, such as pure white with large lemon eye, deep rose, carmine, steel blue, white, pink, striped and flaked with other colors, etc. Extra fine 2 Fimbriata, fl. plM Double, Mixed Colors-The double Primulas are among the choicest of all window plants, and the admiration of all who see them. The seed we offer is thd choicest to be had. and will produce a large per cent, of magnificent double blossoms 25 Obconica or Monarch—Mixed,double and single.—These are the new large-flowering Obconica-Sinensis Hy- brids of various colors, as large and fine as Primula Sinensis. Colors- pink, violet, blush, rose, lilac, white, etc. Very charming flowers, being borne in large trusses, and at all times of the year in great profusion. They bloom very quickly from seed, and the large showy blossoms are borne constantly for a year, and when we realize that these flowers are as large as P, Sinensis, and almost ns varied in colors, their great value is at once apparent. Plants very vigorous and easily grown as a geranium 10 filifera pain). One of the best window Palms, needing no petting" to succeed. Stands dust and dry air, and lack of sunshine, and is very ornamental with its elegantly fan-shaped leaves of a rich, dark, leathery green, picturesquely fringed with long thread-like filaments along the segments of the leaves. The plant is a compact grower well adapted to pot culture- suc- ceeding in any situation and with any treatment that will keep a Geranium alive 10

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