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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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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1913. 17 SPECIAL STOCKS AND SPECIALTIES IN CHOICE SELECT FLOWER SEEDS Our Greatly Improved Strains of Leading Annuals, Perennials and Climbers. The Most Worthy Late Introductions, and Select Seed of Improved Standard Sorts. The ordinary commercial grades of flower seeds, such as are usually sold, can be and are sold at a very low price. They are grown and harvested in large crops, much like grain. They are produced cheaply, sold cheaply, and are, in fact, cheap in every sense of the word ; and he who sows them has no right to complain at their poor quality. They cannot possibly be anything but poor. Seed of high quality can be produced only by thorough, careful, painstaking and expensive methods. "We do not offer our customers the ordinary commercial grades of seeds. Our stocks are special strains of special varieties bred up to the highest mark of perfection and selected with great care, and for this reason we grow and offer but a limited number of varieties—only those which are of the greatest merit and sure to give satisfaction everywhere. The very best varieties, bred up to an unequalled mark of perfection, has made our seeds famous the world over. For the best summer display the garden is dependent upon flowers which are grown from seed sown every year. There are thousands of varieties, some good, some indifferent, but the great majority are poor,or in some respects unsatisfactory and not desirable"for general cultivation. With a view to offering our customers only the very best vaiieties, those which cannot fail to produce good results in every part of the country, we have for years carefully grown, tested and selected to ascertain what sorts possessed superior merits. The list here presented is the result of our labor. It contains the very best of all sorts, and all which are really and generally desirable. ANNUALS—In our list of flower seeds all kinds that are not designated as "Perennials,""House," House and Garden," or "Climbers" may be put down as bedding annuals, although some of them, notably, Pansies, Dianthus, and Garden Pinks, live out over winter and bloom as well the second season as they do the first. CLIMBERS-All sorts marked Climbers are annual vines; such as Sweet Peas, Morning Glories and Gourds. HOUSE- All marked House are window, or greenhouse plants; such as Cyclamen, Cineraria and Primroses. HOUSE AND GARDEN—Those marked thus are plants which are adapted to window and greenhouse culture, and for summer bedding outside; such as Geraniums, Lantanaand Heliotrope. PERENNIALS—These are hardy plants which live and thrive in the garden year after year- 3Icst of them do not bloom until the second summer from seed.
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ASTEK GUST COMET. " FULI/MOON. ^sters. The acknowledged queeu of autumn annuals. In- dispensable for the flower garden, line as a show plant for fairs and exhibitions, and charming pot plants. Very profuse bloomers, with exceedingly beautiful flowers of the most exquisite colors and most perfect form. There are several forms of Asters, some being imbricated like the Rose, some loose and globularlike a Peony, while others are partly incurved like the Chrysanthemum. Perpkt. Giant Comet-Phi uts tall and of much vigor, while the flowers are of such extraordinary size thac they may without contest be said to be the largest of any in existence. Flowers are formed of largest twisted and curled petals, and look exactly like the most refined (forms of Japanese (Chrysanthe- mum. Many colors mixed 10 Giant Comet, White—Immense size, snow white s15 Giant Comet, Sulphur Yellow—Superb 15 Giant-Branching Comet—A superb new Aster, growing 18 inches high, with enormous flowers borne on long graceful stems. The plant branches freely carrying 1 torn 20 to 40 of its magnificent flowers. Each flower is as double and perfect as a Peony, 5 to 6 inches in diameter, with center filled with a charming whorl of petals after the true comet style. All colors mixed...15 Giant-Branching Comet, Fullmoon — An enormous plant of great vigor, branching freely and bearing on iong graceful stems double blossoms of the most gigantic size, like immense Cactus Dahlias. It is an Aster that will astonish all who grow it. The flowers are very double and immaculate. For cutting for vases and bouquets they rival the finest Chrysanthemums, the glorious blossoms on long stems lasting a long . time in water. Any one can easily grow this wonder- ful Aster in great abundance... , 15 Daybreak—Immense Peony-like double blossoms of the loveliest sea-shell pink color. No other Aster pro- duces such large and beautiful blossoms in such reck- ; less profusion, and lasting qualities 10 Merban Johnson, Minnedosa, Man. Canada. Writes :-It may interest you to know that we swept the first prizes on Asters at the Branden Provincial Hort. Fair. Also Stocks, all grown from your seed. Mbs Chas. G. Kellee, No. Isleboro, Maine. Writes:—All your seeds and plants were a perfect success. My Asters. l^rS^isS^theie^^&iTte)^ were admired by all as the most beautiful ever seen.

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