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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits for 1895
Year: 1895 (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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an unusual one among ever-bloomers, being,a dark, rich, sjitiny crimson. No better dark Rose. Rainbow. A charming new Rose, showing several differentcolors in the same fiower. Souvenlrdun Ami. Fine old sort, large and full, in color adelicate rose, shaded salmon. Buds exquisitely beautiful. Snowflake. A new white Rose, with lovely waxen bloomsin the greatest abundance. Fine for out of door, andextra flne for pots. The Queen. Tins superb Rose is a sport from the grand oldSouvenir dun Ami, and has the same beriutiful pointedbuds and distinct fragrance, but is pure snowy white incolor instead of pink. E.xlra flne. The Bride. -■Vn exquisitely lovely Ro.se, and very popular.Beautiful foliage, and perfect, double flowers of the verylargest size, and of the most snowy whiteness. Waban. A sport from Mermet Long-stemmed flowers olthe largest size, and finest shape. The outer petals are ofa carmine pink, deepening and brightening to the verytips. The inner petals also show this rich shading.
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New Roses of Special Merit. The following four new Roses, all introductions of ours, are the most unique,valuable, distinct and beautiful varieties which have been offered for many years.Each one is a new departure, and no lover of rare roses can be without them. Crimson Rambler. This new rose Is the sensation of the hoxir, andwell it may be, for It Is Indeed a marvel. It originatedIn Scotland, and Is a hardy, ever-blooming, climbingPolyanthus. It is perfectly hardy In the open ground,will grow 8 to 10 feet in a season. Is In bloom allthe time from early spring till late fall, the flowersappearing in great panicles as large as a mans hat and of adeep, rich crimson color, like blood-colored velvet. Theflowers when cut last two weeks in water, and fully a monthon the bush, which is a perfect mass of rich crimson at alltimes. It can be grown in various ways, as a pillar rose, atrellis rose, and for covering a wall it has no equal, and whenpegged down it will form a bed of itself. Cut bac

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