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Title: Childs' fall catalogue of bulbs
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs John Lewis Childs (Firm) Nurseries (Horticulture) Bulbs (Plants) Flowers
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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inthe mouth without a particle of hard core. Its delicate flavor,great productiveness, enormous size, long season of bearing,and perfect hardiness in the coldest parts of the country,make it the most valuable of all berries for family use. Someof our customers who bought it last spring report that theplants fruited last summer, and berries proved to be thelargest and finest ever seen, and that the symmetricalbranching of the plants makes them perfect little trees.PRICE—First qualitv, large and strong, 30c. each; 3 for 50c; 12 for $1.50. Two Fi^e Blackberries. Price—3 for 25c; 12 for 75c; 100 for $2.50. Erie—It is in every sense a superb Blackberry, being enor-mously prolific, hardy, the fruit large in size, perfect inshape, sweet and luscious in quality. Is soft and meltingto the taste, being rich and sugary to the very core. Early Harvest—The earliest Blackberry grown and in everyway a grand good sort. Often grows eight feet high anda perfect mass of fruit from top to bottom.
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Ttye Tree Stra\Vberry. Or Strawberry-Raspberry. This is one of the most unique and at the same time themost beautiful berry of any kind that has yet appeared be-fore the public It comes to us from Japan, and is said to bea hybrid between the Strawberry and Raspberry. Whetherthis is correct or not we are unable to say, but that the plantis entirely hardy without protection and a prolific yielder,we can bear testimony from personal observation. In habitof giowth the plant is distinct from both the fruits named.The root is perennial, throwing up numerous strong branch-ing shoots, which are covered with its large, beautiful ber-ries the whole summer, from early in July until freezingweather, rendering it a perpetual bearer. The canes orshoots die to the earth in winter, new ones being thrown upthe following spring, which begin blooming and setting fruitat once. The foliage is light green in color, bright, clean,cheerful and pleasing, and exempt from attacks of all in-sects and diseases. T

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