Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_7 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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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38 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. V.
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Verbenas, Like the Tansy, the Aster and the Petunia, the Verbena is a favorite wit !i everybody, and one ilds' Prize Verbenas. Famous as the finest strains of Verbenas known. Wo grow lour acres of these superb (lowers, and we know what we are talking about when we say they are the llnest of all Verbenas. The plants are vigorous and short-jointed and perfect sheets of bloom. Tin- trusses are very large, the (lowers of mammoth size, perfect form and embracing the richest and most velvety colors. They are also delicately sweet— cented. The range of colors is great, and shade- are very delicate and dainty. In coloring they are. in tact perfectly exquisite, there being very little of the com- mon old blue and purple colors among them. In their place we have delicate blushes, lavenders, pinks, velvety indigoes. intense scarlets, whites, mottled, striped, variegated, etc., in fact, a thousand different colors and combinations. Childs' Prize, Mixed Colors — Hundreds of delicate shades. Enormous sized flowe is: dwarf, compact habit and prodigious bloomers 20 Child6' Prize, Pure White—Comes true from seed. Great trusses of snowy blossoms of exquisite fragrance 15 Childs' Prize, Scarlet A very intense scarlet 1"> Moss Verbenas. Purple-Blue—This new Verbena produces a mass of line, moss-like foliage, and as the branc hes spread out over the ground in all directions a lovely carpet of mossy •Teen is formed, above which tire borne the delicate clusters of purple-blue blossoms in the wildest pro- fusion The effect is most charming. It is more hardy and robust than most Verbenas, and blooms in a very short time from seed. It is novel and beautiful 10 Pure White—This is one of the very llnest novelties Oils year and appears on our colored plate. The first plate in the catalogue. It is absolutely pure snow white, the blossoms having the same delicate fragrance as the Sweet Alyssum. and form in such profusion that a single plant covers kki or more clusters at all times 20 Ne\V Black Verbeqa. Black Beauty-This is offered now for the first, time and is of a deep maroon-black color with white eye. >cry striking and novel 15

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