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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40 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y. Fire Ball—Dwarf habit, large double blossoms of intense scarlet, as round and perfect as a ball. It makes a fine border or mass, its bright color and perfect habit show- ing to great advantage 10 Snow Bail—Exactly like Fire Ball, except color, which is snow-white and makes a charming contrast. 10 Liiiiput, Mixed Colors—This strain is the acnie of beauty and perfection in Zinnias. Plants small and of bushv growth, each one bearing scores of beautiful little blos- soms of the most perfect shape and brilliant colors. Ihesc charming little Zinnias are gems indeed, and should be in every garden 10 Cold Bug—plants grow a foot high and branch freely into beautiful little compact bushes, which are at all times covered with beautiful golden-yellow blossoms as double as roses. Now last year 10 special" offer. To encourage the f ree use of our improved Zinnias, we will send one packet each of the eighl variet ics litre offered for only UOc.
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Zinnia. From early childhood the Zinnia has been a special favorite with us, and the strain which wo cultivated in our first little garden we still sell and grow as our improved. Wo have selected the stock seed every year for thirty years. This careful attention has brought it to wonderful perfection. This Zinnia, is a robust, free grower, furnishing an abundance of large, double blossoms which are of varied and brilliant colors, during the entire sum- mer and fall. Each flower keeps perfect for six weeks before fading, and each plant is a great mass of bloi im all the time, mak- ing a showing which is peculiar. Nothing else can 11111 heir place. Seed should be started inside or sown in the garden about corn- planting time. Chi Ids' Improved, Mixed Colors—Saved only from select flow- ers, perfect in shape and color. The finest strain of Zinnia in cultivation. Every plant will produce immense double blossoms of varii ms colors, from white to deep crimson, ma- roon, pink, yellow, orange, scarlet, violet, primrose, buff, striped, etc. Every plant will give fine double flowers. Sing and poor flowers long ago disappeared from this strain 10 Crested and Crinkled —All colors mixed. A strain with curiously crested and crinkled petals 10 Improved Striped—A good strain representing all the lead- ing colors, but all striped. Really the finest strain of Striped or Zebra Zinnias in cultivation 10 Double Yellow—Blossoms large and bright yellow 5

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