Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_8 (find matches)
Year: 1903 (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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Verbenas. Like the Pansy, the Aster and the Petunia, the Verbena is a favorite with everybody, and one of the most universally popular of all flowers, both for the garden and for pot cul- ture. For constant and profuse flowering, and for brilliancy and beauty of colors it has no equals. Start seed early under glass, if possible, that good strong plants may be had for transplanting in the garden. They will commence blooming in June and continue until after severe frosts, and during the entire time nothing in the garden will attract more attention than the bed or clump of Verbenas. In August cuttings may be taken from some of the best ones and potted up for winter blooming. Our prize strain are the finest Verbenas in cultivation. Per pkt, Extra Choice Mixed—Prom named collection 10 Golden Bedder—A striking variety with bright scarlet blossoms and golden yellow foliage 20 Primrose—A soft, pale yellow, or primrose 10 Odorata—It is so hardy seed can be sown in the open ground early in the spring, where they will quickly germinate, grow rapidly, and in a few weeks be in bloom, and give a great profusion of beautiful blos- soms all summer. The blossoms, instead of being in clusters like other sorts, run up into spikes.usually 3 or 4 inches long. Very sweet scented and pure white 5 CHILDS' PRIZE VERBENAS. Famous as the finest strains of Verbenas known. We grow four acres of these superb flowers, and we know what we are talking about when we say they are the finest of all Verbenas. The plants are vigorous and short-jointed and perfect sheets of bloom. The trusses are very large, the flowers of mammoth size, perfect form and embracing the richest and most velvety colors. They are also delicately sweet-scented. The range of color is great, and shades are mostly very delicate and dainty. In coloring they are, in fact, 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 flowers; prodigious bloomers.20 Childs' Prize, Pure White—Comes true from seed. Great trusses of snowy blossoms of exquisite fragrance 15 Childs' Prlie, Scarlet—A very intense scarlet 15 THE MAYFLOWER VERBENA. With the habit, beauty and fragrance of the Trailing Arbutus, a plant equally valuable for the garden or pots and perpetual bloomer,—what more can be desired. It is named Mayflower because the shape of its blossoms, its color, and fragrance, are almost identical with the wide-famed and cherished Trailing Arbutus, or as it is called in New England, Mavflower. The flowers are as rich and powerful in fragrance as the Arbutus. The Verbenas, being of a creeping or trail- ing habit, like the Arbutus, with clusters and individual flowers much the same, one can easily imagine how the ad- dition of the same fragrance may make a close imitation of that most beautiful of ail Avild flowers. Mayflower Pink—Varies from light to deep pink, like the Arbutus, with the same unexcelled fragrance. Perfect form and great beauty. A lovely pot or garden flower..15 Mayflower White—Pure snow white, with same delicious Arbutus fragrance. Comes absolutely true from seed. 15 MOSS VERBENAS. Purple Blue—This new Verbena produces a mass of fine, moss-like foliage, and as the branches spread out over the ground in all directions a lovely carpet of mossy green is formed, above which are borne the delicate clusters of purple-blue blossoms in the wildest pro- fusion. The effect is most charming. Blooms in a very short time from seed. It is novel and beautiful 10 Pure White—It is absolutelv pure snow white, the blos- soms having the same delicate fragrance as the Sweet Alyssum, and form in such profusion that a single plant covers 100 or more clusters at all times; new and fine.. 10

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