Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_9 (find matches)
Year: 1904 (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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SWeet Peas.—(Climber*) Our Great Collection of Grand New Varieties. One of the dear old flowers that will never go out of fashion. Everyone who has a yard ought to grow quantities of this sweetest of all flowers, that is not only a beautiful low-growing vine for garden and decoration, hut one of the most useful of all in furnishing material for vases, bouquets and all cut flower work. Plant quantities of these lovely flowers and cut them with a lavish hand. Their presence will bring pleasure in the sick room, adorn your friends' Otherwise empty vases, and make happy the flower-hungry children with no pretty yards and flowers of their own: for every flower you pick, two will eome to fill its plaee. Easy to grow anywhere if sown early, very early. For the largest and finest blossoms, dig a trench six inches deep, put in two inches of rotten manure, a little earth, and sow the seeds over this three inches apart in the row. covering an inch and a half deep. Do this as early as the ground can possibly be worked in the spring, and as the plants grow, fill up the trench around them with rich earth. Such planting will produce enormous quantities of flowers of the largest size. Our Crand Large-Flowering Mixed Sweet Peas-Thc finest mixture possible, as only the largest-flowered or "Grandiflora" type (Eckford's) is used. More than loo different colors: perfectly magnificent. Pkt., 6c; oz., 10c.; Jilb., 25c ; >£lb.. 40c.; lib.. 75c. 50 Sorts in One Pkt. for 10c—For 10c. we will send a packet containing 50 seeds—mixed—one seed each of 60 different named varieties. 50 Grandest Named Sweet'Peas. All at 5C per pkt., ioc. per oz. Admiration—Delicate lavender-pink; mixed colors. America—Bright cardinal and white stripe. Apple Blossom — Shaded pink and rose standard, wings lighter shade. Aurora—Salmon and white stripes; blossoms large and one of the pretties of the stripes. Black Knight—Deep, rich, maroon-blaek. Countess Cadogan—Beautiful bright blue. Captivation—Purplish'magenta; quite unlike any other. Coquette—Standard light violet shading to primrose and light primrose wings. Countess of Radnor—Lavender standard and blue wings. Crown Jewel—Violet and rose-pink blended in the stand- ard, wings light primrose: large blossoms; vigorous. Dorothy Tennant—Deep rosy mauve. Duke of Clarence—Bright rosv claret; purple-maroon. Duke of Southland — Purplish maroon standard, indigo blue wings. A very dark variety. Emily Eckford-Kosy purple standard and blush purple wings changing to almost blue when open a day. Eliza Eckford—White, shaded and edged with light pink on standard; wings almost white. Ex. Ey. Blanche Ferry — Rose pink standard and white wings, same as in the original Blanche Ferry. Earliest of All —Blossoms same as extra early Blanche Ferry but it is earlier.

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