Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, and fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_12 (find matches)
Year: 1907 (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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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1907. 15
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)jjai)tar)a Early Qlean^o Flowers in a Few Weeks From Seed New and among the greatest of Novelties. Seed will pro- duce fine flowering plants in two to three, months, the plants continuing to flower most profusely all summer and fall in the garden and all the year round in pots. Habit dwarf, compact, and bushy, loaded down with bright, blossoms all the time. Colors white, crimson, orange, yellow, rose, pink, etc. No flower seed novelty ever proved more sat- isfactory than this, either for the garden, or for pots, and our cuf-tomers will be more than delighted with it. Very easily grown in any soil, climate or situation 15 Jjjaptaqa. Weeping—This new trailing plant is a real beauty and highly desirable for bracket pots arid hanging baskets. The slender trailing growth, and abundance of rich blossoms ma king it a plant of peculiar beauty. Color, fine lilac, very fragrant, graceful, and easily grown in any situation 10 I^arkspur. An old-fashioned, but none the less valuable annual with large, compact spikes of showy flowers, in shades of white,pink, red, blue, etc. Sow early in open ground. Hyacinth Flowered—Great Hyacinth-like spikes of large double flowers. Mixed colors 5 Lobelia. Charming little plants for small beds, edging baskets, etc. Graceful and pretty, and colors exceedingly clear. A most charming pot plant for window r 'ilture, biooming in four weeks and making the prettiest little pot flowers. Crystal Palace—Dark blue, best for bedding 5 Mixed Colors—All the best, some with golden foliage 5 Linaria Maroccana Hybrida. A new garden flower, the seed of which may be sown early in the open ground, or started inside. In either case it germinates quickly, grows rapidly and is soon in flower; the long, graceful spikes lasting all summer. One of the very best of the recently introduced hardy annuals, and a prize as either a pot or garden plant. Colors, pure white to rick, dark crimson; some of the shades being wonderfully intense and striking 5

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