Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_18 (find matches)
Year: 1915 (1910s)
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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Scabiosa. This is one of the very best bouquet flowers of our entire list, and is also fine for masses or clumps in the flower- garden. Each plant bears a profusion of beautiful flowers, rich, velvety, glowing, and unlike any other flower, while the long wiry stems fit them for use in bouquets and vases. Mixed Colors—(Mourning Bkide) 5 Double Mixed Colors—Dwarf habit, fine colors 5 Snow Ball—Large, perfectlv double, white as snow 10 StjOO^Fly Plaint. (House.) (Physolodes physolodes). It is said that flies will not stay in a room where it is grown if they can conveniently escape, and our test shows such to be the case, though what there is about it that repulses them is not clear, as the plant or flower has no odor. Aside from this most remarkable quality it is a beautiful flowering plant, and blooms in a short time (60 days) from seed. It is particularly valuable as a winter bloomer, the blossoms being large, cup-shaped and of a lovely light blue color, with a white center. It is a profuse bloomer in pots both summer and winter. In the garden it grows too rank and-weedy to be any value, but as a pot plant it is fine. Seed 10
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* // . S\Veet WilUaa). The favorite.flowerof our grandmothers. One of the best edging plants for the border, bearing in early summer large heads of the richest and most varied colors. Very fragrant* and a favorite with everyone for vases and bouquets. • Improved Mixed Colors—Perfect in form, large in size, luilliant ami varied in colors. 5 Double Mixed Colors—Fine double blossoms .'.10 Simla X. (House.) Not only a'flne window vine, but exceedingly fine for out- doors. In the open ground it grows luxuriantly, furnishing great quantities of its dainty, glossy-green sprays that are exquisite for bouquets. In the house it requires eood light and freedom from dust. Its feathery little blooms are deli- cately fragrant 5 Stokesia or Cornflower Aster, (Perennial.) A lovely hardy perennial and a free bloomer all summer. Plants grow 18 to 25 inches high and begin blooming early. The blossoms are Aster-like, and very handsome. Grows well in any situation, and is immensely popular. Blue-Lovely 5 White—New and fine 10

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