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Title: Childs rare flowers, vegetables, and fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_1 (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm); Wall, H. M. pop; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Fruit Varieties United States Catalogs; Flowers Varieties United States Catalogs; Vegetables Varieties United States Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Fruit; Flowers; Vegetables
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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32 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS. FLORAL PARK. QUEENS CO.. N. Y.
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Philadelphia. \c\V (;i)rysarftt>ciitmifs. The following are new varieties of more than ordinary value. In fact they are the leaders of to-day. Philadelphia. The sensation among Chrysanthemums. Took l."> lirst prizes last year, never failing to win in any exhibition in America or Europe. Flower of enormous size, as round as a ball, pure white with 11 delicate shad- owy tinge of lemon, giving the flower a peculiar translu- cent effect. It i* the grandest variety in cultivation, ite peculiar beauty being utterl> Indescrih a b 1 e. Dandelion. The earliest Chi) Banthemum to bloom and the most exquisite yellow variety. Color deep golden, size large, dwarf habit, free bloomer. As a cut flower noth- ing can surpass it. A seedling raised by us four years ago; now offered for the first time. Norma Oee Childs. A beautiful Chinese: enormous flower, seven inches across, perfectly double to the center; petals wide, and color snow-white. Unquestionably the best pure white Chrysanth ernTim known. Mayflower. Blowers sis Inches.*0™68" perfectly double tc. the c»nter. Petals long and wavy and beautifully and deeply laolniated; color pale whitish-lavender, slightly shaded with yellow toward the center. Unlike any other vari-fv. and a flower of ereat and peculiar beauty. Autumn Eve. An early hi nomine large flowered white variety and a fine companion to Dandelion, as tbey are both such early bloomers, and fine in every respect. Price of <7/«itv \t tr f'hriisnnthemumt, tSc. roeh ; the * for $'.00. N

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