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Title: Childs' combination catalogue for 1910 : flower seeds vegetable seeds summer bulbs hardy bulbs and plants house plants shrubs new fruits and dutch or full bulbs
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Commercial catalogs Seeds Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Flowers Catalogs Fruit trees Catalogs John Lewis Childs (Firm) Commercial catalogs Nurseries (Horticulture) Vegetables Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Flowers 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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those sections of the country where fruit is scarce, asits fruits make delicious preserves, sauce etc...andI aremore easily prepared. This is something like the VinePeach, but needs no Lemon in putting up. as it is muchmore acid. Cultivation like the Musk Melon. Pkt., 5c. Vine Peach—This sort has fruit the size of a large Peachand of a bright orange color, flesh firm and when cookedwith lemon to give it a slight acidity, makes line pies,sauce, sweet pickles or preserves. Easily grown and agood keeper. Stored in a cool, dry place they keep freshand good for several months. Pkt., 5c.: oz., 15c. Okra, Mammoth Long Podded. A most superb new Okra which produces an abundanceof fine large pods that are of superior quality for soups, etc.Plants grow four feet high but begin to bear pods when 8 to12 inches high. These pods last long in a fresh, prime state,and are borne in great quantities all summer. The best,Okra grown. Pkt., 10c.; 3 pkts., for 25c. 33 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y.
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Ixettiice, An indispensable vegetable—certainly the fineM saladplant known. Easily grown, either in hot-bed or garden,and can be sown very early. South of Mason and Dixonsline can be sown in open ground in fall, and needs only aslight protection of straw or loose litter to be perfectly hardy.Childs Half Century—We all know how much carefulselection year after year has to do with the quality ofour vegetables, but there are few things that can claim ahalf-century descent from only the choicest and bestspecimens of one type. This Lettuce can do so, however,and we are not surprised, therefore, at its superiorqualities. Its leaves fold together, forming a long, loosehead, remarkable for tenderness and delicious flavor. Itmay seem a good deal to say, but it is, nevertheless, afact that for tenderness.brittleness and delicious quality,this Lettuce grown in the open ground surpasses anyother sort grown under glass- Nothing can approach itin quality. It is so brittle and tender that its le

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