. Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits. 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. -OHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y. Salpiglossis. , ..An exceedingly beautiful flower, and an extra fine and brilliant bedder. Large, lovely, funnel-shaped blossoms of velvety texture, and with deeply sunken veins, penciled and shaded with the richest tracings on a groundwork of the most pleasin
. Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits. 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. -OHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, N. Y. Salpiglossis. , ..An exceedingly beautiful flower, and an extra fine and brilliant bedder. Large, lovely, funnel-shaped blossoms of velvety texture, and with deeply sunken veins, penciled and shaded with the richest tracings on a groundwork of the most pleasing colors. It stands the sun well, and some of the snowiest beds wo have ever seen have been of this beau- tiful and easy grown annual. Per pkt Crandiflora, Mixed Colors—A grand new strain with enormous blossoms possessing the most varied, bril- liant and fantastic markings imaginable. The stain- ing, pencilling and blending of the colors is wonder-. Plajjt "Shoo-FIy" Plaint. An important new plant of the Physilis family. It is claimed that flies will not stay in a room where it is growing if they can conveniently escape, and our tests show such to- be the ease, though what t here 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 most beautiful flowering plant, and blooms in a very short time (GO days) from seed. It is particularly valuable as a winter bloomer, the blossoms being large,cup-shaped and of a lovely light blu >lor. with a white center. It is a profuse pots both summer and winter. In the garden it grows too rank and weedy to bo of any value, but as a pot plant it is exquisite. 10. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original John Lewis Childs (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade C
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