. 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. Day Lily, Large Blue—Lovely blue flowers on tall spikes. Variegated Leaved—Leaves as handsome as a flower. A rosette-cluster of almost white leaves lishtlv striped with green and yellow. Flowers prettv pale lilac-blue on tall spikes. Fine also for pots. Altogether this is one of the very finest (
. 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. Day Lily, Large Blue—Lovely blue flowers on tall spikes. Variegated Leaved—Leaves as handsome as a flower. A rosette-cluster of almost white leaves lishtlv striped with green and yellow. Flowers prettv pale lilac-blue on tall spikes. Fine also for pots. Altogether this is one of the very finest (certainly one of the most attrac- tive and ornamental) of all hardy plants. Large White—Pure in color as the driven snow, as smooth in texture as though cut from sheeted wax. Spirea Filipendula—Grows two feet high, with large feath- ery plumes of the most charming white blossoms. Spirea Elegans—Pure white, in large, compact spirals. Spirea Ulmaria—Fine foliage and elegant flowers. Platycodon Crandlflora—A lovely free blooming plant. Sweet See page ary This plant was known in olden times only as Sweet Mary, producing an abundance of beautiful leaves all summer, which are indispensable for bouquets and cut flowers. This lovely old plant has almost gone out of cultivation, and we know that many of our customers will thank us for re-introducing whirlwind: Mosquito Catcher Plant—This pretty plant,Vincetoxicum, comes from Japan. It grows one to two feet high and all summer bearing a profusion of pretty, white, star-like blossoms that secrete a viscid fluid that attracts mos- quitoes and sometimes other insects as well. Alas for the poor mosquito I No struggling on his part can ever free him after he has once dipped his beak in the for- bidden sweets, though he may tug and plunge and buzz for a day or two after. A single spray of bloom will capture a dozen mosquitos. Anemone, Whirlwind—A variety of the beautiful old A. Japonica, but with large, semi-double bloss
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