. Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, and 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, lightly striped with green and vellow. Flowers pretty pale lilac-blue on tall spikes. Fine also for pots. Altogether this is one of the very finest (c
. Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, and 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, lightly striped with green and vellow. Flowers pretty 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. S pi rea Fi 11 pend u la—Grows two feet hi gh, with large feath- ery plumes of the most charming white blossoms. Splrea Elegans—Pure white, in large, compact spirals. Splrea Ulmaria—Fine foliage and elegant flowers. Platycodon Crandlflora—A lovely free blooming plant. See page 67. Yucca Filamentosa—The stately clumps of stiff, bayonet- like leaves, bristling out from the center in every direc- tion, are extremelv ornamental. Flower stalks are thrown up as high as a man's head, and bear at their summit immense compound panicles of creamy bell- shaped flowers, each floret two inches "WHIRL-WIND- Mosquito Catcher Plant—This pretty plant, Vincetoxicum comesifrom Japan. Itgrowsoneto two feet high and. all summer, bearing a profusion of pretty, white star- like blossoms that secrete a viscid fluid that attracts mosquitoes and sometimes other insects as well. Alas for the poor mosquitol No struggling on his part can ever free him after he has once dipped his Deak in the forbidden sweets, though he may tug and plungo and buzz for a day or two after. A single spray of bloom will capture a dozen mosquitoes. Anemone, Whirlwind—A variety of the beautiful old A. Japonica, but with large
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