. 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. 2\i)tirrltioaiif. This is the "Snap Dragon" of old, tbougn so much im- proved that you would scarcely know it. It is a hardy per- ennial, (lowering freely the first summer. Tile dwarf sorts form bushy, compact plants, which bear a mass of large brilliant flowers in short, compact spikes a
. 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. 2\i)tirrltioaiif. This is the "Snap Dragon" of old, tbougn so much im- proved that you would scarcely know it. It is a hardy per- ennial, (lowering freely the first summer. Tile dwarf sorts form bushy, compact plants, which bear a mass of large brilliant flowers in short, compact spikes and of a great variety of dazzling colors. Beautiful for pots as well as for the garden, and grows readily from cuttings. Per pkt. Tall Mixed—Rich colors of all shades 5 & 10 Dwarf Mixed—Dwarf, compact growth 5 & 10 Tom Thumb—Mixed colors, the finest of all Snap Dragons, growing only eight inches high; flowers large, colors very brilliant, orange, scarlet, yellow, maroon, white, rose, striped, etc 5 & 10. A favorite little annual, because of its fragrance and abundance of bloom. As easy to grow as any weed, and blooms from early summer until severe freezing weather in fall. Sow seed very early in open ground. Dainty little plants for hanging baskets or small pots. Good for cutting and button-hole bouquets. Per pkt. Sweet — Racemes of small cruciform white flowers, honev-scenteri. and never out of bloom 5 4t 10 Little Cem — An improved variety: much larger flowers of a pure white, and. if possible, more flori- ferousthan the old Sweet. Plant isalsomore robust and spreading, a single plant forminga thick mat of flowers and foliage 12 to lr> inches across. Three and four hund red spikes of flowers In full bloom can be counted ona good specimen plant at one time. Indeed. 600 spikes have been counted on one plant 10*20 roerijoi)e GpaAdiflora. A cut of this l>eautiful flower cannot do it justice, especially as the page is not large enough to show flower nat
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