. Childs' rare flowers, vegetables and fruits. Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Vegetables; Fruit. Shoo-Ffy Plant (House) (Phvsolodes physolodes.) It is said that flies will not "lay in a room where it is grown if they can con- veniently escape, and our tests show such to be the case, though what there is about it that repulses them is not clear, as the plant or flower has no odor. Aside from this most
. Childs' rare flowers, vegetables and fruits. Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Vegetables; Fruit. Shoo-Ffy Plant (House) (Phvsolodes physolodes.) It is said that flies will not "lay in a room where it is grown if they can con- veniently escape, and our tests show such to be the case, though what there 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 beautiful flowering plant, and blooms in a short time (sixty days'' from seed. It is particularly valuable as a winter bloomer, the blossoms being large, cup-shaped and of a lovely light blue color, with a white center. It is a profuse bloomer in pots both summer and winter. In the garden it grows too rank and weedy to be or any value, but as a pot plant it is tine. Seed to. Scabiosa This is one of the very best bouquet flowers of our entire list, and is also line for masses or clumps in the flower garden. Each plant bears a profusion of beau- tiful flowers, rich, velvety, glowing, and unlike any other flower, while the long, wiry stems fit them for use in bouquets and vases. PerpKt. Mixed Colors— (Morning-Bride) 5 Double Mixed Colors-—Dwarf, habit, fine colors 5 Snow Ball — Large, perrectly double, white as *. 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 Catalog Collection. Floral Park, N. Y. : John Lewis Childs
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