. Childs rare flowers, vegetables, and fruits. Fruit Varieties United States Catalogs; Flowers Varieties United States Catalogs; Vegetables Varieties United States Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Fruit; Flowers; Vegetables. SCARLET STPIDER Grand tropical foliage plants for bedding and for pots. Esculentum. A grand sun-tropical foliage plant, growing four feet high, and bearing immense shield-shapep leaves of the smoothest, richest green. Extra line for groups or single specimens upon the lawn, or as borders to tropicrl beds, or to plant at the margins of ornamental pools, etc. Give
. Childs rare flowers, vegetables, and fruits. Fruit Varieties United States Catalogs; Flowers Varieties United States Catalogs; Vegetables Varieties United States Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Fruit; Flowers; Vegetables. SCARLET STPIDER Grand tropical foliage plants for bedding and for pots. Esculentum. A grand sun-tropical foliage plant, growing four feet high, and bearing immense shield-shapep leaves of the smoothest, richest green. Extra line for groups or single specimens upon the lawn, or as borders to tropicrl beds, or to plant at the margins of ornamental pools, etc. Give plenty of water. 20c. each. $ per dozen. Fancy. Easy to grow in summer, either in beds or pots. For piazza or summer conservatory decoratian they are unrivaled. Their beautifully shaped and glossy foliage is elegantly variegated in the most telling manner. One, perhaps, is regularly dotted with round raised spots of white ; another is ribbed and veined with pink, or scarlet, or yellow, while still ancther is splashed and marbled with white or shaded almost black. In fact, the im- mense leaves are so marked with delicate and vivid colors as to make them as showy as great and peculiar flowers. Our collection is superb. 40c. each, 3 for $,7 for $ Alocasla lllustris. This rare foliage plant belongs to the same family as the Caladium, and is very striking either as a pot plant or as a specimen pladt in the garden. The large handsome leaves are dee green, freely blotched and marbled with black. Very handsome indeed. 30c. each, 2 for 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); Wall, H. M. pop; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. [Floral Park, N. Y. : John Lewis Childs]
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