. Childs' condensed catalogue of specialties, novelties and special offers in extra choice new and rare bulbs, plants, seeds and fruits. Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Fruit trees. Dahlia. We still find difficulty in convincing our customers that good Dahlias can be grown from seed, and that plants wil) bloom the first season from seed. We only wish we could show all doubters some of the magnificent flowers grown fioin o
. Childs' condensed catalogue of specialties, novelties and special offers in extra choice new and rare bulbs, plants, seeds and fruits. Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Fruit trees. Dahlia. We still find difficulty in convincing our customers that good Dahlias can be grown from seed, and that plants wil) bloom the first season from seed. We only wish we could show all doubters some of the magnificent flowers grown fioin our seeds. Anyone who can raise a Zinnia or a morn- ing Glory from seed can grow Dahlias from seed. They are emarkably easy to germinate, and from the very seed-leaf he plants are stocky and sturdy. Seed sown in the house in March or April will produce flowering plants as soon us .'/lants grown from tubers. We know this to be so by repeated experiments of our own, and our customers write vis the same thing. Some of the finest, largest Dahlias, and 'he richest colors we have ever seen, were among seedlings. live good soil, and never let the plants suiter for water, and our word for it you will be more than satisfied. Out of a large paper of seed we have known no two plants to be alike In flower, while there was every color represented, from snow-white to blackish maroon. .Start seed in house, and transplant to open ground a Iter frost has gone. pel. p^t Double Large Flowering, Mixed—Will produce some magnificent varieties 20 Double Pompon, Mixed. Extra choice strain 15 New 8lngle, Mixed Colors. Flowers very large and of rainbow colors. Very graceful and exceedingly pop- ular as cut flowers 10 Craclllls, Mixed Colors. Fiuecul foliage, and a prolus- ion of brilliantly-striped and flecked blossoms like large tropical butterflies 15 Zlmpanl. A pretty and curious variety with graceful black flowers 10 Cactus. A new class of broad-petaled double (lowers, esteemed by many the finest o
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