. Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits for 1894. 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. SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS. BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1894. 161 ^]^ARE \VAT E-rTP LAM TS. It yon have never done so before, do not fail to have a tab or two of water plants this summer. It will be m source of enjoyment to yourself and your friends all the season. All the following sorts are eas
. Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits for 1894. 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. SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS. BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1894. 161 ^]^ARE \VAT E-rTP LAM TS. It yon have never done so before, do not fail to have a tab or two of water plants this summer. It will be m source of enjoyment to yourself and your friends all the season. All the following sorts are easily grown in tubs, tanks, pools or still streams. Most people must, for. lack of other facilities, grow them in tubs sunk to the earth's surface on the lawn or in the garden. In this way they are a perfect success. Fill the tubs two-thirds full of rich soil, then £11 with water to the top, which should be replenished as it evaporates. Such plants as the Water Hyacinth, Water Poppy, and Parrots Feather, may, of course, be grown in small pans in the window or on a veranda with the other Water Hyacinth. PONTEDERIA CRASSIPES. The translucent delicacy of the Water Hyacinth's tints, and its sparkling, frosHike crystallization of texture, can not be caught by the artist's brush or pictured to the reader's Imagination by cold type. In every sense it is a peculiar and beautiful plant. Each plant is a rosette-like cluster of smooth round green leaves, to each of which is attached a singular, puffed, bladder-like petiole or leaf-stalk that enables the plant to float like a boat, until the mass of feathery, indigo-blue roots—themselves a notable feature in this plant —and mooring to their notion and send anchoring roots Into the soil below. When the long full spikes of superlatively beautiful flowers appear, no praise can be too high for them. Each flower in the spike is the size of a silver dollar, a blend- ing of lilac-rose and azure-blue tints, with the upper and slightly
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