. 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. \e\V j^Varf JiiDeberry. This superb new berry is a native of Alaska, and therefore of the most iron-clad hardiness. It is_ a quick grower, forming dense clumps of bushes which seldom grow higher than a man's head, though they bloom and hear heavily when only one or two feet in height. The berries 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. \e\V j^Varf JiiDeberry. This superb new berry is a native of Alaska, and therefore of the most iron-clad hardiness. It is_ a quick grower, forming dense clumps of bushes which seldom grow higher than a man's head, though they bloom and hear heavily when only one or two feet in height. The berries are the size of ordinary cherries, being green in an unripe state, changing to bright scarlet, and, when fully ripe, to a dark purple blue; and as the three colors hang in clusters upon a hush they present a most charming and appetizing sight. After the berry is fully ripe it will keep on the bush in perfect condition for two or three weeks without decaying or dropping. It is exceedingly sweet and has a peculiarly rich and luscious flavor. We do not hesitate to pronounce it the most charming fruit to eat raw from the hand we have ever tasted. Aside from its value as a fruit it is one of the most showy flowering shrubs, as it blooms very early in the spring—before leaves start— and every stem and branch of the bush is a solid wreath of delicate feathery whiteness, so numerous are the flowers. No garden is complete without this magnificent fruit. Price, 20c. each: 3 for .'0c.; 7 for $ rapes. Everyone who has a bare fence, wall or outbuilding, or a few feet of vacant ground, can plant a few grape vines and reap an annual harvest of luscious fruit. Owners of country places, or even of city lots, need never be without an abund- ant 6upply of Grapes in season. There is no fruit that yields a more prompt or generous return. Everybody can grow it, and everybody should have it in abundance. The following sorts are the very cream of the hundreds of varieties which are before the
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