Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits for 1895 . They aremuch stronger and more vigorous than others, the growthbeing exceedingly rank, and tlie foliage dark, healthy are verj t^ill and erect, often standing four or five feethigh, with spikes of bloom over two feet in W^ngth. Thoybranch freely, in most cases each stem producing three ortour spikes of bloom, and bloom much earlier than ordinary?arletles. The flowers are of great substance and of gigantic It was my good luck to receive from Floral Park lastyear, a bulbof that superb flower Gladiolus Childsl. It waswith intense int
Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & fruits for 1895 . They aremuch stronger and more vigorous than others, the growthbeing exceedingly rank, and tlie foliage dark, healthy are verj t^ill and erect, often standing four or five feethigh, with spikes of bloom over two feet in W^ngth. Thoybranch freely, in most cases each stem producing three ortour spikes of bloom, and bloom much earlier than ordinary?arletles. The flowers are of great substance and of gigantic It was my good luck to receive from Floral Park lastyear, a bulbof that superb flower Gladiolus Childsl. It waswith intense interest 1 watched its -apid growth. It beganto bloom in early .luly. and was fora long time the center ofattraction to mv friends. It was a beautiful color, dark crim-son I would call it, and such enormous flowers 1 never sawbefore. It of three branches, the middle branch ofcourse bloomed first, then the lateral or side branches. Itremains in flower a long time. Eliza Ren an, 111. SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1895. 19.
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