. 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. 177 A/ J! \\ /kJHi s. mm Vi ylOSMAl. If G*irrai?ts. A favorite old garden fruit which of late years has been wonderfully improved, and the two varieties here offered can bear little or no comparison to the old garden sorts. Chi Ids' Ci
. 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. 177 A/ J! \\ /kJHi s. mm Vi ylOSMAl. If G*irrai?ts. A favorite old garden fruit which of late years has been wonderfully improved, and the two varieties here offered can bear little or no comparison to the old garden sorts. Chi Ids' Ciant Ruby. This is the finest of all Currants. It originated in Ulster county, N. Y., and was intro- duced by us last year. It is of remarkably strong rrowth, the leaves being large but less leathery than Pay's or Cherry. In the size and quantity of the fruit this variety is really a marvel. The berries are very large, borne in enormous clusters of t wenty to thirty, yet leaving room near the wood to make picking easily done without bruising or crushing the berries. In color they are the most beautiful ruby scarlet, sparkling and glossy and being so large in size they catch every eye and sell more readily, and for much better prices than any other variety. It is now being largely planted where Fay's and other sorts have been pulled out, for it Is a greater and surer bearer than any otherCurrantgrown. In this locality it easily produces three or four times as \ much fruit as Fay's or Cherry and the fruit is certainly much finer in every Mr. N. Hallock, a Long Island fruit grower, says: ;' I have grown the Giant Ruby Currant for four years. Bushes three years set yielded the past season 5 pounds of fine fruit, where Fay's Prolific in same lot has been an entire failure. Of the seven or eight kinds I grow, Giant Ruby yields double the quantity of fruit of any of ; This Currant is so greatly superior to any other variety that we feel we cannot say enough in its p
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