. 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. Resurrection Plant. This is something that always interests the children and the older folks alike. There is a shrunken rounded ball of tightly folded leaflets, dry and dead, u e drop it in a bowl of tepid water, and soon one frond-like tip curls slowly outward, then another and another, until in 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. Resurrection Plant. This is something that always interests the children and the older folks alike. There is a shrunken rounded ball of tightly folded leaflets, dry and dead, u e drop it in a bowl of tepid water, and soon one frond-like tip curls slowly outward, then another and another, until in a short time there is floating in the dish a beautiful metallic- green plant: a great, loose, ex- loo., «w« pi«t. panded rosette of fine fern-like leaves both ood and beautiful. This experiment can be re- peated many times, the plant curling tightly together when expanding wtien soaked in water. ;3 for 25c. Geripap jris. Another good old flower, as handsome as an Orchid, now to be found in many new colors. A striking flower of crepe-like tex- ture and most exquisite coloring, the gauzy veining reminding one of the delicate tracing of the but- terfly's wing. We grow acres of Iris, and know you can find no finer list of varieties than the one here presented. They bloom in May and June, when'there is a dearth of really fine flowers, and are out of bloom before Iris Kaempferi commences. Fine Mixed Sorts A lovely col- lection of all colors. Will all bloom finely the first summer. Named Sorts—A collection of ten s,,r;s named, for 75c. Saaromatoip fi for 40c.; 12 for Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original John Lewis Childs (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Floral Park, N. Y. : John Lewis Childs
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