. 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. Priirjula, Double W¥te. The double white Chinese Primrose is a rare and valuable Slant which is highly prized by all who know it. It does not iffer from the ordinary Chinese Primroses, except its flowers are very double, large and freely produced. 30c. Manettia Bicolor. A poor vine
. 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. Priirjula, Double W¥te. The double white Chinese Primrose is a rare and valuable Slant which is highly prized by all who know it. It does not iffer from the ordinary Chinese Primroses, except its flowers are very double, large and freely produced. 30c. Manettia Bicolor. A poor vine is little but an eye-sore, but a thrifty Manettia is lovely beyond all question. If can be grown either In the house or garden, and 1b full of bloom every day in the year, in the house It can be trained all around a window, and it will be a solid wreath of bloom both summer and winter. In the open ground during summer it will grow ten feet, branching freely and covering a large space of trellis, arbor or wall, showing at all times thousands of its bright blossoms. The flowers are VA to 2 inches long, and of the most intense fiery scarlet shading off into a bright yellow tip. They are also covered with a scarlet moss or hairy substance, which adds much to their beauty, and each flower keeps perfect for weeks before falling. No plant is easier to grow, and it commences to bloom at once from the smallest cuttings and continues to bloom most profusely at all times. There is not a day during its life that It is without flowers if it has any sort of decent care. It being quite unknown and of such striking beauty, either for screens, baskets, vases, windows, trel- lises, stumps, etc., that it attracts the admiration of ev»>rv eye. 20c. each ; 8 for 50c.; 7 for Manettia Cordlfolla. This grows finely, butdoes not hlh- well in the house, but for the open ground wc do not b»- lieve there is a superior small vine. It dies down to the ground each winter, but If planted in a sh
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