. 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. J\ES\J FLECTION PL/\ Resurrection Plants. Among the curious and interesting things belonging to "•SSSS&g gftft oWfe^ teiSrtn^ rounded ball of tightly-folded leaflets, dry and dead We drop it in a bowl of tepid water, and soon one frond-like tip curls slowly outward, then anot
. 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. J\ES\J FLECTION PL/\ Resurrection Plants. Among the curious and interesting things belonging to "•SSSS&g gftft oWfe^ teiSrtn^ rounded ball of tightly-folded leaflets, dry and dead We drop it in a bowl of tepid water, and soon one frond-like tip curls slowly outward, then another, and another, until l^Sni0nrttlme t,here is floatinS ^ the dish a beautiful metallic-green plant; a great, loose, expanded rosette of fine fern-Tike leaves, both odd and beautiful. This experi- ment can be repeated many times, the plant curling I? -P^dingPwhen soa'kel Rose of Jericho. This we import from the Valley of the ft1^eRCTwr'Tnd \S th? Resurrection Plant mentioned in the Bible. The plant is a bunch of leafless and lifeless sticks or branches clustered together tightly. When FioSeK. a glas^of wa terJ however, the branches expand, nnet1^dtlUnf0ld/ and,a«er a while green foliage starts out and the plant really grows. 15c. each ; 3 for 30c. hJ™"* ^^g^aou8'1 *hls is well represented in the cut below, and is the most interesting of all. The plants have each several dried flower buds, really dead, yet when fiSSS?Jn Wa>erfth6y Unfold' exhibi«"g a curi' blossom, Perfect m every respect. Cut shows the open flower and closed bud. 15c. each ; 3 for 40c. One each of the three sorts for only 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 Chi
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