. Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & 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. 16 doubleGardEkJ^. Everblooming Cape Jessamine, This grand novelty does not differ from the •ommon Cape Jessamine or Gardenia except it bloe- wms all the year round, while the old sort blooms only for a short time in the spring. The flowers of this are very large and perfect with pore white wax-li


. Childs' rare flowers, vegetables & 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. 16 doubleGardEkJ^. Everblooming Cape Jessamine, This grand novelty does not differ from the •ommon Cape Jessamine or Gardenia except it bloe- wms all the year round, while the old sort blooms only for a short time in the spring. The flowers of this are very large and perfect with pore white wax-like petals and glorious fragrance. Large, double and surpassingly lovely. A good plant will show flowers every dar in the year, and it is an easy thing to manage, growing well as a window plant. A grand Novelty. 50c. each. &calypt*a (.Chenille P/anO This is one of the most gorgeous and peculiar flow- ering plants thus far dis- covered. It grows up a straight, stout branching plant, clothed with large green leaves of good sub- stance, and out of the axil of erem leaf grows a spike of blossom, glowing crimson- scarlet in color. SO to X in- die* long, as large around as one's finger and looks like a long piece of crimson-scar- let chenille cord. Theygrow on the plant exactly as our <-ui shows, and on plants a foot high the lower flower spikes will hangbelowthe bottom of the pot. and they continue to lengthen as the plant grows larger. They last for ni»nJ/w before fading and before they fall off several other spikes have started out in Utt mime leaf axil, and it is thus always in bloom—January to Decem- ber. Even liny t'lauts in thumh-peits Moom. though of course the spikes are pro- portionately smaller. This plant was discovered inNew Guinea and it did not come from the Philippines as Dewey^a Bavorite flower, as has been sensationally ad- vertised. A magnificent noveltv. Strong, healthy- plants. 30c. each; 4 for Please note that these images are extracted from s


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