. 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. Mertensia VirgiTJica. This lovely early spring blooming flower has been in our sample grounds for severalyears, but it is only this year that we have been able to get a stock of it to offer. It has not yet been generally introduced, yet its beauty rivals that of the lovely o'ld Bleeding H
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. 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. Mertensia VirgiTJica. This lovely early spring blooming flower has been in our sample grounds for severalyears, but it is only this year that we have been able to get a stock of it to offer. It has not yet been generally introduced, yet its beauty rivals that of the lovely o'ld Bleeding Heart. It blooms with the Di- centra, or a little earlier, the flower being large and bell- shaped, and borne in great drooping panicles on stems a foot or more in height. The blooms in the panicle do not all open at the same time ; are pink at first, changing in a few days to a lovely blue, so that the panicle shows these two most lovely and delicate colors. The effect is most charm- ing and makes this one of the very choicest hardy perennials of our collection. 20c. each; 3 for 50c.. Hardy Senjper^i1^1*. A most useful and beautiful plant for permanent borders around walks or beds. It increases rapidly and may be divided and re-set every spring, if desired, but when left un- disturbed for a year forms a solid miniature wall-like border. Blooms In June, and is very pretty. A dozen planted this year will, next spring, give enough for many feet of border. A splendid plant for sample bunches or masses. 10c. each ; 3 for 20c.; 6 for 30c.; 12 for 50c; 30 for 81.00; 100 forg-'i.OO. Mosquito Catcher piapt. ( Vincetoxicum acuminatum.) This pretty plant Is one of the Milkweed family, and comes from Japan. It grows one to two feet high, and blooms all summer, bearing a profusion of pretty white, star-like blossoms that secrete a viscid fluid i that attracts mosquitoes and sometimes other insects Jas well. Alas for the poor mosquito I No struggling ton his part can ever free him after he h