Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, & fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_3 (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: 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
Publisher: Floral Park, N. Y. : John Lewis Childs
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1898 157
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*¥l)vee Grar*dest plants. Since the introduction of our Wineberry and Mayberry, nothing has been offered in the way of new fruits which can compare in value and importance to these new Plums— Burbank's greatest production. They are crosses with Japan varieties, and possess the most distinct characteristics ; are the most beautiful, most luscious, best bearers and keepers, hardiest and best adapted to all soils and climates. They were introduced by us last year. Delaware or Dwarf-Weeping Plum—A superb and highly ornamental tree of short, symmetrical growth and long branches which droop to the ground. Owing to its dwarf habit it can be grown in space that would not admit of a larger kind. The best Plum m existence, with a most exquisite fla vor like that of the Delaware Grape. It is described by some as possessing the flavor of the Apricot, Grape, Plum and Watermelon combined. Fruit of good size, purple flesh and skin, with white bloom. It is ex- ceedingly productive, and ripens very early. Tree hardy and healthy, bearing when but two feet high. A perfect gem of a fruit and ornamental tree combined, and should be on every lawn and in every garden. It is destined to be the most popular Plum of the future, as it is certainly the most beautiful and luscious. Shipper—Tree a large, rank grower, and enormously ^pro- lific. Fruit of large size, rich, juicy and sweet. Form and color of Imperial Gage, but handsomer, and the best Plum for shipping yet introduced. Hardy, robust and heavy annual cropper. The most profitable of all mar- ket Plums, as it is of the best quality, largest size, most prolific and best shipper. Juicy—This glorious new Plum is a cross between Botan and Robinson. The fruit is the size of the former and three times larger than the latter, arid of perfect shape. Skin thin and transparent, light yellow, underlaid with scarlet—as beautiful as wax. In quality it seems to us that there is no other fruit which can approach it. It has a delicious sweetness, mingled with a sprightly acid, and a high melting plum flavor, surpassing anything we ever saw. When fully ripe it is so juicy that when the skin is broken its delicious pulp flows out like honey. The tree is a hardy, rank, luxuriant grower, though of dwarfish habit. It blooms so late in spring that frost never injures the crop. In this respect it is valuable be- 3rond estimate. It begins to bear when very small—trees scarcely three feet high often producing large crops. When of fair size it is an enormous yielder. and the fruit ripens early. The fruit keeps a long time after ripening, often fifteen to twenty days in hot weather, before de- caying. We have received them from Northern Cali- fornia in the finest possible condition, notwithstanding the week's journey in close packing. Trees perfectly hardy.

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