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THE DINGEE & CONARD COMPANY, WEST GROVE, PA. 
Dingee Palms 
ARECA LUTESCENS. 
green. Strong plants. 6 to 8 inches high. 
25 cts. each; 3 for 60 cts., postpaid; large 
plants, 14 to 16 inches high, 75 cts. each, 
postpaid. 
COCOS WEDDELIANA. The daintiest of all 
Palms. Strong plants, 3-inch pots, 50 cts. 
KENTIA. The grandest of all Palms. Kentia 
Bel moreana is the tallest grower. while Kentia 
Forsteriana has the broadest leaves. Strong 
plants, 25 cts. each, postpaid. 
LATANIA BORBONICA. Divided, fan-shaped 
leaves. Strong plants, 25cts. each; postpaid. 
DRACAENA INDIVISA. Long. variegated leaves. 
15 cts. each. 
PHOENIX CANARIENSIS. Date Palm, 30 ects. 
each 
PHOENIX ROEBELINI. Graceful. long, Palm 
foliage. 35 cts. each. 
Miscellaneous Plants 
ASPARAGUS SPRENGERI. For pots. vases or 
hanging baskets. The long, slender branches 
droop most gracefully, clothed with feathery, 
emerald green fronds. Strong plants, 20 cts. 
each; 3 for 50 cts. 
ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS. Foliage surpasses a 
Maidenhair Fern: in grace and finish resembles the 
finest lace. Elegant for cutting: one of the best 
plants in our collection. 20 ets. each; 3 for 50 cts. 
NEW WEEPING LANTANA. Beautiful for bas- 
kets, vases, pots or for outdoor culture and porch 
boxes. Produces its clear lilac-pink flowers by the 
hundreds from early summer until severe frosts. 
Deliciously fragrant. Has a most graceful habit 
of growth. 20 cts. each; 3 for 50 cts. 
HIBISCUS SINENSIS. All varieties, 
each; 3 for 50 cts. 
Peachblow. Pink. with crimson center. 
Versicolor. Buff. rose and white. 
Cooperi Tricolor. Crimson. very large. 
Minniatus Semiplenus. YVermilion-scarlet. 
STRAWBERRY GUAVA. It has thick. shining, 
evergreen, camelia-like foliage, and pure white 
flowers of an agreeable odor. The fruit is large. 
of beautiful claret color: the flavoris most delicious 
and aromatic, resembling that of the strawberry. 
Used as a dessert fruit, also for preserving: makes 
jelly of delicious quality. Strong 3-inch pot plants. 
20 ets. each; 3 for 50 cts.; 7 for $1.00. 
CRINUM ORNATU M—This royal member of the 
Amaryllis family produces numerous spikes of 
large, fragrant. lily-like flowers, white. with deep 
pink stripe in the center of each petal. Prices, 
first size, about 9toi11 inches circumference, 
50 ets. each. Second size, about 11 to 13 inches 
circumference, 75 cts. each. 
AMARYLLIS REGINA—Lily-like flowers in clus- 
ters. Light scarlet, with lighter throat. 25 cts. each. 
20 cts. 
Trunk and stem, golden | 
Decorative Ferns 
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Use a soil composed of five parts: two 
parts of good garden soil, two parts of 
finely screened peat or leaf mold from 
the woods, and one part sharp, clean sand. 
This should then be thoroughly sterilized 
by_ putting in an oven and baking in 
order to destroy earth worms, etc. Place 
some broken pieces of pots or erocks and 
some charcoal in the bottom of each pot 
for drainage. A temperaturé of not less 
than 55 degrees F. should be maintained 
at all times, with a rise in the daytime 
of 10 degrees to 15 degrees. Judgment 
should be exercised in watering. On 
warm days they should be syringed at 
least twice. Never allow them to become 
too dry. Insects which aré most trouble- 
some are thrips, red spider, scale and mealy 
bug. Thrips, red spider and mealy bug 
are eSaily prevented by a properly mois- 
tened atmosphere. also by spraying of 
foliage once a week with tobacco water. 
made the consistency of weak tea. and 
increased or diminished in strength as 
occasion demands. 
TEDDY, JR. Fronds are broad and 
beautifully tapered from the base to 
the tip, drooping just enough to make 
a graceful plant. Compact. vigorous and thrives 
under most any condition. 
ROOSEVELT. Resembles the Boston Fern, but 
produces many more fronds, thus making a 
handsomer and bushier plant. 
JACKSONII. Extremely strong grower. Resem- 
bling Sword Fern, quickly forming large, upright 
plant. 
WHITMANII COMPACTA. This is a condensed 
form of the ““Ostrich Plume Fern’’, with valuable 
characteristics added which are not evidentin the 
parent, the pinnea subdividing making miniature 
fronds, looking as if two or more were condensed 
in one. Graceful beyond description. 
THE BOSTON FERN. This Fern differs from the 
ordinary Sword Fern in having much longer 
fronds, which frequently attain a length of six 
feet, drooping gracefully over the side of the pot 
or jardiniere, and on this account it is frequently 
called the Fountain Fern. 
WHITMANII (Ostrich Plume Fern). Moreofa 
dwarf habit than the Boston Fern. The fronds 
are of entirely different nature. Each frond is 
subdivided on the order of the Compacta Fern, 
thus producing a very beautiful effect. Very 
decorative. 
MAIDENHAIR $ (Adianthum Cuneatum). The 
best known table Fern, with dainty, lacy fronds, 
unlike any other. 
Price of all Ferns in extra strong pot plants, 
20 cts. each; 6 for $1.00; large plants from 4 
and 5-ienh pots, 75 cts. each, postpaid. 
