THE DINGEE & CONARD CO., WEST GROVE, PA. 



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PDITF* Roses described below 

 ■ tv*^*^» cts. each, except where 



strong plants from 3-inch pots, 15 

 noted ; 4 for 50 cts., 9 for $1 00, post- 

 paid. Two-year old plants, 30 cts. each; $3.00 per dozen, by express at 

 purchaser's expense. D. & C. Roses stand for quality. 



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This new hardy ever-blooming Irish Hybrid 

 Tea Rose baa created a sensation wherever 

 .shown, and has grown immensely popular, 

 the great demand for it exceeding the sup- 

 ply. It makes a strong upright bush with 

 beautiful. deep, bronzy-green foliage and is 

 wonderfully free-flowering, bearing its large, 

 long, pointed buds and massive flowers on 

 long, stiff, heavy shoots: in color it is an 

 exquisite shade of deep, brilliant, sparkling 

 shell pink: flowers of enormous size, with 

 thick petals of great substance and delicate 

 tea fragrance. A grand rose for house cul- 

 ture. It blooms continuously and is per- 

 fectly hardy. <See illustration.) 



PRICE: — Strong one-year-old 

 plants, from 3-inch pots, 20 cts. 

 each; 3 for 50 cts.; 7 for $1.00. 

 Two-year-old plants, 40 cts. each; 

 3 for $1.00. 



AMERICAN BEAUTY 



One of the grandest and most beautiful 

 - known. For immensity in size, rich 

 color, exquisite form and delicious fragrance 

 it stands without an equal. It is a quick 

 and bushy grower and a continuous bloomer; 

 makes magnificent buds and large, deep 

 double flowers, and is valuable both for 

 house and garden culture. Color is a rich 

 rosy crimson, shaded and veined in the 

 most charming fashion; fragrance is wonder- 

 fully sweet, not surpassed by any Rose we 

 know. 



Strong- plants* from 3%-inch 

 pots, 25 cts. each; 5 for .$1.00. 

 Two-year-old plants, 50 cts. each. 



Mrs. Robert Peary— This is a climbing offspring 

 of that great hardy white, ever-blooming Rose 



Kaiserin Augusta Victoria. It is the only white 

 hardy ever- blooming climbing Rose. The flowers 

 are magnificent, extra large, full deep and double, 

 the buds long and pointed. This .superb variety 

 giows to perfection indoors. Two-year-old 

 plants, 35 cts. each. 



Mrs. B. R. Cant— A beautiful new Tea Rose of 

 splendid habit and growth, being very strong and 

 free blooming, bearing flower- almost the equal and 

 style of Papa Gontier, hut more double: also 

 free blooming. We believe this will become one of 

 the most popular Roses in our list. Be sure to give 

 it a trial. 



Marechal Xiel— The very name of this Ro- 

 gest< the sunny South, where it attains a di - 

 perfection seldom seen in any Rose. The buds and 

 flowers are superb; extra large, very double and 

 deliciouslv perfumed. The color i> deep golden yel- 

 low. Blooms with the greatest freedom: splendid 

 for greenhou>e or house culture. 



Richmond— This i* one of the most valuable In- 

 troductions of recent yeais and reflects great credit 

 on the diligent work of American Hybridizers. It 

 i< a- free blooming as Bridesmaid or Golden 

 Gate, and its scarlet-crimson flowers are borne 

 on fine long >tems. which make it specially valu- 

 able for cutting purposes. It is a strong competitor 

 <<f I,ihertv and Meteor for forcing. We reeom- 

 mend it as a sterling novelty of unusual merit. 

 20 cts. each: 3 for 50 cts.; two-year-old 

 plants, 40 cts. each. 



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Perle des Jardins— The be>t of all the yellow 

 Tea Roses. it grows most satisfactorily 

 blooming with the greatest freedom, 

 are extra large and full, of globular form, with 

 great dej th and substance richly perfumed. Color 

 clear golden yellow. Charming. 



Sony. Dc Pierre \ottins— This beautiful new 

 Tea Rose is an introduction of one <>f the foremost 

 firms of France, and has not been exceeded In merit 

 by any Rose yet sent out from that country. It is 

 the result of a cross of Marecba] \iel on ' 

 Cochet. Blooms very huge, well filled and opens 

 easily: beautiful elongated hud. Apricot yellow 

 tinged with golden. mixed with orange yellow; 

 edge of petals shaded beautiful carmine-rose; open 



flower is full and donble and of ^ 1 - 



form and beauty it exceeds Maman Cochet, and in 

 quantity of bloom it is reached by no other known 

 Rose. One of the most beautiful and satisfactory 

 I; — s in cultivation. 



Virginia R. Coxe (Grass an Teplitx)— S 

 and most vivid Crimson k">'- in the world, and 

 without question the best Hybrid Tea Rose of its 

 color in existence. It grows to perfection in 

 any situation, while Its flowers in fragrance rival 

 the finest Hybrid Perpetuals. For this i; 

 will say that we doubt if there i- 



of any <da<s that r-. t - hardy 



and always in bloom. 



White Golden Gate— An offspring of thai - 

 Rose, Golden <.:it«'. Introduced by l 

 Conard <'<>.. in 1881. This rariety bears immense 

 flowers and larL r e sbell-like petals, and the 

 dazzling Ivory White. Always bloom] . 

 great new Rose. 



