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CONTENTS OF THE DI NGEE&CONARDCO .'S NEW GUIDE FOR 1891. 



The Henry M. Stanley Set of New American Pedigree Roses, page 6. 

 A Few Remarks to Friends " 7. 



The New Duchess of Albany Set, Six Elegant Hybrid Perpetuals 



The Madame Hoste Set, Six Superb New Ever-bloomiug Roses 



The General Washington Set, Six Fine, Hardy Roses, Roses for Foreign Countries 



How to Grow Roses in Open Ground, Roses in Beds, Preparation of the Ground, How to Plant, When 



to Water, Pruning, When Climbing Roses Bloom 



Set of 5 Choice Hardy Perpetual Roses, Set of 5 Darkest Hybrid Perpetual Roses, Roses for Canada, The 



True Old English Sweet-Briar Rose 



The Souvenir de Wootton Set, Six Very Choice Roses for $1 



Information for Purchasers, Our Guarantee, Size and Quality of Plants We Send Out, Our Roses all on 



Own Boots, No Budded or Grafted Roses Sent Out, Orders by Express, Correction of Errors . . 

 Information for Correspondents, How to send Money Safely and at Our Risk, Lost or Delayed Orders, 



An Elegant Rose Presented for the Cost of Remittance 



How to Get Roses, Plants, Bulbs, Seeds, etc., Free, Please Read Carefully 



Beds of Ever-blooming Boses, with Accurate Quantities and Prices for Beds of Different Sizes . . . 

 Nine Specially Valuable New and Rare Hybrid Perpetual Roses— Marchioness of Lome, Gloire de Margot- 



tin, Mad. Gab. Luizet, Baroness Rothschild, Sir Rowland Hill, etc 



Six Pure White Hardy Roses, Our Splendid Perpetual Moss Roses, General Collection Moss Roses . . .18, 

 Hardy Ever-blooming Climbing Roses, Hardy Climbing Roses, Waltham Queen, and the Magnificent New 



Hybrid Perpetual Rose, Her Majesty ... 



Meteor Set of Ever-blooming Boses, Just Right for a Small Bed 



Our Splendid Premium Boses, Madame Etiene and Marie Pavie, Tick's Caprice 



Colored Plate Roses, Descriptions and Prices of Varieties, Special Offers for Buyers of New and Rare Roses 



The Mary Washington Pillar Boses, a Souvenir of Mt. Vernon 



The Queen and Bed La France, Two Superb New Roses 



New Paris Roses, The Latest Novelties from the French Capital .... 



The Sunshine Set, Seven Splendid Ever-blooming Roses 



New Japan Rose Apples, White and Carmine ; Fruit Bearing Tree-like Shrub 



Diamond List Ever-blooming Roses, Set of 25 Best Varieties, Eady Banks' Roses 30, 31, 



New Hybrid Perpetual Roses for 1891, Set of 9 Finest Varieties, New Polyantha Tea Clotilde Soupert 



Diamond List Hybrid Perpetual Roses, Set of 25 Best Varieties 35, 



New Polyantha or Fairy Roses, Set of 12 Fine Varieties 



Sunset Set of (3 Highly Celebrated New Tea Roses, New Climbing Fairy Roses 



New Hybrid Tea Roses, Madame Pierre Guillot 



Standard List Ever-blooming Roses for General Planting, Set of 106 Best Varieties 41,42, 



Standard List Hybrid Pei-petual Roses for General Planting, Set of 80 Best Varieties 4-1, 



New American Beauty Rose and Papa Gontier, New Tea Roses, Climbing Niphetos and Climbing 



Perle des Jardins, Rare New Chrysanthemums and Carnations 



Our Star List Roses, 100 Selected Varieties, 10 cts.each; 12 for §1; $8 per 100, Your Choice and all Labeled, 48, 



Two- Year Roses for Immediate Effect, Japanese Hybrid Catalpas 



Fine English Clematis and Others, Set of 15 Best Varieties 



Splendid New Dahlias, Set of 12— Japan Rose, Spirea Van Houtti, Althea Blanch and Other New Shrubs 



Our New Banner Althea and The New Hardy Orange Tree 



Hydrangea Grandiflora, The Finest of All Ornamentals . . . 



New Chinese Wisterias, White, Blue and Double Purple 



Hardy Ornamental Flowering Shrubs for General Planting, Set of 47 Varieties, Extra Earge Shrubs for 



Immediate Effect, Beautiful Japanese Iris Kempeferii . 5S, 



Beautiful Hardy Ornamental Climbing Vines, Honeysuckles, Wisterias, etc., Set of 19 Varieties, Madeira 



Vine, a Beautiful Fern, 3 Ornamental Grasses 61, 



The Choicest Hardy Perennials, Plumbago, Lady Larpent, New Hardy Perennial Phlox, Splendid 



Dahlia Sunflower, NewHybrid Hibiscus, Achelia Alba, Platycodons. Hardy Perennial Phlox, Iris, etc. 64, 



Summer Flowering Bulbs, Excelsior Pearl Tuberoses, 2 Splendid Sets, 50 cts. and $1 each 



Splendid Seedling and Mixed Gladiolus, at 75, 50, and 30 cts. per dozen 



Named Gladiolus. Set of 50 Varieties, Set of 10 Gladiolus for 50 cts., Set of 10 for 81, Set of 4 for 81.50, Set of 



Our New Gladiolus for this Year, Hardy Hybrid Gladiolus, the Best Strains of Gloxinias 68, 



Tuberons-rooted Begonias, Cooperia Drummondi, Giant Fairy Lily, Zephyranthus 



3 Gems of the First Water, Apios Tuberosa, Hyacinthus Candicans 



Japan Eilies, Auratum, Monadelphum, Browni, Midnight, etc.. Set of 47 Magnificent Varieties ... 73, 

 New Chrysanthemums, Harry S. Widener and other Beautiful Novelties, 100 Varieties in all . . . 76, 



The Famous Ostrich Plume Set of Chrysanthemums 



New Sweet Violets, Blazing Torch, Caladium E>culentum 



Fine Ever-blooming Carnation Pinks, Set of 22 Varieties 



Hardy Perpetual-biooming Carnations, Sweet May Pinks, The Famous Moon Flower, etc 



The Best Grapes, Complete Set of 25 Best Varieties, Industry and other Gooseberries 



New Japan Winfberry, a Great Novelty, Tree Blackberry, The Best Currants ... 



The Rest Eawn Grass Seed (our Bosemont Brand), Tobacco Insecticide Soap, Other Insect Exter- 

 minators, Excelsior Fertilizer, and the Best Books on Flower and Garden Topics 



Celebrated La Favorite Geranium Set and Mrs. E. G. Bill Fuchsia Set, 12 Varieties in all .... 

 The Beautiful 3Ianettia Vine, Ipomcea Pandurata, The Hardy Moon Flower . .. 



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INDEX to THE DINGEE & COWARD CO.'S FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



Aster 92, 93 



Alyssum 92 



Ageratum 92 



Araaranthus .... 92 



Abronia 92 



Abutilon 92 



Balsam 89, 94 



Brachyeome 104 



Biowallia 104 



Cosmos 95 



Cleome 91 



Celosia 87, 95 



Calendula 94 



Coreopsis 95 



Candytuft 95 



Canna 8"> 



Carnation 87 



Cacalia 104 



Centaurea 104 



Cineraria 104 



Coleus 105 



Convolvulus 103 



Dianthus 87, 96 



Daisy 95 



Eschscholtzia .... 9i 



Fuchsia 105 



Gaillardia 95 



Godetia 96 



Gourds H'3 



Geranium 105 



Hibiscus 97 



Helianthus 96 



Heliotrope. 

 Hollyhock 

 Impatiens 

 Lobelia . . 

 Larkspur . 

 Lantana . 



90 

 105 

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 104 

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Mignonette . . . 

 Myosotis. 

 Marvel of Peru . 



Marigold 98 



Moon-Flower .... 89 

 Nasturtium. . . 87, 98 



Nicotiana 98 



Nemophila 104 



Oxalis 98 



Petunia 88, 99 



Poppy 90, 1( 



Pansy 86, 99 



Portulaca 101 



Phlox 91, 100 



Primula 105 



Ricinus 101 



Salvia hi 



Stocks I'd 



Sweet Peas 91 



Sanvitalia 104 



Scabiosa 104 



Schizanthus 104 



Sedum 101 



Stevia 104 



Salpiglossis 10 1 



Smilax 105 



Trifolium 104 



Tropseolum . . . 

 Thunbergia . . . 



Verbena 



Virginian Stocks . . 



Zinnia 88 



Climbing Vines . . . 

 Everlastings . . . . 

 Greenhouse Seeds. . 



Herbs 



Ornamental Grasses. 

 Perennials . . . 



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Our Vegetable Seeds are the best the -world produces ; all the Choicest Novelties_ 

 Best Standard Sorts, carefully selected for Home Planting-. Complete lists beg-iir 



Entered according to Act of Consress, in the year 1S91, by the Dixgee & Conard Co.^ 

 Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



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