DiNGEE Guide To Rose Culture 



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Dingee Famous 

 Hybrid Tea Roses 



The Most Desirable of All 



For many years we have had by far the most complete and extensive 

 list of Hybrid Tea Roses in the business, having been the first house 

 to call particular attention to their wonderful value. 

 Ours is the greatest collection in this country. As 

 the new varieties are introduced they are given a trial, 

 and if found wanting in any respect are discarded and 

 not offered to the Rose-growing public until they 

 prove worthy. This excellent class combines the con- 

 tinuous-blooming quality of the Everblooming Teas 

 and the sturdy strength of the Hybrid Perpetuals. 

 The plants bloom the first year, like the Teas, bearing 

 large, finely formed flowers of a wondrous range of 

 color, with the fragrance of the June Roses. They 

 are especially valuable to Northern plant- 

 ers because they stand the severest win- 

 ters with ordinary protection and, of 

 course, luxuriantly in the South. In all 

 sections they form magnificent bushes, 

 bearing all summer great masses of most 

 beautiful Roses imaginable. Unless a 

 Hybrid Tea Rose bush is grown from the 

 choicest two-eyed cutting — the Dingee 

 method — it will not give satisfaction. All 

 our stock is on its own roots — don't buy 

 the other kind, budded and grafted. We 

 offer strong, lusty plants in all sizes and 

 stake our reputation upon their quality. 



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Antoine Rivoire 



*Bessie Brown 



The plants are hardy and vigorous, producing 

 flowers profusely in the open ground all through the 

 summer. The color is almost pure white, though 

 sometimes flushed with pink; petals large and of fine 

 form. 



BETTY— This wonderful Hybrid Tea Rose is the 

 greatest novelty of the past decade. It is of the 

 type of the Killarney Rose, and has a truly unique 

 color — ruddy gold (coppery-rose overspread with 

 golden-yellow). Blooms, extremely large, fairly 

 full, of glorious form and deliciously perfumed; the 

 petals measure 4 to 5 inches long. 



Flowers large, double and of fine form; very fragrant; color rosy-flesh, with yellow 

 ground, shaded with border of carmine. Strong and healthy. 



AURORA— Better than Champion of the World; of 

 itself a recommendation of its great value. Flow- 

 ers of splendid form, large and full, of a brilliant 

 pink. Vigorous, hardy bush Rose, constantly in 

 bloom. 



^BRITISH QUEEN— By some said to be the finest 

 white Rose in existence, surpassing in beauty and 

 form any other white Rose. The flower resembles 

 Frau Karl Druschki and White Maman Cochet, 

 with the Tea Rose form and refinement. Flowers 

 freely all summer long from early spring until 

 frost. Buds sometimes show a slight flush, which 

 disappears as the flower expands. Strong grower. 

 Hardy. Awarded a gold medal by the National 

 Rose Society of England. 



*CLARA WATSON— Rich salmon-pink,_ with very 

 graceful flowers, resembling Bridesmaid in form 

 and produced in remarkable profusion. The buds, 

 which are supported on long stems, are very 

 beautiful. 



ANTOINE VERDIER — A beautifully shaded, 

 bright, glowing pink; flowers bold and massive, 

 like Am.erican Beauty, and of splendid substance. 

 Bush is strong and vigorous, in constant bloom. 



Price — First size, one-year planls, 30c each, for all Roses 

 on this page; 4 for $1.00, postpaid; two -year-old plants, 85c 

 each, by express; $8.50 per dozen of one or more varieties; 

 95c each by Parcel Post with soil on roots. Varieties 

 marked * furnished in large specimen plants at $1.25 each, 

 by express. 



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