DiNGEE Guide To Rose Culture 



Dingee Hardy Violets 



Rich in modest beauty and famed for its enchanting fragrance, the 

 Violet continues to increase in popularity. With the last snows of winter 

 still about it, this gentle flower shyly appears from out of its icy bed, 

 heralding the coming of spring. All our plants are absolutely clean and 

 healthy and will produce highly satisfactory results. 



Prices, strong plants, 12%c each, any 12 for $1.25. 

 Marie Lynch — In color it is a charming shade of lavender-pink and the 



foliage is a rich dark green. 

 California — The largest violet in cultivation. Rich, violet-blue; flowers on 



long stems. 

 Dorsett — TDarkest, d'eep violet-blue; long stems, large flowers. 

 Farquhar — Double flowers of delicate fragrance; deep blue. 

 Governor Herrick — 'Rich, dark purple; single. 



Lady Hume Campbell — Double blue. Strong, healthy and perfectly hardy. 

 Liuxonne — Soft violet purple; fragrance delicious. 

 Prince of ^^'ales — One of the best. The large, blue, single flowers are 



deliciously fragrant. 

 Swanley White — Pure white, perfectly double, fragrant flowers. 

 Peacock, New Alolet — This is an entrancingly beautiful new Violet; the 



markings of its charming colors are difficult to describe. The prevailing 



color is white, with delicate tracings and markings of sky-blue. 



Yucca Filamentosa — Spanish Bayonet 



A low-growing evergreen plant with narrow leaves. The flower stalk is 

 from 2 to 4 feet high and' rises from the center. Creamy white, bell-shaped 

 flowers. 'Zoc each; 5 for §1.00. 



Hardy Perennials 



Single ami l)oul)le 'V iolet^ 



Dingee Special Lawn Grass Seed 



It produces a smooth, velvety igreen sward of 

 attractive appearance. Sow the seed carefully and 

 evenly at the rate of one quart to a space equal to 

 15 X 20 feet; tAvo bushels will sow one acre. After 

 sowing, cover the seed by raking or harrowing it. 



Seeding may be done at any time during spring, 

 summer or fall, but the best results are obtained 

 by sowing during April, May, September or October. 

 Where fall sowing is practiced a top-dressing of 

 manure is recommended to protect the roots of 

 the young grass during the winter. In the spring 

 the gross matter should be removed, leaving the 

 surface clean. To renovate lawn, loosen the soil 

 on the bare spots with a steel rake, and, after 

 sowing a liberal quantity of seed, roll or rake again 

 to cover the seed. 



Price: By mail, 50c per ponnd; in bulk, by 

 express. 45c per pound, 20 pounds or more. 



German Iris 



The memory of the "Blue Flag" of the old-time 

 gardens is one ever sweet to those whose lives were 

 lived in such surroundings, and while the "modern" 

 Irises, if we may use the term, will remind one of 

 the old daj^s. thej', too, like everything else of these 

 days, have yielded to the influence of improvement, 

 and there has been evolved a race of flowers abso- 

 lutelv bewildering in glory of their form and color. 

 Canary Bird (Flavescens) — Lovely pale yellow. 

 Darius — Yellow and lilac. 

 HonorabUis — Deep yellow; Mahogany tails. 



falls. 

 Florentina Alba (Silver King) — Early white. 

 In^eborg: (Interregna) — Immense white; extra early. 

 Mrs. H. Darwin — White, violet veining, rather dwarf. 

 Lohengrin — -Foliage and flowers immense, of a deep 



violet inauve, almost pink; a wonderful flower. 

 Queen of ^lay (Rosv !Morn) — Lovely rose lilac. 

 Madame Thibault — W^hite, bordered rose lilac — com- 

 panion to Mad. Chereau. edge more pinkish. 

 Cherion — Standard lilac-mauve; falls violet-mauve. 

 Price, 15c each; 8 for $1.00, postpaid. 



FUXKIA (Day Lily) Subcordata Granditiora— White Day Lily. Handsome 

 spikes of large, waxv-like blossoms, with an odor like that of orange 

 blossoms, and large, broad, glossy, light-green foliage. One foot to 



Funkia Aurea Variegata — Flowers purplish-lilac ; leaves beautiful varie- 

 gated green and gold. 2 feet. 25c each. ^-^ ^ 

 HIBISCUS MEEHAN'S 3IARVEL MALLOW. Without exception the finest 

 production among the Hardy Plant line in years. They make a bush 

 like growth from 4 to 5 feet high and 2 to 3 feet across. The flowers 

 are of an enormous size, frequentlv 8 to 10 inches in dianieter and 

 ranging in color from liery crimson through various shades of red pink 

 and white No garden or vara complete without them, perfectly hardy, 

 will thrive in anv localitv or kind of soil and blooms continually from 

 Julv until checked bv frost. Require no care or protection. Price, nuxed il 

 colors. Pink, Red or White, strong 2 -year-old field-gro^yn roots, joc each. ■ 

 DELPiaNIU3I (BeUadonna) — Everblooming hardy Larkspur. The most 7^ 

 beautiful sky blue of dwarf habit. 3 to 4 feet. Blooms all summer until 

 cut down by frost. , ^ -i „c is iT,r.v.o« 

 Formosum— Deep gentian blue with white bee. Long spakes. 18 mcnes 



to 2 feet. „ , ^ 



Chinese Album— A white flowered form. 2 feet wor,r,-hir,a- freelv 



RL-BECKIA, GOLDEN GLOW— Grows 6 to 8 feet high. ^^ani^l^i^^S^^f^f^^l^ 

 and bearing by the hundreds on lonig, graceful stems exqusi^site 

 double flowers of the brightest golden yellow. Haraj . 

 postpaid. 



25c each. 



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