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LAKiGEST SIZE I EVER BOUGHT. 



"The Roses arrived In flue rondition, and with the flnest roots and largest 

 size I ever bougrht, and have taken espeeial pains to pHant them as directed." 

 — ^MRS. ALICE YAGER, Ceres, California, March 11, 1916. ^^-^ / jw 



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Dingee Famous Hybrid Tea Roses 



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 class combines the continuous-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 espe- 

 cially valuable to Northern planters because they stand the severest winters with 

 ordinary protection and, of course, luxuriantly in the South. In all sections they 

 form magnificent bushes, bearing all summer through great masses 

 of the most beautiful Roses imaginable. They are, without exception, 

 the greatest of all garden Roses. 



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. This is important if you wish satisfactory results. We offer 

 strong, lusty plants in all sizes, and stake our reputation upon their 

 quality — best in the world. 



Alice Roosevelt 



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Rhea Reid. 



Rhea Reid 



A Magnificent New Crimson Garden Rose. 



"As large as American Beauty, as double as 

 La France and as red as Richmond," is the 

 enthusiastic way the originator describes this 

 beautiful new Hybrid Tea Bush Rose. The color 

 is vivid scarlet-crimson, and the flowers are marvels of 

 beauty, large, bold and of splendid substance. It has a 

 strong, disease-resisting constitution, makes a rapid growth 

 and throws up a profusion of canes from the roots and is 

 always blooming. As an all-around garden bush Rose it 

 has no superior. 



"WHAT A RECENT VISITOR SAID." 



A recent visitor from Toledo, Ohio, exclaimed when he saw the 

 wonderful Rose bushes growing in our large house: "Are they 

 (he ones you offer as two year old plants?" When told they were 

 he said, "I have visited all the Rose growing establishments in 

 the country, and none compare with your plants, as they are the 

 finest I ever saw, and I have been growing Roses for 2.5 years." 

 "Wby." said he, ">^ur two-year-old plants are larger and better 

 in every way than those offered by some firms as three-year-old 

 or Star size plants." 



So if we could only personally show each and every one of our 

 prospective customers these plants it would need no argument to 

 convince them of the quality of our stock. Send us your order if 

 you want the best Roses and ones that last. 



A most superb Rose, strong, vigorous and constantly in 

 bloom, forming a fine large bush bearing a profusion of 

 exquisitely shaped, deep, perfectly double and beautifully 

 colored flowers. In color, it is a gorgeous shade of deep, 

 rosy-crimson, most beautiful and attractive. Magnificent 

 in every way. 



ADMIRAL SCHLEY_Fipggnt buds, which open into 

 splendid, large, full flowered; very sweet; color, rich, 

 velvety crimson. Very bright and handsome. 



ADMIRAL DEWEY_A delicate bright pink, shaded to a 

 pure white. This superb Rose is excellent in everv way. 

 It is a sport from Mad. Caroline Testout, having all the 

 good qualities of that variety. Petals large and flowers 

 superior to those of any other sort of its color. 



APOTHEKER GEORG HOFER _r.i.s.n..r.n. purple-red; 

 very fragrant; buds long; flowers well filled. 



ANTOINE VERDIER _A beautifully shaded, bright, glow- 

 ing pink; flowers bold and massive like American Beauty 

 and of splendid substance. The bush is strong and vigor- 

 ous and in constant bloom. 



Price. 20c each for all Roses on this paKe; (! for 5S1.00: lareer si/.e. 

 •zru- ca<>h, .'i for $1.00, postpaid; t\vo-.vcar-ol<l plants. 4r>o each, 

 except where noted, h.v express. SfiSA) per do/., of one or more 

 varieties. Varieties marked * furnished in hirire Specimen or Star 

 size plants at 75c each. 



DO YOU KNOW HOW .V ROSE Bl'SH IS M.\DE? 



Probably you have not given the matter any thought, but Roses 

 that are grown on their own roots: and they are the only ones thai 

 are worth planting, are made from branches from the mother 

 plant. These branches are cut in lengths according to the eyes 

 th&reon. In order to increase the production these cuttings are 

 frequently made with only one eye, which m.aUes a small and weak 

 plant. Where two eyes are taken the plant is twice as large and 

 of twice as much vitality and blooming quality. So In buying plants 

 remember our plants are made from these strong, two-eyed cut- 

 tings, and are w^irth more than those weak one-eyed plants offered 

 by many at cheap rates. Buying iheap plants to save money is 

 like stopping a clock to save time. Buy the best, as the results are 

 certain. 



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