FOUNDE! 

 1850 



Dingee Guide To Rose Culture 3 



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 its icy bed, herald- 

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

 and will produce highly satisfactory results. 



Prices, strong plants, 10c each; any 6 for 50c; any 12 for $1.00: $7.00 per 100 

 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 — Darkest, deep violet-blue; long stems, large flowers. 

 Farquhar — Double flowers of delicate fragrance; deepi blue. 

 Governor Herrick — Rich, dark purple; single. 



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

 Luxonne — Soft violet purple; fragrance delicious. 

 Prince of Wales — One of the best. The large, blue, single flowers are de- 



liciously fragrant. 

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

 Peacock, New Violet — 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-shap- 

 ed flowers. 20c each; 6 for $1.00. 



Hardy Perennials 



Single and Double Violets. 

 HARDY PERENNIALS— Continued. 



AQUTLEGIA (Columbine) Canadensis — Pretty scar- 

 let flowers mixed with yellow. 1 to 2 feet. 



Coerulea — Several blue and white flowers on a 

 stem, sometimes tinted with lilac. Lovely for 

 border or rockery. 9 to 12 inches. 



Candidissima — Pure white. 2 to 3 feet. 

 DELPHINIUM (Belladonna) — Everblooming hardy 

 Larkspur. The most beautiful sky blue of 

 dwarf habit. 3 to 4 feet. Blooms all summer 

 until cut down by frost. 



Formosum — Deep gentian blue with white bee. 

 Long spikes. 18 inches to 2 feet. 



Chinese Album — A white flowered form. 2 feet. 

 GOLDEN GLOW (Double Rudbeckia)— 5 to 7 feet. 

 Golden yellow flowers. 



Strong: plants, 20 cts. each, $2.00 per doz., postpaid. 



STOKESIA (Stokes Aster) — One of the choicest and distinctive of the per- 

 ennials. Resembles the China Aster. Blue or white varieties. 12 to 18 in. 



FCNKIA (Day Lily) Subcordata Grandiflora — White Day Lily. Handsome 

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

 blossoms, and large, broad, glossy, light green foliage. One foot to 18 in. 



Funkia Aurea Yariegata — Flowers purplish-lilac; leaves beautifully varie- 

 gated green and gold. 2 feet. 



DIANTHUS BARBATUS (Sweet William)— Old garden favorites; no old- 

 fashioned border is complete without their cheerful, sweet-smelling and 

 showy flowers. Separate colors, white or crimson. 2 feet. 



DIGITALIS (Foxglove) — A fine genus of hardy plants, famous for their 

 long racemes of inflated flowers, whieh suggest spires or towers of bells. 

 White, purple or pink. 3 feet. 



CAMPANULA (Canterbury Bells) — Single in separate colors of white, blue 

 or rose. 3 feet. 



DIANTHUS (Hardy Garden Pinks) — Mixed pink, white and crimson. 12 

 to 18 inches. 



HIBISCUS MFEHAN'S MARVEL MALLOW— Mixed colors, pink, red, 

 and white. Strong, two-year-old, field-grown roots, 50c each, postpaid. 



HOLLYHOCKS, Everblooming — Double, separate colors, red, white, 

 yellow and pink. Single, mixed. 6 to 7 feet. 



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 days, they, too, like everything else of these 

 days, have yielded to the influence of improvement, 

 and there has been evolved a race of flowers abso- 

 lutely bewildering in glory of their form and color. 

 Canary Bird (Flavescens) — Lovely pale yellow. 

 Darius — Yellow and lilac. 

 Honorabilis (Sans Souci) — Deep yellow; Mahogany 



falls. 

 Florentina Alba (Silver King) — Early white. 

 Ingeborg (Interregna) — Immense white; extra early. 

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

 Lohengrin — Foliage and flowers immense, of a deep 



violet mauve, almost pink; a wonderful flower. 

 Queen of May (Rosy Morn) — Lovely rose lilac. 

 Madame Thibault — White, bordered rose lilac — com- 

 panion to Mad. Chereau, not so tall, edge more 

 pinkish. 

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

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



A Bed of German Iris. 



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