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DiNGEE Guide To Rose Culture' 



old, desirable rosy pink; Golden Gate, splendid 

 in the open ground, immense flowers of creamy 

 white, changing to golden yellow and rose; Christine 

 de None, rich maroon; Comtesse Dusy, satiny 

 white; Etoile de Lyon, magnificent golden yellow 

 La Princess Vera, fancy shades; Cornelia Cook, 

 creamy wliite, Devoniensis, the Magnolia Rose; 

 Enchantress, white, tinged with buff; Freiherr von 

 Marschall, a newcomer of great merit, bright red; 

 Souv. de Pierre Notting, one of the most beautiful 

 varieties, apricot-yellow, tinged with golden orange, 

 shaded carmine; Isabella Sprunt, an old favorite, 

 golden yellow ; Marie Lambert, one of the best 

 whites; Marie Van Houtte, rich creamy white; Mad. 

 E. Duranthon, citron-yellow, red center; Mad. 

 Welche, orange and crimson; Mad. Francisca 

 Kruger, coppery yellow; Mad. de Watte\dlle, 

 the Tulip Rose; Princess de Sagan, velvety crim- 

 son; Papa Gontier, fine, bright crimson; Perle 

 des Jardins, a great golden yellow variety; Mad. 

 Guillot, splendid white; Sunset, golden amber 

 and old gold; Safrano, apricot-yellow, dashed 

 with orange and fawTi; Souv. de Francois Gualain, 

 rich crimson; White Golden Gate, Sunrise, beautiful 

 and distinct, deep, glowing coppery yellow, tinted 

 with orange; Mrs. B. R. Cant, splendid deep pink; 

 Wm. R. Smith, a newcomer of great merit; salmon- 

 pink; The Bride, pure Jwhite; Clotilde Soupert, 

 wliite and pink; Pink Soupert, Yellow Soupert, 

 White Soupert. 



All the Hybrid Perpetual Roses are desirable. 

 Each has its indiA^dual merits, but among those 

 most sought after are Baroness Rothschild, im- 

 mense pink; Alfred Colomb, rich crimson; Anna 

 de Diesbach, free-blooming, brilliant carmine; 

 Countess of Roseberry, satiny pink; Clio, glorious 

 flesh-color, shaded rosy pink; Captain Christy, 

 free, beautiful pink; Francois Levet, a great 

 variety, cherry-pink; Fisher Holmes, dark scarlet; 

 Gloire de Margottin, dazzling red; Glory of Ex- 

 position of Brussels, almost black; Empress of 

 India, deep crimson; Jean Liabaud, rich velvety 

 crimson, almost black; Giant of Battles, a great old 

 favorite, crimson; Dinsmore, free-blooming, rich 

 scarlet; Prince Camille de Rohan, unusually good, 

 rich velvety crimson; Louis Van Houtte, especially 

 desirable, crimson ; Cheshunt Hybrid, one of the 

 best reds; General Jacqueminot, crimson; a favorite 

 ever>"where; Her Majesty, enormous in size, rosy 

 pink; Gloire Lyonnaise, to which we call special 

 attention, enormous flowers, rich, creamy white; 

 Margaret Dickson, a great white variety; Vick's 

 Caprice, satiny pink, striped carmine; Magna 

 Charta, A-iolet -crimson; Mad. Plantier, splendid for 

 cemeteries; a fine white; Mad. Gabriel Luizet, pink; 

 Oakmont, pink; Mad. Charles Wood, free-bloom- 

 ing, crimson; Mad. Masson, free-blooming, bright 

 rose; Ulrich Brunner, immense rich glowing crim- 

 son; Paul Neyron, a grand old favorite, shining 

 pink; Victor Verdier, rosy carmine. 



Among the Hardy Climbing Roses, good in all 

 sections of the country and hardy everywhere, 

 we would recommend the following varieties: Our 

 great new Rose, Thousand Beauties, or Tausend- 

 schon, the Rose of many colors, illustration and 

 description of which we show on page 73 of this book ; 

 Crimson Rambler, a great climber; Philadelphia 

 Crimson Rambler, an improvement over the old 

 variety in many ways; Dorothy Perkins, shell- 

 pink; Lady Gay, pink; Yellow, White and Pink 

 Rambler; Keystone, the first and only thoroughly 

 hardy yellow Climbing Rose, should be in every 

 garden; Baltimore Belle, carmine and white; Gre- 

 ville or Seven Sisters, white and crimson; Russel's 

 Cottage, velvety crimson; Tennessee Belle, rosy 

 blush; Rubin, crimson-scarlet. 



Then there is another class of Climbing Roses 

 rapidly springing to the front, embracing Climbing 

 Polyanthas, Climbing Teas and Hybrid Teas, that 

 are especially desirable in all sections of the country, 

 except extremely cold portions, and among them 



A dainty little " Canna expert," Marie Lynch, 

 daughter of Mr. Henry Lynch, vice-president of the 

 Dingee & Conard Co. 



the following will be found desirable: Climbing 

 Wootton, one of the most magnificent of all red 

 climbers; Climbing Clotilde Soupert, which we 

 find is hardy pretty nearly everywhere; Climbing 

 Meteor, a sport from Meteor, grand in even,' way, 

 velvety crimson; Gainsborough, a newcomer, 

 beautiful pink and white; Mrs. Robert Peary, 

 the only white, hardj^ everblooming climbing 

 variety, an offspring of Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, 

 is one of the finest of all white climbers; Climbing 

 Helen Gould (Mme. Driout), rosy crimson, beauti- 

 fully striped and flamed bright carmine. 



For warm climates where the winters are not 

 severe, the Climbing Teas and Noisettes find a con- 

 genial atmosphere and can be seen at their best. 

 Among those which we recommend particularly are 

 Chromatella, yellow; Climbing Devoniensis, white 

 and blush; Marechal Niel, that superb golden yellow; 

 James Sprunt, cherry-red; Gold of Ophir, nastur- 

 tium-yellow; Gloire de Dijon, creamy white; Reine 

 Marie Henriette, glowing crimson; Reve d'Or, buff- 

 yellow; William Allen Richardson, coppery yel- 

 low, flushed carmine; Allister Stella Gray, light 

 yellow. Carmine Pillar, rosy carmine; Climbing 

 Bridesmaid, dark pink; Climbing Marie Guillot, 

 beautiful snow-white; White Marechal Xiel. 



Among the Bourbons and Chinas these are good 

 varieties: Agrippina, fiery red; Archduc Charles, 

 crimson-scarlet; Champion of the World, a meri- 

 torious pink; Queen's scarlet, a really splendid 

 variety; velvety scarlet; Viridiflora, the Green Rose; 

 Malinaison, flesh shaded red and rose; Hermosa, 

 one of the greatest varieties we have, clear pink; 

 Lucullus, crimson-maroon. 



All the Polyanthas, as we have said before, are 



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