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The Dingee €^ Con2wrd Co., West Grove, Pa, 



A Magnificent Crimson 



Hybrid Tea Rose 



IN presenting this remarkable new Hybrid 

 Tea Rose to our friends, we do so with 

 the feeling that we are bringing into 

 prominence the best Hybrid Tea Kose 

 of its color — crimson — in existence. 

 x\fter three years of thorough tria's 

 we are prepared to say that it out- 

 ranks, for the amateur cultivator, 

 great Roses, such as Meteor, Liberty 

 and Pierre GniUot, inasmuch as it is 

 endowed with the three important 

 requisites of a good Rose ; tirst, it is 

 the healthiest Hybrid Tea we have 

 '\er seen ; second, it is freer bloom- 

 ing than any other of its class, in fact 

 blooms all the time ; third, it is a 

 splendid color, deep crimson, while the 

 form of the flower is splendid, large, 

 full, deep and double. The flowers 

 are deliciously fragrant and are produced 

 I extraordinary numbers throughout the 

 growing season. Unlike many of the 

 Teas, this variety has a vigor of constitu- 

 necessary to produce such quantities of flowers, 

 hort, this is a Rose of extraordinary merit, 

 otherwise we would not devote a page in giving 

 it prominence. 



This beautiful variety is named in honor of Rear- 

 Admiral W'intield Scott Schley, who achieved the 

 greatest naval victory at Santiago in the history of 

 the naval warfare of the world, destroying every 

 vessel of the enemy, and the enemy's fleet outclassed 

 Schley's squadron, in a running battle. We are proud 

 of the fact that we have a Rose of so remarkable merit to 

 1 )ear such an honored name. Apart from Admiral Schley 's 

 ievenient at Santiago, his exploits in various parts of 

 llie world make him worthy of any tril)ute tluit we may 

 be able to i)ay him in the pages of this catalogue. As 

 commander of the marines in Korea he annihilated the 

 Korean army that outnumbered him five to one, and his 

 heroic rescue of Cireeley in the Arctic regions shows that 

 peace has victoiies as renowned as war. He was at the 

 side of Farragut in the opening of the Mississippi in 1862, 

 and was chosen by the Government to convey the remains 

 of the navigator Ericsson, who conceived and l")uilt the first 

 steel warship, to sleep with his kindred in his foreign home. 

 In every garden this Rose should be found, and in bringing 

 it i)rominently before the public we are confident that it will 

 add another bi'ight star to that long list of famous Roses that we 

 have introduced and made popular because they deserve it. 



Be sure to get l^^ihe genuine Admiral iSchh'y.°^iSi Ours is the original 

 Htock. 



Strong plants, 25 cts. each; 3 for 60 cts. ; 5 for $1, postpaid. 

 Strong two=year=old plants, on own roots, 60 cts. each; 2 for $1, 

 by Express. 



