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Seven Superb Bafdy pree-blooming Hoses. 



THE SHNrlEfi COUIjBCTION . 



§ ELI EVING that our customers demand the best Roses, we now offer a collection of the rarest and most magnificent 

 of all free-blooming Hardy Hybrid Roses, Each variety is a jewel. They are perfectly hardy every- 

 ■where, and once planted will increase in size and beauty year after year. 



The Hybrids, as a rule, bloom only once a year. The varieties here offered may be properly called ever- 

 bloomers, as they bloom several times during the season. They are strong, upright, healthy growers, with large, bold 

 flowers, frequently measuring five to six inches across. They are of the greatest value for outdoor planting, because of 

 their handsome, delicious, fragrant flowers, freedom of bloom and absolute hardiness. This is truly our Banner Collec- 

 tion. One might buy every variety in our list and find none so satisfactory, nor more beautiful. Just note the kinds 

 included in this collection. 



BARONESS ROTHSCHILD. 



Rosy Pink.— One of the grandest and most beautiful of all 

 Hybrid Perpetual Roses; the flowers are of immense size and 

 fine globular form, somewhat cupped, but well filled to the 

 centre; very solid and massive, with broad, thick petals, and 

 borne erect on stout thick canes ; the color is bright, rosy 

 pink. 30 cts. each ; two-year- old plants, 50 cts. each. 



KAISERINE AUGUSTA VICTORIA, 



The Champion Hardy White Rose. — In this variety we 

 have one of the most beautiful of aU Roses for open-ground 

 culture ; it is a strong, healthy grower, and as hardy as any 

 of the Hybrid Perpetuals, while it blooms with unbroken 

 continuity from early Spring until severe fros-ts ; in fact it is 

 as free a bloomer as any of the Tea Roses. It 

 is celebrated the world over for its elegant, 

 long, pointed buds and large, full, double 

 flowers. Color satiny white, deliciously fra 

 grant- 15 cts. each ; two-year-old plants, 35 

 cts. each. 



GIANT OF BATTLES. 



Brilliant Crimson.— Who is there 

 who has never heard of this grand old 

 Rose? For more than fifty years it has 

 been one of the most popular of all our 

 hardy Roses. It bears in great num 

 bers large, very double, brilliant crimson 

 flowers. We have never had enough 

 stock to supply the demand for this fine old 

 sort, and we are particularly pleased that we 

 are now able to include it in this 

 popular set. 15 cts. each ; two- 

 year-old plants, 35 cts. each. 



FRANCOIS LEVET. 



Bright Pink.— Beyond question one 

 of the best of hardy Roses ; we recom- 

 mend it highly for general planting, 

 It is an unusually vigorous grower, 

 and as free blooming as any variety 

 in the list. Large, finely made 

 flowers almost the size of Paul 

 Neyron; color cherry pink, de- 

 licately shaded carmine and 

 blush. Very fragrant. Extra 

 good. 15 cts. each ; two-year- 

 old plants, 35 cts. each. 



MADAME MASSON, 



Bright Rose.— One of the very finest Roses 

 in existence for garden cultivation ; it is en- 

 tirely hardy, blooms nearly all the time, bear- 

 ing in profusion numbers of large, full, double 

 flowers of unusual beauty and wonderful fra- 

 grance. Ck)lor clear, bright rose, distinct and 

 charming. 15 cts. each ; two-year-old plants, 

 35 cts. each. 



GLOIRE LYONAISE. 



Yellow.— This grand Rose is a pale shade of 

 chamois or salmon yellow, deepest at centre 

 and sometimes passing to rich, creamy white, 

 finely tinted with orange and fawn. It is the 

 nearest yellow Hybrid Perpetual Rose : the 

 flowers have all the beauty of Tea Roses ; large, 

 full and delightfully sweet. 15 cts. each ; 

 two-year-old plants, 35 cts. each, 



GENERAL JACQUEMINOT. 



Crimson.— So well known that it 

 hardly needs a description. It is a 

 bright shining crimson, very rich and 

 velvety; exceedingly brilliant and 



handsome ; makes magnificent buds and is highly esteemed 

 as one of the best and most desirable of all Roses ; blooms 

 with great freedom and is as hardy as an oak. 15 cts. each ; 

 two-year-old plants, S5 cts. each. 



SPilSCIAI^ OFFER. 



For SI "we will send one each of these seven superb 

 Roses, strong plants from 3-inch pots, postpaid by 

 Mail. 



TWO-TEAR-OIiI> PLANTS (ready for immediate 

 effect). — For 5J83.35 we will send one each of the 

 seven varieties here described, tnvo-year-old plants^ 

 on own roots, by Express only. 



Please order as "THE BANNER COLLECTION." 



103 AiNS Building, Boston, Mass., Nov. 7, 1898o 

 The DiNGEE & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa.: 



Gentiemen : — I have a General Jacqueminot Rose bought from 



you some fifteen years ago, a tiny bush which had three Roses 



the first year, eleven the next and that has yielded a 



harvest of sweet things ever since. It is " a thing of 



beauty and a joy forever," and I hope this order I am 



sending tou will bring as much joy to our home as the 



one that we now cherish. Caeolyne E. Wood. 



