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Dingee Hardy Climbing Roses 



Hardy Climbing Roses have become an absolute 

 necessity for beautifying the home, for training over 

 porches, verandas, trellises, and pergolas, and for training 

 of low supports to make the most beautiful flowering 

 hedges. They can also be grown as individual specimen 

 plants, when properly trained, for they can be kept 

 trimmed to any shape. 



In recent years great advance has been made in the 

 development of this class of roses. Today there are 

 climbers that have blooms rivalling the Hybrid Teas, and 

 even hardier than roses of the latter class. However, 

 souu 1 of the varieties are not as hardy as others, and 

 require some protection in the far north. These will be 

 indicated in the text. 



Due to the fact that these roses are hardy, and of 

 extremely vigorous growth, sending forth canes more 

 than ten feet long in a single year, they will survive 

 many winters if the proper kind of plants are used. 

 Plant own-root stock — the Dingee kind — for once 

 planted they last. The growth is strong and heavy, and 

 no wild shoots can come up. Dingee Hardy Climbers 

 are unexcelled. The size of the plants we send out is 

 very large, our stock is almost unlimited, and our list 

 includes all the varieties that have shown their worth. 



Climbing American Beauty 



The colors of carmine and crimson are those of the 

 bush rose American Beauty. Exceptionally fine buds, 

 opening into very large flowers of splendid form, borne 

 on long stems, and available for cutting. Vigorous, 

 healthy, leathery foliage, retained usually throughout 

 the season. The blooming season is unusually long for a 

 climbing Rose. Absolutely hardy, it is one of the best 

 roses for pillars, pergolas, for climbing over verandas, 

 or wherever a climber is desired. Its ease of growth 

 make it the amateur's best bet. 



Christine Wright. A cross between Mad. Caroline 

 Testout and an unknown seedling. Has the con- 

 stitution of an oak, with thick leathery, dark green 

 foliage, practically immune from insects or disease. 

 Blooms are produced singly and in large clusters, 

 each bloom perfect in form and from 3 to 4 inches in 

 diameter. Color an exquisite shade of bright wild- 

 rose pink. 

 Paul's Carmine Pillar. The flowers are large and 

 very showy, of a rich rosy-carmine with white-eye. 

 Bess Lovett. Resembles Climbing American Beauty 

 in shape of bloom, but is very much brighter in color 

 and much more fragrant. The flowers are clear bright 

 red, of good size, and of double, full, cupped form, 

 lasting a long time in good condition. Beautiful in 

 bud and bloom and the most fragrant of the Climbing 

 Roses. 

 Mary Wallace. Hardy Climber or pillar rose making a 

 fine, strong self-supporting plant 6 to 8 feet high, with 

 large glossy foliage, blooming with great freedom in 

 spring and bearing a considerable number of fine buds 

 in summer and fall. Flowers very large, usually ex- 

 ceeding 4 inches across; well formed semi-double, of a 

 bright clear rose-pink with salmon base to the petals. 



Prices. Strong, one-year-old plants, on this page except 

 where otherwise noted 30 cts. each; 4 for $1.00, postpaid; 

 strong, vigorous, two-year-old plants, 85 cts. each, by ex- 

 press; S8.50 per dozen, 6 at doz. rate, by express; 95 cts. 

 each, by parcel post prepaid, with soil on roots. 



Jean Girin (Ward's favorite.). (The ever-blooming 

 Dorothy Perkins.) — The flowers are similar in form and 

 color to the pink Dorothy Perkins. The chief merit of 

 this rose is that after giving a mass of bloom in June, 

 unlike the other climbers, it blooms again. Because of 

 its habit of blooming a second time, which is most 

 unusual in roses of the hardy climbing class it isa great 

 favorite. Cut off all of the old June blooms to help the 

 plant produce more flowers during the summer and fall. 



-feet grower, wonderfully hardy 



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