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THE DINGEE & CONARD CO., WEST GROVE, PA. 



R Magnificent Crimson 



HYBRID TEH 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 Rose 

 of its color — crimson— in existence. 

 After four years of thorough trials we 

 are prepared to say that it outranks, 

 for the amateur cultivator, great 

 Roses, such as Meteor, Liberty and 

 Pierre Guillot, inasmuch as it is endowed 

 with the three important requisites of 

 a good Rose ; first, it is the healthiest 

 Hybrid Tea we have ever seen ; 

 second, it is freer blooming than any 

 other of its class, in fact blooms all the 

 time ; third, it is a splendid color, deep 

 imson, while the form of the flower is 

 splendid, large, full, deep and double. The 

 flowers are deliciously fragrant and are pro- 

 duced in extraordinary numbers throughout 

 the entire growing season. Unlike many of the 

 Hybrid Teas, this variety has a vigor of constitution 

 necessary to produce such quantities of flowers. In 

 short, this is a Rose of extraordinary merit, other- 

 wise we would not devote a page in giving it 

 prominence. 



This beautiful variety is named in honor of Rear- 

 Admiral Winfield 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 bear such an 

 honored name. Apart from Admiral Schley's achieve- 

 ment at Santiago, his exploits in various parts of the 

 world make him worthy of any tribute that we may be. 

 able to pay him in the pages of this catalogue. As com- 

 mander of the marines in Korea he annihilated the Korean 

 army that outnumbered him five to one, and his heroic 

 rescue of Greeley in the Arctic regions shows that peace 

 has victories 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 conveived and built 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 promi- 

 nently before the public we are confident that it will add another 

 bright star to that long list of famous Roses that we have introduced 

 and made popular because they deserve it. 



Be sure to get The Genuine Admiral Schley 



Oars is the 

 Original Stock 



Strong plants, 20 cts. each; 3 for 50 cts. ; 7 for $1, postpaid. Strong 

 two=year-old plants, on own roots, 50 cts. each; 5 for $2, by Express. 



