DiNGEE Guide To Rose Culture 



Dingee Hardy Violets 



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Rich in modest beauty and famed for its enchanting fragrance, the 

 Violet continues to increase in popularity. With the last snows of winter 

 still about it, this gentle flower shyly appears from out of its icy bed, 

 heralding the coming of spring. All our plants are absolutely clean and 

 healthy and will produce highly satisfactorv results. 



Prices, strong: plants, 12%c each; any 12 for SI. 25. 

 3Iarie Lynch — In color it is a charming shade of lavender-pink and the 



foliage is a rich dark green. 

 California — The largest violet in cultivation. Rich, violet-blue; flowers on 



long stems. 

 Dorsett — Darkest, deep violet-blue; long stems, large flowers. 

 Farquhar — -Double flowers of delicate fragrance; deep blue. 

 Governor Herrick — Rich, dark purple; single. 



Lady Hume Campbell — Double blue. Strong, healthy and perfectly hardy. 

 Luxbnne^Soft violet purple: fragrance delicious. 

 Prince of Wales — One of the best. The large, blue, single flowers are 



deliciously fragrant. 

 Swanley White — Pure white, perfectly double, fragrant flowers. 

 Peacock, New Violet — This is an entrancingly beautiful new Violet; the 



markings of its charming colors are difflcult to describe. The prevailing 

 - color in white, with delicate tracings and m.arkings of sky-blue. 



Yucca Filamentosa — Spanish Bayonet 



A low-growing evergreen plant with narrow leaves. The flower stalk is 

 from 2 to 4 feet high and rises from the center. Creamy white, bell-shaped 

 flowers. 25c each; 5 for $1.00. 



Hardy Perennials 



Single and Double Violets 



Dingee Special Lawn Grass Seed 



It produces a smooth, velvety green sward of 

 attractive appearance. Sow the seed carefully and 

 evenly at the rate of one quart to a space equal to 

 15 X 20 feet; two bushels will sow one acre. After 

 sowing, cover the seed by raking or harrowing it. 



Seeding may be done at any time during spring, 

 summer or fall, but the best results are obtained 

 by sowing during April, May. September or October. 

 Where fall sowing is practical a top-dressing of 

 manure is recommend'ed to protect the roots of 

 the young grass during the winter. In the spring 

 the gross matter should be removed, leaving the 

 surface clean. To renovate lawn, loosen the soil 

 on the bare spots with a steel rake, and, after 

 sowing a liberal quantity of seed, roll o.r rake again 

 to cover the seed. 



Price: By mail, 50c per pound; in bulk, by 

 express. 45c per pound, 20 pounds or more. 



FUXKLA. (Day Lily) Subcordata Grandiflora — White Day Lily. Handsome 

 spikes of large, waxy-like blossoms, with an odor like that of orange 

 blossoms, and' large, broad, glossy, light-green foliage. One foot to 

 IS inches. 25c each. 

 Funkia Aurea Variegata — Flowers purplish-lilac; leaves beautiful varie- 

 gated green aruJ gold. 2 feet. 25c each. 

 HIBISCrs MEEHAN'S MARVEL MALLOW. Without exception the finest 

 production among the Hardy Plant line in years. They make a bush- 

 like growth from 4 to 5 feet high and 2 to 3 feet across. The flowers 

 are of an enormous size, frequently S to 10 inches in diameter and 

 ranging in color from fiery crimson through various shades of red. pink 

 and white. Xo garden or yard complete without them, perfectly hardy, 

 Avill thrive in any locality or kind' of soil and blooins continually from 

 July until checked bj- frost. Require no care or protection. Price, mixed 

 colors. Pink, Red or White, strong 2-year-old fleld-grown roots, 75c each. 

 DELPHINIUM (Belladonna) — Everblooming hardy Larkspur. The most 

 beautiful sky blue of dwarf habit. 3 to 4 feet. Blooms all summer until 

 cut down by frost. 

 Formosum — Deep gentian blue with white bee. Long spikes. 18 inches 



to 2 feet. 

 Chinese Album — A white flowered form. 2 feet. 



RUBECKIA, GOLDEN GLOW— Grows 6 to 8 feet high, branching freely 

 and bearing by the hundreds on long, graceful stems exquisite 

 double flowers of the brightest golden yellow. Hardy. 25c each, 

 Postpaid. 



German Iris 



The memory of the "Blue Flag'' of the old-time 

 gardens is one ever sweet to those whose lives ■were 

 lived in such surroundings, and while the "modern" 

 Irises, if we may use the term, will remind one of 

 the old days, they, too, like ever3-thing else of these 

 days, have yielded to the influence of irnprovement, 

 and there has been evolved a race of flowers abso- 

 lutely bewildering in glory of their form and color. 

 Canary Bird (Flavescens) — Lovely pale yellow. 

 Darius — Yellow and lilac. 



Honorabilis — Deep yellow: Mahogany falls. 

 Florentina Alba (Silver King) — Early white. 

 Ingeborg (Interregna) — Immense white; extra early. 

 Mrs. H. Darwin — ^White, violet veining, rather 



dwarf. 

 Lohengrin — Foliage and flowers immense, of a deep 



violet mauve, almost pink; a wonderful flower. 

 Queen of May (Rosy Morn") — Lovely rose lilac. 

 Madame Thibault — White, bordered "rose Hlac — com- 

 panion to Mad. Chereau edge more pinkish. 

 Cherion — Standard lilac-mauve; falls violet-mauve. 

 Price. 15c each; 3 for §1.00, postpaid. 



A Bed of German Iris 



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