SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OF 



Roses, Hardy Plants and Bulbs for 1898* 



THESE offers contain the very choicest and best things offered in Our New Guide. They 

 are carefully and liberally gotten up, and are intended to meet cheap competition in 

 number, and to surpass it in honest quality, thereby protecting the best interests of our 

 customers. Those who order from this page may depend upon getting none but stock of the 

 highest quality. We give the best stock that can be grown. Its excellence is the result of 

 nearly fifty years of experience. 



At Prices named, all goods -will be sent, postpaid, by Mail, 



SET NO. 102. A Bed of 16 Beautiful Ever-blooming Roses for $1.— We will carefully 



select to suit your locality 16 beautiful Ever-blooming Roses in 16 dif- 

 ferent varieties, including 2 new and choice varieties, each one labeled. If you want Rosebuds 

 from June till November, get this set for $1. If you have no room in the front yard, plant the 

 16 in the garden. The constant bouquets you can gather all Summer long will make you think 

 there are no others like the D. & C. Roses. 



SET No. 103.— NEW ROSES.— For Fifty (50) 

 Cents we will send 1 Yellow Rambler, 1 Crimson Ram- 

 bler. 1 Princess Bonnie and 1 Empress of China — four of 

 the most famous and distinct Roses in cultivation. 



SET No. 104. — For One Dollar ($1) we select 12 

 Hardy Hybrid Perpetual Roses. Sure to give pleasing 

 results. 



SET No. 105.— For One Dollar ($1) we select 8 dis- 

 tinct Moss Roses ; all choice. 



SET No. 106. — For One Dollar ($1) we select 

 10 Hybrid Tea Roses ; all hardy and continuous 

 bloomers. 



SET No. 107.— For Fifty (50) Cents we select 6 

 choice Hardy Climbing Roses. 



SET No. 108.— For Fifty (50) Cents we select 1 Tea 

 Rose (Marie Lambert), 1 Bourbon and China Rose, 1 



Polyantha Rose, 1 Hybrid Tea Rose and 1 Hardy Hy- 

 brid Perpetual — 5 distinct varieties in all for 50 cts. 



SET No. 109.— For Fifty (50) Cents we select 6 

 Ever-blooming Climbers. 



SET No. 110.— FIVE NEAREST BLACK ROSES. 

 — We will send the 5 nearest black varieties, Hardy 

 Hybrid Perpetual Roses, postpaid, for $1.25. This is a 

 very popular collection of Roses. 



SET No. 111.— SEVEN PURE WHITE ROSES. 

 — We will send 7 purest white varieties of Hardy Hybrid 

 Perpetual Roses, postpaid, for $1. This collection is 

 specially adapted for cemetery planting ; the varieties 

 are entirely hardy. 



SET No. 112.— For Three Dollars ($3) we will send by 

 Express, at purchaser's expense, one dozen strong, 

 heavily rooted, two-year-old Roses, our selection, in- 

 cluding the great new Rose " Pink Soupert." 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS FOR ALL. 



These popular plants have been the subject of so marvelous an improvement that old friends of their earlier 

 days would hardly recognize them now, so great have been the manifold and beautiful changes wrought in them. We 

 take special pride in having none but the choicest and most desirable kinds. 



SET No. 113.— For One Dollar ($1) we send to any 1 PLUME SET.— For Fifty (50) Cents we select 4 True 



address 15 choice Chrysanthemums, including 2 New 

 Novelties; 15 varieties, distinct and different, all labeled, 

 for $1. This is the best offer ever made. 



SET No. 114. — For Fifty (50) Cents we select 7 choice 

 Chrysanthemums, including 1 New Novelty ; 7 different 

 varieties for 50 cts. 



SET No. 115. — THE FAMOUS OSTRICH 



Ostrich Plume Chrysanthemums, including the 

 great yellow variety, Wm. A. Manda, four prize winners 

 in all ; description on page 67 of GUIDE : sent to any 

 address for 50 cts. 



SET No. 116.— For One Dollar ($1) we select 12 

 Peerless Chrysanthemums, or 4 for 50 cts. . For descrip- 

 tion see page 67 of GUIDE. 



CARNATIONS. 



SET No. 117.— For Fifty (50) Cents we will select 

 and send to any address 6 choice Carnations, strong 

 plants, the latest and best sorts; splendid value. 



CHOICE HARDY PINKS. 



SET No. 118.— For Fifty (50) Cents we will send 5 

 distinct Hardy Flowering Pinks, popular and standard 



varieties ; unsurpassed for edging or massing. These 

 fine plants should be included in every collection. 



SHRUBS. 



SET No. 119. — For One Dollar ($1) we select 10 

 Hardy Flowering Shrubs, including 1 Hydrangea Pani- 

 culata Grandiflora. Those who want shrubs cannot 

 afford to miss this offer of 10 distinct and beautiful 

 Shrubs for #1. 



SUMMER-FLOWERING BULBS. 



As Tuberoses have to be purchased fresh each season, close buyers will appreciate the following low prices for 

 good blooming bulbs. We have bulbs at higher prices, but none are surer to bloom than the bulbs offered here. 



SET No. 120.— For Twenty-five (25) Cents we send 

 7 large Excelsior Pearl Tuberose bulbs ; big value for 

 the money. 



SET No. 121,— For Fifty (50) Cents we send 9 Ex- 

 celsior Pearl Tuberoses and 3 Orange-flowered Tube- 

 roses, 12 bulbs in all, for 50 cts. 



SET No. 122. — For Fifty (50) Cents we send 'a col- 

 lection of 15 fine named Gladiolus, all labeled. 



SET No. 123.— For Fifty (50) Cents we send a 

 splendid collection of up-to-date Cannas, including. 

 Austria. 



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