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Title: Our new guide to rose culture : 1898
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Dingee & Conard Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Catalogs Roses Catalogs Nurseries (Horticulture) Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: West Grove, Pa. : The Dingee & Conard Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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etrical,compact plants, about three feet high. 35 cts. each ; 3 for $1.00. Papa Canna Not quite three feet high and a compact, vigorous grower,bearing in the greatest profusion immense spikes of flowers, thesingle flowers being of the grandest size and finest form. Thecolor is pure deep red. 35 cts. each; 3 for $1 00. Professor, The best dark-leaved Canna.—This is bv all odds thebest of the dark-leaved Cannas. It combines the valuable fea-tures of having foliage of the darkest hue, together with splen-didly formed, glowing crimson flowers. It is a strong grower, ofmedium height, with massive foliage, almost black in color,that endures winds and rains without injurv. Wherever con-trast is wanted this varietv cannot be dispensed with. A singlespecimen makes a fine show. 20 cts. each ; 3 for 50 cts.; 7 for$1.00 ; $1.50 per dozen. ^^^^^^i!j^^^^^^^^^ajS2j$ 7 magnificent/new:large floweringever bloomingvarieties for $2.00 SEE. NEXT PAGEFOR FURTHER PARTICULARS. 1 5ize.
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-VN.N.Y ; The Duchess Collection £nNne* f I wnm MAGNIFICENT, NEW, EVER- d» O /\,«\ f# BLOOMING VARIETIES FOR «P^»UU • HAVE NO EQUALS, THK BEST IN THE WORLD. (See colored plate illustrations, preceding; page.) WE have kept abreast of the marvelous improvements made in Cannas, and in this collection we have the creamof the hundreds of varieties in cultivation. These are magnificent varieties, and every lover of beautifulCannas will plant them because they have no equals—they are the best. While there are one or two va-rieties which the introducers claim to be pink, we can positively assert that the Duchess of Marlboroughis the only absolutely pure pink in existence to date. There is a wide difference between flesh color and a purepink. The Duke of Marlborough is the darkest of all Cannas, Alsace the nearest white, Flamingo by all oddsthe best crimson. Eldorado the best yellow spotted variety, Queen Charlotte the queen of gilt-edged varieties,and Austria, the giant-flowered Cann

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