. IRISH=QROWN ROSES. Dickson's Irish Roses have a world-wide reputation for vigorous, free and healthy growth and fine (lowers, and in the neighborhood of Philadelphia they are well known and have been popular for the past ten years. It was only last season that we offered this stock in our general catalogue, and they have given such grand results to our customers throughout the country that we have made arrangements to handle them more extensively iMs season. From our own experience, as well as from the reports received from our customers, the collection of twenty-five sorts enumerated be- lo
. IRISH=QROWN ROSES. Dickson's Irish Roses have a world-wide reputation for vigorous, free and healthy growth and fine (lowers, and in the neighborhood of Philadelphia they are well known and have been popular for the past ten years. It was only last season that we offered this stock in our general catalogue, and they have given such grand results to our customers throughout the country that we have made arrangements to handle them more extensively iMs season. From our own experience, as well as from the reports received from our customers, the collection of twenty-five sorts enumerated be- low are the varieties best suited to our climate, and have been received direct from the growers in the north- ern part of the Emerald Isle, where the soil and climatic conditions favor the perfect development and the thorough ripening of the wood. These plants are not grown on their own roots, but are budded or grafted, and they should on this account be planted sufficiently deep, so that the point at which they are grafted is at least two inches below the surface. When this is done it is rare tliat a wild shoot starts from the base, and if it should happen, the growth and foliage ot the stock ate so distmct that it is readily recognized by the most inexperienced amateur, and is easily removed. These budded Roses must not he confounded with the dormant stock usually sold by department stores in spring, which invariably comes from Holland, where it is grown on low, wet land by unskilled peasant labor, and which are, as a rule, "worthless in our climate. Alfred Colonib. A splendid Rose; globular, full and very sweet; bright clear cherry-red shaded with crimson. Souvenir dh Malmaison. Baroness KotllSChild. Rich satiny pink, very large and double; one of the best. Boule de Xeig^e. Pure white, petals of great substance, medium size, fine form, good habit and very free. Captain Christy. A lovely Rose, blooming almost the entire season; very large double buds of a deep flesh color
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