We invite oisitois to sec our great rosc-groiving plant 



A Word About Ourselves 



|UR business story starts with the beginning of the 

 Rose-growing industry in America. It was in West 

 Grove, a little past the middle of the last century, 

 that Alfred F. Conard, the founder of our firm, took 

 the first steps as leader in the small beginning of 

 the new industry of growing Roses on their own roots. It was 

 he who placed the first advertisement, and wrote and compiled the 

 first catalogue offering Roses by mail. 



Associated with him as grower was our vice - president and 

 superintendent of today, Antoine Wintzer — an Alsatian by birth 

 — then but a young man. It has been Mr. Wintzer who, with 

 great-hearted love for his task, has personally directed the " mak- 

 ing " of most of the Roses which have gone out from West Grove 

 since that time to thousands upon thousands of happy homes in 

 nearly every country on earth. 



A lifetime is short to learn what there is to be known about 

 preparing Roses fit for America's millions. We do not boast of the 

 past, but we do know that our experience is priceless, and that 

 the methods thus learned now help us to produce for our cus- 

 tomers what we believe to be the best Roses that can be grown. 

 With an extensive block of new greenhouses, provided with all 

 the modern improvements for heating, ventilating, etc., and with 

 a skilled corps of young men trained under our methods, with the 

 grand original rose-maker still " on the job," we are surely well 

 prepared to handle any kind of a Rose order that this good 

 round world may send our way. 



THE CONARD & JONES CO. 



Robert Pyle, President ,^L R. T. Satterthwaite, Secretary 



Antoine Wintzer, Vice-President ^^ S. Morris Jones, Treasurer 



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