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 1650 



DiNGEE Guide To Rose Culture 



BOUNDED 

 1850 



1850- Sixty-Five Years -19 15 



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Serving the Rose-Loving Public 



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ORE than sixty years ago — to be accurate, 

 sixty-five years ago — this business was founded 

 by Charles Dingee. Located in this beautiful 

 little Pennsylvania town, West Grove, its fame 

 has spread to every nation of the earth. The name 

 "Dingee" in millions of homes is synonymous with 

 fragrant, blooming Roses. These famous Rose growers, 

 who produce these wonderful Dingee Roses are known 

 everywhere as the "Dingee Experts." They have 

 spent their entire lives in this business. Their label 

 on Roses is equivalent to the sterling mark of the 

 high-class silversmith. Their deeds in this chosen 

 field of work is their monument. 



Sixty-four years of experience in Rose Growing has 

 taught us how to serve you best. We know how to 

 produce the best Roses for the Amateur Grower. What 

 kind of plants you need to crown your efforts with 

 success. The finest growing equipment and conditions 

 for handling a high-class trade makes Dingee customers 

 the best served flower buyers in America. We do not 

 wholesale or are not in the cut-flower business, that is, 

 selling plants after they have been forced to death 

 and then sold as first-class plants. 



We have steadfastly adhered to the time-honored 

 principles so forcibly impressed upon us by the 

 founder of our House — the force of which has built 

 this present great business — that of giving a dollar's 

 worth of goods for every dollar sent us. As an 

 evidence of our human frailty, try as hard as we will 

 to prevent them, mistakes are bound to creep in when 

 we are working night and day in the busy season. All 

 you need to do when mistakes occur, or if for any 

 reason dissatisfaction should arise, is write us fairly 

 and frankly and we will cheerfully adjust all errors. 



We guarantee the safe arrival of all goods, whether 

 sent by mail or express. You therefore run no risk 

 in ordering. The goods oifered in this book are the 

 best that can be produced. 



The name of "Dingee" is synonymous with Roses 

 the world over, and is a household word in every home 

 where Roses are loved. We refer with pride to this 

 letter below from one of our old customers: 



"Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D. C. 

 "I was in error when I addressed you at Chester 

 Grqve, and wish to say that any postmaster in the 



United States receiving a communication addressed to 

 The Dingee Conard Co. (without any other address) 

 would know exactly where to send it, so widely are you 

 known. Very respectfully, 



JESSE W. LEE." 



We solicit your order because of the assurance 

 that it will be filled right. We have been and expect 

 to be, in business too long to knowingly make of 

 you a dissatisfied customer. 



First and foremost, our Roses will grow for you. 

 On their own roots, not grafted on wild roses, like 

 nursery-grown roses, they are grown in large pots 

 for amateur planters — FOR YOU. Unlike the wild 

 root plants sold by nursery agents and department 

 stores without a guarantee of any kind, our stock 

 is sent out with a guarantee back of it. We do all 

 the experimenting and take all the losses. We send 

 you plants that are vigorous, pot-grown bushes, which 

 cost us five times more to produce than the dormant, 

 leafless, 'wild root, nursery-grown stock and we sell 

 them at one-third the cost. We take all the risk — 

 you take none. We guarantee that all goods must 

 reach you in first-cIass condition, no matter where 

 yoii live in the U. S. A., or money back or goods dupli- 

 cated, whichever you prefer. 



Simply follow the plain instructions given else- 

 where in this book and you will succeed. Not only 

 in Roses do we excel, but in miscellaneous plants of 

 all kinds, practically every one that is worth growing, 

 including a complete line of the very highest grade 

 of flower and vegetable seeds. 



Sixty-four years of business integrity, during which 

 time we have served millions of rose lovers in all parts 

 of the universe, gives our assurance of efficient service, 

 considerable value. Before laying this book aside, 

 make up your order, send it in to us as early as possible. 

 We will reserve the goods for you or ship whenever 

 you direct, guaranteeing absolute satisfaction, honor- 

 able treatment and ^1.00 worth of goods for every 

 dollar sent us. Our word for it that you will be 

 satisfied in every particular. 



The Dingee & Conard Company 



Charles Dingee, Founder, 1850 



The Leading and Oldest Rose Growers in America 

 West Grove, Pennsylvania 



The Dingee & Conard Co. has no connection whatever with any other concern either in West Grove or 

 elsewhere, but is the old, original company established on this present site by its founder, Charles Dingee, in 

 1850. Letters addressed to Dingee, West Grove, Penna., will reach us. 



