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SPRING, 1894. 



OUR NEW GUIDE TO ROSE CULTURE. 



ABRIDGED EDITION. 

 To Our Patrons and Friends: 



The presence of this, the Abridged Edition of our Annual Guide and Catalogue for the season of 

 1894, will stfJve to remind our host of customers that the " World do move," and that having swung 

 around the Winter Solstice is again approaching the Vernal Equinox, which goal seems already 

 discernible in the distance. Yes, Spring with its spontaneous, teeming life again throbs upward and 

 bids us be of good cheer. A few weeks more and April will greet us with her fitful blandishments, 

 and the cheery notes of the song-sparrows, the joyous strains of the robins will blend in announc- 

 ing the coming glory. 



It is at this season that the thrifty, industrious, ambitious and intelligent householder contem- 

 plates "setting things to rights " by investing a few dollars in Roses, Plants, Flowering and Orna- 

 mental Shrubbery, Vines and Seeds, with which to embellish his or her home surroundings ; and, as 

 usual, we are on hand with the things necessar}', both useful and ornamental, to cater to the demands 

 of the most exacting. 



Our stock was never larger, more varied, better, nor in finer condition than at present ; and we 

 confidently offer it on its merits ; and again invite your confidence and patronage. It is to the home 

 life and its personality that we more directly appeal, and to whose sense of justice for liberal and 

 equitable treatment we shall always feel it a duty as well as a pleasure to respond. 



This Abridged Edition of our Guide to Rose Culture contains only a brief abstract of the immense 

 variety in Roses, Plants, Bulbs and Seeds offered in the Unabridged Edition ; this latter work has 

 been carefully revised, illustrated and improved for the season of 1894, and contains much valuable 

 information with reference to the culture and care of plants ; if you feel interested, we shall take 

 pleasure in mailing a copy free on application. Thanking you cordially for past favors, we remain, 



Very sincerely yours, 



THE DINGEE & CONARD COMPANY, West Grove, Pa. 



Information for Customers. 



How to Send Honey Safely. 



Our Terms are Cash. — To insure dispatch the proper remittance must be enclosed with the 

 order. 



Please remember that admirable and safe as our mail facilities are, some vexatious losses to the 

 senders of letters are liable to occur ; that careful as Uncle Sam is, some of his employes steal letters 

 in transit ; some mails are burned up in great railroad wrecks. Prudence dictates that remittances 

 be made so that in case of loss duplicates can be had. Therefore we say money may be sent at our 

 risk, by P. O. Money Order on West Grove (not Postal Note), Bank Draft, Express Money Order, 

 Money (not stamps) in Registered Letter. We will be responsible for the safe carriage of money sent 

 us in either of the above ways, and if lost will give full value ; and in addition will present the 

 Sender with an elegant Rose which will be marked R. on back of label, to offset the cost of ob- 

 taining the remittance, thus paying you to take care of your own money. 



Canada Customers can remit by International Money Order on West Grove, Bank Draft, or 

 Currency in Registered Letter. Canada postage stamps have no value here. 



Please do not send stamps for money; they so often come stuck together or stuck to 

 the letter that they cannot he taken out except hy soaking the whole. Silver in small 

 sums, if carefully wrapped, will carry just as safely, and is far more acceptable. 



Our Roses are all on their own Roots.— No budded or 

 grafted Roses are sent out. Only a few years ago a great au- 

 thority on Roses said that Hybrid Perpetual and Mosses could 

 not be grown that way ; he was mistaken ; wegrow all classes 

 of Roses on their own Roots, and such only are sent out. 



Our Roses are all grown in pots, in good fresh soil with- 

 out stimulants; are strong, healthy plants, kept from bloom- 

 ing here by cutting the buds off as they appear, and with any 

 fair treatment on your part will be" sure to grow ; and the 

 Ever-blooming class will bud and bloom as soon as they start 

 to grow vigorously. 



Do not expect all varieties to be of the same size. Some 

 under the same conditions make much larger and stronger 

 plants than others, but many of the weakest growers produce 

 the most beautiful flowers. Exquisite beaut; of form, color 

 and sturdy vigor are seldom combined in Roses. 



Our aim is to do even better than we promise, so 

 when the order will at all afford it, we acid to il some plant 

 or plants gratis : they are marked P. on the back of label, and 

 are often choice new kinds; several of the Roses now so 

 eagerly sought after were first introduced to our customers in 

 that way — Presented with their order. 



Orders to foreign countries can only be sent by mail to 

 the few places with whom we have a parcel post exchange. 

 To all others they go by express, but the party ordering musl 

 give the name and addressof sonu urn in New York who will 

 receive the goods, and prepay ocean charges and forward to 

 them. 



When large lots of Roses. Shrubbery, Vines, etc., are wanted 

 for Cemetery, Lawn or Hedge planting, send us a list of stock 

 wanted to price ; growing it in large quantities as we do, we 

 can make for such very advantageous prices. Ordinary 

 orders are invariably at prices given in Catalogue, 



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We Guarantee Our Roses. 



We do not guarantee that Roses we send out will not be 

 killed by drought, insects, accidents or frost after they are 

 planted. 



But we do guarantee that all plants we send shall reach 

 their destination in good growing condition ; if they do not, 

 inform us by return mail and we will replace at once. When 

 we deliver them to you in good order ourresponsibility ends. 



Orders by mail are sent postpaid to all post-offices in 

 the United States or Canada, and we guarantee they shall 

 reach the purchaser in good growing condition. 



When so directed we ship by express, or when the 

 order is of a size or character that it cannot be safely sent by 

 mail, the purchaser paying express charges. Kut we are on 

 the constant lookout to save purchasers all needless expense, 

 and to that end, especially on long distances where goods are 

 ordered by express, we send them by mail, knowing that it is 

 to our customers' decided advantage to do so, 



lers as carefully 

 care, some mis 

 takes will creep in; when they do, notify us at once, and we 

 will correct by return mail. We cordially invite customers 

 for our goods, and do not intend they shall regret coming to j 

 us if we can possibly by fair dealing prevent it. Hut do not 

 blame us for not promptly filling your order, if you have (as 

 hundreds do every year) given no name or address ; if you 

 live in a city and give no street or number, your box will 

 probably remain at the post-office, no fault of ours. If your 

 letter is lost on the way and does not reach us.it willof course 

 cause delay and often vexation ; we are sorry, but cannot help 

 it. If you send stamps that come stuck together, and to the 

 letter, that all have to be soaked before they can be gotten 

 out, then the fault for the delay is yours, not ours. 



J We guard against errors in filling orde 

 JL as we can, but occasionally, in spite of best 1 





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