Own Root vs. Budded Roses 



Truth vs. Exaggeration 



When our business was established, over 60 years ago, by the founder, Charles Dingee, budded and grafted Roses 

 were the only kind to be had. They were as unsatisfactory then as they are now, and Mr. Dingee conceived the idea of 

 producing Roses, for American homes and gardens, grown on own roots in 

 America and not in Europe. The undertaking was looked upon with about the 

 same favor as was Morse's telegraphic invention, but from that day until this 

 goodly day, Dingee's own-root Roses have been planted and are growing by 

 the millions in every civili^ed country on earth. Each year they have grown 

 more popular until a vast enterprise, to supply them, has been built here on 

 the original spot, where the founder, Mr. Dingee, commenced his work. Other 

 honorable gentlemen are engaged in the business in other parts of the country 

 but we are the original producers and, notwithstanding the wild and unfounded 

 claims of new Firms, whose claim of ancient origin is by the vagary of a covet- 

 ous imagination, the original "House of Dingee" still continues under the 

 management of the founder's family, following in his footsteps and adhering 

 tenaciously to the honorable traditions which he established for truth in ad- 

 vertising and reliability, and has inherited his intense contempt for sham and 

 deceit. Our business has been built upon honor and the enduring belief that 

 the millions of "Dingee" Roses blooming in American gardens establishes an 

 inseparable bond of enduring confidence between those whom we have served, 

 generation after generation. 



In buying Roses don't be misled by appearances, 

 and if you want permanent Roses secure own root 

 plants. We have been sending these own root 

 plants to every State in the country for, 

 over fifty years, and the demand in- 

 creases each season. Budded Roses 

 seem so much larger and stronger than 

 own root plants that anyone 



is apt to be deceived and induced to 

 buy them. Read what others say 

 about them, and purchase from re- 

 liable houses who have made the 

 business a life work. 



The budding is usually done on wild Manettia Ro.se stallts by taking a l)ud 

 from the original plant and inserting it under the barlt of the Manettia and 

 binding it thereon, as in Illustration No. 5. The first year the budded Rose 

 make.s a rapid, soft growth, probably producing some blooms, but the second 

 year the wild root begins to assert itself and grows with tremendous vigor, 

 throwing out wild shoots from the roots, thus sapping the life from the top. 

 whicli usually dies, as in illustration No. 4. Note tfie shoot from the side 

 with the foliage thereon, which is the wild Rose that will not bloom, nor is it 

 ornamental: also note the dead branches of the original Rose budded thereon. 

 This is an actual photograph of a two-year budded Rose. Anyone who wants 

 Roses and not wild shrubbery sliould buyt only the best, or Roses grown on 

 Their Own Roots. Such are the Dingee Roses, known the world over. We 

 sometimes wonder why these Ijudded Roses are offered by some firms; selling 

 them to an unknowing and unsuspecting public. Ijut. as Barnum said. "'.Xmeri- 

 can people like to lie humbugged." We are content to adhere to the principles 

 laid down bv the founder of this business, who, notwithstanding the many 

 ridiculous claims put forth by ?nen who were yet unborn when Mr. Dingee was 

 active in the business of producing Own Jtooi Roses. nf)w i I.qim In ha\e iij\'cntefi 

 *.h4s method of produetitui 



An own-root plant is started by taking a portion of 

 a branch from the mother plant and putting in sand 

 until the roots are formed at the bottom, as illustrated 

 in No. 1. This is what is known as a rooted cutting. 

 Note how thie fibrous roots are formed. I'n illustration 

 No. :; we have a first size own root plant grown In pots. 

 No. .■? illustrates a two-year-old plant grown in a four 

 or five-inch pot. Note the fibrous roots, which soon 

 establish themselves in the soil after planting: also 

 how each shoot or branch is crowned with a bud; 

 how these branches are formed and how the increase 

 in size is made up by making new shoots. Compare 

 this photograph with the one of the budded plant 

 (No. 4) and note how different. A budded plant cannot 

 increase in size unless the increase is made on the 

 weaJt budded branch and then very seldom, but Own 

 Root Roses increase in size each year, unless destroyed, 

 and are permanent, producing finer and better blooms 

 each season. They arc the only Roses suitable for \.>o 

 varying climatic conditions of our country, and we 

 cannot emphasize too strongly the Importance of 

 know-ing tlie kind of plants you are settine before 

 plaoiPK an order for them. What a success these own 

 root roses have been are told by a few of the many 

 testimonials we i*c<eive each year unsolicited from 

 many thousands of satisfip.d customers, and p\)b)|shei3 

 i'LspwJjprp in this b?ojf. 



