Own Root vs. Budded Roses 



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 Anierican homes and gar- 

 dens, grown on own roots in America and not in Europe. Other hon- 

 orable 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 covetous 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 advertising and reliability, 

 and has inherited his intense contempt for sham and deceit. Don't be 

 misled. If you want permanent Roses secure own root plants. We have 

 been sending these owm root plants to every 

 State in the country for over fifty years. 

 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 

 reliable houses who have made 

 the business a life work. 



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The budding is usually done 

 on wild Mannettia Rose stalks 

 by taking a bud from the 

 original plant and inserting 

 it under the bark of the Ma- 

 nettia and binding it there- 

 on, as in Illustration No. 5. 

 The first year the budded Ro.ce makes 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 shoot's from the roots, thus sapping the life 

 from the top, which usually dies, as in illustration No. 4. 

 Note the 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 there- 

 on. This is an actual photograph of a two-year budded 

 Rose. 



Anyone who wants Roses and not wild shrubbery should buy 

 only the best, or Roses grown on Their Own Roots. Such are 

 the Dingee Roses, known the world over. We sometimes won- 

 der why these budded Roses are offered by some firms; selling 

 them to an unknown and unsuspecting public, but, as Barnum 

 said, "American people like to be humbugged." We are con- 

 tent to adhere to the principles laid down by the founder of 

 this business, who, notwithstanding the many ridiculous claims 

 put forth by men who were yet unborn when Mr. Dingee was 



active in the business of producing Own Root Roses, now claim 

 CO have invented this method of production. 



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 the fibrous roots are 

 formed. In illustration No. 2 we have a first size own root 

 plant grown in pots. No. 3 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't and note how different. 

 A budded plant cannot increase in size unless the increase is 

 made on the weak 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 are the only Roses suitable for the varying 

 climatic conditions of our country, and we cannot emphasiz>= 

 too strongly the importance of knowing the kind of plants 

 yoii are gettinsr before placing an order for them. What a 

 success these own root roses have been are told by a few of 

 the niMUy testimonials we receive each year unsolicited from 

 many thousands o\' satisfied customers, and published else- 

 where in this book. 



