FOUNDED 1850 



NCQRPORATEO 1870 



ssuBdAnmallybyTHEDIIiGEE^CONARDIiO. 



Vest(jROve,Pa 



•The Leading Rose OroweFS of America 



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; HtPSESENIED IN 



GERMANY, PRANCE, ENGLAND, IRELAND JTALY, ^IZLZ 

 AUSTRALIA, CANADA, MEXICO, HAWAIIAN JSLS& CUBA. 



AN OPEN LETTER TO 300,000 D, & C. PATRONS TO WHOM 

 THIS BOOK IS SENT.' 



eSTABLISHEO 1850. INCORPORATCO 1870. 



THE DINGEE & CONARD CO., 



The Leading Rose Growers of America. 



LONG DISTANCE 

 TELEPHONE NO. 11, X 



OFFICE OF 

 TREASURER. 



West Grove, Pa.. Season of 1899. 

 Kind Friends: 



Nearly fifty years ago three young men bought out a small 

 nursery nere and went to work determined if possible to succeed. I 

 was then thirty- three - Our post-office was served only once a week — 

 Saturday. Our nearest railroad station was fifteen miles away. Now 

 our post-office is served four times daily and our railroad station 

 is within a quarter of a mile of our office Forty years has wrought 

 some changes. We needed Roses for our customers; they were hard to 

 get, mostly English grown and budded. No dream then of growing them 

 on own roots by present methods and sending them safely in a growing 

 condition by mail from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Saint 

 Lawrence to the Gulf. 



Out of this want, and determined to supply it, THE DINGEE & 

 CONARD COMPANY was born. My two original partners have been long 

 years in their graves, but THE DINGEE & CONARD COMPANY, now a corpor- 

 ation, is still very much alive, still at the same old stand. It 

 comes to you again in the person of its thirtieth edition of the 

 NEW GUIDE TO ROSE CULTURE, ho'pir^g to further cement old friendships 

 and make new ones. 



I think it the best book of its kind the Company has ever 

 issued. I hope you will all like it. I do, but I must be honest — I 

 did not make it. It is altogether the work of young men who have 

 grown up with me, and who in common with myself will spare no effort 

 to make the patrons of THE DINGEE A CONARD COMPANY, old and new, 

 better satisfied this year than ever before. With very grateful 

 remembrances for past favors, and wishing you one and all a happy and 

 prosperous New Year, 



T am very respectfully, 



Your old friend, 



