Charles Dingee 



Founder of The Dinoee A Canard Cmnpanv 



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Tlie Birthpla* e of Rose tirowiiifj; in America 



1850 



FAMOUS DINGEE ROSES 



1929 



THIS business established here in 1850, seventy-nine years ago by its founder, Charles Dingee, gives unanswerable 

 proof to the old adage that "Honesty is the best policy." Built upon integrity and fair dealing, it has continued 

 under the same family management from the beginning until now^, through days of plenty and days of adversity, 

 growing with the country from a small beginning to its present proud place as the leading and oldest rose growing 

 concern in America. That it has endured and prospered is the best guarantee that our old friends as well as our new 

 friends in 1929 may send their orders, knowing that they must have absolute satisfaction or they may take advantage 

 of the additional guarantee that all money will be refunded on request if goods are not satisfactory when received. 

 This applies to our friends living anywhere within the borders of the United States proper. 



We are the Pioneers of Own -Root Growing in America. The first to send them safely to all parts of the 

 country. The fame of the "Dingee Roses" extends the world over. The name "Dingee" in connection with roses, 

 we are proud to say has the same significance as the "Sterling" mark on silver. 



We come to you in this 79th year of our business life with the accumulated experience of all these years, vast 

 equipment, immense stock of high grade plants, suitable to the home, yard or garden, taking a personal interest in 

 every customer and bring to you as our best guarantee, a reputation for honest dealing. 



We believe, and have so maintained for over 60 years, that pot-grown Rose plants on own-roots are by far the 

 most satisfactory for the amateur planter and with few exceptions they are the kind of Roses we send out. In full 

 foliage having an abundance of strong active working roots, once planted it is not unusual for them to last a life time. 

 Costing more to produce than leafless, dormant field-grown plants with wild roots the season for planting them is 

 hardly ever closed, while dormant field-grown plants must be planted in the early spring or again in the late fall and 

 after plant in-; they must develop roots which we develop here before the plants are sent to you — a very decided advan- 

 tage and an insurance against loss. To produce Rose plants such as we sell by the millions requires an immense 

 investment and few firms have such an equipment. These acres of glass and hardy outdoor stock of ours, with every 

 modern equipment, represents an enormous investment extending over the life time of this business. When a better 

 way is found to produce Roses than the manner in which we have been producing them for nearly three-quarters of a 

 centiiry, we will be the first to gi\ e our customers the advantage of a better Rose plant. In buying Roses, whether 

 you buy from us or not, insist upon getting own-root plants. You will find they are the most satisfactory and perma- 

 nent, easier to care for and you will not be bothered with wild shoots coming from the roots as is the case with the 

 field-grown dormant, budded, wild root plant which unless carefully watched will quickly go back to what it is — a 

 wild Rose of no value whatever. As long as any part of the root of a "Dingee Rose" remains alive you still have a 

 plant that will quickly throw out strong shoots from the roots making for permanency and enduring satisfaction. 



THE DINGEE & CONARD CO. 

 Mrs. Charles Dingee, Pres. West Grove, Pa. 



P. J. Lvnch, Treasurer 

 J. D. Headly, Sec. «& Ceneral Mgr. 



Please Note: We have no connection with any other concern in West Grove or Elsewhere. We are 

 the original Rose growing firm established here by Charles Dingee in 1850 — the same location — firm name unchanged, 

 the old firm that we are frequently told served your forbears for generations past. 



