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Forty-eight Years in Easiness 



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TO OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS: 



X presenting this, the Autumn Edition of OUR New Guide for 1898, we look back with a feeling of % 



pardonable pride to the founding of this present great business. Nearly fifty years ago, when floricul- ^ 



ture was an unimportant factor in the industries ot this country, it was established by Charies Dingee, ^ 



the senior member of our Company, who continues to be its active managing head. From the few 5^ 



hundred customers of eariier years it has steadily grown until now nearly a million flower-loving /(^ 



friends in all parts of the civilized world are numbered among the D. & C. customers. This remark- % 



able achievement is not the result of accident, but is rather due to the loyal support accorded us by this army of flower 

 buyers and to the honorable methods employed in the conduct of our business. To make friend's is difficult ; but to 

 keep them is more so. We are proud of the confidence reposed in us, and we thank you, one and all, for the valued 

 orders sent us. As in the past, we shall rigidly maintain the excellence for which the D. & C. goods are famous. 

 Quality will not be surrendered to cheapness. We promise you honest goods, fair dealing and just prices. You will 

 receive just what you order; if that is impossible, we will send you what you want or return your money. All mis- 

 takes will be cheerfully rectified — in short, your orders will be filled to your entire satisfaction. We believe that our 

 best advertisement is a satisfied customer. 



We guarantee the safe arrival of all goods. We ask you for your patronage, knowing that we can please you in 

 every particular. We extend hearty thanks for all orders, and wish to say for your safe guidance that The Dingee 

 & CONARD Company has no connection whatever with any other concern, and will ?iot be responsible for any offers 

 except those that it makes in its catalogues or advertisements. Faithfully yours, 



The Leading Rose Growers of America. 



The Dingee & Conard Company, 



WEST GROVE. PENNA. 



Our ^est Advertisement — c/1 Satisfied Customer* 



Liberty, Mo., June 11, 1898. 

 The Dingee & Conaro Co., West Grove, Pa. 



Gentlemen : I received recently the three Peary Roses 

 that you were unable (on account of scarcity) to send me 

 earlier in the season. They reached me in good condi- 

 tion and look as if they are going to grow right off. Your 

 fairness and liberality are conspicuously shown by your 

 conduct in this matter of my order, and you will please 

 accept my thanks. Yours truly, S. G. SANDUSKY. 



IMlNATITLAN, Mex., Januarv 4, 1898. 

 The Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa. 



Dear Sirs : The Roses you sent me arrived and have 

 been in the ground over a week, and I must say it is 

 wonderful how carefully you packed them. Notwith- 

 standing the long journey of over two thousand miles by 

 rail, the transfer at Vera Cruz to the coast steamer, then 

 again to our local steamer, and at last the forty-mile trip 

 by canoe to my plantation, all of the twenty-four sent are 

 alive and growing nicely. I am very much surprised and 

 pleased. Yours very truly, Mrs. J. S. Spencer. 



Glasgow, Scotland, June 22, 1898, 

 (36 Paisley Road,W.) 

 The Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa. 



Dear Sirs : Allow me to thank you for your very 

 prompt and kind attention to my small order. I am 

 quite sure the plants will grow. I shall let you know. 

 Sincerely yours, Andrew Adee. 



Higginsville, Mo., May 17, 1898. 

 The Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa. 



Dear Sirs : The box of plants arrived safely May 2, 

 for which please accept my most grateful thanks, as it 

 was the most generous treatment I ever received at the 

 hands of any florist with whom I have been dealing. I 

 was quite surprised and pleased. Yours truly, 



S. C. Gray. 



Whitefields, N. H., June 13, 1898. 

 The Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa. 



Gentlemen : The plants sent as substitutes (May 27) 

 for those arriving in bad condition last Autumn reached 

 me in due season and are satisfactory. Thanks for your 

 gentlemanly and honorable treatment of the matter. It 

 is only what you have led us to look for though by your 

 methods in business during the many years m which I 

 have been sending vou small orders. Respectfully, 



Mrs. Geo. S. Gove. 



Laurel, Md., June 18, 1898, 

 The Dingee & Coxard Co., West Grove, Pa. 



Dear Sirs: The Roses you sent me came to hand 

 yesterday, and owing to good packing — for which you 

 are noted— looked as fresh and nice as when mailed. 

 Many thanks for extra plant. Have been dealing with 

 you for about twenty years, and always received what I 

 sent for, and more, too. Yours truly, 



Mrs.' Annie M, Long. 



Burkeville, Va., June 18, 1898. 

 The Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa. 



Gentlemen : My order for Roses was received to-day 

 in good condition, as they always are. I have been so 

 foolish as to try Roses from other houses, because they 

 offered so many Roses for a little money, and the usual 

 result is that very few grow, and those that did were any- 

 thing but the kind they were said to be. It is my own 

 fault, and I have learned my lesson to buy from The 

 Dingee & Conard Co., as I have for so many years. 

 They are honest, and you get what you order. 



Yours truly, Mrs. M. A. Leath.' 



Mount Notre Dame, Reading, ©., 

 June II, 1898. 

 Messrs. Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa. 



Gentlemen : Accept our thanks for the collection of 

 plants you so kindly sent us. We are very much pleased 

 with them, and hope to send you orders for what we need 

 every year. Yours respectfully, 



Sisters of Notre Dame, 



Horr, Mont., May 21, 1898. 

 The Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa. 



Dear Sirs : I received my Roses promptly and in good 

 condition, and I wish to thank you for your kindness in 

 sending me such nice, fine, large, healthy plants and also 

 for the extra plants. I am delighted with them. They 

 are the finest collection of hardy plants it has ever been 

 my pleasure to receive from any firm. I have repeatedly 

 sent long distances for flowers, but none I have ever re- 

 ceived gave me the satisfaction that yours did. 



Yours truly, MRS. A. C. Newton. 



Southold, N. Y., July 17, 1898. 

 The Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa. 



Gentlemen : Inveigled by specious advertising, I seat 



an order to for their 25-cent collection. I got it 



after a long waiting, but, like the prodigal son, come back 

 to you for good. Yours trulv, H. G. HowELL, Ph.G. 



OUR NEW GUIDE TO ROSE CULTURE for Spring and Summer of 1899 



will be readv January- 1, 1809, and will be sent free -without request to customers of present season including this Fall; also ^ ojs- 

 toniers of last year. To all others it will be sent free upon application. It will be a handsome book of over ^°° P^^f i,^°"'^^'""f.^ 

 complete list of Roses, Hardy Plants, Sumvier-flowering Bulbs, Fruits, Flo7ver and Vegetable Seeds in fact ^H flowers wor h 

 growing will be offered for sale at popular prices. As a book of Roses it is conceded to be the leading catalogue of Amenca. It wili 

 contain accurate descriptions of over eight hundred (800) varieties, including all the standard varieties as well as many new and rare 

 sons not offered elsewhere. Always address The Dingee & Conard Company, Rose Growers, West larove, ra. ^ 



