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Listing last updated on Sat Nov 2024

West Grove, Pennsylvania
United States

Dingee & Conard
West Grove, Pennsylvania
[See also Conard & Jones, as well as Conard & Pyle (Star Roses).]


[From The Weekly Florists' Review, December 20, 1906, p. 349:] Mr. Conard was a descendant of Dennis Conard, a German, who settled at Germantown, a suburb of Philadelphia, in 1683. Alfred was a son of Thomas and Rebecca Shoemaker Conard, and obtained his education in his father's school, at West Grove, and the Westtown Boarding School. Subsequently he settled at West Grove, where he learned the nursery business under the personal supervision of Thomas W, Harvey. After acquiring a thorough knowledge of his vocation Mr. Conard entered into a partnership with Charles Dingee, under the firm name of Dingee & Conard. Mr. Conard was largely instrumental in or- ganizing its mail-order business, which extends all over the United States, and established a national reputation for West Grove. A number of years ago Alfred Conard retired from the Dingee & Conard Co. and established a new business at West Grove, in the same line, under the title of the Conard & Jones Co