Success With Flowers, Aug. 1891
A Name For a New Rose?
What do you think would be a choice name for a grand New Ever-blooming Rose? Pedigree as follows: Raised from Comtesse de Casserta and Duchess of Edinburgh; Casserta type predominates in foliage; Edinburgh type predominates in flower; the result is a very valuable variety of vigorous, upright, healthy habit; abundant, light, lustrous foliage; very full and double sweet flowers of lasting substance, strikingly brilliant red; borne erect on long, strong stems; continuous and free bloomer. We consider this new variety the best red Ever-blooming Rose now known. We will distribute it next season. Before naming it, however, we would be glad to hear from the readers of Success With Flowers, as they are surely interested. The sender of the best name to our mind will receive Free two fine plants of this new Rose when ready.
Faithfully Yours,
THE DINGEE & CONARD COMPANY, West Grove, Pa.

Everblooming Roses for the Out-door Garden of the Amateur (1912)
By Georgia Torrey Drennan
Marion Dingee.—Deep, rich crimson, like a blackheart cherry. Retains its colour remarkably well through the heat of summer. Reliable, hardy and constant. One of the best red roses.

Annals of Horticulture in North America for the Years 1889-1893, Volume 4
edited by Liberty Hyde Bailey

Inroductions of 1892

Marion Dingee. Dingee Conard Co.
Raised from seed of Countess de Casserta, crossed with Duchess of Edinburgh. The Casserta blood is shown most in its foliage and habit of growth, while the flowers have much of the brilliant coloring and somewhat the form of Duchess of Edinburgh, but are altogether different and much more striking. Marion Dingee is a strong, vigorous grower, with large, thick, deep green leaves; the flowers are large, beautifully cup-shaped, moderately full, and borne in profusion all through the growing season; the flowers are borne nearly upright on long straight stems, and are of excellent substance, having thick, leathery petals, which hold their form and color for a long time; the color is deep, brilliant crimson, one of the darkest, if not the very darkest and richest colored Tea rose.