Dingee & Conard Co., Our New Guide to Rose Culture (1898), West Grove, PA, United States
As the dog days of summer begin (or continue, depending on from where you are reading this), hopefully this "cool" seed catalog cover will help you resist the heat.
The polar bear, igloo, and sled dogs apparently weren't enough for 1898's Dingee & Conard, a company that needed Mrs. Robert Peary to help advertise the cool beauty of this white climbing rose.
—Elizabeth Periale
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The Dog Days originally were the days when Sirius rose just before or at the same moment as sun-rise (heliacal rising), which is no longer true, owing to precession of the equinoxes. The Romans sacrificed a black dog at the beginning of the Dog Days to appease the anger of Sirius, believing that the star was the cause of the hot/sultry weather.