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fJUf-tllHRrADRm PHILADELPHIA 4>A I 



SELECT- ROSES 



GENERAL COLLECTION 



Hardy Everblooming Hybrid=Tea Roses. 



Hybrid-Tea Rose Joseph Hill. 



AntoJne Rivoire. An ideal bedding Rose of large size, ex- 

 quisite form and coloring, which is soft peach-flesh with deeper 

 shadings; the base of the petals yellow. 



Belle Siebrecht. A superb Rose of a brilliant pink color; 

 the flowers are large, of good form; buds long and tapering. 



Bessie Brown. A strong, vigorous grower, flowering in 

 great profusion from June until frost; flowers of perfect form, 

 large size and highly fragrant; color creamy-white. 



Edu Meyer. Not large, but very free, of a lovely color com- 

 bination of copper, red and yellow. 



Farbenkonigin (Queen of Colors). A very attractive and showy variety, 

 the large, fragrant flowers being a most desirable imperial pink. A popular 

 Rose in Europe. 



Franz Deegen. Rich yellow, shading to orange in the centre of the flow- 

 er, which is of medium size; very sweet-scented. 



Florence Pemberton. A splendid large creamy-whitesuffused with pink, 

 perfect in form and always in flower. 



Frau Lila Rautenstrauch. Buds coppery-orange, open flowers rosy flesh 

 shaded reddish orange, one of the most highly perfumed. 



Goldelse. Pale yellow with deeper yellow centre, free-flowering, very 

 fragrant. 



Grand Duke Adolph de Luxenburg. Rosy red, shading lighter at the 

 edges, reverse of petals brilliant lake. 



Gustav Grunerwald. Carmine pink, centre yellow, large, full, of fine 

 form, buds long and pointed, a splendid sort. 



Grace Darling. A handsome Rose; in color peach tinted creamy-white; 

 large, full and free. One of the best. 



Gruss an Teplltz. This, the reddest of all red Roses, is a Rose for every- 

 body, succeeding under the most ordinary conditions. In color it is of the 

 richest scarlet, shading to a velvety-crimson; very fragrant, a free, strong 

 grower and in bloom all the time. 



Price: Any of the above, in strong two-vear-old plants, 50 cts.each; $5. 00 

 per doz. ; $35.00 per 100. Set of 29 sorts, $10.0(1. 



Honorable Edith Gifford. When first opening a beautiful 

 soft flesh, with salmon-rose centre, changing to white; fine. 



Joseph Hill. A perfect gem; of strong, clean, vigorous growth, 

 remarkably free-flowering; in color a lovely shade of salmon- 

 pink; the perfect flowers are large, full and double. 



La Detroit. One of the freest flowering varieties, producing 

 large, double rose-colored flowers daintily shaded with pink. 



La France. An old favorite, and probably the most popular 

 Rose the world over. A model garden Rose in even way; 

 flowers clear satiny-pink; large, very full and of perfect form. 



La Tosca. Beautiful silvery-pink, with deeper centre; a very 

 vigorous grower, with large, double flowers, and very free. 



Le Progres. Buds golden, changing to nankeen and pale yel- 

 low as the flower expands; large, full, cup-shaped. 



Liberty. Very free-flowering, bright crimson-scarlet. 



Mildred Grant. Blush-white, edge of petals when first open- 

 ing shaded with pink, of large size and great substance. 



Mina Barbanson. A delicately colored soft rosy-pink that 

 appeals to many; very free-flowering. 



Mme. Abel Chatenay. The most popular Rose in England, 

 both in the garden and as a cut flower, thousands of its beauti- 

 ful buds being sold daily on the streets of London: it succeeds 

 equally well here, is a strong grower and produces very freely 

 beautiful flowers of carmine-rose, shaded with salmon. 



Mme. Edmee Metz. Very double bright rosy pink shaded 

 salmon; free-flowering and effective. 



Mme. Leon Pain. A fine large well-formed flower of a dis- 

 tinct shade of silvery-pink, shaded orange in the centre. 



Mme. Pernet Ducher. Soft canary-yellow, beautiful in the 

 bud, very sweet-scented. 



Mons. Paul Lede. Distinct and beautiful; a charming shade 

 of carmine pink shaded yellow; very fragrant and always in 

 bloom. 



Pharisaer. Exceptionally free-flowering, producing long 

 buds, which open into large double flowers of a rosy-white, 

 shading to a pretty soft salmon. 



Souvenir du President Carnot. A Rose that pleases 

 everybody; fine in form, of large size and delicate in color; a 

 soft rose shading to white. 



Hybrid-Tea Rose Gruss an Teplitz. 



THE DREER DOZEN " of Hybrid-Tea Rote* are superb in every way See page 177. 



