DREER'S SPECIALLY PREPARED 



Roses for the Garden 



While our old customers are familiar witli the high grade of Roses which we send out, we wish to direct the attention of those who 

 have never planted our stock, to the manner m which these plants are prepared. All our Roses are field-grown, and in fall are carefully 

 dug, planted in pots and stored in cold greenhouses or cold frames, where artificial heat is used only to exclude the most severe frost. 

 Under this treatment the plants develop m a natural way, and are much superior to stock which has been forced in a high temperature 

 into an unnatural and weakened growth. 



Our Roses are all strong two-year-old American-grown, budded or grafted, and while some planters prefer stock grown on their own 

 roots on account of the possibility of budded plants developing wild shoots, this will rarely occur if the deep planting as directed in our 

 cultural notes is followed. Much can be said in favor of budded plants, they being more vigorous, producing finer blooms, coming into 

 bearing sooner, and are as permanent and hardy as those on their own roots, while many of the verj- finest varieties will not succeed at 

 all when grown on their own roots, and preference is given to budded plants by all who have had experience with the different classes. 



CULTURAL NOTES.— We have prepared a leaflet which gives concise cultural instructions; copies free on application. We 

 also offer a verj' good book on their culture, entiUed How to grow Roses, price S2.00 per copy postpaid. 



HYBRID-TEA ROSES Novelties and Recent Introductions 



The newer Roses offered on this and the next page have been selected with great care from the introductions of prominent specialists. 

 We have had the opportunity of testing these new comers, and can vouch for their high quality. 



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Comelis Timmennans. A large good shaped flower sweetly scented, 

 soft pink with yellow shading, very free flowering. S1.50 each. 



Diadem. A large double, sweetly scented, copper-orange, heavily 

 overlaid with salmon and red tints, very distinct. §1.50 each. 



Elsie Beckwith. Beautiful buds, flowers of ideal form, rich deep 

 glowing pink on long stems, sweetlj' scented. Sl-50 each. 



E. P. H. Kingma. A "sport" from the popular Daily Mail Rose 

 Mme. Edouard Herriot, in color a wonderfxfl rich glowing deep orange 

 shaded apricot, the flowers are semi-double, beautiful in bud form, 

 it flowers profusely and continuously. $1.50 each. 



Hybrid-Tea Rose, Mrs. Charles L-amplgugh 



Feu Joseph. Looymans. Long and pointed buds, large full 

 flowers, yeUow with vivid apricot, particularly brilliant at the 

 centre. Entirely distinct and novel. §1.50 each. 



Josephine Thomas. The eminent Rosarian, Captain George 

 C. Thomas, selected this promising variety from a number of 

 Howard & Smith's seedlings to name after his daughter. It is a 

 variety of strong, vigorous habit and produces its flowers on 

 fine long stems. These are of a light orange salmon at the centre, 

 the outer petals graduallj- shading to a cream-flesh, does not 

 fade or discolor and always carries a high pointed centre of 

 smaller petals. This Rose should become universally popular 

 for garden decoration with good cutting value. §1.50 each. 



La Champagne. A meritorious and distinct variety of strong 

 robust habit with large, long buds of beautiful shape which 

 develop into good fuU blooms, color bright chamois, shading to 

 yellow with apricot at centre and peach-blossom reflex and yellow 

 base. §1.50 each. 

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HYBRn>-TEA Rose, La Ch.ampagne 



