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"THE DREER DOZEN" 



HARDY EVERBLOOMING HYBRID-TEA ROSES 



For many years it has been customary for us to offer under this heading only the very best and most popular, well-tried varieties 

 of Hybrid-Tea Roses, with the majority of which every lover of the Rose is familiar. 



We recommend this collection for general planting to the amateur who wishes a limited number of varieties, and who is desirous of a 

 supply of extra choice flowers to cut throughout the season. Those who desire a more extensive collection can select with perfect con- 

 fidence any variety in our collection of Hybrid-Tea Roses. There is not one individual sort which we cannot endorse as possessing superior 

 merit, all having been thoroughly tested. 



Caroline Testout. One of the most popular and valuable I Los Angeles. This is, by all odds, one of the finest Roses ever 

 bedding varieties; large, fuU, globular flowers of bright satiny- introduced. The growth is very vigorous, and produces a con- 



rose, with brighter centre, very free and fragrant. tinuous succession of long-stemmed flowers of a luminous flame- 



The Rose that made Portland, Oregon, famous j^m. pink, toned with coral and shaded with translucent gold at the 



as the Rose City. i^flHl^ ^^^^ °^ ^^^ petals. In richness of fragrance it equals in 



Duchess of Wellington. The most popular i^H^^^^Bk "^'^nsity the finest Marechal Neil. The buds are long 



yellow garden Rose. Intense saffron-yellow J^^^H^^BIL and pointed, and expand into a flower of mammoth 



stained with deep crimson, changing to 

 a deep coppery saffron-yellow as the 

 flowers develop. The flowers 

 are fairly full, with large 

 petals, great substance, de- 

 lightfully fragrant and very 

 free-flowering. 

 Hadley. Beautiful, well- 

 shaped, long buds and large, 

 full, perfect flowers of an 

 intense, rich, dazzling, crim- 

 son-scarlet shading to vel- 

 vety crimson and de- 

 liciously fragrant. The 

 plant is of vigorous 

 growth, and is conceded 

 to be one of the best Roses of 

 its color. 



Kaiserin Augusta Victor- 

 ia. This splendid Rose 

 should be in every collection. 

 In color it is a soft pearly- 

 white, tinted with just 

 enough lemon in the centre 

 to relieve the white, remark- 

 ably fragrant, beautifully 

 formed flowers on long 

 graceful stems; a free, 

 healthy grower. 



Lady Alice Stanley. A gem that everyone admires; it is 

 absolutely perfect in every way; form, color, size, freedom of 

 bloom and fragrance are all fully developed; in color it is a 

 beautiful shade of coral-rose, the inside of the petals shading to 

 flesh-pink with deeper flushes. 



Lady Ursula. A truly magnificent Rose of vigorous, erect 

 growth; exceedingly free blooming during the entire summer and 

 autumn. The flowers produced on every shoot are very large, 

 full and of great substance and perfect form, with high centre, 

 from which the petals gracefully reflex; in color a delightful 

 tone of flesh-pink, distinct from all others; delicately tea-scented. 



proportions, while the beauty of form 

 and ever-increasing wealth of color is 

 maintained from the incipient bud 

 untfl the last petal drops. 



Miss Lolita Armour. The 

 coloring of this variety is a 

 combination of tints difficult 

 to describe, and is ab- 

 solutely distinct from 

 all others. The flowers 

 are of large size, full dou- 

 ble, with petals of great 



substance and delightfully 

 fragrant. As the flowers ex- 

 pand they develop to a deep, 

 coral-red witli a golden, 

 coppery-red suffusion, the 

 base of the petals a rich 

 golden- yellow with coppery- 

 red sheen. The plant is a 

 strong, vigorous grower, and 

 very free-flowering. At the 

 great Bagatelle Gardens in 

 Paris, France, this was singl- 

 ed out in 1921 for the highest 

 prize, a Gold Medal. 



Mme. Edouard Herriot, 



the Daily Mail Rose. In 

 color its buds are coral-red, 

 shaded with yellow at the 

 base, the open flowers of 



medium size, semi-double, 



Hybrid-Tea Rose. Los Angeles are of a superb coral-red, 



shaded with yellow and bright rosy-scarlet passing to 

 shrimp-red. A wonderful color combination. 

 Radiance. An ideal bedding Rose of American origin that con- 

 tinues to produce its large flowers tnroughout the most unfavor- 

 able hot summer weather when frequently many other varieties 

 fail; in color a brilliant carmine-pink, with salmon-pink and 

 yellow shadings at the base of the petals; truly a Rose for every 

 garden. _ 



Red Radiance. A counterpart of Radiance from which it is a 

 "sport," possessing all the good traits of that valuable variety 

 but differing in color which is a bright cerise-red. 

 Rose Marie. One of the best bedding Roses grown, remarkably 

 free-flowering, producing large, long, ideal buds, which develop 

 into full flowers of beautiful form, of a most pleasing clear rose- 

 pink.' 



Price. Any of the above, in strong two-year-old plants, $1.00 each; $11.00 per doz.; $90.00 per 100. 



One each of the "Dreer Dozen," a fine Collection, for $11.00 



