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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 varie- 

 ties 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 desir- 

 ous of a supply of extra choice flowers to cut throughout the summer and fall months. Those who desire a more extensive col- 

 lection can select with perfect confidence any variety in our collection of Hy!)rid-Tea Roses offered on pages 121 to 130. There 

 is not one individual sort which we cannot endorse as possessing superior merit, all having been thoroughly tested, 



Caroline TestOUt (Pernet-Ducher, 1890). One of the mo^t 

 popular and valuable bedding varieties; large, full, globular 

 flowers of bright satiny-rose, with brighter centre, very free 

 and fragrant. 



Duchess of Wellington (Dickson & Sons, 1909). Intense 

 saffron-yellow stained with deep crimson, changing to a deep 

 coppery saffron-yellow as the flowers develop. The flowers 

 are fairly full, with large petals of great 

 substance, delightfuly fragrant and very 

 free-flowering. 



Hoosier Beauty (Dorner & Sons, 

 1915). Beautiful, well-shaped, 

 long buds and large, full, perfect 

 flowers of an intense, rich, daz- 

 zling, crimson-scar- 

 let and deliciously 

 fragrant. The plant 

 is of vigorous 

 growth, and is con- 

 ceded to be one of 

 the best Roses of 

 its color. 



Jonkheer J. L. Hock (Leen- 

 ders, 1910). One of the best 

 bedding varieties. The flowers, 

 which are produced with the great- 

 est freedom on long stiff stems, 

 are of large size and of perfect 

 form, of a deep imperial pink, 

 the outside of the petals silvery- 

 rose white. 



Kaiserin Augusta Victoria 

 (Peter Lambert 1891). 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, remarkably fragrant, beautifully formed 

 flowers on long, graceful stems; a strong, free, healthy 

 grower. 



Killarney Brilliant (Dickson & Sons, 1914). This is a sport 

 from the original Killarney in which we have a Rose far more 

 intense in coloring, it being a rich glowing shade of rosy- 

 carmine, and in addition to its rich color it is also larger and 

 more double than its parent. A truly magnificient Rose. 



Lady Alice Stanley (McGredy, 1909). A gem that every- 

 one 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 



Lady Ursula (Dickson & Sons, 1908). A truly magnificent 

 Rose of vigorous, erect growth; exceedingly free blooming 

 during the entire summer and autumn. The flowers pro- 

 duced on every shoot are very large, full and of great sub- 

 stance 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. 



Los Angeles (Howard & 

 Smith, 1917). We first sent 

 out "Los Angeles" in the 

 spring of 1917. Many thou- 

 sands of plants have since 



been distributed, and 

 we know from the 

 many complimentary 

 letters received that it 

 has given more salif- 

 faction than any other 

 Rose we ever hand- 

 led, and are con- 

 vinced that it is now one of 

 the most popular bedding 

 Roses in America. 



Los Angeles is, by all odds, 

 one of the finest Roses ever in- 

 troduced. The growth is veiy 

 vigorous, and produces a con- 

 tinuous succession of long- 

 stemmed flowers of a luminous 

 flame pink, toned with coral 

 and shaded with translucent 

 gold at the base of the petals. 

 In richness of fragrance it 

 equals in intensity the finest 

 Marechal Neil. The buds are 

 long and pointed, and expand 

 into a flower of mammoth pro- 

 portions, while the beauty of 

 form and ever-increasing wealth of color is maintained from 

 the incipient bud until the last petal drops. |1 .50 each. 

 Mme. Edouard Herriot, the Daily Mail Rose (Pernet- 

 Ducher, 1914). Winner of the Gold Cup, which wascfferedby 

 the London Daili/ Mail for the BEST NEW ROSE, exhib- 

 ited at the International Horticultural Exhibition, London, 

 England, May, 1912; also awarded Gold Medal by the Na- 

 tional Rose Society of England, 1913. In color its buds are 

 coral-red, shaded with yellow at the base, the open flowers of 

 medium size, semi-double, are of a superb coral-red, shaded 

 with yellow and bright rosy-scarlet passing to shrimp red. 

 Radiance (Cook, 1909). An ideal bedding Rose of Ameri- 

 can origin that continues to produce its large flowers through- 

 out the most unfavorable hot summer vveather 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 (Gude, 1916). A counterpart of Radiance 

 except in color which is a clear cerise-red, a most valuable 

 addition to our list of bedding Roses. 



$90.00 per 100. 



Hybrid-Tea Rose, Killarney Brilliant 



petals shading to flesh-pink with deeper flushes. 



Price. Any of the above, except where noted, in strong two-year-old plants, $1.00 each; $12.00 per doz 

 25 or more supplied at the 100 rate. 



One each of the ♦'Dreer Dozen,"a fine collection, for $12.00. 



