DREER'S SPECIALLY PREPARED 



Roses for the Garden 



While our old customers are familiar with 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 in 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 in 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 soma planters prefer stock grown on their own 

 roots on account of the possibility of budded plants developing wild shoots, this -nill rarely occur if the deep planting ^.s 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 very 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 free on application. We also offer 

 a very good book on their culture, entitled 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 opposite page 

 have been selected with great care from the introductions of 

 prominent specialists. We have had the opportunity of 

 testing these newcomers, and can vouch for their high 

 quality, and while the beginner or amateur, who only wants 

 a limited number of varieties will find just as much pleasure 

 in adding to his collection from the older and less expensive 

 sorts, we fuUy recommend these newer sorts to the con- 

 noisseur, who already has an extensive collection, or to 

 those who wish to keep strictly up-to-date. 



Amelie de Bethune. Color very much on the style of 

 Mme. Edouard Herriot — coral red shaded with yellow at 

 the base — but a larger, more double flower. $3.00 each. 



Diadem. Messrs. McGredy, the introducers of this splen- 

 did novelty, say "The most beautiful Rose in coloring 

 that we have ever raised, a deep crimson, heavily o\-erlaid 

 orange-crimson, suffused deep salmon and coppery yel- 

 low. The blooms are quite full and perfect in form and is 

 marvelously free and sweetly scented. §2.50 each. 



Edel. An enormous bold, stately, well-built flov.'er of 

 great depth, quality and finish. Color, white with the 

 faintest ivory shading towards the base, passing to a 

 pure white. A fine grower with uniform, stout habit. 

 Very free flowering, opening well in all weather, delight- 

 fully scented. $1-50 each. 



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Hybrid-Tea RuiE. Edel 



E. P. H. Kingma. A "sport" from the popular 

 Daily Mail Rose Mme. Edouard Herriot, in color 

 a wonderful rich glowing deep orange shaded 

 apricot, the flowers are semi-double, beautiful in 

 bud form, it flowers profusely and continuously. 

 SI. 50 each. ^-- 



Etienne Rebeillard. This is a new variety from Pernet- 

 Ducher which we are now offering for the first time. It is 

 a pleasing lively shade of flesh pink with golden suffusion, 

 flowers of globular form and sweetly scented. $3.00 each. 



Etoile de Feu. Verj' large, fuU double globular flower 

 of a salmon-pink color shaded with flame, a strong vigor- 

 ous grower. $2.50 each. 



La Champagne. A meritorious and distinct variety of 

 strong robust habit with large, long buds of beautiful 

 shape which develop into good full blooms, color bright 

 chamois, shading to yeUow \vith apricot at centre and 

 peach-blossom reflex and yellow base. $3.50 each. 



Lulu. A dainty and distinct Rose, with exceptionally long 

 buds which in outline, but not in size, remind one of the 

 miniature or Fairy Rose Mme. Cecil Brunner, while in 

 color it is similar to Mme. Edouard Herriot, orange-red 

 shaded with salmon-pink. Beautiful in bud form only 

 $1.50 each. 

 (120) 



Hybrid-Te.-v Rose. Mrs. Henry Morse 

 (Offered on page 121) 



