K^ 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 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 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 of stock. 



CULTURAL NOTES. —We have prepared a leaflet which gives concise cultural instructions on the planting, care, pruning, and 

 protection of Roses, which we wiU be pleased to send free on application. We also have a very good book on their culture, entitled How 

 to grow Roses, price SI. 50 per copv postpaid. 



NEW HYBRID-TEA ROSES 

 For 1923 



The new Roses ofl[ered on this and the opposite page have 

 been selected with great care from the introductions of prominent 

 specialists. We have had the opportunity of tesdng these 

 newcomers the past season, 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 offered on 

 pages 122 to 126, and pages 128 and 129, we fully recommend 

 these new sorts to the connoisseur, who already has an exten- 

 sive collection, or to those who wish to keep strictly up-to-date. 

 Capt. Georges Dessirier. Large fuU globular flowers of a 

 dark velvety red shaded fiery crimson; a strong vigorous 

 growing plant; very free flowering. §2.50 each. 

 Clare de Escofet. Very large soUd flower of high-centered 

 form; color, cream-flesh tinted rosy-peach. Flowers carried 

 erect on strong stiff stems. $2.50 each. 

 Edel. An enormous bold, stately, well-built flower 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, delightfully scented. $2.50 each. 



Ethel James. One of the most artistic of the 

 single-flowering hybrid-teas. Very large, sweetly 

 scented flowers opening out in salver form, of a 

 deep carmine flushed with orange; very free 

 flowering. $2.50 each. 



Hybrid-Te.\ Rose. Mrs. Curxock Sawd.w 

 (Offered on page 121) 



Evelyn. In the style of OpheUa, but recommended as 

 superior to that popiilar variety; color, salmon-white, petals 

 shaded and edged with rose, yellow at the base, full and 

 imbricated; vigorous upright growth. S2.50 each. 



Independence Day. Compact growing; very free flower- 

 ing, of a most distinct and lively shading of coppery old gold, 

 beautiful in bud form. $1.50 each. 



Irene Thompson. Flowers deep nidy gold overlaid with a 

 bronze or copper shading, large, full flowers of splendid form, 

 and of good substance, and very fragrant; the most distinct 

 of its type of color. $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, whUe in color 

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

 with salmon-pink. Beautiful in bud form only. $2.50 each. 



Manifesto. Soft pearly flesh-pink, deeply veiled and ringed 

 salmon and apricot; buds of exquisite shape, long and 

 pointed; very free flowering. $2.50 each. 



Martha Drew. Creamy white with rose-colored center, of unusual size, 

 depth and substance, beautifully pointed buds on good stems; sweetly 

 scented. Growth vigorous and upright, and very free. A striking 

 and distinct Rose. §2.50 each. 

 (120) 



Hybrid-Tea Rose, M.\rtha Drew 



