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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 headmg 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 Lady Urstlla. A truly magnificent Rose of vigorous, erect 

 bedding varieties; large, full, globular flowers of bright satiny- ) growth; exceedingly free blooming during the entire summer and 



rose, with brighter centre, very free and 

 fragrant. The Rose that made Portland, 

 Oregon, famous as the Rose City. 

 Duchess of Wellington. Intense saffron- 

 yellow stained with deep crimson, changing 

 to a deep coppery saffron-yellow as the flow- 

 ers develop. The flowers are 

 fairly full, with large petals, 

 great substance, delightfully 

 fragrant and very free- 

 flowering. 



Hoosier Beauty. Beautiful, 

 well-shaped, long buds and 

 large, full, perfect flowers of 

 an intense, rich, dazzling, 

 crimson - scarlet and deli- 

 ciously fragrant. The 

 plant is of vigorous 

 growth, and is con- 

 ceded to be one of the 

 best Roses of its color. 



Kaiserin Augusta Victor- 

 ia. This splendid Rose 

 should be in every coUection. 

 In color it is a soft pearly- 

 white, tinted with just 

 enough lemon in the centre 

 to relieve the white, remark- 

 ably fragrant, beautifuUy 

 formed flowers on long 

 graceful stems ; a strong, 

 free, healthy grower. 



Hybrid-Tea Rose Los Angeles 



Killarney Brilliant. This is a sport from the original Kil- 

 larney 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. 



Los Angeles. This is, by all odds, one of the finest Roses ever 

 introduced. The growth is very 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 proportions, while the beauty 

 of form and ever-increasing wealth of color is maintained 

 from the incipient bud until the last petal drops. 

 Price. Any of the above, except where noted, in strong two-year-old plants 



supplied at the 100 rate. 



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. 



Mme. Edouard Herriot, the Daily 



' Mail Rose. In color its buds are 



i 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. 



Mrs. William C. 

 Egan. An extremely 

 vigorous strong 

 healthy grower, with 

 long, pointed buds of ab- 

 solutely perfect form, and 

 develop into flowers of good 

 shape. In color it is a two- 

 tone pink, the reverse of the 

 petals a soft light pink, the 

 interior deep flesh color with a 

 golden line at the base of the 

 petals; the flowers are car- 

 ried on long, stiff stems, and 

 last in good condition for an 

 unusually long time, either 

 cut or on the plant; an ex- 

 ceptionally free and con- 

 tinuous bloomer. $1.50 each. 

 Red Radiance. An ideal 

 bedding Rose that continues 

 to produce its large flowers 

 throughout the season, even during the most unfavorable 

 hot summer weather, when many varieties fail; in color a 

 bright, clear 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. 



William F. Dreer. A beautiful Rose of the same parentage as 

 Los Angeles, and which, for delicacy of coloring, is not com- 

 parable to any other variety, it reminding one of the delicate 

 tints of some varieties of water lilies. The flowers, which are 

 similar in shape to Los Angeles, and hke that variety, beautiful 

 in all stages of development, are at their best in the half-expanded 

 flower. These, in expanding, are of a soft, silvery shell-pink, the 

 base of the petals of a rich golden-yellow which, at certain stages 

 of development, gives a golden suffusion to the entire flower, 

 this golden suffusion being particularly brilliant eariy and late 

 in the season. $1.50 each. 



25 or more 



00 each; $12.00 per doz.; $90.00 per 100 

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



