"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 summer and fall months. Those who desire a more extensive 

 collection should include Dreer's " Peerless " Twelve, offered on page 175, which we can recommend just as strongly; in fact, in 

 our entire collection of Hybrid-Tea Roses offered on pages 174 to 184 there is not one individual sort which we cannot endorse 

 as possessing superior merit, and with the exception of a very few of the 1916 novelties, which come to us from noted reliable 

 specialists, all have been thoroughly tested in our own trial grounds. 



Caroline Testout. 



One of the most popular and valuable bedding varieties; 

 large, full, globular flowers of bright satiny-rose, with brighter 

 centre; very free and fragrant. 



General MacArtliur. 



As an all-round garden Rose, there is no variety of its color 

 — a rich crimson-scarlet — which will give equal satisfaction; a 

 clean, healthy, vigorous grower, producing its sweetly-scented 

 flowers of good form in great profusion even under the most un- 

 favorable weather conditions. 



Jonkheer 



J. L,. Mock. 



Although introduced only a few 

 years ago, this beautiful Rose has 

 quickly found its place among our 

 best bedding varieties. The flowers, 

 which are produced with the greatest 

 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; highly 

 perfumed 



Kaiserin 

 Augusta 



Victoria. 



This splendid Rose 

 should be in every collec- 

 tion. In color it is a soft 

 pearly-white, tinted with 

 just enough lemon in the 

 centre to relieve the white; 

 remarkably fragrant, beau- 

 tifully formed flowers on 

 long, graceful stems; a strong, free, healthy 

 grower, with bold, handsome foliage. 



Killarney. 



This is, perhaps, the best known of Dick- 

 son's famous Irish Hybrid-Tea Roses, and 

 is one of the most popular of our garden 

 Roses. It is perfectly hardy; in growth it 

 is strong and robust, and as free-flowering as any Rose we 

 know. In color it is a sparkling brilliant pink; the blooms are 

 large, the buds long and poinied, the petals very large and of 

 great substance, and just as handsome in the full-blown flower 

 as in the bud form. (See cut.) 



Lady Ashtown. 



One of the freest-flowering varieties in the collection, and 

 produces perfect blooms under all weather conditions. The 

 flowers are large, double, with high-pointed centre, and are 

 produced on long stems; splendid for cutting; in color a soft 

 rose, shading to yellow at the base of the petals. 



Price: Any of the above in strong two-year-old pi 

 One strong two=year-old plant each of the " 



L,ady Alice Stanley. 



A gem that e-. eiyone admires; it is absolutely perfect in every 

 way; form, coloi, 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. 

 (Shown in colors on the plate opposite. ) 



Laurent Carle. 



Produces its large, deliriously -scented, brilliant carmine 

 flowers throughout the season, nearly as good in hot, dry 

 v/eather as under more favorable weather conditions. A vig- 

 orous grower and as hardy as a Hybrid Perpetual. 



Mme. Leon Pain. 



Entirely distinct in color, a silvery- 

 salmon, with deeper orange - yellow, 

 shaded centre, the reverse of the petals 

 being a salmony-pink; flowers large, full 

 and well formed; very free-flowering, 

 and one of the best Roses yet introduced. 



Mme. Ravary. 



Should be in every col- 

 lection on account of its 

 distinct color, which is of 

 a rich, deep nankeen-yel- 

 low, becoming lighter as 

 the flower expands. The 

 flowers are of splendid 

 form, full, double and very 

 fragrant. 



Mrs. Aaron 



Ward. 



A remarkably floriferous 

 variety of strong, vigorous, 

 but compact growth; the 

 young foliage is unusually 

 attractive, a rich, bronzy- 

 green color, the flowers of 

 which are of splendid form, 

 full double, are equally 

 attractive when full blown 

 as in the bud state; in 

 color a distinct Indian-yellow, shading lighter towards the 

 edges; in fact, under certain weather or atmospheric conditions, 

 the entire flower will sometimes come a yellow- tinted white, but 

 it is beautiful under all color variations. (Shown in colors on 

 the plate opposite. ) 



Hybrid-Tea Rose Killarney 



Ophelia. 



The most recent addition to this set, an introduction of 1913, 

 but a variety which has made such a record for itself in this 

 short time that qualifies it to be classed with the very best, a 

 Rose that is admired by everyone, its flowers are held erect on 

 long stiff stems, are of perfect form, large size, and of a most 

 pleasing delicate shade of salmon-flesh, shaded with Rose; very 

 floriferous. (Shown in colors on the plate opposite.) 



ants, 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz.; $40.00 per 100. 

 DREER DOZEN," a fine collection, for $5.00. 



NOTE. — All Roses are supplied in strong two-year-old plants 



