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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 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 1 Miss Lolita Armour. The coloring of this variety is a com- 

 bedding varieties; large, full, globular flowers of bright satiny- | bination of tints difficult to describe, and is absolutely distinct 



rose, with brighter centre, very free and 

 fragrant. The Rose that made Portland, 

 Oregon, famous as the Rose City. 



Duchess of Wellington. The most popular 

 yellow garden Rose. Intense saSron-yellow 

 stained with deep crimson, changing to a/ 

 deep coppery saffron-yellow 

 as the flowers develop. The 

 flowers are fairly full, with 

 large petals, great substance, 

 delightfully fragrant and very 

 free-flowering. 



Hadley. Beautiful, well- 

 shaped, long buds and large, 

 full, perfect flowers of an 

 intense, rich, dazzling, crim- 

 son-scarlet shading to 

 velvety crimson and 

 deliciously fragrant. 

 The plant is of vigorous 

 growth, and is conceded 

 to be one of the best Roses of 

 its color. 



Kaiserin Augusta Victor- 

 ia. 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, remark- 

 ably fragrant, beautifully 

 formed flowers on long 

 graceful stems; a strong, 

 free, healthy grower. 



Hybrid- Tea Rose, Los Angeles 



from all others. The flowers are of ■ large 



size, full double, with petals of great substance 



and delightfully fragrant. As the flowers 



expand they develop to a deep, coral-red 



with a golden, coppery-red suffusion^ the 



base of the petals a rich golden-yellow 



with coppery-red sheen. The plant 



is a strong, vigorous grower, and 



very free-flowering. At the great 



Bagatelle Gardens in Paris, 



France, this was singled out 



in 1921 for the highest prize, 



.J a Gold Medal. 



^ Mme. Edouard 

 Herriot, the Daily 

 Mail Rose. In color 

 its buds are coral- 

 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. A wonderful 

 color combination. 

 Radiance. An ideal bed- 

 ding Rose of American 

 origin that continues to 

 produce its large flowers 

 throughout the most unfa- 

 vorable hot summer weather 

 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, 



Lady Ursula. A truly magnificent Rose of vigorous, erect 

 growth; exceedingly free blooming during the entire summer and 

 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. 



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. 



Red Radiance. A counterpart of Radiance from which it 

 is a "sport," possessing all the good traits of that valuable 

 variety but differing in color which is a bright 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 compar- 

 able to any other variety. The flowers, which are similar 

 in shape to Los Angeles, and like 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 early 

 and late in the season. 



Price. Any of the above, in strong two-year-old plants, $1.00 each; $11.00 per doz.; $90.00 per 100. 

 One each of the "Dreer Dozen," a fine collection, for $11.00. 



