DREER'S GARDEN ROSES 



FOR FALL PLANTING 



Experienced professional growers as well as amateurs who have had experience, are turning more and more each season with greater 

 favor towards fall planting, and we Strongly recommend this, but only, where careful attention can be given to the 

 simple methods of winter protection recommended in our cultural leaflet which we mail free on application. 



We are now booking orders for strong two-year-old field-grown dormant plants of the varieties listed on this and the following pages, 

 delivery of which will be made as soon as the plants are properly ripened, usually late in October or early Xovember. 



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 



Free Dalivery. We prepay all transportation charges on dormant Roses for fall planting at prices quoted in this catalogue. 



THE "DREER DOZEN" 



Hardy Everblooming Hybrid-Tea Roses 



For many years it has been customary for us to offer under this heading only the best and most popular varieties of Hybrid-Tea 

 Roses. The collection offered this season has been carefully revised and the selection has been made based on careful observations made 

 in our own trials and in various parts of the country as well as from favorable reports received from satisfied customers. 



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 

 confidence any variety in our collection of Hybrid-Tea Roses. There is not one individual sort which we cannot endorse as possessing 

 superior merit, aU having been thoroughly tested. 



Betty Uprichard. A pretty combination of colors, inner face 

 of petals delicate salmon-pink to carmine, outside glowing car- 

 mine with coppery sheen and orange suffusion; well-formed 

 medium sized flowers of good substance and sweet scented. 



Duchess of Wellington. Long shapely buds, with petals of 

 great substance, color an intense saffron-yellow stained deep 

 crimson, delightfully fragrant and very free flowering. 



Etoile de HoUande. The best allround red bedding Rose yet 

 introduced. A strong vigorous healthy grower and free bloomer 

 which like the popular Radiance Roses, improves in vigor from 

 j-ear to year. It is a continuous bloomer with large, moderately 

 double flowers that are particularly attractive in the half-blown 

 state. In color a brilliant crimson red. 



Felicity. A gem of a beautiful shade of maUow-pink shading to 

 bright cerise at the edges, with soft creamy suffusion at the 

 base of petals; fine long bud and splendid, large, double, sweet- 

 scented cup-shaped flower. An exceptionally fine Rose. 



Miss Rowena Thom (Howard & Smith, 1928). In vigorous 

 habit of growth, its adaptability to varied climatic conditions, 

 it equals the popular Radiance Roses, but its flowers are of much 

 larger size, frequently 5 J inches in diameter, equal to the best 

 recent introductions and aU of which it will outclass in 

 freedom of flowering. Its buds are long and shapely, 

 opening to perfect double flowers of a brilliant rose-pink, ^ 

 the base of the petals having a golden suffusion which as the 

 fragrant flowers unfold, adds to the brilliancy of its coloring. 

 See Ulustration back cover of this catalogue. 



Mrs. Erskine Pembroke Thom (Howard & Smith, 1926). 

 The best yellow bedding Rose we have today. It is of clean 

 healthy vigorous growth with abundant dark bronzy disease- 

 resisting foliage and a continuous free bloomer throughout the 

 season. The good-sized buds are long and shapely and develop 

 into full double very shapely flowers of a rich deep lemon yellow 

 sweetly scented. 



Mrs. Henry Bowles. One of the best bedding varieties grown, 

 always in flower and perfect in every stage of development. 

 In color it is of an intense brOliant pink with lighter salmon pink 

 shadings. A model Rose in every way. 



Mme. Butterfly. Beautiful buds and flowers, light soft pink 

 tinted yeUow at base of petals, very free and highly scented. 



Mme. Edouard Herriot (The Daily Mail Rose). In color its 

 buds are 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. A wonderful color combination. 



Mme. Jules Bouche. While not a pure white, it being at times 

 slightly tinted with blush at the centre, it is to aU intents white 

 and without question the best white everblooming bedding Rose 

 yet introduced. The flowers are large, quite double and of 

 splendid form, both in the bud as well as in the fuUy expanded 

 flower; it is fragrant, a vigorous grower and very free flowering. 



Radiance. An ideal bedding Rose of American origin that con- 

 tinues to produce its large fragrant flowers throughout the 

 most unfavorable 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 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. 



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New HYBRro-TEA Rose, Mrs. Erskine Pembroke Thom 

 The Best Yellow G.a.rden Rose 



PRICE — Any of the above in strong two-year-old dormant plants, $1.00 each; $11.00 per doz.; $90.00 per 100. Twenty-five or more 

 plants supplied at 100 rate. One each of the "Preer Dozen," a fine collection, for $11,00, delivery prepaid to any Postoffice in the 

 U. S. 



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