HENRY A. DREER 



R 



OSes 



WHOLESALE LIST 



New Hybrid -Tea Roses and Varieties of Special Merit 



The Prices Quoted are for Strong Dormant Bare Root Plants Delivered Before March 1st. 



P 





New Hybrid-Tea Rose, Mrs. Erskine Pembroke Thom 

 The Best Yellow Garden Rose 



President Jac Sniits (Verschuren & Sons, 1928). For 

 brilliancy in color, a rich velvety crimson-scarlet, 

 exceptionally long pointed buds of ideal shape, held 

 gracefully on long- straight stems and produced 

 most generously, we linow of no other variety that 

 is its equal, but having only 18 to 20 petals, usually 

 arranged in three rows, the flowers expand very 

 quickly, showing the golden stamens, but even in 

 its fully expanded form its brilliancy of color is 

 unequaled by any other variety of this type. As a 

 brilliant bedding proposition or for cutting in bud 

 form, no one will be disappointed. President Jac 

 Smits, we believe, will supersede and displace all 

 such popular bedding varieties as Red Letter Day, 

 Hawlmark Crimson and K of K (Kitchener of Khar- 

 toum). $75.00 per 100. 



Rev. F. Page Roberts (Cant & Son, 1921). A Rose of 

 remarkable beauty both in form and color. The long 

 pointed buds are of a coppery-red stained red on the 

 outside and open to good full double fragrant flow- 

 ers of a golden-yellow ijarticularly high colored in 

 late summer and fall. The plant is of vigorous 

 branching habit with beautiful foliage. A most dis- 

 tinct variety that has deservedly gained great popu- 

 larity. $60.00 per 100. 



Royal Scot (Dobbie & Co., 1928). A variety of gor- 

 geous coloring with large ovoid buds of the type of 

 Lord Lambourne but much brighter in coloring, a 

 rich golden yellow with crimson edges, the open 

 flowers are of medium size, semi-double, light yel- 

 low with crimson edged petals and are borne sev- 

 eral together on long stems, growth vigorous, very 

 profuse flowering, of moderate fragrance. $75.00 

 per 100. 



Rudolph Valentino (Pernet-Ducher, 1929). The latest 

 of Mr. Pernet's introductions. Altogether different 

 from any other Rose, both in coloring and forma- 

 tion, the very large full flower which is informally, 

 but artistically arranged, is of a lively shade of 

 shrimp pink or coral-red with a golden coppery suf- 

 fusion which is heightened by the reflection from 

 the golden base and reverse of the petals. A most 

 unique and striliing flower in all stages of devel- 

 opment. Habit strong and vigorous, free and con- 

 tinuous flowering and delicately scented. $125 00 

 per 100. 



•Sir David Davis (McGredy, 1926). As this variety has 

 shown up during the past three seasons we do not 

 hesitate on account of its profuseness in flowering, 

 its free vigorous growth and its good color to select 

 it as one of the best red bedding Roses. Color, an 

 unfading deep glowing crimson of an even shade 

 throughout running to light yellow at the base of 

 petals. The flowers are of good size, pointed and of 

 good form with large heavy petals, exceptionally 

 free-flowering and strongly sweet-scented. $45.00 

 , per 100. 



Swansdown (Alex Dickson, 1929). An ideal white 

 ! which in the autumn has just a tint of cream at 

 the base of the petals. The buds are large, very 

 long pointed of perfect shape, composed of large 

 heavy petals and develop into a splendid full very 

 sweetly-scented flower of spiral formation; sup- 

 ported on long rigid stems. Its growth is vigorous 

 and hardy, free branching, foliage bronzy green. 

 In freedom of flowering Messrs. Dickson state that 

 they do not know any other Rose of its size that 

 will produce flowers in such profusion right through 

 the season. $125.00 per 100. 



Souvenir d'Alexander Bernaix (Bernaix, 1926). A 

 beautiful large flower, 41/2 inches or more in diame- 

 ter and unique and distinct in color, probably the 

 deepest colored of any Hybrid-Tea variety. While 

 the flower is of flat cupped form both in bud as well 

 as in the fully developed bloom, it is of artistic build 

 and full double with from 48 to 50 substantial petals 

 which are neatly arranged. In the half-expanded 

 bud the petals are incurved, of an intense deep vel- 

 vety crimson-red on a maroon ground with touches 

 of scarlet on the outer petals. As the flower fully 

 develops it becomes suffused with vermilion carmine 

 at the edge of the petals. $125.00 per 100. 



Talisman (Montgomery Co., 1929). The Rose of many 

 Gold Medals. It is the most remarkable piece of 

 coloring that we know in any Rose; a combination 

 of shadings of gold, apricot, yellow and deep pink 

 or old-rose. The outside of the petals is bright yel- 

 low, gold, and pink; as the flower develops and the 

 petals unfold they become bright apricot, gold, deep 

 rose-pink or old-rose, and unlike most Roses the color 

 becomes brighter as the flowers develop. The bud 

 is long, perfectly formed, averaging about 25 to 28 

 petals, the plant is a strong, vigorous grower with 

 glossy green foliage and free flowering. $100.00 per 

 100. 



Vermilion (Barbier & Co., 1930). A semi-double flower, 

 of medium size but remarkable for its brilliancy in 

 color which is found only in this variety on account 

 of which, together with its freedom of bloom, it has 

 been admired by all who have seen it in our trial 

 grounds. It is a rich vermilion scarlet, deep golden- 

 yellow at the base of the petals, and frequently this 

 golden yellow color is also shown on the tips of the 

 petals. $75.00 per 100. 



Ville de Paris (City of Paris) (Pernet-Doucher, 1926). 

 One of Pernet-Ducher's Gold Medal Roses which 

 award It received in the International trials at the 

 Bagatelle Gardens, Paris, in the summer of 1926. 

 It is of a rich buttercup-yellow much in the style 

 of Mrs. Beckwith but with longer buds and larger 

 flowers and purer in color. The plant is of vigor- 

 ous growth and very free flowering, a splendid rich 

 yellow garden variety. $50.00 per 100. 



Wilhelm Kordes (Kordes, 1922). Unique and entirely 

 distinct in coloring; a rich capucine red with coppery 

 suffusion overlying a golden-salmon ground, vary- 

 ing in intensity under different weather conditions, 

 but always beautiful and particularly high colored 

 early in the season and in the autumn. The bud.s are 

 long and pointed, opening to double high-centered 

 very fragrant flowers. Habit compact but vigorous, 

 very free flowering. $50.00 per 100. 



The Above Prices Are for Strong Dormant Plants Delivered Before March First 



