DREER'S SEI.ECTUSTOF ROSES. 



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ROSES 



The following selection of Hybrid Roses can be 

 ■especially recommended for general outdoor planting; 

 the most popular varieties are included, and the selec- 

 tion has been made with a view of giving range of 

 color, vigor of habit, freedom of bloom, size of flower and 

 fragrance; all the varieties offered are strong plants on their 

 own roots and are not budded or grafted. 



Alfred Colomb. A splendid rose ; large, globular, full 

 and very sweet ; bright clear cherry-red, shaded with crim- 

 son. 



Anna de Diesbach. Clear bright carmine ; very large 

 and finely shaped, full and fragrant. 



Baron de Bonstettin. Dark red, almost black ; very 

 large, double, fragrant flowers; a strong grower. 



Coquette des Blanches (No. 4). Pure white, large 



globular flowers, very free. 



Oeneral Jacqueminot (No. 3). Brilliant scarlet- 

 crimson. 



Mnie. Gabriel Luizet (No. 2). Fine satiny-rose; 

 very tine. 



Price : Extra strong 2-year-old plants, 40 

 Fine " " " " 30 



Fine young " 20 



Marshall P. Wilder. Cherry-carmine ; large full semi- 

 globular flower of fine form. 



Magna Charta. Bright pink, suffused with carmine ; a 

 beautiful rose ; strong, vigcirons grower. 



Marg'aret Dickson (No. 1). The finest white hybrid 



yet introduced. 



Paul Neyron. Very large, dark rose ; an old favorite. 



Prince Caniille de Kohan (No. 5). Deep vel- 

 vety crimson-maroon, shaded scarlet. 



Ulrich Brunner. Bright cerise red; flowers large and full. 



cts. each ; the set of 12 varieties for $4 00 

 cts. " " " " " " " 3 00 

 cts. " " " " " " " 2 00 



New Hybrid Perpetual Roses. 



Helen Keller. This grand new Hybrid Perpetual has won 

 9 first-class certificates and first honors at all the leading 

 shows. It is an ideal hardy garden Rose, showing its 

 prominent traits of exceptional vigor and profuse perpetual 

 bloom even in small plants. The large, fragrant flowers and 

 buds are clear, brilliant rose-pink, and of fine shape and sub- 

 stance. Strong 2-year-old plants, 40 cts. each ; 3 for $1.00. 

 Strong young plants, 20 cts. each ; 3 for 50 cts. 



Mrs. J. Sharnian Crawford. Mrs. J. Sharman Craw- 

 ford is unquestionably a Rose of great excellence. Color 

 deep rosy-pink ; the outer petals tinted with pale flesh in 

 quite a new and unique shade ; white at base of petals. The 

 flowers are full and very fragrant, of perfect, imbricated form, 

 and freelv produced. Strong 2-year-old plants, 40 cts. each ; 

 3 for $1.00. Strong young plants, 20 cts. eacli ; 3 for 50 cts. 



Marchioness of Lome. A remarkable free-flowering 

 variety, with cup-shaped flowers of an exceedingly rich and 

 fulgent rose color, slightly shaded in the centre with vivid 



carmine; they are large, very sweet and full, with long 

 handsome buds. Extra strong 2-year-old plants, 40 cts. each ; 



3 for $1 00. 



Rodocanachi. One of the grandest Hybrid Perpetuals in 

 cultivation, and certain to become popular. The flowers, 

 which are of beautiful form, somewhat in the style of Ulrich 

 Brunner, are of very large size and delightfully fragrant, and 

 of a beautiful transparent rose color shaded with f)ink. Strong 

 2-year-old plants, 40 cts. each ; 3 for |1.00. Strong young 

 plants, 20 cts. each ; 3 for 50 cts. 



Augustine Guinoiseau {''The White La France"). A 

 sport from that fine hai'dy Rose La France, and similar to it 

 in every respect excepting color, which is a unique shade of 

 flesh-white, hence its title '' White La France." On account 

 of its great freedom of bloom, delicious fragrance and hardi- 

 ness it has become very popular. Strong 2-year-old plants, 

 40 cts. each ; 3 for $1.00. Strong young plants, 15 cts. each; 



4 for 50 cts. 



