Dreer's Roses 



Dormant Stock for Delivery Winter of 1928-29 



We are listing this season the greatest and choicest collection of really worth-while novelties that we 

 have ever had the pleasure of offering at any one time. Catalogue men will find it to their advantage to look 

 these novelties over carefully with a view of listing at least part of them in their catalogues. 



Many of the varieties here offered are controlled by us exclusively for the coming season. 



All of these are offered in Howard & Smith's San Fernando two-year-old field grown plants budded on 

 Ragged Robin stocks. 



New Hybrid-Tea Roses and Varieties of Special Merit 



Dame ICdith Helen (Alex. Dickson & Sons, 1926). 

 '" One of the greatest hybrid-tea roses for outdoor 



planting yet introduced. Awarded Gold Medals by 

 ^ the National Rose society of England, 1926, as well 



'; as at the New York and Philadelphia Flower Shows 



in the spring of 1927. It was also awarded the Clay 

 Cup in England in 1926 for the best sweet-scented 

 Rose shown that year as well as a Certificate of 

 Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society of Eng- 

 land. It is not often that so many honors come to 

 a new rose. We question if any Hybrid-Tea Rose 

 yet introduced promises to be such a valuable addi- 

 tion to our garden Roses as this wonderful new 

 pink variety. The plant possesses a strong, vig- 

 orous constitution, the flowers are produced singly 

 on well-foliaged strong canes throughout the sea- 

 son, these are of immense size, composed of very 

 substantial broad petals which curl back prettily 

 forming a wonderful long pointed bud which de- 

 velops into a full double flower which is absolutely 

 perfect in every stage of development. The color 

 is a brilliant, yet soft Rose du Barri pink and is 

 delightfully and strongly sweet-scented. 375.00 per 

 100. 



Doris Traylor (McGredy, 1924). Beautiful long buds 

 of a rich brilliant salmon-orange with intense car- 

 mine suffusion, large double flowers of splendid 

 form; a strong but compact grower, exceptionally 

 free-flowering and delightfully scented. $75.00 per 

 100. 



Duchcs.s of Athol (Dobbie & Co., 1928). The coloring 

 of this new variety is uncommon and delightful, an 

 old golden-orange flushed with peach pink, particu- 

 larly attractive in the bud and open state, growth 

 vigorous, a free and continuous profuse bloomer. 

 Awarded Certificate of Merit of the National Rose 

 Society of England. $10O.0O per 100. 



Duchess of York (Sandy Dickson, 1925). Flowers 

 large, full and fine form. Color in the young stage 

 deep golden-yellow, with deep tangerine-orange 

 centre, the color spreading from the centre and suf- 

 fusing the whole fiower. A rose of exceptional merit 

 for bedding and garden decoration, its freedom of 

 bloom is extraordinarily long-lasting as a cut flower. 

 $100.00 per 100. 



Prank Reader (Verschuren & Sons, 1927). In our Cali- 

 fornia trials this has attracted great attention. 



It is a large, massive flower with high pointed 

 centre with nicely refiexing petals of great sub- 

 stance, the long buds in first developing are a light 

 lemon-yellow, while the flowers in their half-ex- 

 panded form reveal a heart of golden apricot; it has 

 a delicious rose apple scent. Among light-colored 

 varieties this is of outstanding merit. $60.00 per 

 100. 



Irish Charity (McGredy, 1927). Fair-sized flowers with 

 fine buds of a most intense flery scarlet with golden 

 sheen opening to moderately double blooms of an 

 attractive and distinct rosy-scarlet. Strong branch- 

 ing habit and very free. $75.00 per 100. 



Irish Charm (McGredy, 1927). This is a gem of ex- 

 quisite form and absolutely distinct from any va- 

 riety yet introduced. It is of strong branching 

 habit, remarkably free-flowering. The buds and 

 flowers are of medium size, the base of the petals 

 a rich golden-apricot passing to a delicate blush- 

 pink as the flowers develop. $100.00 per 100. 



Hyhrid-Tea Rose, Dame E^dith Helen 



Angele Pernet (Pernet-Ducher, 1924). An exquisite 

 rose that is rapidly gaining in popular favor. En- 

 tirely distinct and novel in color, described by the 

 raiser as a vivid orange-yellow shaded flery deep 

 reddish-apricot, but "tango color," we believe, de- 

 scribes it better. It is a good grower producing a 

 long bud opening to a moderately full, beautiful 

 sweet scented flower that at once attracts attention. 

 Awarded Gold Medal at the Bagatelle Paris trials in 

 1924. $50.00 per 100. 



Bedford Crimson (Laxton Bros., 1926). This grand 

 Rose was awarded the Clay Challenge Cup by the 

 Royal Horticultural Society of England for the best 

 new Rose with the best Old Rose Scent. Aside from 

 its delightful odor it is unquestionably the most 

 beautiful high colored Rose yet introduced, a bril- 

 liant crimson-scarlet. It is of beautiful form both 

 in the half developed, as well as in the fully ex- 

 panded bloom, being full double with an average of 

 forty heavy substantial petals which reflex beauti- 

 fully; its flowers are produced profusely on good 

 stiff stems. $75.00 per 100. 



Cuba (Pernet-Ducher, 1926). As a bedding Rose for 

 brilliant mass effect we know of nothing that will 

 equal this French introduction and although the 

 large flowers are almost single, they possess a 

 charm and brilliancy In color which Is an entirely 

 new tone in Roses, a glorious bright vermilion- 

 scarlet overlying an orange ground, this color com- 

 bination, is so intense that in full sunlight it glis- 

 tens with an iridescent sparkle. A vigorous grower 

 with dark green foliage which make a splendid 

 foil for the masses of richly colored blooms which it 

 produces from spring to late fall. $60.00 per 100. 



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