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HENRY A. DREER 



Roses 



WHOLESALE LIST 



New Hybrid-Tea Roses and Varieties of Special Merit 



Dormant Stock for Delivery Winter of 1928-1929 



'Sew Hybrid-Tea Rose, John Rnssell 



Irish Courage (McGredy, 1927). A splendid addition to 

 the list of bi-colored Roses, the color being a soft 

 shrimp-pink merging to salmon in the fully ex- 

 panded petals, the whole overlaying a golden orange 

 ground, this color being very pronounced at the 

 centre of the flower. Growth and fragrance mod- 

 erate, with attractive dark glossy-green foliage. 

 $75.00 per 100. 



Irish Hope (McGredy, 1927). A splendid and distinct 

 red with well-formed buds composed of heavy, 

 broad petals opening to moderately full, very fra- 

 grant flowers. The color is a rich rosy-crimson with 

 maroon shadings. It is of splendid, vigorous growth 

 with good foliage, and a free and continuous 

 bloomer. In our trial plots this looks like one of 

 the most promising varieties, among the many red 

 sorts on trial. $75.00 per 100. 



Irish Morn (McGredy, 1927). Magnificent long-pointed 

 buds with heavy shell-like petals, color imperial 

 pink deepening to a coral centre with golden lustre 

 and sheen. Plant of strong growth but moderate 

 height, very free-flowering and sweetly scented. 

 $75.00 per 100. 



Irish Sweetness (McGredy, 1927). A delightfully fra- 

 grant variety and splendid addition to the none-too- 

 long list of good red bedding Roses. Color, an ex- 

 quisite shade of crimson-lake suffused with scarlet; 

 a vigorous free grower and very free-flowering. 

 $75.00 per 100. 



J. Otto Thiloiv (Verschuren & Sons, 1927). This va- 

 riety was named in memory of our late Mr. Thilow. 

 It is a rich, glowing rose-pink of exceptional merit 

 with long, pointed buds of perfect formation as the 

 flowers expand, the petals reflex forming a beautiful 

 large double high centered flower. It is a very 

 strong grower with clean, healthy foliage and a 

 continuous profuse bloomer, a grand garden rose In 

 every respect. $60.00 per 100. 



John Russell (Dobbie & Co., 1924). One of the hand- 

 somest red Roses, beautiful both in bud and in the 

 fully expanded flower. We have always been 

 pleased with this Rose and everyone admires it for 

 its splendid form and rich color, a very large double 

 flower of a brilliant deep velvety crimson, the 

 growth is exceptionally strong, vigorous and hardy. 

 Awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society of England. $60.00 per 100. 



Lady Florence Stronge (McGredy, 1925). An 

 entirely new, distinct and nCvel color; a 

 reddish prawn to violet old rose shading to 

 yellow at the base and pink towards the 

 edge, the inner surface of the petals 

 heavily veined and flushed scarlet, the 

 flowers are large, full with high centres 

 and fragrant. Vigorous in growth and 

 free-flowering. $60.00 per 100. 



Lady Mary Klizabeth (Alex Dickson & Sons, 1927). 

 A variety of outstanding merit. Of strong, vigorous, 

 upright, branching habit with good healthy foliage 

 and very proliflc flowering. Flowers delightfully 

 fragrant. Long pointed buds with deep substantial 

 petals, in color a brilliant carmine-pink. $75.00 

 per 100. 



Lady Margaret Steivart. (1927). Another marvellous 

 introduction of Alexander Dickson & Sons awarded 

 the Gold Medal of the National Rose Society of 

 England at the 1926 Spring Show. A Rose of unique 

 and distinct color, the flowers in the young 

 stage are a deep sunflower yellow heavily veined 

 and splashed with orange-scarlet with the reverse 

 of the petals deeply suffused with carmine, as the 

 flowers develop, these colors intermingle forming a 

 most beautiful cadmium orange effect. The bud is 

 long and pointed, opening to a full double flower, 

 of most pleasing decorative form of delightfully 

 sweet scent. $100.00 per 100. 



Lord Charlemont (McGredy, 1922). Although introduced 

 some five years since, this beautiful variety is still 

 very scarce. It is the most gorgeous and brilliant 

 dark red Rose we have with flowers of the most In- 

 tense clear crimson-scarlet, deepening to carmine- 

 crimson with almost black shadings with perfectly 

 shaped long pointed buds and large, full double, 

 sweetly scented flowers. Free growing and free 

 flowering, a splendid Rose of exceptional richness 

 and beauty. $75.(>0 per 100. 



Lord Lambourne (McGredy, 1925). Deep buttercup- 

 yellow, each individual petal being heavily margined 

 carmine-scarlet, the buds are long opening to large 

 semi-double flowers, a strong vigorous grower and 

 free flowering with strong fruity odor. $100.00 per 

 100. 



Margaret McGredy (McGredy & Sons, 1928). "We con- 

 sider this one of McGredy's most brilliantly colored 

 masterpieces, large, beautifully shaped full double 

 flowers, entirely distinct from all others in its rich 

 coloring, which is a brilliant shade of Turkish or 

 Oriental red, passing as the flowers age to a beau- 

 tiful carmine-rose, these are borne on long stiff 

 stems and hold their form and beauty for a long 

 time. $1<)0,00 per 100. 



