HENRY A. DREER 



Roses 



WHOLESALE LIST 



37 



New Hybrid-Tea Roses and Varieties of Special Merit 



Dormant Stock for Delivery Winter of 1928-1929 



Mrs. William C. Cgan (Howard & Smith, 1922). A 

 strong, healthy grower, with long, pointed buds 

 that develop Into flowers of good shape. In color, 

 it is a two-tone-pink, the reverse of the petals, a soft 

 light-pink, the interior, deep, flesh color. An excep- 

 tionally free and continuous bloomer. $40.00 per 

 100. I 



Mrs. Tom Smltb (T. Smith & Sons, 1924). A splendid 

 Gold Medal variety of thorough distinctness and 

 merit. A strong erect vigorous grower with dark 

 bronzy foliage and very free flowering with good 

 shapely buds opening to perfect double fragrant 

 flowers of a glowing cerise. $75.00 per 100. 



Miss Rowena Thorn (Howard & Smith) 1928). In 

 vigorous habit of growth, freedom of bloom and 

 in its adaptability to varied climatic conditions, 

 this wU prove equal to the popular Radance Roses, 

 while its flowers in size and form are equal to the 

 best high-class varieties of recent introduction and 

 all of which it will outclass in freedom of flower- 

 ing. Its buds are long and shapely, opening to per- 

 fect double flowers frequently 5 inches across of a 

 brilliant rose-pink, the base of the petals having a 

 golden suffusion which as the fragrant flowers un- 

 fold, adds to the brilliancy of its coloring. $125.00 

 per 100. 



Patience (McGredy, 1924). Another Gold Medal 

 variety, entirely distinct, a brilliant scarlet-carmine- 

 lake, as the flower opens the color is a deep orange 

 at base with orange-scarlet shadings. The flowers 

 are large, of perfect form and last a long time in 

 perfection, delicately sweet scented. The plant is a 

 strong grower of free branching upright habit and 

 a free and perpetual bloomer. $100.00 per 100. 



Pink Pearl (Leenders & Co., 1924). A dainty variety 

 always admired which seems destined to become a 

 universal favorite if it had nothing to recommend 

 it but its delicious fragrance. In color it is a bril- 

 liant rich cerise pink the base of the petals touched 

 with gold that lights up the flower wonderfully, par- 

 ticularly in the half expanded bloom. The flowers 

 are full double, of perfect form and produce most 

 profusely on plants of vigorous, healthy growth. 

 $50.00 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 

 flowers of a golden-yellow particularly high colored 

 in late summer and fall. The plant is of vigorous 

 branching habit with beautiful foliage. A most 

 distinct variety that has deservedly gained great 

 popularity in the short period since its introduction. 

 $100.00 per 100. 



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New Hybrid-Tea Rose, Patience 



Ne^v Hybrid-Tea Rose, Mrs. Ersliine Penibrolie Thorn 



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

 geous coloring with large ovoid buds of the type of 

 Lord Lamborne but much brighter In coloring, a rich 

 golden yellow with crimson edges, the open flowers 

 are of medium size, semi-double, light yellow with 

 crimson edged petals and are borne several together 

 on long stems, growth vigorous, very profuse 

 flowering, of moderate fragrance. $150.00 per 100. 



Sir David Davis (McGredy & Sons, 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. $00.00 per 100. 



Victor Waddllove (McGredy, 1926). Buds of splendid 

 form, long and pointed, opening to moderately full 

 flowers, sweetly scented, color Imperial pink 

 flushed crimson and orange, the coloring Is intensi- 

 fied by the golden base of the petals which gives the 

 flowers a golden suffusion which is difficult to con- 

 vey. Growth vigorous and very free flowering. 

 $60.00 per 100. 



VUle de Paris (City of Paris) (Pernet-Ducher, 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 vigorous 

 growth and very free flowering. $75.0O per 100. 



Wllhelm Kordes (Kordes & Sons, 1922). Long pointed 

 buds opening to full double flowers, a rich capuclne 

 red overlaying a golden ground, wonderfully pro- 

 liflc. $75.00 per 100. 



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