DREER'S GARDEN ROSES 



FOR FALL PLANTING 



Experienced professional growers as well as amateurs who have had experience, are turning more and 

 more each season with greater favor towards fall planting, and we strongly recommend this, but only, where 

 careful attention can be given to the simple methods of winter protection recommended in our cultural 

 leaflet which we mail free on application. We are now booking orders for strong two-year-old field-grown 

 dormant plants of the varieties listed on this and the following pages, delivery of which will be made as soon 

 as the plants are properly ripened, usually late in October or early November. 



Our Roses are all strong two-year-old American-grown, budded or grafted, and while some planters 

 prefer stock grown on their own roots on account of the possibility of budded plants developing wild shoots, 

 this will rarely occur if the deep planting as directed in our cultural notes is followed. Much can be said in 

 favor of budded plants, they being more vigorous, producing finer blooms, coming into bearing sooner, and 

 are as permanent and hardy as those on their own roots, while many of the very finest varieties will not 

 succeed at all when grown on their own roots, and preference is given to budded plants by all who have had 

 experience with the different classes. 



THE "DREER DOZEN" 



Hardy Everblooming Hybrid-Tea Roses 



For many years it has been customary for us to offer under this heading only the best and most popular varieties of Hybrid-Tea 

 Roses. The collection offered this season has been carefully revised and the selection has been made based on careful observations made 

 in our own trials and in various parts of the country as well as from favorable reports received from satisfied customers. 



We recommend this collection for general planting to the amateur who wishes a limited number of varieties, and who is desirous 

 of a supply of extra choice flowers to cut throughout the season. Those who desire a more extensive collection can select with perfect 

 confidence any variety in our collection of Hybrid-Tea Roses. There is not one individual sort which we cannot endorse as possessing 

 superior merit, all having been thoroughly tested. 



Miss Rowena Thorn. In vigorous habit of growth, its adapta- 

 bility to varied climatic conditions, it equals the popular 

 Radiance Roses, but its flowers are of much larger size, frequently 

 5| inches in diameter, equal to the best recent introductions 

 and all of which it will outclass in freedom of flowering. Its 

 buds are long and shapely, opening to perfect double flowers of a 

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

 fusion which as the fragrant flowers unfold, adds to the brilliancy 

 of its coloring. 



Mme. Butterfly. Beautiful buds and flowers, light soft pink 

 tinted yellow at base of petals, very free and highly scented. 



Mme. Edouard Herriot (The Daily Mail Rose). In color its 

 buds are coral-red, shaded with yellow at the base, the open 

 flowers of medium size, semi-double, are of a superb coral-red, 

 shaded with yellow and bright rosy-scarlet passing to salmon 

 pink. A wonderful color combination. 



Mme . Jules Bouche. While not a pure white, it being at times 

 slightly tinted with blush at the centre, it is to all intents white 

 and without question one of the best white everblooming bedding 

 Roses. The flowers are large, quite double and of splendid form, 

 both in the bud as well as in the fully expanded flower; it is 

 fragrant, a vigorous grower and very free flowering. 



Mrs. Erskine Pembroke Thorn. The best yellow bedding 

 Rose we have today. It is of clean healthy vigorous growth 

 with abundant dark bronzy disease-resisting foliage and a 

 continuous free bloomer throughout the season. The good- 

 sized buds are long and' shapely and develop into full double 

 very shapely flowers of a rich deep lemon yellow sweetly 

 scented. 



Radiance. An ideal bedding Rose of American origin that con- 

 tinues to produce its large fragrant flowers throughout the 

 most unfavorable hot summer weather when frequently many 

 other varieties fail; in color a brilliant carmine-pink, with salmon- 

 pink and yellow shadings at the base of the petals; truly a Rose 

 for every garden. 



Red Radiance. A counterpart of Radiance from which it is a 

 "sport," possessing all the good traits of that valuable variety 

 but differing in color which is a bright cerise-red. 



Talisman. 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 yellow, gold, and 

 pink; as the flower develops and the petals unfold they become 

 bright apricot, gold, deep rose-pink or old-rose. 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. 



Hybrid-Tea Rose, 

 Duchess of Wellington 



Betty TJprichard. A pretty combination of colors, inner face 

 of petals delicate salmon-pink to carmine, outside glowing car- 

 mine with coppery sheen and orange suffusion; well-formed 

 medium sized flowers of good substance and sweet scented. 



Duchess of Wellington. Long shapely buds, with petals of 

 great substance, color an intense saffron-yellow stained deep 

 crimson, delightfully fragrant and very free flowering. 



Etoile de Hollande. The best allround red bedding Rose yet 

 introduced. A strong vigorous healthy grower and free bloomer 

 which, like the popular Radiance Roses, improves in vigor from 

 year to year. It is a continuous bloomer with large, moderately 

 double flowers that are particularly attractive in the half-blown 

 state. In color a brilliant crimson red. 



Mrs. Henry Bowles. One of the best bedding varieties grown, 

 always in flower and perfect in every stage of development. 

 In color it is of an intense brilliant pink with lighter salmon pink 

 shadings. A model Rose in every way. 



PRICE— Any of the above in strong two-year-old dormant plants, $1.00 each; $11.00 per doz.; $80.00 per 

 100. Twenty-five or more plants supplied at 100 rate. One each of the "Dreer Dozen : a fine collection, 

 for $11.00. 



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