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SELECT-'ROSES 



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THE "DREER DOZEN" 



HARDY EVERBLOOMING HYBRID-TEA ROSES 



For many years it has been customary for us to offer under this heading only the very best and most popular, well-tried varieties 

 of Hybrid-Tea Roses, with the majority of which every lover of the Rose is familiar. 



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. 



Duchess of Wellington. The most popular yellow garden 

 Rose. Intense saffron-yellow stained with deep crimson, chang- 

 ing to a deep coppery saffron-yellow as the 

 flowers develop. The flowers are fairly full, 

 with large petals, great substance, delight- 

 fully fragrant and very free- 

 flowering. 



Hadley. One of the best high 

 colored varieties, an intense, 

 rich, dazzling, crimson-scar- 

 let shading to velvety crim- 

 son, deliciously fragrant. The 

 plant is of vigorous growth, 

 and is particularly fine in the 

 Autumn. 



Imperial Potentate. Intro- 

 duced only five years ago, 

 this beautiful vari- 

 ety has already found 

 a place among the 

 most popular garden 

 sorts. Its splendidly 

 shaped buds develop into 

 large, sweet scented double 

 flowers of crisp, glistening 

 rose-pink with silvery suf- 

 fusion at the base of the 

 petals. Of strong, vigorous 

 erect habit of growth, and 

 very free flowering. 



Los Angeles. This is, by all 

 odds, one of the finest Roses 

 ever introduced. The growth 

 is very vigorous, and pro- 

 duces a continuous succession 

 of long-stemmed flowers of a 

 luminous flame-pink, toned with coral and shaded with trans- 

 lucent gold at tne Dase of the petals. In richness of fragrance 

 it equals in intensity the finest Marechal Neil. The buds are 

 long and pointed, and expand into a flower of mammoth pro- 

 portions, while the beauty of form and ever-increasing wealth of 

 color is maintained from the incipient bud until the last petal 

 drops 



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 the best white everblooming bedding 

 Rose yet introduced. 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 growei and very free flowering. 



Mrs. William C. Egan. An extremely vigorous strong healthy 

 grower, with long, pointed buds of absolutely perfect form, 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 with a golden line at the base of the petals; the 

 flowers are carried on long stiff stems, and last in good condition 

 for an unusually long time, either cut or on the plant; an excep- 

 tionally free and continuous bloomer. 

 Price 



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 shrimp-red. A wonderful color com- 

 bination. 



Padre. One of the finest bedding 

 Roses of recent introduction which 

 has quickly gained a prominent 

 position as such. Its color 

 is a brilliant coppery scar- 

 let flushed with yellow at 

 the base, a brilliant 

 rich color combina- 

 tion. The beautiful 

 long buds are borne 

 on very long stiff 

 stems and are splendid for 

 cutting and while the fully, 

 developed flowers are only 

 semi-double they are of 

 unusual formation and 

 attractive in all stages. 

 One of the freest flower- 

 ing Hybrid-Tea varieties. 



Radiance. An ideal bed- 

 ding Rose of American 

 origin that continues to 

 produce its large flowers 

 throughout the most un- 

 favorable 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. 



Souvenir de Claudius Pernet. A most vigorous grower 

 of erect branching habit, beautiful, brilliant green foliage, long 

 pointed buds of exquisite shape, carried on long, stiff stems. 

 Very large, full flowers with elongated deep petals, a beautifully 

 formed bloom. Color, striking sunflower-yellow, deeper in the 

 centre, without any color blending, and which is retained 

 without fading even in the warmest weather. 



Souvenir de Georges Pernet. This stands at the head of the 

 list of the many valuable garden Roses that have been produced 

 by Mr. Pernet-Ducher. It is a strong, vigorous grower and pro- 

 duces its large flowers which are beautiful in both bud and fully 

 developed bloom, which are of an intense oriental red, shading 

 to cochineal carmine at the margin of the petals, the whole 

 being suffused with a golden sheen. 



Hybrid-Tea Rose, Los Angeles 



Any of the above, in strong two-year-old plants, Sl-00 each; $11-00 per doz.; $90.00 per 100. 

 One each of the "Dreer Dozen," a fine collection, for $11.00. 



