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THE "DREER DOZEN" 



Hardy Everblooming Hybrid-Tea Roses 



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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 dozen offered this season has been carefully 

 revised and the scleition has been made based on observations 

 in our own trials and in various parts of the country as well 

 as from favorable reports receiv ed from satisfied customers. 



We recommend this assortment for general plant- 

 ing to the amateur who wishes a limited number of 

 sorts, 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 of the varieties of Hybrid-Tea 

 Roses listed on pages 121 to 132. 

 Mme. Butterfly. Beautiful buds and flowers, light 

 soft pink tinted yellow at base of petals, very free and 

 l\ highly scented. 



\ Mme. Edouard Herriot (The Daily Mail Rose). In 

 % color its buds are coral-red, shaded with yellow at the 

 XI 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 combination. 

 Mme. Jules Bouche. The ideal white bedding Rose. 

 Buds of good size, long pointed; flowers full double, 

 very lasting, moderately fragrant, white, centre faintly 

 tinted blush, borne singly on long strong stems. Growth 

 vigorous, erect, a profuse and continuous bloomer. 

 Radiance. An ideal bedding Rose of American origin that 

 continues to produce its large fragrant flowers throughout 

 the most unfavorable hot summer weather when freo.uently 

 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 possession all 

 the good traits of that valuable variety but differing in color 

 which is a bright cerise-red. 



New Hybrid-Tea Rose, Mrs. Erskine Pembroke Thom 



Betty Uprichard. A pretty combination of colors, 

 inner face of petals delicate salmon-pink to carmine, 

 i outside glowing carmine with coppery sheen and 

 k 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 

 Etoile de Hollande. A brilliant crimson red, the 

 best all around red bedding Rose yet introduced. 

 A strong vigorous healthy grower and free con- 

 tinuous bloomer, flowers large, moderately double 

 and beautiful in all stages of development, 

 i Felicity. A gem of a beautiful shade of mallow- 

 V pink shading to bright cerise at the edges, with 

 w soft creamy suffusion at the base of petals; fine 

 long bud, large double, fragrant flower. 

 Miss Rowena Thom. Bud very large, lung 

 pointed; flowers enormous 5i to 6 inches across, 

 full double opening perfectly. Color a blending 

 k of fiery rose and rosy mauve, together with old 

 gold, borne on strong stems. Growth exceptionally 

 vigorous, upright, a profuse and continuous bloomer. 

 Mrs. Erskine Pembroke Thom. The best yellow 

 bedding Rose we have today. It is of clean healthy 

 i 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 flowers 

 of a rich deep lemon yellow sweetly scented. 

 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. 



New Hybrid-Tea Rose, Miss Rowena Thom 



PRICE. Any of the above in strong- two-year-old plants, $1 .00 each ; $1 1 .00 per doz. ; $90.00 per 100. 25 or more 

 plants supplied at 100 rate. One each of the "Dreer Dozen," a fine collection, for $11.00 



