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Dreer's Select List of Popular Hybrid-Tea Roses 



Hybrid-Tea Rose, Ville de Paris (City of Paris') 



President Jac SmitS. For brilliancy in color, a rich 

 velvety crimson-scarlet, exceptionally long pointed buds 

 of ideal shape, produced most generously, we know of no 

 other variety that is its equal. 



Radiance. See page 132. 



Red Radiance. Seepage 132. 



Rev. F. Page Roberts. 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 particu- 

 larly 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. 



Rose Marie. One of the best bedding Roses grown, re- 

 markably free-flowering, producing large, long, ideal 

 buds, which develop into full flowers of beautiful form, 

 clear rose-pink. 



Sensation. Splendid large crimson-scarlet, per- 

 fect in its long pointed bud as well as in the fully 

 developed, sweetly scented, double flower. A 

 strong vigorous grower that is particularly brilli- 

 ant late in the autumn. 



Shot Silk. One of the most beautiful of Alex. 

 Dickson & Sons' introductions. Color orange- 

 rose, overshot with golden-yellow and flushed soft rose, 

 bud of beautiful shape, the open flowers cupped with 

 reflexing outer petals, growth vigorous and free. 



Sir David Davis. One of the best red bedding Roses. 

 Color, an unfading deep glowing crimson of an even 

 shade throughout. The flowers are of good size, pointed 

 and of good form with large, heavy petals and strongly 

 sweet scented. 



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. 



Souvenir de Georges Pernet. A valuable garden 

 Rose, a strong vigorous grower and free flowering. The 

 large flowers are beautiful both in bud and when fully 

 expanded; color an intense Oriental red with golden 

 suffusion shading to carmine at edges. 



Souvenir de H. A. Verschuren. One of the best bedding 

 Roses. In color it is a two tone yellow, the centre a beautiful 

 apricot-yellow. 



Stuttgart. On the type of Ville de Paris with medium sized, long 

 pointed, shapely buds and double, very lasting, moderately 

 fragrant, pure yellow flowers. 



Talisman. See page 132. 



The Queen Alexandra. A brilliant flower of intense vermilion 

 deeply shaded old gold on reverse of petals, which spring from a 

 pure orange base. 



Ville de Paris {City of Paris). A very distinct rich buttercup 

 yellow without a trace of any other color, retaining its richness 

 under all weather conditions. In formation it is somewhat simi- 

 lar to Radiance, fairly double and splendid for cutting. Habit, 

 upright and tall, a profuse bloomer. 



Wilhelm Kordes. Unique and entirely distinct in coloring; a 

 rich capucine red with coppery suffusion overlying a golden- 

 salmon ground, varying in intensity under different weather 

 conditions, but always beautiful and particularly high colored 

 early in the season and in the autumn. The buds are long and 

 pointed, opening to double high-centred very fragrant flowers. 



William F. Dreer. A beautiful Rose. The flowers, which are 

 similar in shape to Los Angeles, and like that variety, beautiful 

 in all stages are at their best in the half expanded flower. These, 

 in expanding, are of a soft, silvery shell pink at certain stages of 

 development; a golden suffusion illuminates the entire flower. 



Willowmere. This splendid Rose is of a coral-red color, suffused 

 with carmine in the bud state, and opens to a large, full, hand- 

 some flower of a rich pink, shaded yellow in the centre. 



New Hybrid-Tea Rose, Polly. See page 125 



PRICE — Any of the above varieties in strong two-year-old plants, $1.00 each; $10.00 per doz.; $80.00 per 100. 

 25 or more supplied at 100 rate. This does not include Polly for which see page 125. 



SPECIAL OFFER. We will furnish one strong plant each of the 141 Hybrid-Tea Roses described on pages 

 121 to 133 for $140.00. The best collection of Roses that has ever been offered 



