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THE "DREER DOZEN" I 



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. 



Mrae. Butterfly. Beautiful buds and flowers, light soft 

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

 ented. 



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. 



Miss Rowena Thorn. In vigorous habit 

 of growth, its adaptability to varied clim- 

 atic conditions, it equals the popular Ra- 

 diance Roses, but its flowers are of much 

 larger size, frequently 5j inches in di- 

 ameter, equal to the best recent intro- 

 ductions 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 

 suffusion which as the fragrant flowers 

 unfold, adds to the brilliancy of its 

 coloring. 



Mrs. Erskine Pembroke Thorn. The 



best yellow bedding Rose we have to- 

 day. It is of clean healthy vigorous growth 

 with abundant dark bronzy disease-resisting 

 foliage and a continuous free bloomer through- 

 out the season. The good-sized buds are long 

 and develop into full double very shapely flow- 

 ers 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. 



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 it being 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, Etoile de Hollande 



Betty Uprichard. 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. 



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. 



PRICE- Any of the above in strong two-year-old plants, $1.00 each; $10.00 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 $10.00. 



