Dreer's garden book 1925 (1925) Dreer's garden book 1925 dreersgardenbook1925henr Year: 1925 /flEI11iyADl{Em^3lila[>hM*klJLB^T^M'™m| m GENERAL LIST OF DREER'S SELECT HYBRID-TEA ROSES Under this heading we offer on this and the three pages following the World's best Hybrid-Tea varieties, all of them sorts which we have had the pleasure of thoroughly testing, and which we fully endorse and recommend to the large and small planter, which together with the Dreer Dozen and the newer sorts offered on pages 120 to 122, and 127 to 129, forms not the longest list of varie- ties, but what is undoubt
Dreer's garden book 1925 (1925) Dreer's garden book 1925 dreersgardenbook1925henr Year: 1925 /flEI11iyADl{Em^3lila[>hM*klJLB^T^M'™m| m GENERAL LIST OF DREER'S SELECT HYBRID-TEA ROSES Under this heading we offer on this and the three pages following the World's best Hybrid-Tea varieties, all of them sorts which we have had the pleasure of thoroughly testing, and which we fully endorse and recommend to the large and small planter, which together with the Dreer Dozen and the newer sorts offered on pages 120 to 122, and 127 to 129, forms not the longest list of varie- ties, but what is undoubtedly the finest collection of Hybrid-Tea Roses ever offered to the Rose loving American public. Admiral Ward. A splendid crimson-red, shaded fiery red; it has large globular flowers with curved petals; its growth is vigorous; of desirable spreading habit, with healthy bronzy-green foliage. Amalie de Greiff. A desirable and very popular bedding variety, large, well-formed double flowers, long shapely buds carried on long stiff stems, in color a delicate satiny rose-tinted white. Antoine Rivoire. An ideal bedding Rose of large size, exquisite fragrance, form and coloring, soft peach flesh with deeper shadings; the base of the petals yellow K Arthur R. Goodwin. A beautiful rich-colored coppery- orange; 'gold of ophir,' as a visitor to our trial grounds very correctly caDed it who saw it in one of its stages of development; as the flower matures it opens to a soft salmon pink; a good, full flower, sweetly scented, free and distinct. Betty. Produces blooms of marvellous beauty, particiilarly so in the autumn. Its large, deliciously-scented flowers aie of a glowing coppery-rose color, suffused with a golden sheen. Caroline Testout. Described and offered on page 127. Columbia. Of strong, vigorous habit and exceptionally free- blooming. The flowers, of good size, are perfect in form, both in bud as well as when fully expanded. Color a most pleasing shade of rose-pink and delightfully
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