July 16, 1943 



ABOUT THE COLORED 

 SUPPLEMENT .... 



IT IS WITH REGRET AND DISAPPOINTMENT THAT WE HAVE TO ANNOUNCE THE 

 FACT THAT THE COLOR PLATES OF OUR NEW INTRODUCTIONS CANNOT BE DIS- 

 TRIBUTED THIS YEAR. WE HAD DEFINITELY PLANNED FOR THIS AND THEY 

 WERE PROMISED TO US BY OUR ENGRAVER BEFORE JULY 1st. 



Because of a reduced staff and the priority of engraving jobs 

 having to do with the work in war plants, they did not deliver the 

 first proofs of these color plates to us until the middle of July. 

 Even at that late date we would have had them printed and sent to 

 those of you who had definitely reserved them, but these first 

 proofs were so unsatisfactory and so lacking in their purpose of 

 representing the actual flowers that we declined to accept them. 

 To have had them corrected properly would have tneant additional 

 delay running into late summer or early autumn before the finished 

 colored supplement could have reached our patrons. 



We are thus unwillingly required to wait until next blooming season 

 when the plates can be properly corrected from specimens of the 

 flowers themselves. Those of you who have dollar credits with us, 

 not already applied on an order, may either apply that credit to an 

 order selected from the iris section of this catalogue or if you 

 prefer we will promptly return the dollar which you have entrusted 

 to us. 



We hope that you can realize our position in this situation, and we 

 assure you that we did everything that we possibly could do to 

 carry through our plans of this past spring. 



