TINSEL TOWN (Tompkins, '67) ML. 38" $7.50 



Pure, clean white with center of molten gold. Undersides of the falls 

 are yellow and this second color is exposed by the ruffles and folds 

 of the petal margins. Here is one of the largest of all Iris, magnificent 

 in every way. HM, '68; AM, '70. See page 22. 



TIPPERARY (Hamblen, 72) EM. 30" $15.00 



Wide petaled, ruffled violet blue self with a lighter area in the falls, 

 and a very showy red beard. Closed standards and arched flaring 

 falls. Strong stems with well spaced blossoms. HC, '71. 



TOLL GATE (Cook, '59) M. 40" $1 .50 



Standards are palest blue— almost white— the falls dark violet with a 

 long yellow beard extending across the lighter haft. Very tall, with 

 many flowers per stem, widely spaced. HM, '59; AM, '62. Illustrated 

 on page 54. 



Olympic Torch $2.00 



TOMECO (Suiter, '60) M. 36" $1 .00 



Smoothly burnished oxblood red self without haft markings. Tailored 

 in appearance, the big rounded standards domed and closed and the 

 broad falls semiflaring. Bronze yellow beard. HM, '62. Cook-Lapham 

 Award for best Red Iris in 1965. Picture page 54. 



TOP BILLING (Nelson, '69) ML. 42" $7.50 



A startling new white with "house-afire" red beard. Borne on heavy, 

 stalwart stems reaching up to four feet in height, the very large, 

 ideally formed flowers have the finish of white porcelain and are of 

 extra thick substance. Shown on page 13. 



TOUCHE (Hamblen, '69) ML. 34" $1 0.00 



Standards are pink flushed blue-violet. Falls are blue-violet with blue 

 flash edged violet. Beard is burnt orange. Pleasing form with firmly 

 held standards and horizontally flaring falls. Well branched. HM. 

 '70; AM, '72. Shown on our front cover. 



TOWN AND COUNTRY (Gaulter, 71) ML. 34" $12.50 



A silvery rose-violet of spreading form and with unusual curls and 

 contrasting appendages in the standards. Both standards and falls 

 are of a uniform, bright rose-violet hue and the beard is white. All 

 petals are gracefully waved at the margins. Large flowers on stout 

 stems. See page 1 1. 



TROPICAL NIGHT (Schreiner, 70) EM. 36" $7.50 



A regal, rich, two-toned blue. Standards are light to medium blue 

 and falls of deep violet-black. The beard a smoky orange. A perfect 

 flower on excellent branched stem. HM, '72. 



ULTRALURE (Gibson, '68) ML. 34" $3.50 



A copper and white plicata, the standards flushed with mulberry 

 and a soft tint of mulberry barely present near the rim of the falls. 

 Petals are decidedly crimped and fluted at the margins. Derived from 

 Wild Ginger, it is less pinkish, and more of a bright copper-brown 

 effect than we have in the parent. Shown on page 27. 



ULTRAPOISE (Noyd, '62) ML. 34" $2.50 



Here is something really new and different in yellow. Described as 

 straw yellow with a flush of pink in the standards, the very bright 

 reddish tangerine beard glows like fire. Perfectly branched. HM. 

 '63; AM, '65. 



UPROAR (Tompkins, 70) VL. 38" $1 0.00 



A clean, new, very large red; elegant form with broad petals, which 

 are flawlessly clean. Substance is heavy and does not burn nor fade; 

 flared and ruffled. 



VALIMAR (Hamblen, '58) ML. 36" $1 .00 



A smooth apricot-pink with a wide nasturtium-red beard. Judges 

 raved over this at the 1958 American Iris Society Convention in New 

 York, and so will you! HM, '58; AM, '60. See page 55. 



VEGAS (Hamblen, 71) ML. 34" $15.00 



Cool yellow self with small white blaze at the tip of deeper yellow 

 beard. Standards domed and closed, falls ruffled and flare horizon- 

 tally. Very broad petals on good stalks with fine branching. HM, '72. 



VELVET ROBE (Schreiner, '60) M. 34" $1 .00 



Well named, a deep but glowing shade of plushy crimson red with 

 golden beard. The haft is solidly colored and petals are lightly ruffled. 

 HM, '60. See page 55. 



VENERATION (Ghio, 71) EM. 36" $10.00 



Neglecta with perfect form. Light violet-blue standards and broad 

 falls of smooth deep royal purple. Both falls and standards deeply 

 fluted. Good branching and plenty of buds. HM. '72. 



VIOLET HILLS (DeForest, '56) ML. 38" $1 .00 



Here is the last word in deep true violet color! Standards, falls and 

 beard are a uniform rich violet-purple, the beard is lightly tipped 

 blue. HM, '56; AM, '58. Winner of the President s Cup 1960. See 

 page 50. 



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