Lorna Lee $5.00 



Native Chief $3.00 



RAINBOW GOLD (Plough, '60) M. 34" Each $2.00 



Intense buttercup yellow, heavily laced and crimped at the margins, 

 with an almost red beard. One of the very best and most popular of 

 recent introductions. Large flowers on 34-inch stalks. HM AIS, 1960; 

 AM, 1962. See page 37. 



RARE WINE (J. Nelson, 70) ML. 34" 



^Vithdrawn to increase stock. 



REAL DELIGHT (Waters, '60) M. 38" Each $2.00 



A huge and gorgeous blend of blush pink and deep apricot. Petals 

 are broad and thick in texture, the falls flaring and supporting a 

 heavy, bright red-orange beard. There is a greenish chartreuse glow 

 within the flowers. HM AIS, 1960. Shown on page 53. 



RESTLESS WAVES (Tompkins, '67) ML. 35" Each $1 7.50 



"Like powdered blue chalk, smoothly blended over a milk white 

 base, giving a beautiful, foamy look to the whole flower— heavily 

 ruffled, conically domed standards and broad, overlapping hafts and 

 ruffled falls add to the frothy 'Restless Waves' effect." This is the 

 introducer's description and it is certainly apt. HM AIS, 1968. 



RIBBON ROUND (Tompkins, '63) EML 48" Each $2.50 



Snow white and sharply contrasting blue, surely the most exciting 

 plicata of this type to date. Huge in size, moderately ruffled and 

 ideally branched on stems up to 48 inches in height. It is one of 

 the first to come into flower and continues right through the season. 

 HM AIS, 1964; AM, 1966. Shown on back cover. 



RIPPLING ROSE (Gibson, '70) M. 36" Each $1 5.00 



Imagine a Rococo or Stepping Out with broadly banded falls of rose- 

 purple, instead of the blue-to-violet trim on those two worthy and 

 popular varieties, and you will have Rippling Rose. The heavily 

 ruffled and fluted blossoms are ivory white in the central area of the 

 falls; the standards are basically white but shaded and mottled with 

 the same rose-purple which borders the falls. Superb branching, on 

 heavy stems. See page 9. 



RIPPLING WATERS (Fay, '61) M. 36" Each $3.00 



Pai bluish-orchid, a shade difficult to describe but it certainly is not 

 in ail sense pink. The very bright tangerine beard, on a creamy 

 ground, reates a dramatic and unusual effect. Big blossoms, flaring 

 falls, with ipples, ruffles and frills. HM AIS, 1962; AM, 1964. Dykes 

 Medal, 1966. Shown on page 22. 



ROBERT J. GRAVES (K. Smith, '58) M. Each $1 .00; 3 for $2.50 



A gigantic late white with yellow beard. It is flawless in form with 

 big closed standards and broad falls of enamel-like finish. Three to 

 four-foot stems are ramrod straight and the branching is perfect. 



ROCKET RUST (Gibson, '63) ML. 36" Each $2.00 



Falls are bright rusty copper smoothly blended on a creamy ground, 

 the standards solidly colored rusty copper. Lighter, brighter and 

 much larger than Chinquapin but with some of the same hues and 

 tints found in that fine new plicata. Petals are thick, broad and lightly 

 ruffled. HM AIS, 1964. See page 23. 



ROCOCO (Schreiner, '60) EM. 39" Each $2.00 



Ruffled and fluted, giant plicata of bright blue on clean white, the 

 blue pattern especially wide and heavy in the folds of the standards. 

 The falls are pure white in the center, with a quite distinct band of 

 blue encircling a full half inch of the pleated and ruffled border. 

 Beard is deep yellow. Patent No. 2077. HM AIS, I960; AM, 1962. 

 See page 24. 



ROSES IN SNOW (Noyd, '67) ML. 34" Each $7.50 



Clean snow white, with a beard of almost blood red! The contrast is 

 really startling and this Iris is so nearly perfect in every way that few, 

 if any of the whites with red or tangerine beards actually equal it. 

 Huge in size, with lacy petal edges. HM AIS, 1968. 



ROYAL TAPESTRY (Schreiner, '64) ML. 38" Each $5.00 



A deep blend of red, bronze, copper and violet, lavishly beautiful 

 and imposing in appearance. Of giant size, the ruffled flowers ex- 

 hibit a regal richness and an ember-like glow. Ruffled petals; excellent 

 branching. HM AIS, 1965. 



ROYAL TOUCH (Schreiner, '67) ML. 34" Each $10.00 



Indescribably rich and smooth! The extra wide falls are of card- 

 board-like quality with a silky finish and the color is a uniform, deep 

 Victoria or pansy violet. Beard is deep blue, tipped lighter. HM AIS, 

 1968; AM, 1970. 



ROYAL VIOLET (Riddle, '59) M. 38" Each $1 .50; 3 for $4.00 



The great size and all-round majesty of this fine Iris cannot be ade- 

 quately brought out in our picture on page 53. It is more blue than 

 Violet Hills, velvety rather than silky and the beard is light blue to 

 almost white. The petals are extremely broad and flarine;. HM AIS, 

 1959. 



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