soft light blend with pink predominating. Mr. Sass 
is naming one of his irises PINK OPAL. This is a 
sister seedling of Pink Satin, of very similar color 
and just a little taller. Seems to be even a bet¬ 
ter grower. What appears to be the successful 
achievement of many years of scientific hybr dizing, 
is represented in a huge flowered iris of deepest 
indigo purple. Standing on tall strong stems it im¬ 
mediately commands the attention of every visitor, 
being as it seems, as near perfection as one can im¬ 
agine. Size, shape and a color deep and rich, over¬ 
shadowing others in this color classification. A 
JACOB SASS 
On my visit to Mr. Sass’ garden last spring I snapped this 
picture of him. May 26. 1033. standing among a planting of 
his high grade white seedlings. 
strong division planted last August gives promise 
of at least one fine bloom stalk. Mr. Sass told me 
he was naming this iris BLACK DOUGLAS. BAL- 
ROUDOR, BLUE TOPAZ, GRAY CLOUD and 
STORMY DAWN a new type of dwarfs introduced 
by him in 1933 are due to bloom this season. They 
are tiny gems of such unusual appearance they re¬ 
ceive much comment, and will become very pop¬ 
ular when generally known. These bloom with the 
