RED COLLECTION 
My Reddest Iris Collection 
Please lose yourself in contemplation of one solid block of a quarter of a 
million red Irises. 
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I began several years ago to prepare for this collection. 
This snapshot gives you but a faint idea of its extent and its beauty. When 
you visit our fields, you must see the Red Block. It was planted for you. Early 
in the morning, just when the world is waking up, I go many, many times to the 
center of this block and try to visualize what paradise will look like. But my 
poor language fails me when I try to tell you about it. You must come and see 
it with your own eyes. I builded better than I knew. I doubt if in all the Iris 
world there is a more gorgeous, more dazzling, more beautiful flower block, than 
this one. 
Fifty thousand people came to see us last May. Every one was welcome, with¬ 
out money and without price. No charges of any sort. 
But when you come next time, please park your car in the blue grass pasture 
and walk slowly down the paths, where I have gone a thousand times, and when 
you arrive at the Red Block, give yourself over to loving meditation and con¬ 
template your life and its wondrous surroundings, and your face and soul will 
bear evidence of more beauty and grandeur than it ever knew before. 
But they should not all stay here. They should be planted in yards of ten 
thousand flower lovers. And in a few years they will multiply into millions. 
Accordingly, I have tried to make up the best and the cheapest Red Collection 
that I know how. 
I will send you four Magenta reds, four a little darker, and four more, still 
darker, and four very, very dark reds. Then for prompt orders I will include 
two plants of beautiful pinks. All labeled, all beautiful. Postpaid for only one 
dollar and fifty cents. ($1.50). This Red Collection would retail for $4.50. 
I know you will love this unusual and beautiful collection. 
Thank you. 
WILL B. OTWELL, 
Carlinville, Illinois. 
P. S.—Carlinville is 59 miles north of St. Louis and reached by hard roads 
from four directions. Be sure to come see us in May. W. B. O. 
You can place your order in mid-winter or any time for anything in this folder 
and plants will be sent you at right time. 
PLANTED BY APRIL 20th SHOULD BLOOM IN MAY 
