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CARL SALBACH • IRISES 
[1934 
UNSOLICITED COMMENDATION 
Excerpts from a letter dated May 23, 1934, tell the story of the high 
quality of our stock and our introductions better than anything we our¬ 
selves can do or say: 
“This is just a note of appreciation for the very satisfactory shipment 
of fine irises which you sent me last summer ... I really had most excellent 
results from your shipment, and I want to thank you for the very fine 
stock you sent me and congratulate you on some of your introductions. 
“Nearly everyone in my garden this year agreed that ‘California Gold’ 
was the most outstanding iris in the garden. It bloomed quite well for me 
on a first-year plant, although perhaps the blooms were somewhat bunched, 
and I am looking forward to a taller and better branched stalk next year. 
It is a glorious iris and you have every reason to be proud of it. 
“ ‘Sunol’ bloomed a few days before ‘California Gold’ and I was thor¬ 
oughly delighted with it. Unfortunately, I had ‘California Gold’ planted 
too close to it and the brightness of the latter detracted somewhat from 
the duller tones of ‘Sunol’ later on. But I still think you have a marvelous 
yellow blend in ‘Sunol.’ It gave me two fine stalks of bloom, likewise a 
little bunched, but I believe will be still better next year. 
“We all like the color of ‘Eleanor Blue’ and ‘Pink Jewel’. I don’t think 
I had a much better iris in the garden than ‘Natividad’. It is magnificent, 
and I am surprised that I haven’t heard more about how good it is. Every 
iris you sent me bloomed, with the exception of ‘Ronda’, despite a very hard 
winter (the worst we have had in years), and the plant of ‘Ronda’ looks 
just as healthy as any of the rest. ‘Tioga’ is a gorgeous dark purple and 
I know I am going to like it . . . ‘Alta California’, next to ‘California Gold’ 
is the best yellow I have seen, and ‘Rubeo’ is the best red bloom in my 
garden as yet.” 
This from an East Coast customer. 
