FOREWORD 
U NPRECEDENTED winter losses prevented the 
issue of a 1934 catalogue (36 degrees below 
zero with no snow protection). All our plants were 
then removed to a new place of ideal soil, virgin to 
Irises. They are in splendid growth, free from borers 
and the healthiest lot we have ever seen. 
Unpredictable springs almost ruined our 1933 
crop of 2000 seedlings, but a few good ones appeared 
among the survivors. The winter of 1933-4 killed 
all but about 15% of the 1934-5 crops, aggregating 
some 7200; the salvaged will bloom in 1936. Those 
crops comprised approximately 3000 from X - ray 
treatments of pollen, plants and seed, the losses prac¬ 
tically nullifying that work. So, for three years, we 
have had very few seedlings to bloom. There are 
3500 now in strong growth for 1936 and some inter¬ 
esting developments will undoubtedly appear. 
We are glad that we can again invite the interested 
to our seedling fields. OUR HEIGHT OF BLOOM AT 
the New Field is About June 16, Instead of 
June 10 as at the Old. 
Our real interest has never gone beyond the hybri¬ 
dizing and we intend to confine our future efforts to 
that work alone, limiting our retail listings to our own 
originations. To permit that, we are now selling all 
Irises except mere breeding stocks and a few novelties 
for comparison with new seedlings. The prices that 
follow are well below the market and are expected to 
insure quick disposal of our rather limited stocks. 
We grow no standard commercial Peonies, but are 
propagating a small number selected from the 3500 
Japanese and double seedlings raised by us. We hope 
to offer two in 1936, SPRING BEAUTY and HARRY F. 
LITTLE. Were further confirmation needed, the 1935 
blooms on HARRY F. LITTLE fully justified the two 
Medals it received in 1934. 
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