"Ait Iris Lover’s Catalog’’ 
3 
Lucrezia Bori 
(Schreiner 193 5 ) 
The Feature Sensation 
of the 193 5 National Iris Show 
Held in Nashville, May 2, 3, 193 5 
by the American Iris Society 
Named in tribute to the gracious charm of that gifted artiste, 
Lucrezia Bori, this Schreiner seedling was the feature sensation of the 
National Iris show at Nashville and the outstanding attraction in the 
gardens of Mr. Clint McDade of Chattanooga, whose collection of 
the newer and finer Iris is probably one of the most complete and out¬ 
standing in the country. Here among all the new and best yellow Iris 
represented, Lucrezia Bori proved most popular and rated higher than 
any other. Such tribute coming from many notables in the American 
Iris Society who saw it in Mr. McDade’s gardens, is, we feel, one of 
the best and highest endorsements an Iris can receive. 
Dr. Harry Everett, President of the American Iris Society, who 
has given permission to quote him, says of it . . . “I consider Lucrezia 
Bori absolutely on the top rung of yellows. It has distinctive form 
and remarkable size and impresses one as being one of the most novel 
and worth-while yellows.” 
"Its a honey” is typical of the many comments of admiration 
and delight made on every side by those who saw it. 
Delightfully frilled, fluted and ruffled in both standards and 
falls, and radiant in tone, it has a form and style that give it a most 
distinctive personality. These characteristics, inherited in part from 
one of its parents, Nebraska, are further enhanced by a most striking 
gleam and irridecence thruout the entire flower. The standards with 
a stiff mid rib and addressed, the falls have a most pleasing modified 
flare, and the substance in both stands and falls is the heaviest of any 
yellow. 
In color Lucrezia Bori is one of the darker of the yellow shades 
in Iris . . . the stands are a translucent Empire to Primrose yellow, 
the falls as deep as California Gold, paling slightly at the base. A 
very rich beard helps to make more striking the illuminating irri- 
descence or sheen of the entire flower, one of its special features. 
In size it is the tallest of the large flowered yellows, its height 
and branching being phenominal, averaging 42 to 45 inches high 
with three well branched stalks and nine buds to the stem. The 
individual florets are fully equal in size to the development reached 
in other colors. It is also very fragrant. 
Being a derivative of Nebraska insures a rugged constitution and 
a hardiness of growth seldom found in any other tall yellow to date. 
This was specially evidenced by its remarkable performance in weather¬ 
ing thru the last two very trying winters in Minnesota. 
A limited stock, as yet, and the unusually heavy demand for it 
evidenced at the National Iris show in Nashville this May suggest 
that those wishing rhizomes of Lucrezia Bori rush in their orders early 
to avoid possible disappointment as we cannot fill orders after the 
limited supply is exhausted. Being originators and exclusive in¬ 
troducers this year it is only available of us. Price-$25.00 
Rainbow’s End 
Or the Journeys of An Iris Lover 
A breezily written review of Iris seen in the gardens of America’s foremost 
growers and fanciers in 1954, by Mr. Clint MeDade, of Chattanooga, member of 
The American Iris Society, The Iris Society (English), and Fellow of the Royal 
Horticulture Society. This work is of special interest because it is written with a 
wide knowledge of the subject and from an amateurs viewpoint—that is, with no 
commercial objective in mind. It includes many new ratings and other interesting 
observations. Regularly $1.00, it will be sent on receipt of 50c to those who men¬ 
tion seeing it listed in our Catalog. 
