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"Art Iris Lover’s Catalog” 
Mauve Iris 
Section 3 A Mauve and Mauve Blends (Cont.) 
grey to flax blue with harmonious beard and fine branching stem. The 
color is most unusual. 
Fragonard, a tone of mauve-rose, or old-rose, a slight bicolor, is 
also very distinctive. Rhea, a most pleasing combination of mauve- 
pink and some light yellow is an improved Isoline. It is very smooth 
with enamel like texture. William Mohr is most outstanding and unique 
in the Iris world. The complete flower is veined and dotted on a light 
mauve-pink ground. The size is huge, the form extraordinarily round¬ 
ed. It likes a warm, sunny spot with sharp drainage. It is a constant 
center of attention and its elegance is commandingly displayed in the 
garden. 
Group 3—Blended Mauves 
Remember the old Quaker Lady? Though the prototype of this 
group in color is found here, what tremendous progress men of the 
Iris fraternity have made in developing fine specimens. In this group 
we now have some striking Iris. Anne Marie Cayeux is exquisite and 
enrapturing. Flowers of fine form and substance of a leathery feel 
are merely two of its fine points. It is a most novel heliotrope, pink, 
and blue with metallic lustre. Another super Iris is finely formed 
Dolly Madison of good size and fine substance; mauvette shading to 
cinnamon and yellow with a bright orange beard. Larger in size is 
Pres. Pilkington, a pastel blend: pale buff with bluish rose infusion. 
The lavender falls which are wide flaring are not rounded, but elongated 
and large, like El Capitan. The golden suffusion and golden beard 
are also feature points in this beautiful Iris. It does not fade and is 
very fine in its class. Rose Ash, as the name implies, is a most striking 
blend of rose and lavender. One of our finest soft blends and a finely 
finished Iris is Rameses: a blend of very soft apricot, pink-buff, and 
blue. The flowers have fine substance and the plant has fine growing 
habits. A series very much lighter—really lavender blends—are Or¬ 
ient Pearl, a most daintily colored Iris, a soft combination of pearl, 
mauve, pink, and soft cream—a very delicate combination; Candle¬ 
light whose glowing heart and beard illuminate the flower entrancing- 
ly, and Desert Dawn, which has a larger flower than the preceding, 
with more yellow and more blue lavender. 
Section 2B Group 2—Medium Blue Bi-Colors 
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Our three Super Iris in this class are most distinctive. We believe 
Missouri is Mr. Grinter’s very finest Iris to date. I have observed this 
Iris closely and consider it one of the finest of any to bloom in the 
1933 group of offerings. I believe it should rate high as a contestant 
for the Dykes Medal. It has excellent form and substance—a rich 
medium blue tone with handsome, deeper blue flush on the modified 
flaring falls—a yellow gold beard and mellow brown haft. The second 
— Cydnus, is a finely formed flower of the Dominion race. In color¬ 
ing it is of the B. Y. Morrison type, but clearer and more blue with 
deep velvety falls. It is our finest sharply contrasting bicolor. The 
third Super Iris is a blended bicolor, Persia, smoky blue standards with 
rich purple falls making it most unique and interesting. 
Blue Banner, that cheery, charming bit of color is a brightly con¬ 
trasting bicolor of unusual blueness and brilliancy. It carries itself 
jauntily and is very distinctive. Henchman is a darker, larger type. 
Standards are a clear blue and falls a deep violet-purple. A most 
unique feature is the complete margining of the standards with the 
deep violet tone found in the falls. Duchess Sarah, an upstanding 
medium blue bicolor with pleasing hazel-brown haft and a tall nicely 
branched stem. The blue of Fortunio is infused with deeper lilac on 
its distinctly horizontal falls. 
