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Looking Ahead 
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tan with rich red maroon falls; Pres. Lebrun, a bright coppery red 
type. Sir Launcelot has a color that outshines any other single Iris— 
A "barn-afire” red chestnut, a most striking color from King Tut 
line. TJkjah is a rich mahogany, solidly colored with dusty tan, with 
rich wine stands. I believe it could be easily pictured as a vastly im¬ 
proved Peerless of easy growth. This fine Iris is derived from Mrs. V. 
West and Modoc. Jeb Stuart with its oval form and flaring falls, is 
one of our very finest brown Iris. It is rich and solidly colored with¬ 
out venation of any sort. Copper Lustre is most unusual, a copper 
crystaline coloring on a soft background very distinctly copper in tone. 
Much interest and attention has been focused on the production 
of yellow Iris, with the result that great strides have been made in 
creating many fine Iris in the color. It has been my good fortune to 
see a great number of the newest of these types. As yet the Sass 
Brothers have not offered their new yellow, but this last year they 
had several fine seedlings in bloom. Without a doubt the two Iris 
causing more anticipation are the two California varieties we have on 
test here; Happy Days, large flowered, fully the size of El Capitan, a 
bright medium golden yellow, falls clear and especially iridescent, the 
color really gorgeous; the other, Mr. White’s Lady Paramount, another 
fine large type of good form and plant habit, softer yellow in tone— 
between primrose and empire yellow—it will be interesting to see if 
they do well here; if they do they will undoubtedly rank very high. 
Robert is Dr. Ayres addition—a soft golden yellow with soft 
blue flush on the fall, well thought of in its home locality. Sunmist 
sounds very interesting—a cream with a golden heart and beard. Dore 
by Jacob Sass and Sylvia Lent by Mr. Shull represent new types of 
coloring with yellow stands and white falls—these colors are soft and 
for practical effect, give the garden a note of soft cream, leading 
us to believe that some day we may have some Iris colorings similar to 
the daffodils. The novel color here is soft, but a deeper yellow 
standard would be most stunning. These are a real break in color 
accomplishment and will no doubt exert some influence in giving us 
some colors previously missing. We are of course still scouting for 
the ideal dark yellow—perhaps it’s around the corner. The possession 
of such a deep golden color for the garden would, indeed, give us some 
rich garden effects. 
A new range of colors which we can confidently expect to arrive 
very soon, are the yellow ground plicatas. The combination of red- 
brown stippling on a yellow ground was a goal about which the em- 
ient breeder, Mr. Arthur Bliss, spoke a great deal. I saw the arrival 
of the first few types approaching this ideal in Prof. Mitchell’s garden 
at Berkeley in 1934, and another series at both gardens of the Sass 
brothers. The future for these looks bright and exciting. I also have 
reports of Mr. Long in England, getting some seedlings that are of this 
same color range. We await further word of them with extreme in¬ 
terest. 
The variegata or yellow bicolor class with deeply colored falls 
has also witnessed remarkable progress. Vision heads the list. The 
gorgeous colorings of El Tovar are indeed rich; a combination of the 
yellow stands of the former and the falls of the latter would be a 
sensation. Mirador is recommended as having very desirable height, 
taller than others of this coloring; Lady Morvyth looked most promis¬ 
ing, a clear color and large—a seedling of Romola. Plurabelle is Mons. 
Cayeux’s offering of this coloring. 
In pure whites the primary aims have been to give us an Iris of 
hardiness and vigor with the color and manner of growth of Purissima. 
I do believe Crystal Beauty and Venus De Milo are a long way along 
the road. For color and magnificence, Gudrun, a sparkling white, 
