PUDOR'S, INC., PUYALLUP, WASHINGTON 
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GORGEOUS JAPANESE IRIS 
Our Own Re-Selected Seedlings 
Order by Number 
“Those Japanese Irises you sent me last year are the most gor¬ 
geously beautiful things we have ever had in our garden. I want 
five more dozen.’’ Thus writes a customer. 
No. 5. 
No. 30. 
No. 40. 
No. 60. 
No. 80. 
No. 90. 
No. 130. 
No. 150. 
No. 160. 
No. 180. 
No. 190. 
No. 200. 
No. 220. 
No. 270. 
No. 290. 
A double, five petaled rich purple with yellow center. 
Large wine-red, with yellow center. Three large petals. 
A very fine and very large three-petaled blue variety. 
A 3-petaled pale lavender with deep purple veining; very 
beautiful. 
A very large pure lilac 3-petaled variety with a white radi¬ 
ating center; very free bloomer. 
A beautiful 6-petaled double variety of rich velvety purple 
with a yellow radiating center; a gorgeous thing. 
A beautiful double 6-petaled variety; pansy-violet without 
any veining in the petals. 
A beautiful 3-petaled white variety with blue veining and 
very prominent upright standing standards. 
A beautiful, double variety with six petals on a deep wine- 
red on white ground with a yellow, radiating center. 
A lovely 3-petaled pure violet. 
A very rich royal purple with three large petals. 
A 3-petaled rich crimson velvety purple; a wonderful color. 
An extra tall free bloomer, three immense petals of a deep 
blue heavily veined on a white ground with yellow cen¬ 
ters. 
A lovely blue color, but seems a shy bloomer; possibly not 
in your garden. 
A double five petaled blue and white with a yellow center. 
JAPANESE NAMED VARIETIES 
KOKO-NO-IRO. A very large, double, purple with a contrasting, 
' yellow center. 
KURO KUMO. Double deep purple, overlaid with blue. 
SHI RATA Kl. Very tall, broad fluted white petals with a golden 
band in the center; a wonderful pure white flower. 
JAPANESE IRISES will thrive in any part of the United States; 
they are hardy and much more beautiful than the Germanica 
group. If you have never grown them, you have missed a lot. 
They are fine for cut flowers. You can plant them in the early 
spring or in the fall with equal success. 
PRICES: Any of the above, SMALL DIVISIONS that should bloom 
same season, 35c each, $3.50 per doz., postpaid, East of the Rock¬ 
ies, Texas and Southern California. The same size West of the 
Rockies, inci. Northern California, 25c each and $2.50 per doz., 
postpaid. But we advise EXPRESS SHIPMENTS, you paying the 
charges; larger clumps weigh more and we could not afford to 
pay the postage on these and make anything, unless you are 
willing to pay 50c each for these larger clumps, but by EXPRESS 
we will send them for 35c each or $3.50 per doz. Your own selec¬ 
tion. Please be explicit as to prices and manner of shipment. 
JAPANESE IRIS SEEDS 
These Irises are very easily raised from seeds and, unlike German 
Iris seeds, they germinate well and quickly. Fall-sown seeds will 
give you nice plants by spring and some of these will bloom the 
second autumn; all will bloom the second year. Spring-sown seeds 
will give you large blooming sized clumps the following year. Rais¬ 
ing these beautiful Iris seeds, never knowing what wonderful prizes 
you will draw, is a most charming and fascinating garden game. 
If you have never raised Japanese Iris, try it by all means. 
BEST SELECTED SEEDS, /s oz. 35c; oz. 60c; oz. $2.00; pkt. 15c. 
In some years our seed crop is short or fails entirely, when we 
have to import our seeds from Japan. These do not arrive here 
until after Christmas; hence you cannot get your seeds until Janu¬ 
ary, but usually we have plenty of seeds of our own raising by 
November. 
NOTICE—New seeds do not mature until late in the fall. We 
send them out as soon as ready. 
JAPANESE IRIS CULTURE 
Reginald Farrer says that there is nothing in the garden like 
Japanese Iris for arrogance, subtlety and sheer insolence of beauty. 
This is precisely the effect conveyed when one sees Japanese Irises in 
large masses. When a few plants are found on the banks of a stream, 
they have more of piquancy and less of boldness. They are the most 
striking flowers of July, and not so difficult to grow as the average 
gardener supposes. 
It is not true that Japanese Irises must have bogland or even 
water in which to bathe their roots. They love moisture, but will 
flourish in any good garden soil if water is applied in abundance and 
if the exposure is sunny. The latter point is important. It is useless 
trying to grow Japanese Irises in a shady spot. Sunlight and moisture 
are the two requisites for success with these plants. 
The best time to set out Irises of this type or to divide and trans¬ 
plant those already in the garden is in late July or early August. 
Orders for new plants should be put in immediately. Let it be 
remembered that this type of Iris takes an entirely different treat¬ 
ment from the Bearded Iris. Instead of being planted almost on the 
surface of the ground, the crowns should be buried two inches. 
Peat can be added to advantage to soil where Japanese Irises are 
to go. Unlike the bearded Irises, which delight in lime, the Japan¬ 
ese forms prefer a soil which is somewhat acid. Lime should never 
be used with them. It is also important that the ground be kept 
well cultivated, never being allowed to become hard or dry. A sum¬ 
mer mulch of pulverized peat lessens the amount of hoeing neces¬ 
sary and helps to hold the moisture. 
The location should be one where the drainage is good, even 
though it be close by a pond. These Irises like to have their roots 
reach water in summer, but stagnant water must not stand around 
the clumps, and it is imperative that they should not be caked over 
with ice in winter. 
Japanese Irises must have plenty of room, and must never have 
competition from weeds or grass. If they are used in a general 
garden away from water, a spot should be prepared for them by 
digging out a foot of earth, and working in an abundance of well- 
rotted cow manure. If the earth is at all heavy, set the divided 
clump on a little mound of sand. When winter comes a light mulch 
will be needed. 
There is only one way in which to get an abundance of large 
flowers, and that is to supply water with a generous hand during 
the spring before the buds open. Water and water alone will make 
big blooms. In gardens where the situation is unusually favorable, 
the Japanese plants are sometimes entirely submerged once or twice 
in the spring, the water being drained off after a day or two. 
