TEN CHEAP AND BEAUTIFUL IRIS COLLECTIONS 
Please study these over and see which ones 
meet your requirements. Plants are cheaper in 
a collection because it is more economical to 
dig that way. In digging collections we often 
dig a hundred collections at a time—take them 
to the warehouse and pack them. But for 
single orders we must take a basket and spade 
and travel over the fields—and it is the work 
that counts up. So if you can find what pleases 
you in the following collections, well and good, 
but if not then order from the general list of 
varieties and all your wants will be carefully 
looked after and in either case you place us 
under obligations to you. Our whole effort is 
to furnish you lots of beauty for little money 
and get you to tell your friends about us. 
NIGHTINGALE IRIS COLLECTION ONLY 50c 
At our Iris show in May the Nightingale of 
Illinois sang your old familiar songs—Silver 
Threads Among the Gold, When You and I 
Were Young, My Old. Kentucky Home and 
Carry Me Back to Old Virginia, and she was 
dressed in Pink and Lavender with a splash of 
Red around the throat. Sweet beyond words 
and 2500 people arose as one man and carried 
away, silently and sacredly, emotions that make 
for the better things in life. She sang amidst 
10,000 stalks of Otwell Iris blooms beautifully 
arranged by forty women of my town. I scarce 
expect to see or hear again such loveliness and 
such pathos and surely in the songs and in the 
flowers God transforms both you and me. 
To commemorate this panorama of beauty, I 
am bringing to you my sweetest and cheapest 
Iris Collection. Three large, very, very fra¬ 
grant, Magenta Reds (my favorite Red) ; three 
large, tall, fragrant, fifty-cent Pink Lavenders— 
voted by five hundred visitors the most beau¬ 
tiful Iris in our entire fields. Then I am 
putting in two beautiful black Crimsons in 
appreciation of your promptness and prepaying 
this to you for only fifty cents, or three collec¬ 
tions for a dollar bill. And when they come, 
plant them with your own bare hands where 
the sun can kiss them into loveliness and fra¬ 
grance and as you love them and talk to them 
you, too, will become more beautiful as the 
years pass by. 
This is the sweetest and the cheapest little 
assortment that I have ever offered you from 
my fields of a million Irises. I doubt if there 
is an Iris collection in the United States that 
will find its way into more hearts and homes 
this summer than the Nightingale. Fifty thou¬ 
sand people visited us last May. Won't you 
come next time? WILL B. OTWELL. 
Number 2—$1.50. Fifteen beautiful varie¬ 
ties. All different. All labeled. Also 2 Red 
Irises for prompt orders. Four plants of My 
Favorite Iris—20 in all—$4.00 worth of plants 
—Parcel post prepaid anywhere in the United 
States for $1.50. This and other unusual offers 
are made possible because we have a million 
plants and this collection shows you what a 
lot of value you can get for a little money. 
Friendship Collection — $1.00. 4 Beautiful 
White and Violet, 4 large, fragrant Magenta 
Reds, 4 stately Blues, also 1 Rosy Gem for 
prompt orders. Prepaid to you for only $1.00. 
Rosy Gem Collection—$1.00. 3 Sweet Rosy 
Gem, 3 large, tall, fragrant Lavender—(The 
highest scoring Iris in the United States)—3 
beautiful Yellow, 3 large, very, very fragrant 
Magenta Reds. Also 1 exquisite Iris (my selec¬ 
tion) for prompt orders. Prepaid only a dollar 
bill. 
White Collection—$1.00. 4 Different varie¬ 
ties of 3 each—(12). All very fragrant. Also 
1 Red Iris for prompt orders—only. $1.00. 
Plenty of white brings out the other colors. 
Collection Super b—$2.00. 2 Reds, 2 Laven¬ 
der, 2 White and Pink, 2 Sweet Rosy Gem, 
2 White and Violet, 2 pretty Yellow, 2 Beau¬ 
tiful Monsignor, 2 Quaker Lady, 1 sweet Cat- 
telya Rose Iris for prompt orders. I call it 
superb because there is nothing nicer and more 
beautiful in our entire nursery. This collection 
is heaped up, pressed down and running over 
with iridescent loveliness. You can’t help but 
love it—sent to you prepaid for only $2.00. 
Birthday Collection—$2.00. Everybody has 
a birthday and this collection is arranged to 
make you happy. Three Magenta red Caprice 
(Improved), three Quaker Lady, three Rhein 
Nixe, three Yellow, three Fairy (white), three 
Darius, three Rosy Gem. Plant this where all 
the neighbors can see it. Only $2.00, postpaid. 
Number 10 Collection—$5.00. I have saved 
the biggest collection until the last. 100 choice 
Irises, 10 different varieties. Cheap doesn’t 
mean quality but price. Only first-class stork 
sent out at any price. This huge assortment 
is meant for tnose who have plenty of ground 
and want lots of color in a short time. You 
will be delighted with this Number 10 Collec¬ 
tion. Postpaid only $5.00. 
P.S. —Whatever else you call for, be sure to 
plant at least one Sweet Nightingale in the 
sunniest spot of ground you have. Address 
Otwell Iris Fields, Carlinville, Ill. 
Many, many delegations visit the Otwell Iris Fields in May. 
Here is a delegation of the choicest people from White Hall, Illinois, getting ready to eat dinner 
in the front yard. Fifty of them came together, ate together, viewed the fields together, and went 
away in a solid delegation. They are coming one hundred strong next time. 
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