AN IRIS LOVER’S CATALOG 
17 
LIGHT BLUES (2A) 
Light Blue Selfs 
Originator 
Year 
Height 
Variety 
Price 
Performance 
Season 
Mohr-Mitchell. 
. 1926 
T 
EL CAPITAN 
.25 
B 
M 
Cumbler. 
. 1926 
M 
MARY BARNETT□. 
.20 
AA 
EM 
Essig. 
. 1929 
M 
PACIFIC 
.35 
A 
E 
M 
PALLIDA FOLIOSA VARIEGATA. 
.25 
B 
EM 
Millet. 
.1930 
T 
PAULETTE. 
1.00 
B 
M 
Barr. 
.1898 
T 
PRINCESS BEATRICE □. 
.25 
B 
ML 
Mohr-Mitchell. 
. 1925 
T 
SANTA BARBARA f. 
.20 
B 
EM 
Cayeux. 
. 1925 
T 
SENSATION □ . 
.35 
A 
ML 
Essig. 
. 1933 
T 
SHINING WATERS f 
2.00 
D 
M 
Millet. 
. 1923 
T 
SOUV. DE L. MICHAUD Dt. 
.25 
D 
M 
Light Blue Bicolors 
Vilmorin. 
. 1920 
T 
BALLERINE □. 
.20 
C 
L 
Buechley. 
. 1932 
T 
BUECHLEY’S GIANT. 
.75 
A 
ML 
Kirkland. 
.1931 
M 
SUMMER CLOUD. 
.60 
B 
M 
Palest Blues 
Denis. 
.1921 
T 
ANDRE AUTISSIER. 
.25 
B 
VL 
Grinter. 
.1932 
T 
BLUE TRIUMPH 
10.00 
A 
ML 
Millet. 
.1931 
L 
MARION. 
2.00 
B 
ML 
Dykes, K. 
.1929 
M 
PRIESTESS. 
.35 
B 
M 
Trial Variety 
Gloriole.$12.00 
Given: a perfect, windstill morning in early June; a gen¬ 
erous planting of the finest new iris where hundreds, perhaps 
thousands, of dewy blooms are freshly opened to the sun, 
and you have a morning serenade of iris beauty that brings 
to any garden lover one of the peak thrills of the year. In 
such a matutinal ecstacy of color one cannot help notice 
that the dominant note is carried by the blues. Yet, because 
there have always been plenty of relatively good blues 
when other color classes were weak or non-existent, we are 
likely to become absorbed today in these new color crea¬ 
tions, forgetting that the chief glory of the iris remains its 
lavish endowment of blue pigmentation — something un¬ 
duplicated anywhere else in the floral world, where blue is, 
indeed, the rarest of all hues. 
Ranking as one of the finest light blues is Sensation, a 
flaring type of a delightfully cool, crisp, pure tone of corn¬ 
flower blue. Different in form is majestic El Capitan, a 
slightly languid flower of soft lavender-blue coloring and 
unbeatable candelabrum branching. A newcomer that 
should come close to being a perfect landscape iris is halcyon 
Shining Waters. A companion iris to the 1935 Dykes Medal 
winner, Sierra Blue (of medium tone), Shining Waters ap¬ 
peals to us personally the more strongly of the two. Its 
profuse blooms, carried with splendid poise, are an exqui¬ 
sitely pure blue and of the finest enamelled'texture. Summer 
Cloud is a lovely soft bicolor of cloud and sky blue set off 
by a lemon beard. Paulette, pictured on page 10, is a blue- 
lavender giant of fine tone and finish. Blue Triumph, a 
recent acquisition, is a soft blue that ranks high. Much 
worthwhile is the remarkably pure Pacific. 
In unusual tones of blue we have the cool Priestess, por¬ 
celain blue. Coyly charming in both form and color is 
Marion, a delicate silvery blue. In Buechley’s Giant we have 
a vast improvement over the old Lord of June in color, size, 
and texture. 
Several very appealing blues that have stood the test of 
time are the fluted petaled Ballerine, a soft lavender blue, 
slightly a bicolor; Princess Beatrice of lovely grace and 
habit; queenly, iridiscent Souv. de L. Michaud; strongly 
flaring Santa Barbara (whose slight tenderness excludes it 
from the First Hundred). ... A novelty that should be 
in every collection is the blue iris with variegated silver 
foliage like “ribbon-grass”: Pallida Foliosa Variegata . . . 
Mary Barnett, pale blue with orange beard, and Andre 
Autissier, a fine late-blooming sky-blue are still valuable. 
. . . On trial we have the crystal, ice-blue Gloriole. 
MEDIUM BLUES.(2B) 
Originator 
Year 
Height 
Stern. 
.1934 
T 
Essig. 
.1931 
T 
Sass, J. 
.1933 
T 
Sturtevant. 
.1928 
L 
Salbach. 
.1933 
M 
Ayres. 
.1934 
M 
Mohr-Mitchell. 
.1929 
T 
Essig. 
.1932 
T 
Dykes. 
.1923 
M 
Kirkland. 
.1929 
M 
Wallace. 
.1927 
M 
Yeld. 
.1924 
T 
Grinter. 
.1933 
T 
Medium Blue Selfs 
Variety 
BLUE & GOLD. . 
BLUE MONARCH 
BONNIE BLUE. 
ELEANOR BLUE. . 
INDIGO BUNTING 
SAN DIEGO f. 
SIERRA BLUE 
WEDGEWOOD. 
Medium Blue Bicolors 
BLUE BANNER. . . 
CYDNUS. 
DUCHESS SARAH. 
MISSOURI 
A rich, glorious blue of superb form and substance is the 
giant Missouri. Aline, pictured on page 28, is the nearest 
of all iris to true azure. From California we have the Dykes 
Medal winner for 1935, Sierra Blue — an excellent medium- 
Price 
Performance 
Season 
5.00 
A 
ML 
.35 
B 
EM 
3.00 
A- 
ML 
.25 
AA 
E 
2.00 
A 
M 
4.00 
AA 
M 
.50 
B 
EM 
3.00 
A 
L 
.25 
A 
M 
.25 
AA 
L 
1.00 
A 
ML 
.50 
C 
M 
5.00 
A 
M 
clean- 
-cut form. In an 
earlier 
part of this catalog we pictured Cydnus, one of the most 
satisfactory of the blue bicolors. Indigo Bunting is ideal for 
landscaping, being a fine self-color of unusual carrying power. 
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