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The Dean Iris Cardens , Moneta , California 
GENERAL INFORMATION 
1CCASIONALLY we have had customers who at first have not been 
entirely successful in results, and by correspondence we have been 
enabled to assist in arriving at the cause. Please let us know if your 
plants do not give entire satisfaction, stating location, soil and treatment 
given. Cultural directions are sent with plants or bulbs ordered of us if re¬ 
quested. 
The best time for planting the Bearded Irises is without doubt the 
month of August, although the following months are also a good time. They 
can be planted any month in the year with us, provided one is willing to 
disturb their plants when they are making flowering stems. 
Of the other species, most of them do best planted in September and 
October, a very few doing better planted in the Spring, when new growth is 
about to begin. All of the Oncocyclus and Regelia, also the bulbous species, 
should be planted in the Fall of the year. 
To any customers in colder climates than ours, we would say you need 
not hesitate to plant any of the varieties in the Pogoniris or Apogon Sec¬ 
tions. Some of the others would require some protection during the severe 
winter weather if planted outside. 
Additions to stock of new introductions are frequently made, also as 
stock of some varieties increase, quotations can be reduced, and thus for 
these and various other reasons, prices are not included in catalogue, but is¬ 
sued in separate list to admit of more frequent changes. 
A copy of this catalogue is mailed free to all our customers—to others 
we make a charge of 1 5 cents. The color plate alone is well worth the price. 
Price list is furnished free; extra copies on application. Please preserve this 
catalogue for future reference. Copies of color plate at 1 0 cents each. 
A valuable and instructive book on IRISES by Dykes, an English au¬ 
thor, has recently been published. It is a well bound book, in board covers, 
of some 100 pages, and contains eight excellent full-page color plates. It 
contains much more information than can be embodied in a catalogue. If 
your bookseller cannot furnish it, we will send a copy for 85 cents, postpaid. 
Our cuts do not represent the actual size of the flowers. I. Susiana, for 
example, is a very large flower, four to six times as large as represented. 
IMPORTANT NOTICE.—We exercise due care to keep all varieties 
TRUE to name, and hold ourselves in readiness at any time to replace, on 
proper proof, any stock that may prove otherwise; but it is mutually agreed 
between the purchaser and ourselves that we shall not at any time be liable 
for any amount greater than the original price of the stock. All sales made 
subject to stock being unsold when order is received, or loss by any and all 
unavoidable causes. 
