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RIS 
May be planted any month in the year, but do best when planted during 
JUNE, JULY, AUGUST and SEPTEMBER. 
ORDER NOW ! 
1. We prepay all postage. Our list price is 
final cost to you. We are the pioneer Iris grow¬ 
ers of the Pacific Northwest. 
2. Roots may be shipped as satisfactorily 
3,000 miles as 100. We have customers in every 
state who order from us yearly. Seventy-five 
per cent of our business comes from east of the 
Mississippi river. 
3. Plants from our gardens are now grow¬ 
ing in every state in this country, in every prov¬ 
ince of Canada, Alaska, Cuba, Bermuda Isl¬ 
ands, Mexico, Hawaii, New Zealand, Aus¬ 
tralia, Siam, China, Sicily, Italy, England, 
and France. 
4. Our plants are unusually large and bloom 
the first year after moving. 
5. Our prices are the lowest to be found; 
varieties offered are the best; inferior varieties 
have been discarded from our gardens. 
6. Our plants are state inspected and free 
from disease. 
7. We do not irrigate; our roots are un¬ 
usually hardy; they are immune to root rot. 
8. All testimonials printed herein came un¬ 
solicited. We have hundreds of others on file. 
Most of our customers re-order yearly. 
9. Please send us a trial order so that we 
may prove to you the superiority of our roots. 
NO ORDER ACCEPTED FOR 
LESS THAN $1.00 
WHAT ENTHUSIASTIC CUSTOMERS SAY 
Here is a late autumn letter received from Ralph E. 
Woodrow of Ohio. It is typical of many letters we receive 
throughout the year. 
Gentlemen: 
Received your shipment of Japanese Iris yesterday and 
planted them immediately. If these fail to grow, it will 
not be because they were not good plants. I certainly am 
ivell pleased. 
The Iris received earlier in the season were fine, and 
the Oriental Poppies good. The latter are now coming 
through the ground and I am hoping they will do as well as 
the ones planted last year, as all bloomed but one out of 
the twenty you sent me. 
1 like your stock. Don’t forget to send me your next 
catalog. 
A letter written in late summer received from Ella M. 
Bowie of Verdun, Quebec, reads: 
1 thought you perhaps would be interested to know that 
the Iris collection I purchased from you arrived here at 
the end of their long journey in quite good condition, and 
a week after being planted were growing splendidly. They 
were real fine plants and so healthy. I was more than 
pleased with them, and with the value for the money. 
Thank you. 
In the spring we received the following from Mrs. 
Eugene P. Thomas of New Jersey, which is similar to 
hundreds of others we receive yearly from customers on the 
Atlantic seaboard: 
Dear Sirs: 
Kindly send me your new catalog of Iris. You may be 
interested to know that I have not lost a single Iris from 
the dozens of varieties purchased from you. I have not 
been as successful with those obtained nearer home. 
From Peiping, China, a customer writes: 
The Irises came in this morning, and I find them to be 
in excellent condition. This is also true about the former 
two shipments sent to me and the one sent to a neighbor. 
NATIONAL IRIS GARDENS, BEAVERTON, OREGON 
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