AN IRIS LOVER’S CATALOG 
SAN FRANCISCO (Mohr-Mitchell 1927) ML. 38". 
A sister of Los Angeles with heavier marginings of blue 
on a white ground. This variety often earries several fine 
large blooms open at a time. One of the finest plieatas. 
25c 
CITY OF LINCOLN 
SEDUCTION (Cayeux 1933) M. 38". 
Daintiest of the plieatas, with an ivory-white ground 
faintly stitched and polka-dotted an exquisite lavender. 
Flowers are large and beautifully formed. $1.50 
SENSATION (Cayeux 1925) ML. 36". 
The cornflower-blue iris. This variety has petal substance 
which is stiff and leathery even to the touch. Renowned 
for its beauty and smartness of style, in which it is sur¬ 
passed only by such recent acquisitions as Missouri and 
Sierra Blue. 25c 
SERENITE (Cayeux 1931) ML. 38". 
This bewitching blend is a medley of blue and gold. Falls, 
wide and flaring, are a bright pastel blue with inlays and 
sparklings of pale crystalline yellow toward the golden- 
bearded haft. Standards are a shimmering silvery blue 
warming to a gleaming haze of platinum motes toward the 
margins. This never-to-be-forgotten iris has amazing sub¬ 
stance, fine size and height, and oddly crinkled petals. 
35c; 3 for 75c 
SHAH JEHAN (Neel 1932) L. 38". 
I his unique new iris which Schreiner’s Iris Gardens have 
popularized in America has now become one of the dozen 
or so irises by whose presence the up-to-dateness of an iris 
collection is judged. In our estimation it is one of the most 
nearly indispensable of all irises. In color it is certainly the 
most sensational of all novelties. Named for that lavish 
emperor of India who ruled three centuries ago from the 
famous Peacock Throne, Shah Jehan is itself an extrava¬ 
ganza of color containing no less than seven distinctly 
different hues. The standards are a delicate creamy-buff 
faintly edged lavender; the falls are rich and magnificent, 
quickly blending from a light fawn at the haft to a glowing 
copper, then to a rich deep chestnut. This in turn changes 
to a gorgeous tone of lustrous velvety purple — the dominant 
color of the falls. Imperceptibly this rich purple changes 
to a softer plum or magenta and this finally to a lavender 
edge which repeats the margining of the standards. The 
beard is of the richest orange. The entire effect, for all the 
extraordinary range of color is subtly harmonious and in¬ 
veigling. If you have not yet added this outstanding iris 
to your collection, do not fail to include it this season. 
30c; 3 for 55c 
SHASTA (Mohr-Mitchell 1927) EM. 36". 
This hardy white introduced at the same time as 
Purissima has firmly entrenched itself in our affections. 
Quite snowy save for the faintest suggestion of a pink 
underglow, its ease of growth and general ruggedness 
ol constitution mark it as a meritorious iris. 25c 
SHINING WATERS (Essig 1933) M. 36". 
Still as a mountain lake at sundown, reflecting an un¬ 
clouded blue, is the halcyon sheen of this exquisite iris. 
The blooms, carried on tall, well-branched stems, are won¬ 
derfully symmetrical and alluring. Among the loveliest of 
all blue iris, and worthy of the extra protection its slight 
tenderness may require. 50c 
SHIRVAN (Loomis 1932) ML. 33". 
Like an oriental rug for richness is this glowing mahogany 
brown. Standards sumptuous, silky golden-brown; falls 
velvety red-brown broadly margined the color of the stand¬ 
ards. A high class iris with a quiet haft. 35c 
