OUR POLlCY«-AND NEW IRIS 
It has always been our policy to list the best, nothing but 
the best, and all of. the very best. In view of this policy, we 
did not hesitate to pay $100.00 for a single iris rhizome last 
season; and it is with this same thought in mind that we 
travel North, South, or East each year visiting iris gardens, 
searching for outstanding new varieties. 
Through our iris trips, and through recommendations we 
receive from outstanding critics in various sections of the 
country, we have seen to it that we have secured practically 
all of the truly outstanding iris. We are so arixious to limit 
our list to nothing but outstanding varieties that even after 
we purchase stock, it is our rule never to list an iris without 
first seeing it in bloom. As a result, every iris in our list is 
a top-notch variety. This is your assurance that you will 
get the greatest possible iris value when you purchase from 
our catalog. 
Thanks partly to our extensive travels in iris time, and 
partly to our extensive trials of new varieties, we again have 
an unusually fine set of new iris. Excluding our own set of 
new introductions, the following are, in our opinion, the very 
finest new iris of all: 
WHITES — Sierra Snow without doubt heads our list in its 
class. It was distinctly far ahead of one highly praised white 
we tried, but two others, ranked among the best, failed to 
bloom for us this season. However, it hardly seems possible 
that they can better Sierra Snow. Snow King takes first 
rank as the finest massing white. Mount Washington is the 
tallest and an all-around rival to Sierra Snow, Bridal Veil 
the daintiest, and Silent Waterfall the most distinctive. Easter 
Morn and Purissima are the best buys in California and else¬ 
where where the winters are mild, however — thanks to their 
much lower price, but their tenderness eliminates them from 
top rank in the East and Mid-West. 
CREAM AND LIGHT YELLOWS — Carved Ivory is a 
beauty, and William Carey Jones is kept from perfection only 
because its blooms tend to bunch. Snoqualmie and Elsa Sass, 
both on the borderline between cream and light yellow, are 
two of the finest iris grown. Happy Days, Song of Gold, 
and Eclador are the best of the light yellows. 
DEEPER YELLOWS — Golden Bear is very rich in tone, 
and has the clearest color of all. Sunburst is a soft deep 
yellow, very tall. California Gold, with its bold, vivid color¬ 
ing, is most brilliant, and Naranja is a distinct tone in yel¬ 
lows — clear yellow, faintly overlaid orange on the haft. No 
group of deeper yellows is complete, however, without Golden 
Majesty, deep glistening yellow, and probably the finest yel¬ 
low of all. Fair Elaine, I mention here, although it is in a 
class by itself. This new “break” in iris has clear creamy 
standards, and deep yellow falls, one of the finest iris we have 
ever introduced. 
COPPER TONES — Radiant, vivid coppery orange, and 
strictly a sensation wherever I saw it, stands as a real cham¬ 
pion. Copper Lustre is a most unusual iris, a true copper 
in color. Copper Piece, is a blend of coppery violet, and 
E. B. Williamson is a most attractive new color in iris — cop¬ 
pery red. Lighthouse, a huge iris of coppery rose, with yel¬ 
low heart, is a “knockout”. 
REDS — Among the bigger varieties, I rank Garden Magic 
as the best (since Red Velvet, our new introdi^tion is not 
considered here). Next, I would choose the blended red, 
Junaluska. The Red Douglas, too, is a fine iris, the bipest of 
all the reds. Of medium size. Charm qualifies as the most 
distinct of tone, having a pleasing strawberry hue. Setting 
Sun and Berkeley Fire are two others that are very bright. 
Piute, with its unusual, dusky coloring, is most outstanding, 
and it and Ouray, with its glowing ruby tone, head the list 
of small reds. 
BLUE VIOLET — This section I divide into two groups, the 
first being the veined type, headed by Ormohr, a real cham¬ 
pion and the boldest iris of all. Grace Mohr, and the deeper 
Mohrson are also fine (all three being William Mohr seed¬ 
lings). The second group has two headliners — William 
A. Setchell, probably the biggest iris of all, and Ethiop Queen, 
the new iris with a touch of rich, lustrous black. 
BLUES — Gloriole, Blue Triumph, and Exclusive are the 
best of the very pale blues; Shining Waters is a beauty in 
light blue, hampered only by a faint touch of tenderness, with 
Anitra nearly as beautiful, but hardier. Eleanor Blue is a 
slight shade deeper than these two, and not quite as tall, but 
is one of the best blues of all. Missouri and Sierra Blue are 
head and shoulders ahead of any other mid-blues; and Brun- 
hilde is alone among the cobalt-blues. 
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PINKS — Very much a new color, with Miss California a 
big advance. Morocco Rose is a fine pale orchid pink, and 
China Maid is good. There are good lavender pinks, of course, 
but they are not new. 
PLICATAS — Royal Coach, Bonanza, and Ruth Pollock, 
three new Sass varieties give us, at last, top-notch yellow 
plicatas. Orloff and Seduction are the two other plicatas that 
I place among the very best. 
VARIEGATAS — Showy and vivid. City of Lincoln still 
leads this group. Casque d’Or, deeper, Portola, lighter, are 
also fine. Frank Adams and Neon, near-variegatas, and Mar- 
quita, technically of this class, but actually cream with falls 
almost rose color, are also leaders. 
YELLOW BLENDS — Midwest Gem and Moonglo both 
rank as fine iris. 
MISCELLANEOUS — Flesh Blends include two beautiful 
iris in Matula and Portland; Bronzy-Gold finds Aida and Gold¬ 
en Amber as two fine new “breaks” to this new shade; Bron¬ 
zino is a fine new Bi-color Bronze; Monadnock is a fine, big, 
vivid Rose-red; with Amigo and Wabash easily the finest blue 
Amoenas. 
EDWARD SALBACH. 
For Fragrance 
For delightful fragrance, Bronzino, Frieda Mohr, Hidalgo, 
J. J. Dean, Mabel Taft, Meldoric, Miss California, Mount 
Washington, and Shining Waters head the list. Not far 
behind are: Alta California, Charm, Dauntless, Gloriole, Lady 
Paramount, Mata Hari, Persia, Piute, President Pilkington, 
Rosy Asia, Rubeo, San Francisco, Sierra Blue, Sir Michael, 
Tenaya, Tiger-Tiger, and Tioga. 
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