HILL IRIS INTRODUCTIONS FOR 1940 
We have been growing Irises here in Kansas for more than fifty years, starting 
with the best available at the time. Later we got nearly all the marvelous new 
Farr seedlings, and still later we secured the very earliest introductions from 
the Sass Gardens. A list of the old sorts we have grown would be a fairly complete 
ancient history of the Iris. 
For many years we have been pollenizing Irises and growing seedlings, but when 
we were on the point of introducing one that we considered especially outstanding 
we would see something better at the Sass Gardens on our annual pilgrimage 
there. We commenced concentration of some of the best Sass strains and our 
own choice seedlings from these. Our later crops of seedlings have seemed to 
us to show much improvement, and on this page we list a few we think worthy 
of comparison with the best we have. 
It takes two or three years’ trial to determine whether improvements in color, 
form, and especially in good garden performance, warrant the introduction of a 
seedling. This gives an opportunity for increase, and it will be our policy to 
price these introductions lower than seedlings introduced the first year after 
they bloom can be offered. 
Special prices on complete collections of the following seedlings will be quoted on 
request. 
FLORA CAMPBELL —The neat, well rounded and modestly extended falls are 
really glowing in intense warm tones of red-brown and peach. The standards 
are a little lighter in tone with a more hazy coloring. King Tut descendants are 
not noted for monstrous flowers or tall stems, but this one exhibits real 
quality - $ 10.00 
JAYHAWK —This is just a good bright red-purple that gives nicely balanced 
flowers, large and well proportioned -- $ 1.00 
KANSAS INGLES IDE —A warm toned red self _ $5.00 
KANSAS SUNRISE —A bright toned variegata blend displaying the good qualities 
of its parents, King Tut and King Midas _ $10.00 
GOLDEN COCKEREL (Whiting-Hill 1940)—Last year in the Whiting Gardens 
we were especially attracted by the many fine yellows. This is a bright yellow 
self of good form and a strong growing plant - $15.00 
LADY DAINTY —A fine silvery toned white that seems to fill a definite need in a 
white that will bloom freely every season __ $5.00 
LOVELY DAY —Well branched with large blooms of splendid proportions, opens 
a very pale sky blue and turns cool white -- $5.00 
ONE LITTLE INDIAN —We have succeeded in getting a number of seedlings 
from crosses with the tiny dwarf Arenaria. These seedlings seem to promise better 
real midgets, badly needed in dwarfs, but this one is of a little taller dwarf type, 
a very neat dark red self __ $ 2.00 
Seedling No. 1 Pink (Name not yet registered, will be announced later)—A tall, 
rather deep pink that grows up to 45 inches and often has five blooms open at 
one time. It has less of the blue and orchid tones found in most pinks. The color 
tone is on the order of that found in the falls of Rameses - $10.00 
