AN IRIS LOVER’S CATALOG 
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SALUTATION (David Hall 1938) E. 33". 
A charmingly ruffled light yellow that blooms with the 
late intermediates. I'he earliest of the large flowered yel¬ 
lows. $5.00; 3 for $12.00 
SAMBA-DIOUF (Cayeux 1931) M. 38". 
A giant deep blue-violet self with a splendid silky sheen. 
Very large and arresting in the garden. 35c; 3 for 75c 
SANDALWOOD (H. Sass 1937) M. 34". 
A new pale bronze of excellent form and unrivalled silky 
sheen. It might be called an improved Jean Cayeux. Des¬ 
tined to be a popular iris. $2.00; 3 for $5.00 
SANDIA (Williamson 1934) EM. 38". 
A sturdy medium pink, lightly blended, extra heavy sub¬ 
stance. Dclieate shadings of the various tints make the 
flower most appealing. One of the most popular of its type. 
Stems are very well branched, flowers are good sized; very 
weather resistant, nieely rounded form. 50c 
SAN DIEGO (Mohr-Mitchell 1929) EM. 40". 
One of the finest medium-dark blues, standing in eolor 
halfway between such medium blues as Missouri and such 
deep blue-violets as Mrs. J. L. Gibson. A gigantic iris of 
heavy substanee and fine flaring form. Tall and vigorous. 
25c; 3 for 50c 
SAN FRANCISCO (Mohr-Mitchell 1927) ML. 38". 
A sister of Los Angeles with heavier marginings of blue 
on a white ground. This variety often carries several fine 
large blooms open at a time. One of the finest plicatas. 
25c; 3 for 50c 
SEDUCTION (Cayeux 1933) M. 38". 
Daintiest of the plicatas, with an ivory-white ground 
faintly stitched and polka-dotted an exquisite lavender. 
Flowers are large and beautifully formed. 
$1.00; 3 for $2.50 
SENSATION (Cayeux 1925) ML. 36". 
4 he eornfiower-blue iris. This variety has petal substance 
whieh 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 aequisitions as Missouri and 
Sierra Blue. 25c; 3 for 50c 
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. 
25c; 3 for 50c 
SETTING SUN (Kirkland 1937) M. 36". 
One of Dr. Kirkland’s finest bright reds. A coppery red 
very much of a self. The blooms are long in form with 
pointed standards and hanging falls. Well branched and 
well substanced, a telling color in the garden. $7.50 
SHAH JEHAN (Neel 1932) L. 38". 
This unique new iris which Schreiner’s Iris Gardens have 
popularized in Ameriea has now beeome one of the dozen 
of so irises by whose presenee 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 delieate creamy-buff 
faintly edged lavender; the falls are rieh and magnificent, 
quickly blending from a light fawn at the haft to a glowing 
eopper, then to a rieh deep ehestnut. This in turn ehanges 
to a gorgeous tone of lustrous velvety purple—the dominant 
color of the falls. Impereeptibly this rich purple ehanges 
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. 
25c; 3 for 50c 
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. 35c 
MIDWEST GEM 
