AN IRIS LOVER’S CATALOG 
33 
BRONZE PVRPEEI^ 
Originator 
Year 
Height 
Variety 
Price 
Performance 
Season 
Schreiner. 
.1936 
M 
BEOWULF. 
. $1.00 
A 
E 
Cayeux. 
.1929 
T 
DEPUTE NOMBLOT □. 
.25 
A 
ML 
Lapham. 
.1937 
T 
ELKHART. 
. 1.00 
A 
M 
Bliss. 
.1926 
M 
GRACE STURTEVANT. 
.25 
AA 
EM 
Washington. 
.1932 
T 
JEB STUART. 
.30 
A 
ML 
Cayeux. 
.1936 
M 
LOUVOIS. 
. 6.00 
A 
M 
Loomis. 
.1932 
M 
SHIRVAN. 
.25 
A 
ML 
Here we have a class that embraces one of the classics of irisdom — courtly Depute Nomblot. The entire class is characterized by 
a richness and gloss of flower that is very extraordinary. One of the richest and most striking iris because of its pure color is “the 
brown iris,” the rich masterpiece Louvois. Glowing Shirvan is most satisfactory. This class comprises several other fine creations of 
rich harmony. In color this group is similar to the red class but has more brown in its coloration which gives it a very distinct identity. 
^^REDS” ANR COPPERS 
Reds with Copper Influence 
Originator 
Year 
Height 
Variety 
Price 
Performance 
Season 
Lapham. 
.1936 
T 
CHRISTABEL . 
.$ 2.00 
AA 
M 
Cook, P. 
.1937 
T 
E. B. WILLIAMSON 
. 7.50 
B-k 
M 
Sass, J. 
.1933 
M 
GOLDEN HELMET. 
.50 
A 
M 
Thomas. 
.1937 
T 
PIUTE.. 
. 3.00 
A 
M 
Salbach. 
.1936 
M 
RADIANT . 
. 5.00 
A 
EM 
Lapham. 
.1939 
M 
RED GLEAM . 
. 20.00 
A 
M 
Kirkland. 
.1939 
M 
SONNY BOY. 
. 5.00 
A 
M 
Sa ss, J- ■ ■ . 
.1933 
M 
SPOKAN . 
.50 
A 
ML 
Nicholls. 
.1938 
T 
WILDFIRE. 
. 4.00 
AA 
EM 
Reds with Purple Influence 
Ayres. 
.1934 
T 
CHEERIO. 
.35 
A 
M 
Norton. 
.1938 
M 
CRIMSON PETAL. 
.50 
A 
ML 
Connell. 
.1929 
T 
DAUNTLESS . 
.25 
A 
M 
Grinter. 
.1935 
T 
ELLA WINCHESTER. 
.75 
B 
M 
Williamson. 
.1932 
M 
ETHEL PECKHAM 
.35 
A 
M 
Grinter. 
.1936 
M 
GARDEN MAGIC . 
. 10.00 
B 
ML 
Sass, J. 
.1932 
T 
JOYCETTE . 
.50 
A 
EM 
Kirkland. 
.1934 
T 
JUNALUSKA. 
. 1.00 
A 
EM 
Schreiner. 
.1936 
T 
MARCO POLO . 
. 1.00 
AA 
M 
Kleinsorge. 
.1937 
T 
REBELLION. 
. 1.50 
B 
ML 
Nicholls. 
.1939 
T 
RED REVEL. 
. 3.00 
B 
ML 
Nicholls. 
.1939 
T 
RED VALOR. 
. 12.00 
A 
M 
Sass, J. 
.1937 
T 
THE RED DOUGLAS 
. 6.00 
A 
ML 
Trial Varieties 
Crimson Tide.$12.00 Setting Sun.$7.50 
The lure of the red iris has everlastingly been an incentive to the hybridizer to work industriously trying to get the red. As can 
be naturally expected when numerous breeders are bending all their energies toward a goal and raising thousands of seedlings very 
appreciable gains have been made and the results have given us quite a surprising variety of red colored Gnds. Our red iris may be di¬ 
vided into two major classes. Those of the coppery or chestnut influence, they number some of our brightest varieties, or those that 
show their apparent descent from the purple side of the pigment scale. The latter are in reality the truer reds being purer red without 
influence of yellow or other influencing colors. 
Last season we named a quartet of reds that towered above all others — plush-like The Red Douglas, rich gleamy red-velvet 
Garden Magic, vibrant colored jewel-like Radiant and that great, fine red Christabel. These may well watch their laurels as they may find 
themselves deposed by the newest arrivals as Red Gleam, or one of the new reds from the East, Red Valor or Crimson Tide. Older but of 
huge size is coppery Spokan. The new E. B. Williamson is in reality a coppery red blend, light toned and very much worthwhile, espe¬ 
cially in a clump planting. 
Among the other outstanding reds we certainly must include bright, fiery, brown-red Cheerio and the best red bicolor, Marco Polo. 
Perhaps older, but all the better because they have weathered the test of time and are still worthy of a select place in any garden are 
rich Joycette, ever pleasing Ethel Peckham, and the standard Dauntless. 
