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The World' s Finest Tall Bearded Iris 
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Souv. de Loetitia Michaud —40 in. The flowers are very large and of perfect form 
and in a lovely soft sky-blue color, that creates a striking garden picture. Rugged 
and exceedingly free flowering.15 
Spokane— 36 in. HONORABLE MENTION AMERICAN IRIS SOCIETY. HUGE 
FLOWERS AND THE MOST BRILLIANT OF THE RED-BROWN BLENDS. 
The standards are pure fawn brown and the falls are Bordeaux-red; they are straight 
hanging, which gives the most impressive garden effect. 50 
Summer Cloud— 36 in. THIS IS ONE OF OUR MOST LOVELY IRISES, although 
a description may not convey a word picture that would indicate that fact. The name 
is really very appropriate. The standards first appear as light blue, soon changing to 
gray-blue-white, like a cloud in the summer sky. The falls are blue as the sky itself 
on a bright summer day. The color combination is wonderfully pleasing. The flowers 
are large, of perfect form and produced in great abundance.20 
Summer Tan— 38 in. EARLY. GIVEN AN AWARD OF MERIT BY THE AMERI¬ 
CAN IRIS SOCIETY. A most exquisite Iris in an outstanding new color tone. This 
variety is especially well named, being a delightful smooth uniform “summer tan” 
coloring, the falls being just slightly deeper. It is decidedly neither a yellow nor a 
brown, but in my opinion is the best of the tan blends and in fact entirely different 
from all others. One of the most distinctive of the new colors. 75 
Sundew —20 in. An exquisite low growing variety for a small bed, or for the front of 
the border, or in the rock garden. There is no other Iris like it. The delicately refined 
flowers are of pinard yellow, overlaid empire yellow. The falls are veined maroon 
purple at the throat. The wax-like substance and superb form and carriage are the 
outstanding features of this Iris. 20 
Sung low —34 in. FRAGRANT. A most exquisite creamy-white Iris of perfect form, 
good size and wax-like substance, besides being a hardy robust grower, a prodigious 
bloomer and exquisitely fragrant. The erect, beautifully ruffled standards and flaring 
falls give it an aristocratic appearance. Unsurpassed as a fine garden mass. My own 
introduction. 10 
Sunlight —36 in. One of our largest and finest soft yellows. Superb as a cut flower 
under artificial light and magnificent in the garden. There is nothing more charming 
as a cut flower or for show purposes. Almost as large as the famous W. R. Dykes 
and a more robust grower, being hardy anywhere. The color is also absolutely pure, 
without the slightest trace of any other color. A flower of superb form and poise. .20 
Sunol —42 in. EARLY. A magnificent new yellow Iris, almost as large and as tall as 
Happy Days, but with an attractive lavender flush at the centre of the falls, which 
adds greatly to its beauty. The flowers are of fine form and heavy substance and 
freely produced. 35 
Sir Launcelot— 32 in. HONORABLE MENTION AMERICAN IRIS 
SOCIETY 1937. A most unusual rich brown-red, or red brown; by 
Ridgway’s color chart the standards being Mikado Brown to Hazel and 
the falls Victoria Lake. Unusual golden yellow styles and a beautifully 
marked throat add to its attractiveness. This new creation is an entirely 
new color in Iris, and one of the most distinctive, handsome and brilliant. 
The flowers are of perfect form and it is a real acquisition. 1.50 
Seedling No. 1 —32 in. This variety is in the same colors as Sir Launcelot 
and almost identical with it. It is perhaps just as good, but too close to 
be introduced as a new variety. An Iris may be extremely handsome, 
but too close to something already in existence to name and introduce it. 
This is the case with Seedling No. 1. For those who wish this new color, 
but do not care to pay the price for Sir Launcelot I recommend Seedling 
No. 1, which for the reasons mentioned I offer at a very attractive price 
for such a fine Iris. The plants will be extra strong flowering size plants, 
same as I send of other varieties. 25 
Sir Michael— 48 in. I CONSIDER THIS ONE OF THE WORLD’S FINEST IRISES, 
of indescribable beauty. The standards are clear heliotrope and the falls rich red- 
purple, suffused coppery-brown, but no color description can do it justice and it 
has been the despair of artists who have tried to reproduce it. The color illustration 
on Page 27, which is about one-third actual size, does not begin to show the purity 
of color in the standards and the attractive coppery-brown suffusion in the falls, 
and of course it does not show the velvety texture of the falls, nor the silky lustre 
of the standards, but it gives some idea. SOLD A FEW YEARS AGO FOR $50.00 
FOR A SINGLE PLANT, but an extra fine stock enables me to make a very low 
price this season for large strong rhizomes. 25 
Sitka —48 in. EARLY. VERY FRAGRANT. In making a very critical study of all 
white Irises I have been compelled to class Sitka with Gudrun and Easter Morn for 
first honors among the moderate priced varieties. The flowers of Sitka are almost as 
large as Gudrun, and it is a purer white, on taller stalks and with better placement. 
The flowers are of the same fine form as Gudrun, of heavy substance, with straight 
hanging falls that produce a marvelous garden effect. Add to all its other good 
qualities an exquisite fragrance and it leaves nothing to be desired in a perfect white 
Iris. And all this on four foot flowering stalks. It is one of the most underpriced Iris 
in my catalogue this season. 25 
Snowdrift— 32 in. LATE. DELIGHTFULLY FRAGRANT. AWARDED A SILVER 
MEDAL BY THE IRIS SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. A lovely warm white, set off 
by a brilliant butter-cup yellow beard. 25 
Snow King— 42 in. TIE WITH NARANJA FOR SECOND PLACE FOR DYKES 
MEDAL FOR 1939. This tells its own story as to how the judges of the American 
Iris Society rate Snow King. Generally considered the best white to date. A superb 
new white Iris of huge size and a beauty of form that makes it stand out in any 
planting. The falls are flaring and the flower is of superb wax-like substance, freely 
produced on well branching stalks. 3.50 
Solferino— 56 in. EARLY. A bright pink tone, on the order of Aphrodite, but brighter 
and with larger flowers on taller stalks, the flower stalks towering almost five feet 
high and loaded with blossoms. Can you imagine anything more striking.15 
Sweet Alibi —42 in. A very lovely soft cream of exquisite tone, with a 
smooth ivory finish, the standards being nicely ruffled and the falls 
having artistically crimped edges. The flowers are of gigantic size and 
unusual refinement. 35 
FROM SANDY HOOK, CONNECTICUT 
“All Iris bought from you last year bloomed without one ex¬ 
ception." 
President 
Pilkington 
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