The World^s Finest and Largest Collection of the Oldest, 
the Newest, and Rare Bearded and Beardless Iris 
Iris Time is Here 
Qreetings 
God spokel and from the arid scene 
Sprang rich and verdant bowers; 
Till all the earth was soft and green 
He smiled, and there were flowers. 
A gain I am happy to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to my 
friends and customers for their many nice orders and letters during 
* the past season. I wish it were possible for me to write a personal 
note of “thank you" to all who have contributed to the success and pleasure 
of my flower garden. 
It is indeed a pleasure to make your personal acquaintance and I 
hope you will surely come again in 1940 and also hope to meet many new 
friends and customers. Please come and make yourself right at home. 
My Iris garden is conducted largely for the happiness that it brings 
my friends and an attempt to reveal in a simple, helpful way, something of 
the soul satisfying fascination and happiness. My collection represents 
one of the largest and finest. 
Why Not Grow Iris for 
Happiness, Health and Wealth? 
The Iris is such a numerous, and one of the most beautiful families 
of flowers on which the sun shines, continuing so long in bloom and with 
some varieties of indescribable beauty, and there is such a broad field for 
new varieties. 
Will it not pay to feed your appreciative soul with a beauty which 
will for the time transcend the splendor of courts and the opulence of King's 
palaces? 
Think of their fascinating and alluring loveliness. They are named 
from the Goddess Iris, the rainbow personified, who combined the beauty 
of heaven and earth in their matchless robes. 
The beauty of earth is prophetic of what is in store for us. They 
give a hint of both worlds, presenting us with the fairest this earth affords 
and at the same time there is something prophetic about them of beauty 
not yet revealed. 
This place is their paradise. They can put on their resplendent 
garments without rebuke of the storms. Here they unfold all their charms. 
While in bloom you hover over them and see that veining, interweaving 
and blending of tint and shading you cannot describe. That iridescent 
glow we imagine is the smile of the dazzling Goddess from which they are 
named. They hold and fascinate you and throV a spell over you. You go 
and come again. You linger and ponder in delightful reverie. 
VISIT MY GARDEN IN MAY and see them at their best 
