MARCH Ff 
IRIS RETICULATA 
The First Flowers of Springtime 
In purple-and-gold enamel these graceful and char 
with the enchanting perfume of woodland violets, bring us 
spring days of blustering March, the very magic of tha artand 
mystery of the Near East, and they linger with us as the\Spri 
advances, blooming well into April. In the Sotth they comévi 
flower a month earlier. In one old New England Barden Reticulata 
has come into color and splendour every spring for 
years, from an original planting of over half a century ago, and ther 
has been no letting down in all that time. No one knows\how they 
came there, as Iris Reticulata was apparently unknown in this coun- 
try at that time. In all probability some world traveler foundtthem 
and brought them home as a cherished floral treasure. At any.event 
when the now aged couple moved in more than 50 years go they 
found Iris Reticulata blooming there and they have cantnned 
since. Amazing evidence of ruggedness and longevity to those who 
know the severity of New England winters. 
Iris Reticulata precedes the early flowering trees and shrubs, and 
holds the center of the stage well through the spring season. It is 
distinguished from other members of this great family by its curious 
four-sided tapering spears or stalks, which seem to be designed for 
piercing the icy crust of the snow. It has also become a favorite 
novelty among house plants wherever it has been introduced. 

12 RARE IRIS RETICULATA for $2.50—100 for $20.00 
Sent From Bayside 
LOVELY MINIATURE IRIS GEMS 
FOR ROCK GARDENS AND BORDERS—THE RADIANT 
DAINTY MINIATURE IRIS GEMS 
These exquisite midgets of the Iris world have introduced new and 
delightful notes of color and form to the modern garden, and they 
can be trusted to bloom prodigiously from April well up to the middle 
of May, in the Northern States, and a full month earlier in the South. 
Hybrid products, the result of crossing Iris Pumila, the stemless 
variety that is found from Austria to the Caucasus, with the French 
Iris Chamaeiris, which has blooms on ten inch stems, these new 
Hybrids show the striking brilliant colors of both parent strains, 
with symmetrical but diminutive flowers in many new colors on 
sturdy stems 6 to 12 inches tall—veritable bantams of their floral 
family. 

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Iris Reticulata 
The First Flowers of Springtime 

HARDY AND FAMOUS POGOCYCLUS HYBRIDS 
FOR THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY 
The sturdy and rugged Pogocyelus Hybrid Irises, 
the fame of which has circled the globe in a compara- 
tively few seasons, represent the genius and triumph 
of one of the world’s greatest students of hybrid breed- 
ing as applied to horticulture, Sir Michael Foster, M.P., 
one of Britain’s statesmen and scientists. Flowering 
radiantly and abundantly in the genial month of May, 
they illuminate a garden with their extravagant and 
almost tropical beauty, and excite the admiration of 
every flower lover and of every passer-by. One notable 
variety of this epoch-making group was the achieve- 
ment of the late William Mohr, one of California’s 
great horticulturists. Famed as one of thelargest known 
Tris in the world, Wm. Mohr gives the startling effect 
of a monster orchid, delicately superb in soft shades of 
violet—like the Cattleya orchids—with exquisite vein- 
ing of darker manganese violet. An illustration in this 
folder gives only a mere suggestion of the beauty of this 
variety, in reduced size: the living flower has to be seen 
to be appreciated. 
POGOCYCLUS 
HYBRID IRIS 
COLLECTION 
10 Magnificent Specimens, 
All Different, Each One La- 
beled—My Selection 
$9.00 
Culturai Directions Includ- 
ed. The Collection will in- 
clude one ‘‘William Mohr’’ 
previously sold at $25.00 per 



These Pogocyclus marvels flourish in rock gardens plant, and one variety from 
and in beds and borders anywhere and everywhere, and the gardens of Sir Michael 
are rated among the hardiest varieties in the world. Fereer Ui Wn atest ton 
my Iris Ranch at Grandview, 
For Complete Pogocyclus Listing—See Page 36 Wash. 
of my general catalogue. 
Sent to you direct from my Iris Ranch at Grandview, Wash. 
Labeled—Cultural Directions Included 
This superb collection of 20 Beautiful Miniatures, ALL DIF FER- 
ENT, will be carefully made up to cover the color range and main- 
tain delicate harmony. It includes soft sky blues, luxurious purple, 
soft and brilliant yellows, pure snow white, rich burgundy red, and 
other delicate new tones. Each plant is carefully labeled. 
EARLY FLOWERING ARISTOCRATS 
UR Early Flowering Iris Masterpieces, the ‘Early Flowering Aristocrats” 
represent as a celebrated group the glorious achievements of some of the 
world’s most illustrious students and practitioners of hybrid breeding, in 
America, Britain, France, and other countries. Among the most gorgeous of 
all the early flowering varieties, they come marching as gallant heralds of the 
summer’s vast and marvelous pageant. Each one of these exhibition varieties 
shows a different, startling, distinctive color or pattern—bronze rose, shining 
like beaten metal; orchid pink, changing like the prismatic shades in the 
clouds of the sunrise; and magical 
effects of all sorts, beggaring descrip- 
| EARLY FLOWERING 
1 2 IRIS ARISTOCRATS — 
For a Complete Listing of 60 Varieties of Miniature Gems 
See Page 34 of My Iris Catalogue 
For other May-flowering Irises, see 
those marked EARLY on Pages 7 to 29 
of my general catalogue. Also the 
“AUTUMN FLOWERING” Irises on 
Page 32, as these flower profusely along 
with the EARLY varieties as well as in 
the Autumn. 
$2.00 stra" 
My Selection 



Cultural Directions with all 
; : _ Shipments. 
Miniature Bearded Iris pate ee 

