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Sir Launcelot—32 in. HONORABLE MENTION AMERICAN IRIS 
SOCIETY 1937. A most unusual rich brown-red, or red brown; by 
Ridgeway’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 a¢quisition. See illustra- 
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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. I personally like it better than Sir 
Launcelot. The plants will be extra strong flowering size plants, same as 
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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 6, 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 
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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 
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Snowking—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 Snowking. 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 
producedon well branching stalks’ sie. = src ete ene Soar eie eater. 3 1.00 
FROM VIRGINIA 
“The Iris we bought from you last year flowered beautifully and we were 
much pleased with them.’’ 
The World's Finest Tall Bearded Iris 
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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...... ay 
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 
andvexceedingly free flowering. jaiecsc «.c.- ol « so a 0 eis ete oibi sieeve) tue erie one perenne «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 
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Spring Cloud—48 in. A superb new ‘‘Plicata’’ which is an excellent companion-piece 
for Los Angeles, San Francisco, Clarabel, Theodolinda and Wasatch. The white 
standards are heavily flushed violet and ‘the falls are uniformly edged the same 
violet color.... 25 
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............... .25 
Sunglow—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 
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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 
Suntan—38 in. I like this best of all the tan effects. The color is a rich 
sunflower yellow, overlaid russet, giving a rich tan effect......... .25 
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 
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