
THE IRIS NEWS 
AND GARDEN CHATS 
A. B. Katkamier 
Macedon, N. Y. 
Dedicated To All Who Enjoy the Great Out of Doors Particularly Those Who Love Beautiful Flowers 


Personal Letter to Our Readers 
A. B. Katkamier 
Residence Farmington—R. F. D. Macedon, N. Y. 
I 
Believe 
God Dear Flower—Loving Friends: 
Intended It will take over two tons of this goldenrod paper 
\ p to print the present issue of "Iris News". 
i very body 
Should If you should receive more than one copy, please hand 
the extra to those with gardens. I thank you. They also will 
Dig be appreciative. They will find many interesting items and 
- wish to keep "Iris News" for reference. 
Little Especially valuable are our Special One dollar Iris 
Collections at this time. Thousands of satisfied customers 
In have accepted our group offer of six of the Iris Dollar Col- 
lections for $5.00. 
The 
Soil You will find particularly attractive, the perennial 
fifty cent collections under the heading "You Can't Miss". 
Growing 
; Hoping the war will end soon, for a just and lasting 
Choice peace and for your continued happiness. 
Fruits, Cordially yours, 
Vegetables 
Ae SO) Pee, 
Flowers 

Look This List Over 
You may find what you long have been searching 
for. = 
For 50 Cents 
(Sent Any Way You Choose) 
You many have any one of the following group 
offers sent labeled and postpaid right to your mail 
box. 
YES, you may have 5 of the groups for $2. 
You Can’t Miss 
6 Aquilegia Assorted; 6 Armeria; 6 Artemisia 
(Silver King or Lactiflora); 6 Real Black Eyed 
Susan; 6 Blue Flax; 6 Bachelor Button; 6 Coreopsis; 
6 Anthemis; 6 Ajuga Reptans; 6 Ajuga Variegata; 
6 Asters Assorted Perennial; 4 Bleeding Heart (Old 
Fashioned); 4 Bleeding Heart (Eximea); 6 Delphin- 
jum (Chinese); 4 Delphinium (G. P.); 6 Feverfew; 6 
Gaillardia; 6 Hardy Heliotrope; 6 Heliopsis; 6 
Helianthus; 6 Hesperis; 4 Heuchera (Coral Bells); 
4 Kaempheri (Jap Iris); 5 Daisies (Elder); 5 
Daisies (Shasta); 5 Daisies (Painted); 5 Daisies 
(Alpine); 3 Hemerocallis Assorted; 3 Funkia As- 
sorted; 4 Lily Tenuifolium; 4 Tigrinum. 
6 Liatris; 6 Lathyrus; 6 Lupines; 6 Lanterns 
(Chinese); 3 Lemon Verbena; 6 Monarda; 6 Monks- 
hood; 5 Milfoil Rosea; 5 Napeta; 6 Physostegia 
Grandiflora; 6 Pink Mullein; 6 Phlox Subulata Rosea; 
6 Phlox Divaricata, Spring; 4 Phlox, Hardy Fall; 5 
Poppy (Assorted Oriental); 3 Shilka Iris; 6 Sedum 
Assorted; 6 Sempervivum Assorted; 6 Spiderwort; 
6 Snow-in-Summer; 4 Thyme Golden; 4 Tunica, 
Double Rose; 12 Tulip Bulbs Assorted; 6 Veronica 
Incana; 4 Violet Double Russian; 6 Yarrow Yellow. 
Take Notice 
Make your selection now from the above described 
groups. They are 50 cents each or five groups for $2. 
Each group is a real bargain. 
Perennial plants may be transplanted any time 
before ground is permanently frozen. Plants may be 
mulched first winter with straw, excelsior, etc. 
During the War 
“I truly believe everyone should go on living as normally as 
possible. And so after first buying defense bonds I am sending 
the following order for plants.” 
Thus writes a customer from Nebraska. We have received 
several letters expressing similar conclusions. One woman writes: 
“My husband gets terribly ‘down in the dumps’ now-a-days be- 
| cause our two sons are in the service and his health is not good. 
| The only thing he enjoys is working in our flower garden. He 
never used to pay any attention to it. Several times he has taken 
bouquets to our church to decorate the altar. The flowers in 
our Southland home are now in full bloom.” 

Moving Pictures 
in color taken at our Flower Gardens are on the 
screen. 
Our Gardens are within 20 miles of the Kodak 
Camera Factories at Rochester, N. Y. and people for 
miles around are unusually camera minded. 
In the past few years hundreds of color movie films 
have been taken of our Gardens in bloom at different 
periods of the year—Tulips, Iris, Oriental Poppies, 
Peonies, Chrysanthemums, etc. 
Recently we received the following letter from 
a customer at Peoria, IIl.: 
“I wish you could see my color movie film of Ivis 
in bloom at my ‘Hillcrest’ Gardens. I ordered your 
entire set of $1 Collections (listed in the attached 
copy of our ‘Iris News’) and used them to form a 
border of 350 ft. frontage. I suggest to all who 
admire my flowers that they send to Katkamier for 
their plants.” 
FRAGRANCE 
Is the Soul of a Flower 
The two most fragrant plants in our Gardens are 
the Lemon Verbena and the Golden Thyme. Most 
plants furnish fragrance only when in bloom, but 
from early spring until late fall the Lemon Verbena 
and Golden Thyme are spicy with aromatic and 
fascinating fragrance whenever their leaves are 
brushed against. Get them for your garden. 
Lemon Verbena—grows to 18 in. Even its dried leaves 
retain an enjoyable fragrance for many years. $.20 
Golden Thyme—The name means “to perfume.” The 
Golden Thyme spreads slowly into a delightful gar- 
den clump. It also lends itself to a pleasing border 
to paths and when brushed against or its leaves 
stepped on, they fill the air with a pleasing 
SCOT decree eae a cae tg oA cy copa at eat $.15 
A Good Plant of Each for 30 Cents 
A Little Child Shall Lead Them 
“You are becoming more beautiful every day,” exclaimed a 
little girl of her garden one morning as the newly risen sun was 
glorifying each freshly opened flower. How natural was this un- 
premeditated expression of the little girl over one of the enthral- 
ling miracles of nature, for the flowers are the loveliest things 
God created and forgot to give a soul. 
| We can appreciate the intimate words of the school-girl walking 
in the woods in the spring who found a wild violet. 
“How glad I am to see you again!” she said. “It is a long 
time since I have seen you, and you look as pretty as ever.” 
The delight of these young people is felt by everybody that 
loves flowers, as they come one after the other all through the 
floral season. How much we would miss if they did not come 
every year! 
| Give your children a chance to have a beautiful ‘“‘Garden of 
Flowers.’ It will tie them to the best things in life. 
