FALL BLOOMING IRISES 
We are proud to take some credit for 
popularizing Fall Blooming Irises, an 
important new branch of the Iris family. 
Several years experience in handling fall 
bloomers has shown conclusively that 
they will produce two crops of bloom per 
year over a wide area of the country. 
They are at their gest in the South where 
they furnish an almost continuous suc- 
cession of bloom. In fact a Southern 
customer reports at least one bloom open 
every day in the year from one of our 
collections. However, with care and at- 
tention fall bloom can be had as far 
North as New England and some of the 
Northern states. Last fall we had a fine 
show with many hnudreds of blooms, 
beginning in Septmeber and lasting until 
freezing weather in November. The 
fall bloomers are of unquestioned hardi- 
ness even in the North and are of value 
for their color to the intermediate sea- 
son. New varieties are adding to the 
color range and bringing increased size 
and height. Good growing conditions and 
adequate moisture throughout the grow- 
ing season produce the rapid growth 
necessary for maturing the second crop 
of bloom. Frequent transplanting is ad- 
visable as crowded plants do not have 
~ a chance to rebloom. 


AUTUMN ELF (Brown, 1935)—This va- 
riety has re-bloomed throughout the 
summer and fall in the originators gar- 
den in Massachusetts. Standards olive 
cream, domed and ruffled; falls lavender 
with cream edge, flaring, fragrant $0.25 
AUTUMN FLAME (Sass)—A sensational 
new fall bloomer of very large size and 
heavy substance, deep toned red bicolor 
i aps aN aryl pd do pc ces OLE, Baa: $2.00 
AUTUMN HAZE (H. Sass, 1934)—This 
tall fall bloomer has been both early and 
persistent in its long blooming habit and 
marks a real advance over fine old Aut- 
umn King. In effect it is an attractive 
soft lavender of fine form and large 
Size Bie ook oo Pe ee, Seer eee $0.25 
AUTUMN KING (H. Sass, 1924)—The 
real progenitor of the race of rebloomers. 
Typical lavender blue bicolor of splen- 
did form, a good seed bearer ___-_- $0.25 
of rebloomers, H. P. Sass. 
AUTUMN QUEEN (H. Sass, 1926)—The 
most persistent of all rebloomers, giving 
some bloom every month from summer 
to fall. It is a pure white of exceptional 
form, the finest white dwarf ____$0.25 
AUTUMN SUNSET (Lapham 1939)— 
This fine and large blended pink brings 
a delightful new color tone to the re- 
blooming section—and it has inherited 
quality and vigor from two recent Dykes 
Medal Winners—both strong growers 
and free bloomers. Rosy Wings and 
Rameses $2.00 
BOUNTIFUL BLUE (Hill-Son 1942)— 
This is not a flower to take to an Iris 
show and yet it is so profuse with bloom 
that it is distinctly showy and makes a 
great mass of true blue color in early 
spring, late summer and fall ~---- $0.50 
DORCAS HUTCHESON (Sass-McDade, 
1933)—An early and persistent pansy 
violet self. Semi-dwarf, up to 20 
inches 
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (Sass-McDade, 
1933)—This variety was awarded the 
Hutcheson Gold Medal for the best fall 
bloomer of its year. It is a deep fluorite 
purple self of fine carrying power and 
has given us a full month of bloom in the 
spring and in favorable seasons three 
full monthstintheriall Go- ee see $0.25 
GLAD SONG (Sass-Hill 1942)—With a 
flourish of trumpets comes this first of 
the yellow ground plicatas into the re- 
blooming class from the master breeder 
By chance it 
rebloomed first here in our garden and 
is now offered to our customers exclu- 
sively. It is from the Tiffany strain $1.00 
FAR SOUTH—A neat bright pure yel- 
low of good form that gave us fine 
bloom past) £5 lp eee eee ere ee $1.00 
KANSAS INGLESIDE (Hill) — Large 
warm toned red self introduced last year 
and now proven to be a fall bloomer, 
although rather tateeee ee. a! $0.50 
MARTIE EVEREST (Kirk, 1635)—Fine 
tall blue, a reliable repeater ______ $0.50 
OCTOBER BLAZE (McDade, 1935)— 
Large red-purple, somewhat on the order 
of IndiansGhiel slates... ae $0.35 
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