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Would it delight your heart to see a rainbow of flowers unfolding before your eyes? We have gone to 
great pains to prepare an Iris display unlike any other, rivalling Nature’s most brilliant: manifestations 
of color in the skies—and this with the grandeur of the mighty Sierras and the stately pines as a back- 
drop. 
In our special ‘Rainbow Garden’’ hundreds of the finest varieties of bearded Iris are carefully ar- 
ranged in the exact sequence of the colors of the spectrum or rainbow. Here you will behold rhythmic 
waves of color such as you have never seen before. Here you will have that long dreamed-of opportunity 
of comparing side by side various Iris of similar hues. Here, better than anywhere else, you will make 
your final selections of the varieties that you will wish to have migrate from our garden into yours. 
For those who are too far away, we present, in the pages that follow, our evaluations and impressions 
of the flower friends with whom we live. But for Westerners—by all means come to see all of the flowers 
that we have described, and many other new creations as yet available in quantities too limited to list 
herein. 
In most years the Iris parade of color begins in late April and continues through May to early June. 
The Gladiolus and Lilies will reach their peak in July. We hope, therefore, that it will be during these 
periods that wanderlust will take you to the hills and mountains, for you will find our gardens in the 
romantic setting of the early gold-mining days. You will want to visit Placerville, the ‘‘Hangtown”’ of 
‘49, and Coloma, the site of gold discovery, while you are in this historic region. 
Our gardens are about three miles east of Placerville, not far from the Lincoln Highway, U. S. 50, the 
road to Lake Tahoe. To reach our hilltop location among the evergreens, turn left from the highway just 
east of Placerville and follow the signs to our gardens. Bring your friends and let them, too, enjoy our 
unfolding pageant of beauty. We’ll be looking for you. 
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Ours is a business devoted to spreading beauty throughout the world. In order that our flowers may 
be ever more beautiful as the years go by, we are conducting large-scale hybridization experiments with 
various flowers, and are striving to obtain for you new varieties in various color classes that will surpass 
anything that has appeared heretofore. Also, we purchase and propagate for you the finest of the new 
lris produced by other Iris breeders throughout the country. Note the many different names of origina- 
tors (over 50 in all) given in parentheses, with the year of introduction, after the variety names. You will 
observe that we offer many very choice varieties not available elsewhere. 
As you read our catalog we hope that you will be agreeably surprised by the extent of helpful cul- 
tural data and interesting information that we have worked into our treatments. In the space that we 
have available we try to tell you the things that will help you most in choosing your varieties, and in grow- 
ing and enjoying the plants after you get them. 
HARDY MOUNTAIN-GROWN STOCK 
It has been said that California has as many contrasting climates as does our Nation as a whole. Not 
from the sunny south, not from the vast interior valleys, and not from the ocean-side comes the stock 
that we ship to you, but from the rugged snow-capped mountains, the mighty Sierra Nevadas. 
All of our bearded Iris are grown without winter protection. Thus the tender varieties are eliminated, 
and we catalog only those possessing considerable hardiness. We are hybridizers and growers, not merely 
dealers. We actually grow or collect practically every item listed herein. 

“So shines the setting sun on adverse skies, and paints a rainbow on the storm.’’—Watts. 1 
