FOREWORD 
4 hae year 1946 marks the 20th year it has been our pleasure to serve the iris loving public. 
Many an iris has appeared in the pages of AN IRIS LOVER’S CATALOG, had its span 
of glory and passed on. It is interesting to glance down the year of introduction column 
in the classification section of the catalog and notice the dates of origin of many of the 
ae A few of the ‘‘old timers’’ like Frieda Mohr seem to be destined for the imperishable 
class. 
We welcome spring this year with a closer approach to normal times. Tulips and daffo- 
dils newly arrived from Holland in the spring flower shows and in the gardens will be like 
old friends. We are also glad to welcome back our partner and brother, Bernard Schreiner, 
from the Service. He is again with his favorite plants. The satisfaction in growing plants 
and making a garden is deep and gratifying. This catalog is our effort to tell you about 
the beauty of irises. Because of continuing scarcities it continues in its modest form. 
In another season we hope to have newer illustrations as well as other material of inter- 
est to gardeners. 
The removal of the traveling ban will find a host of iris people visiting gardens of their 
friends as well as gardens and workshops of the more famous hybridizers. These visits 
should prove a tremendous stimulus to the earnest hybridists who are hoping to conser- 
vatively choose only the finest new iris. By extensive traveling and a critical comparison 
of like colored iris the really worthwhile iris of the future will be recognized. 
It is not every year that a new star is born in the sky nor does a significant trend or 
‘break’? occur with any degree of regularity in the field of flowers. Such developments 
are more readily apparent in retrospect when we can compare and have the benefits of 
contrast, pitting the new against the old, side by side. Likewise the development of new 
colors, or refinements of existing colors, gives us a better perspective. The development in 
pink iris is a wonderful achievement. The new ‘“‘sea shell’? and ‘‘flamingo’’ pinks are iris 
unlike any seen before. They may indeed weil be the harbingers of greater things to come. 
While these pinks are enjoying the center spotlight the development of the orchid pinks 
in iris like Harriet Thoreau and Dreamcastle and the splendid mallow pinks as Tea Rose 
give us iris for which we have yearned for years. The blends, especially newer shades in 
the yellow blend class, are so numerous we need several seasons to compare and test the 
exciting new developments. In the reds, blues, yellows and ‘‘blacks’’ each group has a 
few very nice novelties that show promise. Perhaps the most difficult section to improve 
is the amoenas. Enough interest seems to have been stirred up among iris hybridizers so 
that it appears it will not be too long before we will have finer Wabash’s and Marquita’s. 
It will not be easy to achieve this but after all the thrill of hybridizing is to develop 
something that at one time seemed impossible of attainment. 
With the fast moving times it has become apparent that stocks of good iris have become 
quite scarce. This fact has been readily attested to by the fact that we have had to dis- 
appoint many of our customers the last two seasons. Because of the prevelent labor short- 
age the iris industry has operated on a shrinking reserve of plants until now it is at one 
of the lowest stock inventories in history. It takes more than a few months to ‘‘recon- 
vert’’ an iris field to greater production. We have a nice stock of iris plants but if your 
plans are to buy iris we suggest that you do not delay doing so. 
' We look forward to the reappearance of the iris blooming season and are happy to 
send you our catalog. It is our means of contact with friends and patrons whose mail 
has been of such interest to us. These contacts and placing plants we have grown in many 
parts of the world with the fervent hope that they will give the joy and satisfaction they 
have given us is our aim and ambition. 
ROBERT SCHREINER 
Tris: Introductions? a5. urs a Nate Gk Oe ok page 1 
The 100 Best Iris for 1946...................... page 2 
New Iris (Listed for the First Time)............ page 3 
General Descriptive List..:.................005 page 4 
Iris.Grouped By Colors: i... 2. 3..65.5000000000: page 22 
GCOllection’s Hetrae nk eet ce one le se arsenic neers page 30 
Hemerocallis (Daylilies)....................... page 31 
Schreiner’s Iris Gardens 
Riverview Station, St. Paul 7, Minnesota 
Show Gardens, 1350S. Robert St. (U. S. Highway 52) Telephone: Riverview 3799 
