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2 ARVISTA GARDENS 
The home of ARVISTA GARDENS is just three 
houses north of Highway US-12 one block east of 
its iunction with M-78. Visitors are welcome. 
TERMS—Cash with order. No C.O.D. shipments 
unless accompanied by one-half cash. Remit by 
money order, bank draft, check, or registered mail. 
Michigan residents be sure to add 38% for sales tax. 
Bearded Irises and Poppies will be shipped from 
July 1, beardless Irises and Hemerocallis during the 
season, Peonies from September 1. 
ORDER EARLY. This is more important advice - 
now than ever before. The labor shortage has 
slowed production, and plant stocks are more limit- 
ed than in any recent year. Late orders are very 
likely to find many varieties sold out. 
In general, orders will be Shipped by Express , the 
small charges to be paid on receipt ot package. 
Orders amounting to less than $2.00 will be sent 
prepaid only if 25 cents extra is included for postege and 
packing. 
THE FINEST OF IRISES 
THERE ARE GIANTS IN THESE DAYS! 
And this refers to our present day Irises. The 
older Irises were colorful and prolific, but mostly 
the flowers were small, of poor form and little sub- 
stance. Practically all of the Irises hiere listed have 
been developed and introduced within the past fifteen 
years. Nearly all produce very large flowers—2 to 4 
times as large as the older sorts—are good growers 
‘and splendidly formed, with strong stalks and heavy 
substance, and they show us many new colorings and 
color blends. Our large plantings of Irises include 
more than one-half of the 100 finest Irises listed in 
1946 by the Judges Syposium of the Ameican Iris 
Societv. besides many wonderful sorts toad new to be 
mcluded in that list. 
IRIS—“The most decorative form in all the flower 
world.” 
Practically all of the Irises herein offered were 
transplanted in 1945 and 1946 into new, heavy black 
soil which produces the best of rhizomes. 
We have hundreds of varieties not listed here, 
partly because of limited quantities, partly because 
of labor conditions. 
IRIS HONORS. The initials H. M. mean Honor- 
able Mention; A. M. Award of Merit; and D. or 
Dykes, the Dykes Medal. These are all honors 
voted to various Irises by numerous official Iris 
judges and awarded by national Iris Societies. The 
Dykes Medal is the highest honor an Iris can re- — 
ceive. and not more than one each year can be 
awarded in this country, one in France, and one 
in England. 
