TALL BEARDED IRIS 
Well here we are again friends with nice iris for 
your gardens. 
We wish to thank our many friends and iris lovers 
for their liberal patronage and for the many fine letters 
of commendation. One of the thrills of the iris season is 
to receive praise for our efforts and friendly greetings 
from our friends. 
It would be difficult to find an organization where 
there is so much friendship and good fellowship express- 
ed between the members as in the iris society, and we 
wish to extend our best wishes to all members for their 
health, happiness and for a prosperous year. 
More people are becoming interested in flower 
gardening each year. It brings them closer to nature, and 
many more are also interested in iris and this results in 
many more good varieties of iris ‘being created and in- 
troduced. 
With these introductions come newer and better 
iris and there seems to be no limit to what may be ac- 
complished in iris propagation. 
We have been fortunate enough to produce several 
very fine creations to add to the constantly growing list 
of new iris. Our Southern Paeific, a large lavender blue, 
is now several years old and is more reasonable in price 
this year, and our So Big Texas, another large lavender 
blue is listed higher. Both of these are very large and 
soft toned and strong growers. This season we are in- 
troducing four nice ones, B.P.O.E. an unusual vivid pur- 
nle with a million dollar fragrance, and has a splendjd 
shaped strong plant, and Crystal Palace, a yery fine ity 
bluish tinted white which attracts more attention than 
any other white in our garden, and McMinnville, a very 
fine layender blue, very tall and stately, and Spirit of 
Amity, a clear icy white which is a real beauty. 
We have a nice lot of El Mohrthis year and it is 
one of the real sensations of the present iris age, and 
the price is more reasonable this season. 
OUR NEW INTRODUCTIONS 
CRYSTAL PALACE. This beautiful clear white is icy in 
appearance and has just enough blue tint to take away 
the bleached effect, tne parent iris, Purissima, the pollen 
iris, Ei Capitan, petals artistically waved, well jeweled, 
and of splendid form and is exceptionally thrilling, es- 
pecially when viewed IN A SETTING SUNLIGHT. 
3.P.0.E. This is a deep rich silky purple self with well 
shaped petais, and splendid strong plants of excellent 
form, the standards have a silky appearance and the 
falls a velvety, and it has a most pleasing fragrance. It 
has a prominent yellow beard and the whole plant and 
flowers are of the best form and color. 
MeMINNVII.LE. This lovely iris is a soft lavender blue, 
well shaved plants and tarl strong stems, very tall and 
stately, falls and standards are silky and well shaped, 
the falls have slight light markings and the blooms are 
very large and the markings are much less noticeable 
than in other large bloomig iris, splendid yellow beard 
shading to lighter at outer end, yery faint fragrance if 
any, petals jeweled, and the parent plant is Sierra Blue, 
pollen plant unknown, blooming period around 30 days. 
SPIRIT OF AMITY. Thisis a clear white with faint 
bluish tint, icy in appearance, well jeweled, falls have 
shght light markings, through haft, beard yellow shad- 
ing to lighter at outer end, large flowers on strong 
medium stems, no fragrance, blooming period around 20 
days, attracts more attention than the purer whites, 
parent plant Purissima, pollen plant unknown, blooms 
are of good substance and are lovely. 
