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Well now, maybe the title above IS a little strong for this department, but we 
thought you would pay more attention if we gave it an intriguing sort of title. And 
if we love the folks who wrote them then why aren’t they “love letters”? 
It’s nice to know that Edenwald plants perform satisfactorily from Washington 
to Vermont and from Wisconsin to Texas but, more than that, it thrills us to feel 
that it is the mission of these plants to bring enjoyment to lovely people in distant 
gardens. Nice people who are so generous in their appreciation that they feel moved 
to write words of praise for something to which they were entitled, in full measure, 
when they entrusted us with their orders. 
Dear Iris Friends: I can’t resist writing you about 
the iris I got from you last year. Out of the 7 
plants 6 are in bloom. I have had so many visitors 
and they can hardly believe my iris, that I got 
from you, were put out Sept. 14 last. The stems 
are 36 inches tall and each stem has many 
blooms. I have 46 different iris that I ordered 
from six nationally known iris gardens but I 
want you to know there just isn’t any comparison 
with your plants and those I got from other places. 
My plants have from three to five fans right 
now, that you sent. I want to order all my plants 
from you this year. TEXAS 
Edenwald Gardens:—Please send me your new 
iris list. I am anxious to buy some more iris this 
year. The iris I ordered last year are all budded 
now and will be in bloom in a day or so. I never 
have received such large healthy rhizomes. 
NEBRASKA 
Edenwald Gardens:—I sent you my first order for 
iris last summer, and meant_to write you last fall 
and thank you for the large, husky rhizomes 
which you sent me, and also for the gift iris, WM. 
A. SETCHELL, which is now a huge plant and 
the large blooms delighted all who saw them this 
spring. CHINA MAID, GOLDEN TREASURE, 
MELANIE, SABLE, GOLDEN MAJESTY, WA- 
BASH, STARDOM, WEST POINT—but I can’t 
name them all—have made my garden a show 
place with visitors at all hours. I have given your 
name and address to a number of friends, who 
expect to order from you in the future. Again 
thanking you for such nice plants. TENNESSEE 
Gentlemen:—Kindly mail me a copy of your 1946 
iris catalog as I wish to order some additional 
plants. The ones I purchased last summer have 
just finished blooming and they were the finest 
I have ever seen. They were the talk of the town! 
NEW YORK 
Dear Sirs:—I was so pleased with the fine iris 
that I ordered from you last year, that I am 
sending you a larger order this season. Last year 
I ordered from several places but your rhizomes 
were decidedly the finest of any that I received. 
Every one of them have bloomed. I lent my cata- 
log to a neighbor and I think she has already 
placed an order with you. Thanking you in ad- 
vance for the fine iris which I am expecting in 
July, I am— VIRGINIA 
Gentlemen:—Could I please have your little cata- 
log of Irises & Daylilies? My neighbor across the 
street, Mrs. B., has some irises blooming now that 
she got from your gardens last summer. They 
are beautiful! CALIFORNIA 
Dear Edith and Walter Buss:—The last shipment 
of iris came in fine condition. All the plants I got 
from you last year bloomed this spring but one. 
Even MING YELLOW that a pet calf pulled up 
three times, and it has three beautiful fans for 
next year. Wm. Setchell didn’t bloom but has 
huge fans. All good fortune to a garden that puts 
out such wonderful stock! WISCONSIN 
For instance:— 
Dear Sir:—Last spring we received a shipment of 
rhizomes from you, the finest and largest we have 
ever received. Many thanks! My wife and I grow 
chrysanthemums, iris and delphiniums, also sell 
plants. The State Nursery Inspector was here and 
told us that your rhizomes were the finest he had 
seen in this District of Ohio. OHIO 
Dear Edenwald:—This is just to tell you that I 
was so happy this spring, when my iris, which I 
ordered from you last summer, bloomed so beauti- 
fully. Three of them didn’t bloom but I wish you 
could have seen the rest, especially MISS CALI- 
FORNIA, INDIAN HILLS and WM. A. SETCH- 
ELL—the last one the ‘“‘extra’’ you sent. The 
hemerocallis I got from you two years ago have 
done so nicely, I am wanting some morve. J. A. 
Crawford and Ophir, which came in a Collection, 
bloomed for weeks and had stalks over four feet 
tall. They were certainly satisfactory. I am order- 
ing more yellow and orange ones and hoping the 
pink and red ones will be in my price range in 
another year. OKLAHOMA 
Edenwald Gardens:—Enclosed please find $15 for 
one $10 Collection and one $5 one. These are for 
neighbors whose gardens adjoin my own and who 
have admired my iris so much. My own order will 
follow a little later. The plants you have sent me 
the past two years have been wonderful. I only 
lost one. Two of them have not blossomed but the 
plants are strong and healthy. Those that blos- 
somed are beautiful and much admired by many. 
I heartily recommend the Edenwald Gardens to 
all. VERMONT 
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Buss:—I was so pleased with 
the iris I received from you last year and the 
dwarf iris and hemerocallis received this year, 
that I’ve decided to try some of your new varieties 
of Siberian Iris. Last year I sent to a Hemerocallis 
specialist for 16 plants—but when they came I 
was so disappointed I could have cried—they were 
the smallest, most insignificant plants I ever saw. 
I paid $69 for them and didn’t get any ‘‘extra’’ 
either. However, all the plants lived except one— 
SPITFIRE, and a few of them did bloom, but I 
was not pleased with the plants. They are not as 
large now as the plants you sent this year. I do 
not expect extras but I do expect good sturdy 
plants and I’m so pleased when I receive plants 
like yours—not counting the extras for which I 
wish to thank you. You see, I’ve passed my three 
score and ten, and am, perhaps a little childish 
and don’t like the idea of having to wait three or 
four years to see a new plant bloom. Thanking 
you again, I am— COLORADO 
Dear Folks:—Last year I ordered 27 varieties of 
iris from you and ever since the crop started I 
have been kicking myself for not starting long 
ago. As you probably know, the plants were simply 
elegant and now have from 2-7 fans each. All 
except two are going to bloom and it’s too early 
to be sure about them. So few people have good 
iris that I have been carrying around a single 
bloom—and tell them it’s an orchid. I have visited 
Dr.. Grave’s garden so often that I have been an 
Irisarian at heart for years and hope to get to 
L. Merton Gage’s next week. You may expect to 
hear from me yearly till I’m smothered in iris. 
MASSACHUSETTS 
