Greetings — 7947 
A last minute message to you. It is mid April and Spring is here at last. The 
garden is cleaned and it looks very promising. There is no winter injury—not 
even a bloom point gone. A long growing season last fall gave especially good 
increase on all plantings. The new seedlings look fine and we should have a high 
percentage of bloom on them this year. 
We are hoping that many of you will visit us sometime during the blooming 
season. It usually begins in late May and extends well into June. Over a hundred 
new varieties from other breeders will bloom for their first time here this spring. 
There will be hundreds of new seedlings of our own that have never bloomed 
before. Then there will be the numbered ones that we have saved and watched 
for one, two or three years, trying to decide which ones are best. We will need 
help to pick the very best ones for later introduction. There is No. 4367, which 
has been registered PINK CORAL. We are pretty sure of this one—a true coral 
pink self from MIRABELLE x CEDAR ROSE. And the clear light pinks from 
(MIRABELLE x ANGELUS) x SHANNOPIN, some selfs and some amoenas. No 
tangerine beards here, but pure, light pinks with natural beards of light yellow 
to white. One has been name APPLEBLOSSOM TIME and one MAY BLOOM. 
New and amazing shades of red and orange are coming from ROCKET, GARDEN 
GLORY and MELLOWGLOW. These can now be seen only at Maple Valley. 
Whiting Introductions that have gone out into the world may be seen in many 
other gardens. In the Pacific Northwest, they may be seen at Cooley’s, Weeds, De- 
Forest’s, Schreiner’s, Maxwell’s and Linse’s gardens. In California many of them 
grow in the gardens of Mrs. Pollock, Mr. Salbach, Mrs. Pattison, the Millikens, 
Mr. Heller, Tom Craig and others. In Utah, Tell Muhlstein grows most of them, 
and in Denver, Colorado, the lovely new garden of Mrs. Nina N. Winegar, Land- 
scape Architect, at 1950 South Madison St., contains a complete collection of Whit- 
ing irses. Many of the newer ones can also be seen at L. D. Long’s in Boulder, 
Colorado. In Texas, Mrs. Ray at Ft. Worth and Guy Rogers at Wichita Falls, grow 
a good many of the newer Whiting Irises. 
Many gardens in the Midwest grow Whiting Introductions—I can mention only a 
few of the best known ones: Ricker, Snyder and Tompkins of Sioux City; the Sass 
Gardens near Omaha and the Winne and Svoboda gardens at Beatrice, Nebraska; 
the Schirmers of St. Joe and the Grinters of Independence, Missouri; John Ohl of 
Wichita and Melvin Geiser of Beloit, Kansas, the Schreinr Gardens in St. Paul, 
Minn., and many others. In the Chicago area, irises from here can be seen at Dr. 
Franklin Cook’s, and Mr. Hall’s. At the Williamson’s and Paul Cook’s near Bluff- 
ton, at the Hillsdale Gardens of Logansport and the Edenwald Gardens at Vin- 
cennes, Indiana, many of the newer Whiting introductions are growing. At Nash- 
ville, Tennessee, J. Wills, G. Douglas and Tom Williams have most of the better 
irises from Maple Valley. 
Farther East many of the Whiting irises may be seen in the gardens of Dr. 
Graves, the Kelloggs, Mr. McKee, Mrs. Nesmith and Kenneth Smith. Mr. Fishburn 
has always grown a good many Whiting introductions and nearly all of them, as 
well as many seedlings, grow in Mrs. Blake’s lovely garden in Spartanburg, South 
Carolina. In England Mr. H. J. Randall has an almost complete collection of 
Maple Valley irises in his garden at Woking. 
Perhaps many of you will visit our gardens on your way to the Annual Meeting 
in Evanston. But if you cannot, we hope that you will see and enjoy Maple Val- 
ley irises wherever you go. They are Irises from Iowa, Made in Mapleton. 
