SUNNYSIDE GARDENS, NATICK, MASS. 
1947 
CHOICE IRISES 
GROWN AT 
Sunnyside Gardens 
NATICK, MASS. 
L. MERTON GAGE, Grower 
SUNNYSIDE GARDENS 
Are located at No. 64 North Avenue. Visitors are 
welcome any day in the week. I grow more than 
500 varieties of the best modern kinds, including 
a great many of the recent novelties of merit, and 
several thousand seedlings of my own raising. 
IMPORTANT 
Postage will be paid on all orders amounting to 
$2.00 or more. Orders for less than $1.00 are not 
accepted. 25% discount allowed on orders amount- 
ing to $10 or more, except varieties priced Net. 
We begin shipping the middle of July and up to the 
first of September. To Southern States and the 
West Coast until late October. 
SUBSTITUTES 
Late orders should include a list of substitutes 
in case some varieties are sold out. Otherwise 
your money will be returned for varieties out of 
stock. 
SHIPPING 
None but fully matured and blooming-size roots, 
properly dried out before packing, are sent out. 
Fresh dug roots, packed too soon after digging, 
are liable to sweat in transit, if the weather is, 
hot, especially if they are packed in a tightly- 
closed box with no ventilation. The rhizome then 
becomes soft, followed by rot, soon after planting. 
(Holes are always punched in the box to give free 
circulation of air). Always examine the rhizomes 
soon as received, and if they are not firm and hard 
ela at once to the dealer you purchased them 
rom, 
JOIN THE AMERICAN IRIS SOCIETY 
You will receive four Bulletins each year, chock 
full of Iris interest, all for $3.00. Send your 
remittance to Howard Watkins, 821 Washington 
Loan and Trust Co. Building, Washington, D. C. 
DYKES MEMORIAL MEDAL 
The judges of the American Iris Society award- 
ed the Dykes Memorial Medal to L. Merton Gage, 
for his Iris, Rosy Wings, as the most meritorious 
American Iris of 1939. This medal is presented 
by the Iris Society (British), yearly. 
BRONZE MEDALS 
The Bronze Medal of the Massachusetts Horti- 
cultural Society was presented to L. Merton Gage, 
for his Sunnyside Gardens Collection of Irises, in 
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