1947 
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(Tell Muhlestein, Owner. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Crosby, Growers.) 
691 East 8th North — Provo, Utah 

Soreword 
Greetings! 
This year we would like to invite everyone to visit Utah, and our gard- 
ens, for 1947 is Utah’s Centennial. We know you will find that our once 
desert-land has, indeed, been made to ‘“‘blossom as the rose” (or the iris.) In 
a special way we, too, are celebrating this centennial with six of our own 
introductions and another from the hand of our friend Mrs. P. E. Corey, of 
Reading, Mass. We are sure the iris-loving fancy will like our offerings. 
COOL LEMONADE is as refreshing as a drink of cool lemonade on a warm 
spring day. CREAM GOLD is equally refreshing with all the charm of its 
parents. DAWN OVERLAY we think you will find a new departure in color- 
ing. GOLD RUFFLES, although a bit marked with cinnamon reticulations 
on the haft, has been the one iris almost everyone has asked for, so we are of- 
fering it with apologies. but with an assurance that it will catch your heart- 
strings. MIRROR LAKE, too, has its faults in high branching and a lack of 
buds, but its color, grace and form will, we are sure, compensate; the tlowers 
hold their shape and color until they wither. RARE MARBLE is the brightest 
red-trimmed plicata we have grown. And from Mrs. Corey her lovely AMITY, 
an unusual blue and white plicata, which might be referred to as a “fancy” by 
Prof. Mitchell or as a ‘“‘Striate’ by Mr. Tompkins. We saw AMITY in its 
glory in Southern California last spring. We know you will like all of these 
iris, and we introduce them with a full realization of the strong competition 
they must meet. Since 1942 I have grown approximately ten thousand seed- 
lings yearly. 
For two years Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Crosby of Orem, Utah have been 
growing and increasing my iris stock, for my own space in Provo is principally 
occupied with the growing of seedlings and breeding stock. We hope those of 
you who have not tried our plants will give us an order. We think you will 
find our rhizomes as fine as anything grown. The Orem soil is ideal for iris 
culture. It is a light sandy loam without rocks—only a goodly supply of 
natural unused food elements. The hands of this couple are, indeed, expert 
in the care of these plants. Mrs. Crosby has become an extensive hybridizer, 
so we anticipate the year of her first introduction. Nearly all the plants we 
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