An Invitation 
To enable you to fully appreciate your peonies and be kept up to date on new introduc- 
tions, methods of cultivation, etc., you should join the American Peony Society. The dues are 
$3 per year and this will include the bulletins issued by this society. If interested, send your 
remittance to us and we will attend to the rest, or if you desire to forward direct, address W. F. 
Christman, Secretary, American Peony Society,Northbrook, Ill. 
In addition to the invitation extended to join one of the Horticultural Societies you have a 
standing invitation to visit our fields. 
We are constantly adding new varieties to our already extensive collection and will wel- 
come the opportunity to acquaint you with them. 
If you have a garden loving friend who would like a copy of our catalog, kindly send us 
his name and address and we will see that one is promptly mailed, 
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; JOIN THE AMERICAN IRIS SOCIETY \ 
444 Chestnut Street—Nashville 10, Tennessee 
Dues $3.00 per year. The four quarterly bulletins will Been you “up-to-date” on iris cul- 
ture and the latest happenings. 
The new book: The Iris An Ideal Hardy Perennial, written and published by members ‘of 
the American Society, is a gem which every one should have. Paper bound $1.50. Permanent 
binding $2.50. 
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THE MIDWEST HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY 
INVITES YOU 
TO BECOME A MEMBER 
Already we have an enthusiastic membership drawn from nearly every state in the Union. 
If you are interested in Hemerocallis, the flower of the future, this new organization needs 
you and you need it. We want personal experience reports from hundreds of gardens, ‘These, 
and the best adivice from leading hybridizers, will be carefully collected and annually sent 
back to you in an attractive and useful yearbook which will also contain the names and ad- 
dresses of our members to date. There will be bulletins and printed matter from time to time, 
and there is a loan library of Hemerocallis literature. 
Annual dues are three dollars ($3.00) and should be mailed to the Secretary-treasurer, 
Pearl] Shewood, Atlantic, Iowa. 
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We have several 400 foot films, 16 mm, that we havé taken, showing many varieties of 
our Peonies, Iris, and Hemerocallis or Daylilies. These are available to all garden clubs that — 
want to see our “flowers in colored movies. The only charges will be the postage and insurance 
in returning the films to us. You will have to have a 16 mm projector to show the _ pictures. 
Bach variety will be titled, so you will know the different ones, Film available after Septem— 
ber 1, 1948. Write us if you want these pictures. We think they will make a nice evening’s en- 
tertainment for you and your garden club. ; 


