having seen additional bloom here as well as at Carbondale and Wilmette, 
I feel sure that they have no superiors in their color classes. It is with 
great pleasure that I introduce CAHOKIA and PIERRE MENARD. 
CAHOKIA (Faught 1948) LM 45” This large exquisitely formed flower 
is of a color for which breeders have been striving. It is a self of 
light butterfly blue delicately veined with deeper blue. There is no 
hint of lavender in the color. The standards and falls are arching. 
The beard is golden yellow and all haft marks are hidden by the extreme 
fulness of the flower. The stem is strong with 3 wide well balanced 
branches carrying 5 to 6 flowers. The substance is excellent. I con- 
sider: this:the-best-iris-| have seen., HH. G:-A.l, 8. 1947 eed $25.00 
PIERRE MENARD (Faught 1948) 38” A sister seedling of Cahokia that 
has the effect of a dark medium blue self. The slightly open standards 
are hyacinth blue. The flaring falls are campanula violet veined hya- 
cinth blue. The beard is canary yellow surrounded by a patch of light 
hyacinth blue. As with its sister all haft marks are hidden by the 
fullness of the flower. This flower is very large having been measured 
with a spread of 8” and height of 6”. Stem strong with close but well 
spaced branching. The 5 buds open in ideal sequence. Those who like 
their blues in the darker register prefer this flower. H.C. A.1L.S. 
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ORIENTAL BAZAR (Buneaux 1948) Mr. John Buneaux of Chicago, who 
originated this flower, was growing iris before many of us knew there 
was such a flower. He started growing them early in life. In his 
garden in 1945 I thought that this was the best new seedling, that I 
saw, that year. It is one of the most colorful iris that I have seen. The 
domed standards are amber with the upper half flushed red. The falls 
are lilac rose edged with a band of amber 3-16” in width. The hatts 
are reddish amber. The amber crests on the style arms seem to envelop 
the yellow orange beard. The 34 in. stem carries 5 buds. Mr. Buneaux 
says the branching is poor but at Warrensburg its excellence was re- 
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THE PENGUIN (Goodman 1948) Mr. Richard Goodman of Riverside, Ill. 
is an-artist by avocation. His tastes in iris run to the unusual. As I 
saw The Penguin blooming in his garden last summer I thought it both 
unusual and at the same time a connoisseur’s flower. It is a very color- 
ful plicata. The ground color is white. The standards are wide and 
heavily dotted cinnamon brown. The broad hafted falls have a clear 
white center surrounded by a 3-8” margin in cinnamon brown. The 
brown coloring is bright so that the colors carry well. There is no 
tendency of the wide petals to pinch. Branching Good. Substance 
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