GREETINGS 
WE WERE PLEASED with your response to our list last season 
and wish to thank you for your patronage and many letters 
complimenting us on the way we filled your orders. They will 
be even more generously filled this year for we have greatly 
expanded our planting both in extent and number of varieties. 
Daylilies have been added while we omitted some bulbs for 
which demand was light. These can still be bought on inquiry. 
We welcome wholesale customers and can offer attractive 
prices on large lots. 
We are prepared for mail orders only, having no salesmen 
or sales yard. Order blanks enclosed. 
INTRODUCTIONS FOR 1949 
After many years of breeding iris, our seed beds in the last 
three years have been yielding improvements and breaks in 
new lines that we are sure every breeder and hobbiest will be 
eager to have. These will be released as soon as it is possible 
to do so. Stocks of most of these are still very small. 
Oncocyclus Hybrids 
HEIGHO—An extremely vigorous and prolific hybrid with fine 
clean foliage and tall wiry stems 45” high, ideally branched, 
5-7 buds. The immense globe like flowers are of very heavy 
substance and both standards and falls are unusually broad 
and full. They are smoothly colored clear Bradley violet with a 
hint of a signal patch at the tip of the dull orange gold beard. 
Another remarkable feature of this fine iris is the extent of its 
flowering period, for it starts flowering very early and con- 
tinues flowering when only the late iris are its companions. 
It is probably my best introduction to date. Bred from Puris- 
sima x Capitola. $35.00 net 
HURRICANE—Immense broad flaring flower of toughest texture, 
incredibly floriferous. Flower color variable, usually a near 
self of pale powder blue, but sometimes suffused and flecked 
in an exotic manner with a warmer darker blue. This superbly 
formed iris is rated by many iris society judges as my best iris. 
| slightly prefer its sister seedlings Heigho and Peg Dabagh. 
(No. 6172 H.C., A.I.S. 1948) $25.00 net 
ANATOLIA—30” well branched stem with 5 buds that open into 
medium sized flowers of good full form and substance. Color 
applied with much pattern in the oncocyclus manner but also 
slightly suggesting its plicata parents. Light red-violet to 
lavender in effect and slightly bicolor due to delicate all over 
veining and stipping on the falls and suggestion of a signal 
at the tip of the beard. It is the most onco-like derivative of 
Wm. Mohr now in commerce, and a flower that appeals par- 
ticularly to those who like patterned flowers, as | do. Bred 
from (Tiffany x L.A.) x Capitola. $15.00 net 
BLUE OX—A very large smooth lavender blue flower of leather 
like substance. It is the remarkable substance of the flower 
and the lush massive quality of the plant that recommend it 
for introduction, for in color and pattern one would not guess 
that there was a trace of oncocyclus in it. It suggests the 
older blue iris like El Capitan, but in the qualities a breeder 
wants like placement, carriage and all that makes a fine iris, 
it suggested great possibilities. The few seedlings flowered 
from it confirm this. No Pollen, easily seeded to Eupogons and 
Onco-hybrids. Stock small and the plant is untested in cold 
climates and probably tender. Acropolis x C. G. White onco- 
bred. $15.00 net 
