
ARVISTA GARDENS 1 

ARVISTA GARDENS 
68 Grand Boulevard Battle Creek, Mich. | 
ROY V. ASHLEY, Owner i 
The home of ARVISTA GARDENS is just three 
houses north of Highway US-12 one block east of 
its junction with M-78. Visitors are welcome. 
Our Irises usually show their best bloom during 
the first week of June; Oriental Poppies and Peonies 
first to third weeks; and Hemerocallis during the 
second week of July. We nearly always have Hemer- 
ocallis in bloom from the middle of May until the 
ground freezes in the fall. Plant them for better 
homes and better living. 
THE FINEST OF IRISES 
THERE ARE GIANTS IN THESE DAYS! 
And this refers to our present day Irises. The 
older Irises were colorful and prolific, but mostly 
the flowers were small, of poor form and little sub- 
stance. Practically all of the Irises here listed have 
been developed and introduced within the past fifteen 
years. Nearly all produce very large flowers—2 to 4 
times as large as the older sorts—are good growers 
and splendidly formed, with strong stalks and heavy 
substance, and they show us many new colorings and 
color blends. Our large plantings of Irises include 
more than one-half of the 100 finest Irises listed in 
1947 by the Judges Syposium of the American Iris 
Society, besides many wonderful sorts too new to be 
mecluded in that list. 
IRIS—“The most decorative form in all the flower 
world.” 
Practically all of the Irises herein offered were 
transplanted last season into fine, new soil which 
produces the best of rhizomes. 
We have hundreds of varieties not listed here, 
partly because of limited quantities, partly because 
of labor conditions. 
IRIS HONORS. The initials H. M. mean Honor 
able Mention; A. M. Award of Merit; and D. or 
Dykes, the Dykes Medai. These are all honors 
voted to various Irises by numerous oficial] Iris 
judges and awarded by national Iris Societies, The 
Dykes Medal is the highest honor an Iris can re- 
ceive. and not more than one each year can be 
awarded in this country, one in France, and one 
in iknglaend. 
