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Another year has sailed by and we are still in business struggling with the high 
cost of many items just like the rest of you. In the first place we want to thank our 
thousands of customers for the fine orders sent in last 
year. For if there were No Orders then No Business and 
No Iris, but there were plenty of orders, in fact our mail 
man looked pretty much wore out at times. Actually it 
keeps two or more people (Fern E. Geiser plus one or 
more others) busy at the office desk and typewriter 
writing orders and answering letters. 
Last year we had a fine 
growing season: plenty of 
rain, plenty of Kansas , 
sunshine, plenty of fine @ 
big healthy roots. In fact 
we help nature out some- 
what by a system of ro- 
tating our planting plots 
(with 14 acres and over 2,200 varieties of iris, we have 
many plots). Sweet clover, alfalfa, wheat and other crops 
rotated on the land and with iris, makes for plenty 
healthy easily acclimated roots. We don’t claim to 
grow the largest roots in the world but we do believe 
we have the hardiest and best acclimated roots which RAL 
will do well anywhere! Ba ; 

Every year we visit many iris gardens taking 
Kodachrome pictures. Our slide collection now num- 
| bers over 400 slides. We will 
gladly loan a group of these 
slides (a collection suitable 
for an evenings showing) to 
fee any interested Garden Club. 
m1 No Rental Charge however 
fmiwe ship COD for postage 
mand insurance charges. 
ma Slides must be returned to 
eyaus by Prepaid Insured Par- 
macel Post and in addition a 
icharge of 25c is made for 
each slide broken when 
used. Our collection of slides — 
as shown last January 22nd in the Royal Horticultural 
Hall of London, England in addition to being shown to in- 
terested Iris Groups there in England. If interested in 
showing these slides, write us. For nearby communities, 
2 i See we also have a lecture service plan—in which Melvin G. 
Geiser combmes an interesting Iris lecture with a showing of the above mentioned 
colored slides. Charges are nominal with many FREE door prizes given. 


