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More About Our New 
RAINBOW IRIS MANUAL 
You will find this new MANUAL to be a veritable compendium of Iris lore and useful 
information about all types of Iris, and about hybridizing in its many phases. You will be 
pleased to note how simple are the requirements of all of the different types of Iris, that 
you want so much to grow—undoubtedly including various types that no one in your entire 
community has ever seen. Think how much they will add to your garden, to your table 
decorations, or to your exhibits at flower shows! You will take up their culture with new 
confidence and enthusiasm when you have the full, explicit directions for the care of each 
and every one. You will find much satisfaction in being able to make new types of plants happy 
in your own garden. We think you will be pleased that these various sets of instructions are 
not On separate, easily-lost sheets, but all together in one handy booklet. 
When you have examined the MANUAL and have appraised its contents, we will be glad 
to hear from you and to have your comments and suggestions for improving future editions. 
Also see pages 2 and 24. 
We Wender.... 
DO YOU AGREE WITH THESE CUSTOMER APPRAISALS OF OUR CATALOG—AND DO YOU WANT 
A FREE COPY OF THE 1950 EDITION OF RAINBOW OFFERINGS? IF SO, READ PARAGRAPH AT RIGHT. 
“Is that some catalog! I never saw anything like it! It is more than a catalog, being 
a compendium of trade secrets, inside information and a stimulus to wishful thinking 
that shows that you understand the psychology of Tris hounds. I hope I stay on your 
mailing list for life.”-—G. G., Bell, California. 
“I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your combination catalog and 
text book. It is just what I have wanted and didn’t know where to find for so long. Your 
catalog is as unique as some of your new Iris.” —L. G., Jerome, Idaho. 
“Your catalog is certainly an individual with a personality.”,—L. T., Felton, Calif. 
“IT have yet to see a catalog that holds the wealth of information found in yours. 
Yes, we look over the others and enjoy them, but we refer to yours constantly and get 
a wealth of knowledge—the things we really want to know.”—Mrs. A. H. H., Davis, 
California. 
“Your catalog is most unique and interesting. I studied your ‘rainbow’ until I almost 
wore the page out.’”’—Mrs. G. B. T., Mangum, Oklahoma. 
“Your ad says: ‘Now’s the time—It’s only a dime’. It’s more than worth it. I have re- 
ceived it before. Here’s 40c for 4 of them, to go to names enclosed.”’—Mrs. R. E. R., 
Pueblo, Colorado. 
“Your arrangement of the blooming seasons of Iris is a great help in planning color 
combinations that will bloom at the same time.”—Mrs. L. A. M., Yukon, Oklahoma. 
“The fact that you are interested in serving the customer, rather than just selling, 
and in helping beginners who would like to know more of Iris hybridization, means a 
great deal to me in the selection of a company with which to do business.” —Mrs. J. H., 
Dallas, Texas. 
“TI am enclosing 30c for my copy of your 1949 Iris catalog—and one for each of two 
gardening friends here. I know they will treasure and keep the catalogs for future 
reference, as I do. I should want it every year if it cost 5 times as much.”—Mrs. 
R. C. B., Sycamore, Illinois. 
Customers’ Views on our Aylridizing Kits, Peamanent Labels, Etc. 
“Thank you for sending the Hybridizing Kit Air Mail-Special Delivery as I requested. 
I was much pleased with it, as it systematized my usual haphazard procedures.”—Dr. 
H. H. E., Lincoln, Nebraska. 
“IT was so pleased with my label set, I now want to order 100 more.”—Mrs. J. L. M., 
Modesto, California. 
“I wish to thank you for the special attention you gave to my order for Iris, to be 
sent to my daughter in Sacramento. They reached her exactly on her birthday, and she 
was greatly pleased with them.”—Mrs. A. K. W., Atlantic City, New Jersey. 
**4 few of us who obtained Iris from you and on which you included your tags, had 
the occasion to lose one for a year or more via the route of it becoming buried. Upon 
recovering it over a year afterward we could not get over the fact that all we had to 
do was to brush the dirt off and there we had it again as good as new. If it will hold up 
that good underneath the ground and still retain its legibility, then you sure have got 
something.” —Mr. B. S. A., Mio, Michigan. 
“Have been using the Hybridizer’s Kit for quite some time and have had wonderful 
results so far this year.”—Mrs. K. B. A., LaCanada, California. 
“I know why flowers bloom so beautifully for you—it is that they are trying to 
return to you a measure of the happiness you bring to others!”—Mrs. E. T., Porter- 
ville, California. 



FOR BEGINNERS 
30 OLD FAVORITES 
35¢ each, postpaid, labeled 
3 of a kind, $ .90 3 different, $1.00 
10 of a kind, $2.75 10 different, $3.00 
1 EACH OF ALL 30 FOR $8.75 
Rameses—Light pink and gold; Dykes Medal ‘32. 
Rosy Wings—Medley of bright rose and copper. 
Sacramento—Tall white plicata, marked lilac-pink. 

Pink 

Cheerio—Golden red above bright scarlet red. 
Junaluska—Blend of red and yellow with dark red. 
Indian Chief—Fragrant deep amaranth red bitone. 
E. B. Willamson—Coppery pink and light crimson. 
Magnifica—Brightest crimson of them all. 
Red 

Berkeley Bronze—Large, free-flowering bronze-red. 
Bronze Beacon—Tall bronzy-red; very late. 
Buff 
Desert Gold—Early, luminous light yellow. ; 
Happy Days —Today’s glamour Iris; giant light 
yellow. 
Helios—Vigorous lemon-yellow and cream. 
Sunol—Hardy light yellow, blazed heliotrope. 
Naranja—Nearest to orange of inexpensive Iris. 
Yellow 

Peacemaker—White & lavender; good harmonizer. 
Gudrun—Gigantic, huge pure white; hardy. 
Purissima—Finest of older whites. Tender in East. 
White 

Sierra Blue—Very tall, deep blue. Dykes Medal ‘35. 
El Capitan—Very large, fetching light lilac-blue. 
San Diego—Huge dark violet-blue of gothic form. 
Buechley Giant—Gigantic, lustrous lavender blue. 
Santa Clara—Ruffled periwinkle blue; tall. 
Leonato—Silvery bluish heliotrope; early, fragrant. 
Blue 

Sir Michael—Lavender-blue and contrasting red- 
purple. ; 
Persia—Unique; soft dove grey and bright purple. 
Valor—Fine tall bitone; velvety black violet and 
lilac. 
Black Wings—Near black, like a bird in flight. 
Violet 

San Gabriel—Lustrous rosy lavender; tall, early. 
Plurabelle—Golden buff and harmonizing mauve. 
Lilac 

Do You Want Our 1950 Catalog? 
Our new 1950 catalog, with many exciting new 
offerings, new pictures, new information, etc., 
will be sent automatically to all who favor us 
with an order this year. We wish we could also 
send it to the many who receive our catalog 
this year and who do not order, but high print- 
ing costs prevent this. We must avoid catalog 
wastage if we are to continue to offer you sav- 
ings such as you find herein. So, if you wish to 
receive our 1950 catalog, please send us a 
trial order, and then see if what we send you 
does not make you a regular customer. This 
1949 catalog, or in due time, next year’s edition, 
will be sent for 10c to anyone interested in 
adding Iris to his garden. 
Multicolored HYBRID BROOM Seed 
Next to our Iris, our Multicolored Hybrid 
Brooms (Cytisus) receive the most exclamations 
of delight from visitors. Our seed is of the fa- 
mous strain developed by Prof. S. B. Mitchell. 
Contains wide array of brilliant, contrasting col- 
ors—red, gold, apricot, rose, brown, orange, 
etc. Very rapid growing—you get a full grown 
6-foot shrub in 2 years from seed. For Western- 
ers and others in fairly mild climates. . . . Here’s 
a suggestion which, if carried out, will bring 
interested queries from every visitor to your gar- 
den. Sow half a packet of these seeds over a 
circular area about 15 inches in diameter. As 
soon as seedlings bloom, thin out, leaving about 
8 to give greatest possible variety in colors. 
They will soon grow together into what appears 
to be one large bush. Everyone will exclaim, and 
want to know how you obtained so many bright 
colors on one bush. Try it. 
Packet of about 300 seeds—75c; 3 for $2.00 
OUR VARIETY DESCRIPTIONS 
Note the length of our descriptions of varie- 
ties and species, and the wealth of information 
that they contain. We assemble and digest this 
for you from innumerable reference works, com- 
bined with our own records. 
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