ARVISTA GARDENS 
ROY V. ASHLEY, Owners 
168 Grand Blvd. Battle Creek, Mich. 
28th YEAR 
EXTENSIVE COLLECTIONS OP CHOICE NEWEB 
TRISES, HEMEROCALLIS, and TREE PEONIES 
1950, and Spring 1951 

TERMS - Read Carefully 
TERMS: Cash with order, by check, draft or 
money order. 10% discount on orders over $30.00. 
No discount on collections. 
TRANSPORTATION: We pay parcel post or ex- 
press charges on all retail orders in the U. S. A. 
that amount to $2.00 or more except as noted. On 
small orders, add 25c for postage and packing. 
MICHIGAN customers, be sure to add 8% sales 
tax. 
We. are always glad to quote special prices on 
quantity orders. We can make attractive prices in 
ey cases on orders for dozens to hundreds of a 
Send us with your order the names of five or more 
friends interested in Iris, Hemerocallis or Tree 
Peonies, and we will be glad to include extras with 
your order. 
We are very grateful to all our customers who 
have sent us such nice orders. In filling our orders, 
we always try to do a little more than we promise. 
Just a few of the many kind comments of our cus- 
tomers will be found elsewhere in this catalogue. 
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 always welcome at ARVISTA GAR- 
DENS, though on Saturdays we are usually occupied 
otherwise and not able to give them personal at- 
tention. 
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 
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 80% of the 100 finest Irises listed in 1949 
by the Judges Symposium of the American Iris 
Society, besides many wonderful sorts too new to be 
included in that list. 
IRIS HONORS. The initials H. M. mean Honor- 
able Mention; A. M. Award of Merit; and D. ar 
Dykes, the Dykes Medal. These are all honors 
voted to various Irises by numerous official 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 England. 
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, 
because of limited quantities. 
