Greetings... 
for Spring 
. 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 
. a 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 GE 
big healthy roots. In fact “@@y 
we help nature out some- tit 
what by a system of ro- 
tating our planting plots | 
(with 17 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 
will do well anywhere! 

Every year thousands of people visit our gardens 
taking Kodachrome pictures of the iris and iris 
fields—others take motion 
pictures of the crowds in 
the iris fields. During iris 
blooming season, several 
picnic tables are available 
for those driving from a 
distance. Peope living at a 
distance will be advised of 
best blooming dates if a 
| self-addressed stamped postal card is sent us in advance. 
Large groups of visitors and Garden Clubs should con- 
tact us in advance in order to partially prevent 3 or 4 
clubs from arriving on the same day to view the gardens. 
Our private collection of Kodachrome slides was 
shown January 22, 1949 in the Royal Horticultural Hall 
of London, England in addition to being shown to inter- 
ested Iris Groups there in England. 

