CHIVALRY (J. Wills 1944) 
This exquisite Iris, a Dykes Medal winner for 1947, is most 
desirable and should be in every garden. Its blooms are medium 
blue with ruffled edges, having domed standards that are large 
and full. The gracefully flaring falls are broad at the haft, and 
are of excellent texture. A blue tipped orange beard gives a 
finish to this gem of real blue. Midseason. 36’ $7.50 
CLAREMONT (Nies 1947) 
Flowers are dark violet with attractive brown tints in the haft, 
shoulders accentuated further by the burnt orange beard. Falls 
semi-flaring, rich satiny texture. Fall bloomer. 715¢ 
CLOTH OF GOLD (Whiting 1945) 
A vivid clear deep golden yellow with a sparkle. Everybody’s 
favorite, because of its many fine qualities and refinement of 
finish, flaring form, firm substance, and fine branching stalks. 
Midseason. 38’. $2.00 
CLOUD CASTLE (Graves 1944) 
Charming pale wisteria blue self of good size and form with flut- 
ing at the edges of the standards. The wide flaring ruffled falls 
are of smooth texture. It possesses an unusual sparkling sheen. 
37’’. Mid-season. Award of Merit A.1.S. 1949. $3.00 
COCK ROBIN (Hall 1947) 
Here is an enchanting new variegata with tan-gold standards 
and brown-red falls. It will make a brilliant and colorful display 
spot for your garden. Mid-season. 36”. $3.00 
COLOR CARNIVAL (DeForest 1949) 
We saw this in Fred DeForest’s garden while at the 1949 A.1.S. 
Convention. The flower is a deeper pink than Spindrift, and has 
a startling color contrast of bright purplish tones throughout the 
top portion of the fall petals, surrounding a bright tangerine 
beard. No, you never saw anything like it before. It is truly a 
color carnival. Mid-season. 36’. $10.00 
COPPER GLOW (G. Douglas 1945) 
A rich and brilliant Iris. Standards are a blending of coppery rose 
and golden brown and slightly fluted edges. The flaring falls are 
deep golden yellow with an all over flush of same color as the 
standards. Burnished gold beard and styles complete the picture. 
Mid-late. $3.00 
COPPER PINK (Kellogg 1941) 
A beautiful soft pink, flushed with sparkling copper. Fine form 
and substance. U5 
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COPPER ROSE (Cook 1941) 
A blending of old rose, copper and brown, enlivened by a glow 
of golden yellow in the center of the flower. Its smooth silky 
finish, with no venation markings makes this an exceptionally 
fine Iris. $1.00 
CORDOVAN (Kleinsorge 1946) 
This is one of Bryce Canyon’s seedlings. In color it is close to 
that of Cordovan leather. Rich and glossy tones of deep coppery 
ox-blood red. Standards are coppery rose-red. Falls are frilled 
at the edges. Large flowers with good branching. Mid-season. 
3 Ome $2.50 
CORTICA (H. Sass 1940) 
A yellow plicata with neat marking of reddish brown tones, on a 
background of soft yellow. Not a fast grower. UA eas ace 
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COUNTRY LASS (Walker 1947) 
Light rose blend overlaid with buff. Flowers are of good size 
and slightly ruffled. The beard is orange, fine, and very dense. 
Early midseason. 397’. 50c 
COURTIER (D. Hall 1947) 
Deepest in color of all the new ‘’Flamingo” pinks, which is its 
outstanding charm. Not a large flower but its branching is good. 
The deep tangerine beard is very prominent. Mr. Hall says that 
all his flamingo pinks are winter hardy and set seed freely. Mid- 
season. 30”. $6.00 
DAFFY (DeForest 1947) 
A novel innovation and well named. This trim plicata is of good 
form, size and substance. The ground color is near-white, with 
cream on the reverse side of the falls. The standards are flushed 
maroon. Falls are peppered of Zebra stripe and all variations in 
maroon. Mr. DeForest says that some of Daffy’s seedlings show 
the same variations. Try it. Midseason. 36%. $3.00 
DAWN OF GOLD (Salbach 1940) 
A late blooming Iris of deep medium yellow tones. Nicely formed 
flowers with flaring falls. A good increaser. Late. 35”. ioc 
IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY 
DAYBREAK (Kleinsorge 1941) 
Large slightly ruffled flowers of golden pink with a coppery under- 
tone of good form and substance. One of the best pink blends. 
Tied with Ola Kala for Dykes Medal A.1.S. in 1946. $1.25 
DEEP VELVET (Salbach 1939) 
One of the richest dark Irises of deep red-violet. Beautifully 
flared falls. Award of Merit 1942. Mid-late. 36”. 5c 
DESERT SONG (Fay 1946) 
This is definitely one of the most outstanding of the cream col- 
ored Iris. Beautifully flared and ruffled. Excellent substance, 
and clean hafts. Blooms over a long period. Early-mid-season. 
36’. Award of Merit A.I.S. 1949. Sie O 
DISTANCE (Cook 1946) 
Harmonious in its clear smooth silvery light blue coloring. Void 
of veining at the hafts. The beard is white and inconspicuous. 
Mid-season. 36’. Award of Merit A.I.S. 1949. $7.00 
DOWN EAST (Tobie 1943) 
An anthracene purple self with semi-flaring falls of an exqui- 
site velvety texture. The beard is purple, tinted bronze. Mid- 
Seasonans dass $2.50 
DREAMCASTLE (Cook 1943) 
A beautiful clear solid orchid pink color. Its white beard tinted 
lemon yellow at the base makes a very pleasant effect. The large 
flowers with domed standards and semi-flaring falls are striking. 
Award of Merit 1948. $5.00 
DREAM GIRL (Hall 1944) 
This is one of the true ‘’flamingo’’ pinks. Self colored with no 
venations on the haft, and holds its color well. A free bloomer 
and good increaser, but rhizomes are not large. Midseason. 32”. 
$3.00 
DUET (N. Grant 1942) 
A most unique color combination that attracts. Standards are of 
honey-beige with a pink flush, and falls are pleroma violet 
bordered .with same color as standards. Flowers good form, fine 
substance and a long bloomer. Excellent branching. 38’. $1.00 
EASTER BONNET (Maxwell 1946) 
An enticing new color combination of rhodenite pink, bordered 
with a half-inch margin of burnished gold on both the standards 
and the falls. A golden flush in the heart of the flower combined 
with a gold beard make this startling new color combination very 
attractive. Midseason. 36”. $3.00 
EDWARD LAPHAM (Lapham 1942) 
The nearest to real red of all Iris. A true crimson self with no 
markings to mar its beauty. A bronze-gold beard gives finish to 
this smoothly tailored splendid red. Mid-late. 34’’. $2.00 
ELLA CALLIS (H. Sass 1942) 
Here is an Iris that catches the eye of every garden visitor. The 
color is strikingly different. Huge deep yellow flowers with an 
orange flush on the falls. Midseason. 36”. $1.50 
ELMOHR (Loomis 1942) 
The Dykes Medal Winner of 1945. A William Mohr hybrid of 
exquisite shades of rich, reddish-mulberry. Flowers are huge in 
SIZ@un SD $1.00 
ENVOY (DeForest 1948) 
A smooth dark Iris whose bright rich standards are flushed red- 
dish purple, and the falls are a near black with an orange beard. 
$15.00 
ESQUIRE (Lothrop 1945) 
In Southern California where this Iris was originated, Esquire has 
received much favorable comment. It is a seedling of Brunhilde 
and has that same uniform rich, smooth deep blue-purple color, 
although taller, and of better form. Excellent branching. Mid- 
late season. 40”. $5.00 
EXTRAVANGANZA (G. Doublas 1944) 
A real Amoena. The standards are white with a slight shading of 
cream at the base. The falls a blending of iridescent copper, red, 
lavender, and deep violet, with a violet flush down the center. 
Very late. 40”. $6.00 
FANTASY (D. Hall 1947) 
Most attractive lovely tones of rose and orchid-lavender with a 
flush of golden yellow at the throat of the flower. The tangerine 
beard illuminates this fantasy of color. Not a tall Iris but when 
it bloomed in our garden, four blooms opened at-one time on 
the well branched stalks, giving us a profusion of dainty color- 
ing. Every year this Iris has bloomed again in the fall for us. 
Award of Merit A.1.S. 1949. Midseason. 30”. $15.00 
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