Recommended Standard 
Teis Varieties 
PALE YELLOW: Fair Elaine—luminous two-toned yellow, accented 
by golden beard. Tops everywhere. Sousun—Lemonade color. 
Good anywhere. Gilt Edge—The name describes it. One of my 
favorite irises. 
MEDIUM YELLOW: Golden Eagle—Smooth color. Firie everywhere. 
Klondyke Gold—Big. Fine everywhere. Golden Ruffles—Big, smooth 
and ruffled. Tops! Green Pastures—Olive-chartreuse. 
GOLD: Cloth of Gold—Brilliant gold and yellow, good everywhere 
and top garden clump. Berkeley Gold—No better golden flower. 
Ola Kala—The 1948 Dykes Medal iris; usually rated the top gold. 
Rocket—A gold and orange bicolor of unbelievable brilliance. Also 
extremely good are: Big Francelia, Vigorous Golden Majesty. 
WHITE: Mt. Washington—White. with golden beard; best for the 
far West and South. Purissima—best early white for far West and 
South. Snow. Flurry—Fine ruffled cold white. Franconia—fine. clean 
hardy white. Alba Superba—big warm-throated hardy white. 
Katherine Fay—a good pure white. Also very good and quite 
hardy are: Snow Carnival, Winter Carnival, Matterhorn, Fairy 
Foam, White Goddess, Master White, Easter Candle, The Capitol, 
Mt. Hermon, and three very fine novelties, New Snow, and Spanish 
Peaks, and Lady Boscawen. 
LIGHT BLUE: Sylvia Murray—like pale blue satin. Great Lakes— 
a standard of perfection in pale blue. Shining Waters—for the far 
West and South. Helen McGregor—1949 Dykes Medal Winner. 
Azure Skies—fine ruffled flower. Cloud Castle—immense lavender 
blue. Moon Goddess—perfection in wisteria with white beard. 
Band Master—powder blue. Blue Valley. 
MEDIUM BLUE: Blue Rhythm—Cornflower blue, grows perfectly 
everywhere iris grow and probably my favorite iris. Also good 
are: Blue Glow, The Admiral. 
DARK BLUE: Chivalry—1947 Dykes Medal Winner. Blue Violet— 
The richest deep blue. Peg Dabagh—A Mohr hybrid. Particularly 
good in Southwest. Gold Medal iris from the Hollywood Show, 
1949. Gallantry—Big, fall and hardy. 
VIOLET BLUE: Violet Symphony—A standard of perfection in 
violet iris. Heigho—A Mohr hybrid of immense size, in clear greyed 
violet, no better iris in my garden. Sea Lark—slate blue, flushed 
purple. Vatcan Purple—blvue purple. 
BLUE PLICATAS—(White with Blue Stippled Border)—Blue Shim- 
mer—name describes delicate patterning. Tops. Aldura—big and 
fine. Wayfarer—lavender on white. 
PINK PLICATAS (White Stippled Pink)—Love Affair—like a pink 
blue shimmer. Mme. Louis Aureau—heliotrope on white. Lovelace— 
cream stippled pink.. 
YELLOW GROUND PLICATAS (Yellow Stippled Rose, Red or 
Brown)—Tiffanja—colonial buff sprinkled brown. Tiffany—bright 
rose on yellow. Occidental—yellow stippled brown. Burgundy 
Splash—intense burgundy on cream. Sorrel Tope corre) brown on 
cream. Bali Belle—brown on yellow. 
BLACKS: Sable—blue-black violet... Deep Velvet—deep eee 
violet. Master Charles—mulberry purple. Black Banner—one of the 
blackest. 
BICOLORS: Wabash—white and purple. Three Sisters—creamy 
yellow and red violet. Nightfall—best pansy purple. Red, Torch— 
gold bronze and red. Ukiah—mahogany and maroon. Gay 
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