


Foreword a 
We wish to thank EVEEY one of our customers for the nice business given us in the ‘ ¥ MS 
past. 
We will do everything. possible to make all our business relations with you as” 
pleasant as possible. 
To every one of our friends who have given us orders in the past we will again. 
allow them an additional ten per cent in Iris in addition to the other premiums. This _ 
is to show you that we appreciate your business and we can show our good will to you. 
This old customer premium is based on net cash of order. By allowing us to ship — 
at our convenience, thereby enabling us to dig thousands of rhizomes at a time and 
assembling the orders from bins we can give you the values we are giving you, and 
with volume business as in the past we can do business at wholesale and less. 
Colored pictures are expensive. If we used a Color Catalog our prices would be 
much higher and we couldn’t give you the liberal premiums we do offer. 
Descriptions are short and sketchy as we feel that the Fancier who gets our catalog 
knows Iris varieties and does not have to have a lot of word pictures. 4 $ 1d 
Now we have talked about lower costs as per the above, but there is one cost we 
do not reduce and that is growing cost. We also send heavy stock. That boosts our 
express and parcel post costs, but does give you better values. The thing that makes 
us feel you will appreciate our way of doing business is to give you more than you 
expect to get. 
We do not issue any other list. This catalog is either retail or wholesale, depend- a ve : 
ing on size of the order. al 
We are happy to announce that Mr. Norton’s Sylvia Murray did receive the Award Ne 
of Merit for 1949 by vote of the Judges of the American Iris Society. We introduced m 
Sylvia Murray in 1944. od, 
Read our guarantee elsewhere in this Catalog. oy 
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Cordially yours, ‘igee 
IRIS TEST GARDENS i e, 
ROUTE 1, BOX 805 : 
YAKIMA, WASHINGTON i 
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Cash with order. Make out all checks and money orders to IRIS TEST GARDENS. y % 
Stamps not accepted. raz 
All orders will be prepaid. No order accepted under $3.00. a 
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All Iris true to name and so guaranteed. ee an 
Orders filled in rotation, early orders will receive pick of rhizomes. oe ye 
Our rhizomes must meet with your approval or your money will be refunded, and ot 
in that case, we will pay return postage. Any 2 
Any variety that proves untrue: we will send two of that variety on report from Be 
you. et 
_ Another thing: We don’t just say in our catalog, we guarantee Iris to reach you in 
good condition, and if they don’t, notify us promptly. 
We say this: Every plant is guaranteed to grow for you and if a plant is defective 
and does not grow, even though your soil condition at the spot of planting may be — 
rank poison to the plant, and the plant dies, then if you notify us before October iF 
year of delivery, we will either replace or refund your money. 
Please Read Carefully 
We reserve the right to refuse all orders received after September 30th. 
Shipments to start at our convenience—beginning July 1st. 
As you agree to co-operate with us by allowing us to ship at our convenience, we — 
in turn will co-operate with you by allowing the following: 
