IRISES OF DISTINCTION 
‘The name of the variety will be followed by that of the originator and the year 
of introduction. DM will signify Dykes Medal, AM the Award of Merit and HM 
the Honorable Mention, all awards from the American, Iris Society. 
SEE BACK PAGE FOR MODERN LESS EXPENSIVE VARIETIES. 
ADVANCE GUARD (Mitchell ’45) 40”. 
A tall and attractive clean white plica- 
ta with lavender stitching. 60c 
AMANDINE (Douglas ’46) AM ’48. 
36”. New and popular lemon-cream iris. 
Airily ruffled form and clean color. 
$3.00 
AMBER GEM (Salbach ’46) 
36”. Extremely large and 
chestnut brown and gold iris. 
HM ’47. 
vigorous 
$2.50 
AND THOU (Graves ’42) HM ’42. 36”. 
Palest Wedgwood blue, with contrast- 
ing deep blue beard. $1.00 
ARAB CHIEF (Whiting ’44) HM ’46. 
36”. A very brilliant broad petalled iris 
of burned orange. Good color. $1.25 
ATROUS (Gage ’43) 34”. An attractive 
heavy blooming very dark red-purple. 
90c 
AUBURN (Kleinsorge ’45) HM ’46. 36”. 
Auburn-red with a bright patch of blue 
in the center. $5.00 
AZALEA (Nesmith ’46) 38”. One of the 
new pinks, its color Azalea pink with 
a coral beard. $1.50 
AZURE SKIES (Pattison 43) AM ’45. 
34” A much beruffled pale azure b'ue. 
Wide hafts, flaring form. 90¢ 
BARRIMOHR (Miller ’44) 36”. Grace- 
fully ruffled mulberry-violet bitone, 
seedling of Wm. Mohr. A _ bit top 
branched, but a fine color. $1.50 
BATAAN (Kleinsorge 742) 36”. Dis- 
tinct and attractive iris of coppery 
plum, henna and brown. $1.50 
BERKELEY GOLD (Salbach ’42) AM 
46. 36”. Excellent in every way, one 
of our best deep yellows. 90c 
BILLOWY SEA (Norton 744) 38”. A 
vigorous growing and lovely light blue 
derived from Great Lakes. $1.00 
BLACK BANNER (Nichols 747) HM 
47. 36”. Dark and velvety, a rich and 
sleek rear-black that is a good doer. 
$1.50 
BLACK FOREST (Schreiner ’45) AM 
"48..33". “Black as Pitch.’ An intrigu- 
ing very black iris of nice form. $2.50 
BLUE REYTHM. (Whiting ’45) DM 
00. 38”. The most recent recipient of 
the. Dykes Medal, and one of the most 
deserving in recent years. A faultless 
near cornflower blue, moderately pr:c- 
ed and should be in every garden. $2.00 
BLUE SHIMMER (J. Sass 42) AM ’44. 
36”. One of the best known and most 
popular plicatas. This has a white 
ground with an allover pattern of blue 
stippling. $1.00 
BLUE VALLEY (K. Smith 747) AM 
’49. 40”. Introduced as the nearest to 
true blue of any iris, it possibly still 
holds that distinction. A ruffled and 
flaring medium blue of large size and 
great vigor. 
$4.00 
BERKELEY GOLD 
