Iris Time Is Here Cgain 
Through this little booklet, we wish to say “Howdy” to 
our old friends and customers as well as to those of you who 
are receiving our iris listings for the first time. We wish to 
say “Thanks” to those of you who have ordered from us 
in past years and hope to serve you again in the future. 
We have tried to keep the best of the older iris and to 
add the best of the newer varieties. Iris have been called the 
flower for the millions or the millionaire. In looking over the 
list, you will find flowers for the most discriminating at a 
price to fit anyone’s pocket-book. For instance, Ola Kala in 
the deep yellow class, now’ sells for just one dollar and it 
won the coveted Dykes Medal in 1948. The 1950 D. M. win- 
ner, Blue Rhythm sells for three dollars and is a wonderful 
iris in the blue class. If you like very dark iris, we recom- 
mend Black Forest. For something different and exotic, try 
Lady Mohr. Garden Glory must be seen to be appreciated. 
There are so many good ones, but we would like to mention 
the new pink lines and the new prices on some of the better 
ones. Hit Parade and Courtier are very good and the hy- 
bridizers are working on much deeper colors in these pinks. 
We are doing a little hybridizing ourselves, and while 
we have not yet produced anything that we feel is good 
enough to introduce, we have several that are very nice and 
will have new seedlings blooming again this year with per- 
haps something outstanding. Anyone can develop an in- 
teresting hobby in hybridizing iris and raising your own 
seedlings as the technic is quite simple. Most of the seed- 
ling's will bloom in two years. 
A.I.S.—For the real iris fan, we heartily recommend 
that you join the American Iris Society. Annual dues are 
$3.50 and a wealth of information is received in the four 
quarterly bulletins that each member receives during the 
year. These are not little skimpy booklets, but real honest- 
to-goodness 6 by 9 inch bulletins with 80 or 90 pages packed 
with iris information. Send your dues to 
AMERICAN IRIS SOCIETY 
444 Chestnut Street, Nashville 10, Tenn. 
or 
on orders of $10.00 or more for iris from our listing, if you 
will include $3.50 for your A.I.S. dues, we will send you 
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