4 ARVISTA GARDENS 
IRIS HONORS 
Initals are used in descriptions herein as follows: 
H. M. — Honorable Mention. 
A. M. — Award of Merit. 
D — Dykes Medal. 
HF. — Hall of Fame. 
The Dykes Medal, which may be awarded to a 
single Iris annually in the United States, Great 
Britan or France, is the highest honor that an Iris 
can receive. 
Special: honors are voted to various Irises by 
numerous official Iris judges and awarded by 
national Iris Societies. 
Hall of Fame 
The 29 Irises formerly listed in the HALL OF 
FAME, have received either the Award of Merit, 
the Dykes Medal, or both. 27 of them have been 
included in the 1952 list of 100 favorite Irises as 
selected by members of the American Iris Society. 
They are the following: Numbers mean their 
positions in the 100 favorite list: 
AMI Os 32 e ee oe ee 17 Ming Yellow —.......... 89 
China Maid .................... OO0 SeVLISSOULT....2..53--..2... 42 
Chivalry ¢2 = se Sem OitenKala cos: 1 
Christabeld 2a 99 Prairie Sunset ........ 26 
City of Lincoln _.......... OSM SADC... ie ea 2 
ElsaiSass vein set 51 Shining Waters ...... 83 
Faire tiiaines 53 ~=©6. Sierra Blue .............. 73 
Glorigle sce et, 44 Snow Flurry ............ 9 
Golden Fleece 0.0.0.0... 67 Spun Gold ............... 76 
Golden Majesty ............ 81 The Red Douglas .... 31 
Golden Treasure .......... See i Tan Vins eee 47 
GreateLakess 1. 3 Treasure Island ...... D3 
Los Angeles _................ Obie Wabash ee, 12 
Matterhorn —............... 56 
We have hundreds of varieties not listed here 
because of limited quantities. 
“The Social Register of Irisdom” 
During the past score of years, progress has been 
literally amazing in the development of all the de- 
tails which constitute a really fine Iris, including 
size, form, substance, branching, and many new 
hues, tones, tints and blends. Of the many thousands 
of Irises which have been named and introduced, 
the best 100 sorts are selected each year in a sym- 
posium by several hundred accredited judges of the 
American Iris Society, and in our garden may be 
seen practically all of the Irises named in the new 
syposium of 1952 released in January, 1953. 
During the past thirty years we have raised and 
discarded more than 1,300 named varieties, and 
