EARLY ORDER SPECIAL 
As an additional bonus offer for early orders we will include with each $10.00 
in value of your order, an exquisite flamingo pink seedling with full pedigree. 
Our very newest 1952 selections from some 700 seedlings with such outstanding 
parents as Cherie, Hit Parade, Pink Formal, Pink Lace, Pink Sensation, Radia- 
tion and others. All are tall with flaring form, good color and substance; beauti- 
ful garden subjects and extremely valuable for hybridizing. Equal or superior 
to all but a very few of the highest priced new novelties. This offer good while 
stock lasts. 
Also offered for sale at $2.50 each or 5 for $10.00, while supply lasts. 
KODACHROME SLIDES 
Beautiful iris slides in full color. See our new introductions and seedlings, plus 
new and popular varieties from many iris hybridizers. 35 mm, 2’’x2” slides, 
many closeups with background. Deluxe Collection, 150 glass mounted, rental 
fee $5.00, Economy Collection, 120 in ready mounts, rental $4.00. Postpaid and 
insured one way. The Deluxe collection is much heavier than the Economy 
collection and will cost a bit more postage. Advance reservations absolutely 
necessary. 
CULTURAL DIRECTIONS 
Irises will grow almost anywhere, but respond to good care and soil just as 
any other plant. When you plant, try to give them an uncrowded position with 
good sunlight. A slightly elevated position where no water stands is best. To 
avoid having to move and divide too often they are best planted about two feet 
apart. Closer planting will achieve better immediate effect but they will soon 
become crowded and have to be moved. If you have well cured compost, by all 
means use it, there is nothing finer. Mix it with the soil when planting, or use 
as a mulch. Steamed bone meal is also very good. Stay away from fertilizers 
heavy in nitrogen and keep all fertilizers excepting those mentioned away from 
the plants. Make a good hole, spread the roots well and cover the rhizome with 
perhaps an inch of soil, firm well, water and use good ordinary garden horse 
sense from then on. 
It is good practice in cold climates to protect newly planted irises over winter. 
Mulch with anything that will not pack down, such as salt hay, excelsior, fir 
boughs, etc. One of the easiest ways is to draw up a couple of inches of extra 
soil around them with the advent of cold weather—like hilling up corn or pota- 
toes. This extra soil can be scratched away when growth starts in the spring. 
I have found this method very satisfactory on semi-tender things. 
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