\4 HYBRIDIZER’S PAGE Presented to Help YOU Create Superior New Iris 
HYBRID IRIS SEED 
For those interested in creating new Iris, but who do not yet have established clumps of first class new varieties 
for-use as parents, and who wish to save time, these seeds offer intriguing possibilities. Not as certain as buying choice 
new varieties, but cheaper and even more exciting and adventurous. Colors of seedlings will tend to follow parents, but 
usually there will be much variation and opportunity for selection. 
eb tesded of IRIS SEEDS: Sent postpaid, for any size of order, often with your Iris, but in some cases, not ready till sowing time in 
ctober. 
SOWING and CULTURE (In brief): Iris seed is best sowed in the fall, as it usually requires conditioning by winter cold to encourage 
high germination the first spring. A cold frame is ideal, if available. If not, sow out of doors. Use well pulverized, fertilized soil of the 
same reaction as you would use for rhizomes of the same type of Iris; that is, basic for Arils and Bulbous Iris, nearly neutral for Bearded 
Iris and Aril-Bearded Hybrids; and acid for Beardless Iris. To get bloom in place, sow seed 6” apart in trenches 9” to 12” apart and 
1” deep. If seedlings are to be transplanted the first summer, sow seeds 2” apart in trenches 6” apart. Cover with 2” of loam and 4 
of sand. In cold regions mulch out-of-doors seedbeds over winter with 2” to 3” of straw to prevent frost heaving. Most of the seedlings 
that come up the first spring will bloom the second spring. Under ordinary culture seeds of Arils and certain other Iris germinate slowly 
over a period of several years. However a number of new techniques, three in particular, have recently become available from extensive 
research. All of these methods are treated in detail in my Supplement; my MANUAL also gives many suggestions on seed sowing. One 
of the 3 new methods utilizes my chemical Germination Stimulant. 
FLAMINGO PINK SEED —Choose BOTH Parents 
World’s First Comprehensive Offering of HAND-POLLINATED Hybrid Iris Seed with BOTH Parents Specified — 
Tangerine-bearded Pinks and Apricots. 
ADVENTURE WITH IRIS—For those who seek abundant adventure close at hand, without travelling great dis- 
tances, there is nothing that can quite compare with the thrills and excitement that can follow the sowing of hybrid 
Iris seed. This is particularly true if you sow seed known to come from two outstanding parental varieties. While you 
may not be able to afford to buy rhizomes of very many of the newest and most expensive varieties to use as parents 
in your own crossing, you can afford to buy quite a little seed that has come from such superb parents. Each packet 
of my hand-pollinated seed contains 5 seeds and costs only a fraction as much as would a rhizome of the two parental 
varieties | use in producing it. 
| offer in the table below no less than 152 different crosses, with almost 100 of them available at prices between 
35¢ and $3.00 per packet, and with very much worthwhile reductions if 4 or more are ordered at once. Pick the parents 
you would like to have for your hybrids by reading the pink pages 24 to 26, and noting my 6 Ektachromes of tangerine- 
bearded pinks and apricots, including front cover. Study the table below, too, and you will find that where the seed 
set heavily for me the price is LOW, even for relatively expensive new parental varieties. Find the bargains. All are 
tangerine-bearded except the choice pink plicata, Confetti. 
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Remember, this catalog goes to 30,000 people, so make your selections in a hurry and get that order to me by AIR 
MAIL, before the seed you especially want is all gone. If | am out of the cross you order, | will send the reciprocal cross 
(same parents, reversed) if | have it. If not, | will substitute the closest | have left in seed of higher value than you 
ordered. | handle thousands of packets of this seed each year and naturally cannot take time to correspond every time 
a substitution is needed. 
Crosses With World’s Finest Oncobred Parents 
Most of the superb new Oncobreds are from 3 Oncobred 
pollen parents: Capitola, Joppa Parrot and tb-Mac True. But- 
terfly Wings is a very promising Oncobred seed parent. These 
4 often yield new Oncobreds with that much-sought Onco influ- 
ence. In these wide crosses | often pollinate many flowers to get 
one pod to set, and it may contain only one or a very few seeds. 
So when you get actual hybrid seed, you get great potentialities 
the net results of all this carefully controlled hybridizing using 
very choice parents. Packets contain 5 seeds each. 
Price—| SELECT ONCOBRED CROSSES DESIRED 
packet SEED PARENT X POLLEN PARENT 
$10.00 | Cloudcap x Joppa Parrot 
$ 8.00 | Cloudcap x Capitola; Melody Lane x Joppa Parrot 
$ 7.00 | Pink Formal x lb-Mac True; Pink Formal x Capitola: 
Cherie x Joppa Parrot 
$ 6.00 | Cherie x Ib-Mac True; The Knockout x Joppa Parrot 
§ 5.00 | Utah Sunset x Ib-Mac True; The Knockout x Ib-Mac 
True; Butterfly Wings x Pink Formal 
$ 4.00 | Butterfly Wings x Self; Ballet Dancer x |b-Mac True; 
Winston Churchill x Joppa Parrot; Pretty Pansy x 
Joppa Parrot 
$ 3.00 | Twilight Sky x lb-Mac True; Twilight Sky x Capitola: 
Your Worship x Joppa Parrot; King’s Jester x Joppa 
Parrot; Gold Ruffles x !b-Mac True; Extravaganza 
x Joppa Parrot; Casa Morena x Joppa Parrot 
NATURALLY-HYBRIDIZED SEED—TALL BEARDED 
Flamingo or Tangerine-bearded Pink Seed—Choice mixture 
from at least 15 varieties, about 20 seeds per packet. 
Packet $1.00; 3 for $2.25 
Rainbow Mixture of all colors, yielding great variation as it is 
from over 50 choice varieties; 30 to 50 seeds per packet. 
Packet $1.00; 3 for $2.25 
ARIL SEED: Will give much variation. First 2 are mixtures 
of at least 8 kinds; about 20 seeds per packet: Oncogelias, 
oe a Regelias 75¢; 3 for $1.50; Hoogiana Bronze Beauty 
i 5 
WESTERN NATIVES: Readily grown from seed; over 100 
seeds per packet. Rainbow or Douglasiana, 50¢; 3 for $1.00; 
Macrosiphon, 50¢. 
SIBERIANS: Easy and economical; over 100 seeds per packet: 
Red, $1.00; Pink, 75¢; White, Light and Bright Blues, or Dark 
Blues and Violets, each 50¢; 3 for $1.00. Choice Mixed $1.00; 
3 for $2.50. 
LOUISIANAS: Huge corky seeds, about 25 per packet. Cacique, 
50¢; Giganticaerulea Super Blue 75¢; Choice Mixed $1.00. 
MIXED COLORS. in your choice—Autumn Bloomers, Dwarfs, 
Low Growing (4 types mixed), or Juno (Bulbous) Iris. Packet 
50¢; 3 for $1.00. 
HOW TO HYBRIDIZE IRIS 
Thousands of my customers are now taking up this most 
fascinating and rewarding of all hobbies. To learn the vital 
flower parts see Ektachrome of Melody Lane, page 26. The 
3 reddish beards have nothing to do with pollination. Above 
the center beard is the cream-colored anther, containing the 
pollen. Remove an anther from a flower of one variety, and rub 
the pollen grains onto the top of the stigma of the variety to be 
pollinated. Stigma is the curved lip just above the anther. Many 
helpful details in my MANUAL, pages 20 to 41. 
My Exclusive HYBRIDIZER’S KIT 
_ Anyone can start the fascinating hobby of Iris Hybridizing 
with ease with my Exclusive RAINBOW HYBRIDIZING KIT. 
The most vital items are 2 special tweezers | had made to order 
for this purpose. The Anther-collecting Tweezers have special 
flat rounded points that permit collecting the anthers without 
injuring the delicate and vital style arms. The Clamp-style 
Pollinating Tweezers are designed to hold the anthers firmly 
and thus eliminate the strain of pollinating. The Kit also includes 
the following additional items: 5 Camel Hair Brushes; 36 Special 
Sliding Pollen Boxes; 100 Pollination Tags in four colors; 2 
Weatherproof Pencils; 50 Seed Bags; 15 Printed Record Cards: 
12 Simplex Permanent Labels; 1 Stylus for lettering labels: 
1 copy of the leaflet “Technique for Iris Hybridization.” Price 
postpaid $6.25; 2 for $12.25 
My New GERMINATION STIMULANT 
_ | have tried many ways of hastening the naturally slow ger- 
mination of Iris seed, but none are as simple and effective as my 
Rainbow Germination Stimulant. My extensive, carefully-con- 
trolled tests have shown it will often double or quadruple the 
germination of seed of bearded Iris in a short time—and the 
quicker you get your precious hybrid seeds to germinate, the 
sooner you will have bloom. See my SUPPLEMENT for detailed 
results to date with seed of different types of Iris. Exact quan- 
tity to make 1 quart of solution, with full directions for use. 
$1.00; 3 for $2.75; 10 for $7.95 
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“We have learned that plant life is as plastic in our hands as clay 
into more beautiful forms and colors than any sculptor 
in the hands of the artist. Plants can readily be moulded 
can hope to equal.—_LUTHER BURBANK. 
