IRIS GARDEN SPECIAL 
If you are only interested in enjoying the blossoms of 
beautiful iris and do not care to keep track of the names by 
using garden markers, here is an offer you cannot afford to 
miss. 
We will send you 30 splendid irises, including at least 
15 varieties--most likely more--our selection, for only 
$6.50, express charges collect. If you selectedthese irises 
and we labeled them, they would cost 60 cents each. 
You would naturally think that thereis a string attached 
to this offer. Well, there is. All we ask is that when the 
irises burst into bloom, and you show them to your friends 
and neighbors, you tell them where they came from. We 
charge this offer to advertising. 
THE VESPER IRIS 
(Dichotoma) 
We quote the following article about the Vesper Iris 
from the April, 1952, number of the FLOWER GROWER: 
"Here's an iris that tells time! At three o'clock every 
afternoon from late July tofrost the 2-inch flowers open in- 
to colorful gems of blue, lavender or wine color, some en- 
hanced by orange, mahogany or tyrian markings on the at- 
tractive falls. 
"By crossing and selection, the height of the Vesper 
Iris (I. Dichotoma) has been increased from the 2 feet it at- 
tained several decades ago to 3 or even 4 feet, and stems 
are so wiry that they need no staking. The number of blos- 
soms per plant has been doubled sothat a single well grown 
clump will now display 100 or more flowers every dayfor a 
month or even longer, andthe new brighter colors which 
have been added are still being improved each year. 
"The candelabra-like branching ofthe Vesper Iris spa- 
ces each open flower in the clump so advantageously that it 
is usually difficult to find one blossom touching another. 
From alittle distance the flowers looklike gorgeous butter- 
flies atrest withoutstretched wings. Flower beauty is never 
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