Ohis and Chat 
While our next year’s catalog will bear a new address, shipping will 
be from here as usual, throughout the season. 
We're hoping for a pleasant Spring. No comment on that period in 
1953! except to credit it with the opportunity for travel which it afforded. 
It was a fine season in that respect. In April, we journeyed to Modesto, 
California, to view Iris there and in the Bay Region. Later, to Yakima. 
Then, in June, I left for the Iris Society convention in Boston. Stopping on 
the way in Illinois, and in Colorado on the return trip. 
By remaining after the meeting, in New England, I was privileged to 
visit the gardens of Edward Watkins and Kenneth Stone. Mr. Wheeler 
and I made the trip, and I need not add, a most enjoyable one. 
You’ve heard, “everything in but the kitchen sink.” Mr. Stone adds 
the “sink,” and Truly Yours and others appeared very appreciative ! 
Space is lacking in which to write of all the interesting points of these 
journeyings. But you have already read much—in the A.I.S. and other 
Bulletins—of the news I would report. 
Would prefer to add, I'll be seeing you at the 1954 convention, but 
that is not possible. As already indicated, this will be moving time for us, 
and any traveling this year will be between the two Oregon points, only! 
We will tell you about that, in next year’s catalog. 
As usual, I coveted some new varieties. Certainly, many of the older 
ones are excellent. We have them, and their good qualities are fully ap- 
preciated. But because of being so well acquainted with them, they are 
rather taken for granted, here. The excitement, and anticipation is for the 
new ones, 
Topaz, and Watermelon, will be awaited with interest, this year, 
And that beauty, Sable Night. 
