Ruby Supreme—‘many strong scapes with great numbers of buds, opening out six to eight flowers every day.” Mrs. Glen Fisher, Wis. 
Love Letters 
“I've had to take back some of the rather biting things I’ve said about 
Helen McGregor for it has become about the best increaser and bloomer in m 
garden. Perhaps it takes certain iris several years to become well established. 
Gudrun is about to be discarded, not because it is not a healthy and vigorous 
iris but becauve it will not take our miserable weather, Pink Talcum is still 
doing very well although it got a bit leggy this year and and some of the 
bloom stalks had to be staked. Masked Ball has just one more season to prove 
itself. It has neyer given more than one bloom stalk per season and the flowers 
are the smallest of all the iris in the garden. 
Now let’s talk about Broadripple. There is an iris! The best new iris I’ve 
seen in the Jast four years. Huge though it is, it takes the heavy rains and hot 
sun as few iris can. Congratulations on a wonderful advance in the iris world! 
And its pollen is really potent. Every iris touched with Broadripple pollen has 
formed a seed pod. I fully expect to see a race of giant iris introduced in the 
next few years from this parent. 
All the iris I received from you last year bloomed except the one you advised 
against order‘ng. Mr Buss is right again. Mattie Gates threw three bloom stalks. 
I am quite disgusted that Argus Pheasant received the Dykes Medal but am 
curious to see the brown thing. Having only one blend left in my garden I’m 
rather skeptical about them. Cascade Splendor is the only blend I have cared 
for up to now. Danube Wave should certainly be Dykes Medal material, a 
wonderful doer and a real garden treasure. Sure wish I could get Spanish Peaks 
to bloom for me. it is such a lovely white but will not bloom for me. Enough 
of this meandering, must get this order to you.” OHIO 
“Also, | wanted to tell you how much I liked Masked Ball! And I don’t care 
for plicatas, normally. But this one is outstanding! Have not seen Braod- 
ripple but I have heard glowing reports about it.” OHIO 
“The iris I ordered from you last fall all bloomed this spring and Were 
perfectly beautiful. Your plants are superior to any that I have bought. 
MISSISSIPPI 
“The iris I ordered in Jate fall of last year were simply gorgeous and every 
one grew and the blooms were numerous on all. They were sure a picture. 
PENNSYLVANIA 
“The iris I received from you last falj all bloomed even tho we had very 
poor iris weather and many of my older ones did not bloom. Pink Cameo and 
China Maid were beautiful!” NEBRASKA 
“T ordered my first plants from you last year. All the daylilies bloomed and 
most of the iris. They were fine plants and the blooms were beautiful. I was 
very pleased.” ALABAMA 
“Just a few lines to tel! you what happened to the iris you sent me last 
fall. Every one divided up into three increases and this spring they all sent up 
stalks, I have never seen anything more beautiful! When I got the plants the 
neighbors all had to come over and inspect them. One said “‘they look like all 
root and no flowers”; another said “you never have any luck with plants you 
send away for”. Well, they found out! And took back all they said. I am 
happy because they are all old enough to be my grandfathers, and they are 
“specialists”. One raises mums commercially and another glads. We can see 
now that the plants we received from you are far better than any that we could 
have bought locally. And we enjoy your catalog so much!” NEW JERSEY 
“Tm so sorry that I missed seeing Edenwald the past two iris seasons. Each 
time I was all set to go and take some friends but something happened to 
prevent the trip. I’m still with you in spirit and you might be pleased to 
know that my own little backyard “Edenwald” is year by year attracting more 
visitors. One Sunday I never got a square meal all day for the interruptions 
caused by people coming to see them. : 
I am always amused and delighted when brand new visitors come, for their 
reaction is invariably the same. They gasp and a look of almost unbelief comes 
over their faces and I know just how they feel. My husband and I felt the same 
way when we first laid eyes on one of your huge and lovely blooms. We just 
couldn’t believe that an iris could look like that! ; 
One of my neighbors who belongs to the garden section of the Woman’s 
Club begged a few of my very first blooms this year to decorate the table at a 
Garden Club luncheon. She reported that they almost caused a riot and she 
had to stand guard to prevent the women snitching them. Question: Don’t 
garden club members raise any choice flowers themselves? I’ve been wonder- 
ing ever since. 
I am enclosing another order, which means that the only way I can make a 
place for these new ones is to dig up some of my older ones which nearly 
breaks my heart for I love every one of them.” ILLINOIS 
“T have been very well satisfied with the iris I have bought from you, about 
thirty-five in all. Of the twelve I beught Iast year, eleven bloomed. The only 
one that did not come into flower was Solid Mahogany but it is a nice sturdy 
plant and should blossom next spring.” NEW YORK 
“Every iris and daylily I ordered from you lived and bloomed the first sea- 
son with the single exception of the double daylily, Flore Pleno.’ 
MASSACHUSETTS 
“Last year I ordered 14 iris. Twelve bloomed. They were sure nice plants.” 
MISSOURI 
“The plants you shipped me last August were most excellent. I was well 
pleased.” TENNESSEE 
“Thanks also for the splendid plants I received last fall. Every one of them 
bloomed this spring and were just beautiful!” OHIO 
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Nope, nothing is overdeveloped, 
Or shifted, or coming apart: 
That enlargement you see 
On the left side of me 
Is the letters I wear next my heart. 
“It should interest you to know that you were warmly recommended by Mrs. 
C. G. Whiting of Maple Valley Iris Gardens. Last year we visited her garden, 
saw your Vista Veronica in bloom and fell in love with it. She told us it was 
yours and complimented you very highly, both as a grower and as a hy- 
bridizer. Said “anything from Buss is distinctive. He’s one to keep an eye on.” 
She gave me your address then advised me to send for your catalog. It is my 
loss that I waited a year to do so,” MONTANA 
“My order arrived promptly and it was so thrilling to find your very own 
Dark Mood tucked in as a special prize. I appreciate it both because I know 
it will be beautiful and because you originated it. It will have a place of 
honor in my border. Daily, during the blooming season, I feel that I should 
send you another “thank you’ for the beauty and enjoyment I have had from 
the wonderful plants you have sent me in former years. My little orders are the 
result of long hours of study and selection, but I always know that each 
frugal penny will be given full value—much more than full value in fact.” 
WEST VIRGINIA 
“We are all enjoying the gorgeous iris that you sent me last fall. Such 
grand roots they had! All bloomed. SOUTH CAROLINA 
“It is a pleasure to plant and watch your rhizomes grow. I have a small 
back-yard garden and plant new ones each year, giving away the former ones. 
I have them scattered all over Brinkley and Little Rock. ARKANSAS 
“The iris I ordered from you last year and the year before were the most 
beautiful I saw anywhere this spring. Words just can’t describe how beauti- 
ful they were!” TEXAS 
“I am establishing a commercial garden. Last year I planted over 400 
varieties of iris, from 3 to 25 of each kind. In addition to the plants I bought 
from you I ordered from three different dealers in Oregon. But your plants 
grew the best. They multiplied 3 and 4 on each plant so that is why I am 
going to order from you only henceforth.” MICHIGAN 
“Last year I purchased Potentate, Hyperion, Painted Lady and Persian 
Princess from you, my first daylilies, and all are blooming beautifully. I am 
very much pleased.” ILLINOIS 
“I visited your gardens during iris time and it was a great thrill to one who 
loves iris as I do. Flowers and oil painting are my hobbies, with a little 
cooking thrown in. The enclosed check has a story. It was awarded in a Better 
Homes & Gardens cooking contest for “strawberry whip”. I couldn’t think of 
anything better to spend it for than a few more iris. My vote on the iris I 
would most like to have would be for Masked Ball, the most beautiful and 
striking iris I saw that day.” INDIANA 
“I also want to tell you how well the Siberian iris I got from you did. They 
all bloomed this spring, in fact are still blooming and all are lovely. Thanks 
very much—they were very nice plants.” OKLAHOMA 
“My back yard has been inhabited by strangers from the first blooming day 
on May 9th. Believe me that bed of iris has justified the loving care I’ve given 
it but if the rhizomes had not been so healthy to start with, all the care in the 
world wouldn’t have helped. Many thanks!” MARYLAND 
“IT have enjoyed iris from your gardens for quite a number of years and the 
roots from you have always grown well. I am still, at the age of 76, as in- 
terested in seeing new kinds open as ever. The “flamingo pinks” intrigue me 
but are mostly beyond my means. However, they all come down in price in time 
so I'll probably be raising them when I’m 86 if not before. VERMONT 
“Just a note of appreciation for the fine iris you sell and which grow so 
well for me that they must be divided every second year to have room for 
anything else. I have shopped around at various places for iris but it is Eden- 
wald iris that adjust themselves with the least trouble here. After seeing my 
iris a neighbor sent you a sizeable order last year and he is “pleased as punch” 
the way they have grown for him.” MICHIGAN 
“I fully agree with your other patrons, there are no iris superior to yours 
and few equals, and over the years I have bought from many.” 
NEW JERSEY 
“TI attended this Iris Show and it was just beautiful. I saw several catalogs 
there but none of yours were exhibited. However, some of the visitors mention- 
ed that your iris most always bloom the first year and others don’t (or maybe 
about 2 or 3 out of 10.) Please send me a catalog.” GEORGIA 
“This is my third order. I like the large size you send and the fine condi- 
tion of the plants. My first order was for tall iris, my second for Japanese iris 
and now the Intermediates.” CONNECTICUT 
“Notwithstanding adversities of location, the daylilies planted last August 
have made a modest first-year show of bloom. We are very pleased with the 
results thus far.” VIRGINIA 
“T feel that you did a grand thing by me in sending the extra ones which 
you were certainly in no way obligated to do, for mine were lost thru no fault 
of the grand original plants you sent. You have always been so kind—like old 
friends. I shall always buy from you hereafter.” IOWA 
“Your iris plants were lovely. Blooms on most oh at 26 once beau- 
: a dering this Daylily Collection with the same high hopes. 
tiful too. Am ordering WISCONSIN 
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