Special Offer to Our New Customers 
$1 IRIS FREE WITH YOUR FIRST ORDER 
We want you for our customer! If you will send us that first order 
we are confident that you will buy from us regularly, and tell your 
friends about us too. 
So, if you have not tried Edenwald plants, send us at least a $3.50 
order, not inciuding Collections, and we will add, as a free extra, one 
of the following $1.00 irises: Alona, Blue Rhythm, Blue Shimmer, 
Dark Mood, Elmohr, Lady Mohr, Fortune’s Favor, Goldbeater, Lake 
Shannon or Ola Kala. 
Should your order consist of daylilies, you may wish to receive one 
of the following daylilies instead: Coralline, Dolly Varden, Golden 
Grain, Mrs. Hugh Johnson, Morocco Red, Persian Princess or Regal 
Lady. 
Please state your preference and remember—your order must be not 
less than $3.50 not counting Collections. The latter are too heavily 
discounted to qualify for any additional premium. 
If your first order amounts to $10.00 or more, exclusive of Collec- 
tions, you may select two of the gift plants listed above. 
100 FAVORITE DAYLILIES OF 1953 
Through the courtesy of The Hemerocallis Society, we give you the 
results of the Popularity Poll, by members of the Society, in the order 
of preference. 
1 Orange Beauty 35 Colonial Dame 69 Show Girl 
2 Painted Lady 36 Ruffled Pinafore 70 Pink Radiance 
3 Naranja 37 Picture 71 Afterglow 
4 Caballero 38 Colonel Joe 72 Crimson Star 
5 Garnet Robe 39 Maid Marian 73 Bertrand Farr 
6 Valiant 40 Golden Hours 74 Ruby Supreme 
7 Prima Donna 41 Dorothea 75 Bountiful 
8 Pink Prelude 42 Black Prince 76 Potentate 
9 Georgia 43 Crimson Glory 77 The Doctor 
10 Gay Troubadour 44 Pink Dream 78 Joanna Hutchins 
11 Revolute 45 Evelyn Claar 79 Golden Orchid 
12 Jean 46 Howdy 80 Bess Vestal 
13. High Noon 47 Mamie Lake 81 Comet 
14 Su-lin 48 Mission Bells 82. Knighthood 
15 Queen of Gonzales 49 Queen Esther 83 Morocco Red 
16 Athlone 50 Sweetbriar 84 Marie Wood 
17. Mrs. Hugh Johnson 51 Lady Bountiful 85 Golden Triangle 
18 Dauntless 52 Ming 86 Jewell Russell 
19 Mrs. B. F. Bonner 53 Copper Colonel 87 Tejas 
20 Brocade 54 Kanapaha 88 Laurel 
21 Hesperus 55 Midwest Majesty 89 Dominion 
22 Windsor Tan 56 Spring Fantasy 90 Myonne 
23. Pink Damask 57 Duchess of Windsor 91 Salmon Sheen 
24 Royal Ruby 58 Swan 92 Nashville 
25 Pink Bowknot 59 Patricia 93 Constance 
26 Bold Courtier 60 Cellini 94 Devon Cream 
27 Glowing Gold 61 North Star 95 Gold Cargo 
28 Cibola 62 Taruga 96 Ruth Lehman 
29 Pink Charm 63 Rosalind 97 Scarlet Sunset 
30 Baggette 64 Hyperion 98 Cathedral Towers 
31 Linda 65 Skylark 99 Golden West 
32 Mabel Fuller 66 Display 100 Brulee 
33 Chloe 67 Mary Guenther 
34 Party Gown 68 Lochinvar 
Special Offer to Former Customers 
It has been our custom to include free extra plants with orders both as a 
token of our appreciation and to make sure the customer receives full and 
generous value. If the variety so included is already among the customer‘s 
collection the gift is pointless and disappointing to both customer and our- 
selves. For this reason we prefer to privilege the customer to select extras 
of his own choice in the amount of ten percent of the order (ten cents for 
each dollar ordered), collections excluded. New customers may avail them- 
selves of this offer instead of the free iris offered at left, if preferred, but not 
both. 
Group Prices for 3 Plants of the Same Name 
Price per Plant 3 Plants Price per Plant 3 Plants 
$0.40 $1.00 $1.00 $2.50 
50 1.25 1.50 310 
60 1.50 290 5 00 
alk, 2.00 2.50 6.25 
Culture of IRIS and HEMEROCALLIS 
These flowers are among the easiest of all for the unskilled gardener to 
grow to perfection. In addition to their indescribably beautiful flowers they 
yield generous and eyer-continuing dividends in the form of increase. 
With each shipment of p!ants we enclose a leaflet giving the simple instruc- 
tions for their planting and care. You will not need to be born with a green 
thumb nor stir up any witches’ brew for spraying or fertilizing to have a beau- 
tiful garden. 
WHAT CONSTITUTES A GOOD IRIS 
For the benefit of those who are newly interesting themselves in iris, we 
repeat the following brief commentary on the qualities considered desirable in 
these flowers. 
Color, although the most important and most instantly appreciated quality, 
is not, by itself, the final measure of iris worth. Besides clarity or richness of 
color we want a bloom with good form and broad petals, the standards firm 
and held in closed position at the top, or nearly so, and in pleasing propor- 
tion to the falls, which may flare or droop, but which should not be strappy, 
narrow-waisted or pinched. 
The bloom should be large enough to match the length of stem, which for 
tall bearded iris should be thirty inches or more. A small flower on a tall 
stem looks “leggy” and a huge flower on a short stem looks “‘dumpy.” 
There are some exceptions ‘to the thirty-inch minimum requirement. 
are now termed “border irises.” 
Stems should be branched so that the flowers do not crowd, and they should 
be strong enough to resist drooping from the weight of the flowers or toppling 
because of wind or weather. The texture of the petals is important too, and 
the substance should be tough and durable enough to withstand sun and wind 
and remain fresh-looking for a reasonable length of time. Colors should not 
fade too easily in the sun, nor spot too readily from drops of moisture. 
The base or ‘“‘haft’” of the fall should not be discordantly colored or covered 
with coarse and ugly veining. When smoothly colored it is sometimes called 
a “quiet” or a “clean” haft. 
Some irises are temperamental. To be generally acceptab!e an iris should 
perform well in different sections of the country and be winter-hardy. Un- 
fortunately, some of the loveliest sorts originating in California are not hardy 
in Northern winters and some of the most beautiful varieties of the Middle 
West and East are complete failures in California. Quite frequently rhizomes 
from regions of wide seasonal differences will require time to adjust them- 
selves before blooming. 
Rhizomes which are well grown will be more likely to bloom the first year 
than those which are not well-grown because the bloom-stalk buds are formed 
during the previous growing season. 
These 
PINK SEEDLINGS 
In recent years we have made hundreds of pink crosses both 
among irises and daylilies, and have bloomed a lot of pink seed- 
lings as a result. 
The poorer of these have been destroyed, the best saved for ob- 
From this group we hope to finally 
servation or further breeding. 
select a few for introduction. 
Those that do not survive this final winnowing will be offered 
for sale at $1.00 per plant of our selection. If you are willing to 
take a chance in thus purchasing “‘sight-unseen’”’ one or more of 
these unnamed pink seedlings, we feel sure that you will have no 
regrets. It’s possible that you might even be “tickled pink.” 
Simply write Pink Iris Seedling or Pink Daylily Seedling but be 
sure to designate whether iris or daylily is wanted. 
Price as stated above is $1.00 each, our selection. 
unless you request it. 
PLANTS AS GIFTS 
We are always happy to act as the intermediary in filling gift 
orders. Irises and daylilies are perfect gifts, dependably recurrent 
reminders of the giver’s thoughtfulness and a sure way of “keeping 
the memory green.” WHEN REQUESTED, we send a printed ‘Gift 
Announcement” card, stating the donor’s name, the occasion and 
when the plants will be shipped. While it is not practical to time 
shipments for a given date, we will schedule shipment as nearly as 
possible in accordance with your wishes if your order is received in 
time. 
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