HYBRIDIZER’S PAGE Presented to Help YOU Create Superior New Iris 
HYBRID IRIS SEED 
SHIPMENT of IRIS SEEDS: Sent postpaid, for any size of order, often with your Iris, but some not ready till sowing time in October- 
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 1” of loam and 1%” 
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 Only Comprehensive Offering of HAND-POLLINATED Hybrid Iris Seed with BOTH Parents Specified 
—Tangerine-bearded Pinks and Apricots. 
Most Prices CUT IN HALF for ’54, Due to Wonderful Seed Crop 
ADVENTURING 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 small fraction as much as would a rhizome of the 
two parental varieties | use in producing it. Judging by my recent experience with similar seed, | can guarantee that 
most of the seedlings that you bloom from this seed will have flowers with the new tangerine beards, not the common 
yellow beards. Nearly all should be pink in some form. 
| offer in the table below 149 different crosses, with almost 100 available at prices between 25¢ and $1.50 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 22 to 24, and noting my 6 Ektachromes of tangerine-bearded pinks and 
apricots. 
Study the table below, too, and you will find that where the seed set heaviest for me the price is LOW, even for rela- 
tively expensive new parental varieties. Find the bargains. 3 
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ApricotSupreme 
Paradise Pink 
Pink Formal 
iColor Carnival 
|Pagan Princess 
Strathmore 
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i Twilight Sky 
| Pink Tower 
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iPink Cameo 
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Barbara Luddy 
Hall 44-05 
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Pagan Princess 
Courtier 
Pink Tower lf 241150) | 
Twilight Sky - l $1 |$2 |150/1 50) — 
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New Horizon....... 
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Pink Cameo 
Pink Talcum........ 
Spindrift 
Flora Zenor 
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. 
NATURALLY-HYBRIDIZED IRIS SEED 
WESTERN NATIVES: Readily grown from seeds. Over 60 
seeds per packet. Innominata yellow, PKT. 75¢; Innominata 
Many-colored, $1.00; Santa Ana, 50¢; Tenax, 50¢. 
SIBERIANS: Easy and economical from seed; over 60 seeds 
per packet. Red, PKT. $1.00; Pink, 75¢; Choice Mixed, $1.00; 
3 for $2.00. 
LOUISIANA: Huge corky seeds, about 25 per packet. Gigan- 
ticaerulea White, 50¢; Giganticaerulea, Super Blue, 35¢; 
Imperalis, 50¢; Cacique, 25¢, Choice Mixed, 75¢. 
MIXED COLORS in your choice of Low Growing (4 types 
mixed), or Juno (Bulbous) Iris. Packet 50¢. Three in any 
combination, $1.00. 
REGELIA SEED: Will give much variation; slow germinating. 
About 20 seeds per packet. Choice Mixed, PKT. 75¢; Hoogi- 
ana, 50¢; Hoogiana Bronze Beauty, 50¢; Stolonifera, 50¢. 
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 24. 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 
At Last! A Chemical Way To Speed Germination 
My New GERMINATION STIMULANT 
Ever since Iris hybridizing rose to its present status as the 
No. 1 hobby of American garden enthusiasts, there has been 
an insistent clamor for better ways of hastening the naturally 
slow germination rate of Iris seeds. Many methods have been 
proposed and tried, but heretofore all have had serious draw- 
backs—either too much valuable time was involved, or the 
results were not as good as might be desired. While | do not, 
as yet, have the final answer for all types of Iris seeds, | have 
gotten such good results with my chemical stimulant, that | 
feel | should not wait for years of further experimentation be- 
fore releasing this material for use by the thousands of en- 
thusiastic hybridizers among my customers, who are waiting 
for something like this. | therefore report to you briefly on my 
results and offer my chemical formulation for you to try.. 
| took several hundred different lots of my hand-pollinated 
hybrid Iris seeds and divided each in half. One half of each lot 
was treated with my Rainbow Germination Stimulant before 
sowing, and the other half of each was sowed at the same time 
without treatment. | give you below the germination results 
three months after sowing, for a typical sample assortment of 
crosses: 
Seed | Number Germinated 
Sov 
Seed Parent x Pollen Parent | of Each | Treated | Untreated 
Cherie x Pink Formal....... 36 30 5 
Ruffled Bouquet x Cherie... 42 24 8 
Ruffled Bouquet x Fantasy... 27 23 13 
Gold Sovereign x Pinnacle. . . 27 8 1 
Melody Lane x Self......... 11 8 0 
TOTALS........ 143 93 27 
With results like this it would seem foolish to sow seed with- 
out treating, when this easy and inexpensive method will give 
you, in a short period, 2 to 8 times as many seedlings from a 
given batch of your precious hybrid seeds as would be secured 
without treatment. The quicker you can get them to germinate 
the sooner they will bloom See my SUPPLEMENT for de- 
tailed results to date with seed of different types of Iris. 
RAINBOW GERMINATION STIMULANT — Exact quanity 
to make 1 quart of solution, with full directions for use, 
$1.00; 3 for $2.75; 10 for 37.95 
“The vast possibilities of plant-breeding can hardly be estimated. They are not alone for one year, or for our own time or race, but are beneficent legacies for every man, 37 
woman and child who shall ever inhabit the earth.’ —LUTHER BURBANK. o/ 
