MDCDLV 
Dedication 
CLARENCE G. WHITE 
WITH THE GRACIOUS PERMISSION OF 
ONE OF THE IRIS WORLD'S GREATEST 
HYBRIDIZERS, WE MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDI- 
CATE THIS ISSUE, OUR 1955 CATALOG TO 
MR. CLARENCE G. WHITE. 
WE BELIEVE THAT NO AMOUNT OF PRAISE OR CREDIT COULD 
POSSIBLY BALANCE HIS GREAT SERVICE TO THAT WORLD OF 
BEAUTY OVER WHICH THE GODDESS IRIS HOLDS SWAY. 
HIS FORESIGHT, HIS PLANS, HIS DREAMS AND LABORS HAVE 
BEEN CROWNED WITH AN ACHIEVEMENT WHICH FEW OTHERS 
MAY EVER ATTAIN. 
WHEN HE CHOSE TO WORK WITH THAT ‘LILY OF THE FIELD 
WHICH TOILS NOT’, HE ASSUMED A LABOR OF LOVE WHICH IS 
FRAUGHT WITH DIFFICULTIES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS, FOR THE 
SPECIE ONCOCYCLUS IS PERHAPS THE LEAST AMENABLE OF 
THE GENUS TO LIVE AND BLOSSOM IN CAPTIVITY. 
THE MAGNIFICENT BEAUTIES WHICH HE HAS CREATED IN 
SUCH OVERWHELMING NUMBERS ARE AN EVER PRESENT TESTI- 
MONIAL TO HIS UNWAVERING FAITH, PATIENCE, FIDELITY AND 
SKILL. 
IT IS THEREFORE, WITH PARDONABLE PRIDE, THAT WE DEDI- 
CATE THIS CATALOG TO A MAN WHO TRULY WORKS WITH THE 
FORCES OF NATURE AND THAT GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE 
UNIVERSE WHO SAID “I DO PLACE MY BOW IN THE CLOUD.” 
Slamovy 
