We invite all flower lovers 
and especially iris fanciers to visit our 
gardens anytime. 
Thousands of visitors from all parts 
of the U.S. are attracted here annually. You 
will see literally hundreds and 
hundreds of different plants and bulbs 
me | including the World’s Most Comprehensive 
Iris Collection. Our display garden 
and fields are located in the green 
foothills of the snow capped 
Cascade Mountains, a beautiful setting 
that wins as much pleasurable 
comment as our irises. So, why not make 
Walter Marx Gardens “Where 
Iris Bloom Every Month of the Year” 
a MUST on your list of 1955 
garden tours. 
GL ria 
year ’round IRIS BLOOM... 
Iris bakeriana, danfordiae, histrioides major, vartani alba, Juno 
iris sind-pers and I. stylosa the well known winter blooming iris. 
I. reticulata in variety, Juno iris in variety, I. tuberosa, all Dwarf 
Bearded varieties and the earliest beardless species. 
Early May. All intermediate bearded varieties, the exotic onco- 
cyclus and regelia species and their hybrids, many species includ- 
ing the Pacific Coast group, tenax, innominata, douglasiana et al, 
the evansia section, tectorum, gracilipes and japonicum and other 
uncommon species such as ruthenica, graminea, hyacinthiana 
and others. 
Tall Bearded, Siberian and Dutch in hundreds of varieties. PEAK 
OF TALL BEARDED IRIS BLOOM IS USUALLY FROM 
ABOUT MAY 25th TO JUNE 10th. 
Late Tall Bearded Iris, Dutch, Spanish and English in many 
varieties. Siberian, Spuria and Louisiana varieties. I chrysographes 
and I. delavayi, Early Japanese varieties. 
Late-English, Spurias and Louisiana varieties, AMERICA’S 
MOST OUTSTANDING COLLECTION OF JAPANESE IRIS 
INCLUDING THE WORLD FAMOUS HIGO STRAIN IS 
USUALLY AT PEAK BLOOM FROM ABOUT JUNE 25th TO 
JULY 15th. Hundreds of varieties plus many thousands of the 
World’s finest Higo seedlings may be seen at this time. We prom- 
ise you a real treat if you can be at our gardens in early July. 
I. dichotoma, generally known as the Vesper Ivis. Intermediate 
reblooming varieties such as Autumn Queen, Sangreal, Louise 
Starker and others. 
All fall blooming varieties of the Tall Bearded, Intermediate and 
Dwarf Bearded groups. Climate and culture determine to a great 
extent the quantity of flowers produced by all irises possessing 
reblooming tendencies. 
First blooms of I. stylosa, the winter flowering iris. This is not 
reliably hardy in colder sections of the country. 
We realize that most of you who receive our catalog will not be able to visit our garden this year and make 
your own iris selections at blooming time. So we have assembled on the opposite page a collection of irises 
that will bring just about every color imaginable to your garden plus an abundance of continuous bloom 
from earliest spring until autumn. Every variety has been especially selected for these outstanding charac- 
teristics, best color, good growing habits and adaptability to most parts of the country. 
2) WALTER MARX GARDENS ©& BORING, OREGON 
