HELEN McGREGOR 
PLUM PRETTY (DeForest 1949) $2.50 
A most attractive and unusual color of blue plums or grapes. Smooth 
and trim, it blooms 33” tall in mid-season. (Calderilla x Tobacco 
Road ) 
PORT WINE (Sass 1950) $7.50 
A very dark red and white plicata. The ground color is white. The 
standards are heavily sprayed in wine red. The falls are heavily 
sprayed around the outer edges in the same wine red. This is a 
sensational iris. 38”. Mid-late. (45-47 x Starless Night) Honorable 
Mention 1950. Award of Merit 1953: 
PRAIRIE JEWEL (Sass 1953) $20.00 
A highly complicated cross which resulted in a most fascinating 
flower. The large flowers have domed standards of clear shell-pink 
contrasting strongly with broad, dahlia-red falls and a vivid red 
beard. A beautiful, jewel-like finish. (((Ola Kala x (Dore x 
Matula) ) x Rainbow Room) x Flora Zenor x Hall’s Pink Sdlg.) 
Mid-late. 38”. Honorable Mention 1953. 
PRAIRIE SUNSET (H. Sass 1939) $1.00 
Dykes Medal winner 1943. A subtle blending of rich apricot, peach, 
rose, copper and gold. A self of indescribable iridescent colorings. 
The standards are slightly opened, falls flare. Mid-season. 34”. Used 
extensively in hybridizing. 
PREMIER PEACH (D. Hall 1946) $1.00 
This is not a pink iris but a peach iris, which has no haft markings 
to mar its delicate beauty. Flowers are a clear pinkish peach self of 
good size and form. Comparable to Haviland china. Honorable 
Mention 1946. Mid-season. 34”. 
PRETTY QUADROON (Kleinsorge 1948) $5.00 
Delectable, smooth, metallic light copper-brown with a hint of 
lavender and gold undertone. The beard is brown also. Standards 
are closed and falls widely rounded. Mid-season. 34”. (Mexico x 
Tobacco Road) Honorable Mention 1948. Award of Merit 1950. 
DON’T BE CONTENT WITH BEARDED IRIS ALONE! 
PROSPECTOR (Kleinsorge 1950) $2.50 
Very deep golden yellow, almost an orange, with an ivory-white 
patch in the center of the falls. Closed standards and saucer flaring 
falls make a highly pleasing garden picture. 34”. Honorable Men- 
tion 1951. Award of Merit 1953. 
PURISSAMOHR (E. Weidner 1952) $10.00 
A sensational pure white oncobred iris. Proving itself to be a good 
grower and winter hardy. The large flowers with not a trace of 
color or markings, have beautifully domed standards and broad 
flaring falls. A soft golden tan beard is the only contrast on this 
heavy substanced bit of enchantment. Rhizomes and foliage resemble 
the tall beraded iris, 3-way branch placement. It sets seed readily. 
40”. Mid-late. (Wm. Mohr x (Purissima x Easter Morn) ) Honor- 
able Mention 1952. 
PURPLE MOOR (Lapham 1947) $1.00 
Massive, huge blooms of fully rounded form in a rich glossy purple. 
Very showy because of its large size, opening later than most bearded 
aE 35) 
QUECHEE (Knowlton 1950) $4.00 
An iris of distinctive form and richness of color. A handsome garnet- 
red self with broad-cupped standards, rounded flaring falls, and a 
thick short bronze beard. Very heavy substance and smoothness of 
finish give it resistance to sunburning. Good branching. Midseason. 
36”. (Prince of Orange x Redyen) Honorable Mention 1950. 
QUEEN’S TASTE (Douglas 1952) $8.00 
A lovely and novel color combination, with lavender-pink stand- 
ards above semi-flaring blended red falls of pleasing richness. The 
hybridizer is intrigued by the amoena lines in the parentage (Cri- 
terion x Olympian) Mid-season. 38”. Honorable Mention 1953. 
RAINBOW ROOM (J. Sass 1946) $2.00 
Nature has set her stage in a rich creamy-buff and then taken her 
paint brush in hand, proceeding to blend a symphony of colors in a 
multiple of shadings of apricot and orange over the greater portion 
of the fall petals, dashing a splash of lilac toward the center, finish- 
ing off with a metallic blotch at the end of a bright yellow beard. 
Mid-season. 36”. (H. Sass’ No. 50-36 x Matula) Honorable Mention 
1947. Award of Merit 1951. 
RANGER (Kleinsorge 1943) $1.00 
A distinctive late blooming brilliant crimson-red with high, closed 
cone-shaped standards. Broad velvety falls. Fragrant. 34”. Late. 
Award of Merit 1946. 
RARE PEARL (Schramm 1954) $10.00 
One of the prettiest and most unusual of the large and varied Mohr 
family, this one is big and flaring, with the base color cream 
showing mother-of-pearl tones in the falls. A good grower; early 
mid-season. (Elmohr x Mt. Washington ) 
RASPBERRY RIBBON (Schreiner 1951) $7.50 
Plicated and stippled, crisply ruffled and excellently styled with its 
standards so heavily sprayed raspberry as to seem almost solid in 
color. The falls have retained that snowy whiteness with a band of 
raspberry sprayed and etched around the border, in a styling all its 
own. A subdued orange beard lends atmosphere. 34”. Early mid- 
season. Honorable Mention 1951. 
RAVEN WING (Milliken 1951) $4.50 
A dark purple of rare depth of color and with a sheen so pro- 
nounced that this is the feature you remember instead of the color 
itself. Domed standards, rippling, loosely ruffled falls and a heavy, 
dark beard. A dark beauty. 36”. 
REAL GOLD (Austin 1952) No. Ob-93 $8.00 
An oncobred that is almost a self and near approach to antique 
gold in color (not yellow). Standards are of glistening gold-buff 
and falls of a deep gold-buff with soft harmonizing veins and a 
golden bronze beard. It has onco characteristics with falls broad and 
quite flaring. Yields good pollen. This is not a tall iris. (20”). 
Mid-season. (Golden Majesty x Capitola) 
RED MAJESTY (G. Douglas 1946) $1.50 
Majestic in its gorgeous, brilliant robe of eugenia rose, with a touch 
of yellow infusion at the throat, finished by heavy yellow semi- 
flaring blooms. Honorable Mention 1948. Late. 42”. 
REDWYNE (McKee 1945) $1.50 
A bright mahogany-red that is exquisite. Its unusual velvety falls 
with a rich texture and solidness of color have won praise for this 
outstanding red. Mid-season. 36”. Often reblooms in the fall here 
in Southern California. 
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