ARVISTA GARDENS 
168 Grand Blvd., Battle Creek, Mich. 
33rd Year 
TERMS: Cash with order, by check, draft, or money order. Discounts 
only as noted. No discounts on special collections or Tree Peonies except 
as noted. 
SPECIAL: On all orders received before May 1, 1956 amounting to a 
net of $5 or more, we allow a special discount of 10%, not including speciai 
or collection offers or Tree Peonies. 
TRANSPORTATION: We pay parcel post or express charges on all 
retail orders in the U.S.A. that amount to $4 or more except as noted. On 
smaller orders, kindly add 35 cents for postage and packing. 
MICHIGAN CUSTOMERS: Please add 3% sales tax. 
Send with your order the names of five or more friends interested in 
Iris, Hemerocallis or Tree Peonies, and we will be glad to include some 
extras with your order. 
We are very grateful to all our customers who have sent us such nice 
orders. In filling orders, we always try to do a little more than we promise. 
The home of ARVISTA GARDENS is just three houses north of High- 
way US-12, one block east of its junction with M-78. 
Visitors are always welcome at Arvista Gardens, though on Saturdays 
we are usually otherwise occupied and cannot give personal attention. 
SHIPPING TIME ' 
Beardless Irises may be shipped throughout the season except when 
in bloom. They should have plenty of moisture until established. Bearded 
Irises are shipped from early July to the close of the season. Planting in- 
structions accompany all shipments. 
SPECIAL 
If your order for Daylilies, Irises, Oriental Poppies, and/or Peonies 
(not including Tree Peonies), amounts to $10.00 or more, you may select 
additional plants to one-third the amount of your order. 
If your order for TREE PEONIES amounts to $25.00 or more, you 
may slect additional Tree Peonies or other plants to one-fourth the amount 
of your order. 
IRIS GARDEN SPECIAL 
If you are only interested in enjoying the blossoms of beautiful iris 
and do not care to keep track of the names by using gardei markers, here 
is an offer you cannot afford to miss. 
We will send you 30 splendid irises, including at least 15 varieties — 
most likely more—our selection, for only $6.50, express chzerges collect. If 
you selected these irises and we labeled them ,they would cost 60 cents each. 
You would naturally think that there is a string attached to this’ offer. 
Well, there is. All we ask is that When the irises burst into bloom, and you 
show them to your friends and neighbors, you tell them were they came 
from. We charge this offer to advertising. 
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