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Title: 1962 Cooley's Gardens
Identifier: 1962cooleysgarde1962cool (find matches)
Year: 1962 (1960s)
Authors: Cooley's Gardens; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Irises (Plants) Catalogs
Publisher: Silverton, Ore. : Cooley's Gardens
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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SHEIK OF ARABY POINT LACE (Gibson, '60) Each $15.00 Here is a big, clean, ivory-cream-pink flower with tangerine beard. As the name implies, the entire blossom is fringed with lace at the edges—both standards and falls. Even the style arms carry this orna- mentation. Unlike so many recent "lacy" introductions this one has size, including extra broad falls of flaring form. Standards are domed with heavy mid-ribs. Harold Fletcher, President of the British Iris Society, toured this country at Iris time in 1959. In commenting, he wrote. "Point Lace, I think, is the best thing that I saw anywhere." Stalks are rigid and reach a height of 36 inches, HM AIS, 1961. POLAR CAP (Stevens, '56) Each $3.50 A new combination—snowy standards and pale blue falls. From the New Zealand originator of the popular Pinnacle and other unique breeding achievements. Polar Cap possesses ideal form and large size in addition to good branching. HM ."MS, 1956. PORT WINE (Sass, '50) Each $1.00; 3 for $2.50 Deep wine-red standards shot with white, the falls broad and rounded with an almost solid border of wine-purple. The color is sharp and vivid—a quality missing in many plicatas with less heavy pattern. Height 3 feet. HM AIS, 1950; AM, 1953. See page 35. PRETENDER (Cook, '51) Each $1.00; 3 for $2.50 The best of a series of "blue-failed variegatas" from the originator of Amigo, Indiana Night, Pink Bountiful, Dreamcastle, Tranquil Moon and a multitude of famed varieties. Standards are soft yel- low, falls solid velvety blue-purple with narrow lighter margin. Genuinely different! 35 inches tall with large flowers. HM AIS, 1952; AM, 1955. Shown on page 27. PRETTY CAROL (Hamblen, '59) Each $12.00 Lovely rich orchid self with a lighter area in the center of the falls, highlighted by a complementary tangerine beard. The large flowers are broad and fully formed, stalks heavy and well branched, reach- ing three feet or more. One of the very best from this new hybrid- izer of exceptional seedlings. HM AIS, 1959; AM, 1961. PRETTYFIELD (Cook, '59) Each $15.00 Clean white standards; white falls delicately banded or flushed clear blue around the outer margins. The beard is bright yellow. This may sound like the familiar blue plicata pattern but it is a decided- ly different type. Emma Cook and Wonderment are in this category. Large flower; 36-inch stems. We like this one verv much. HM AIS, 1959. PRETTY GAY (Plough, '57) Each $3.00 Pine white with a startling fiery red beard. There are no haft mark- ings to mar its chaste beauty. Increases rapidly, blooms freely and branches well. HM AIS, 1957. PRETTY QUADROON (Kleinsorge, '48) Each $1.50; 3 for $4.00 Smooth, metallic, light copper-brown or pale tan, with a hint of lavender and gold as an undertone. The flowers are of faultless form —wide hafts, spreading falls and large, closed standards. The beard is brown. It is a color most difficult to describe but it has much more life and attraction than these coppery tans usually provide. Height 33 to 36 inches. HM AIS, 1948; AM, 1950. Pictured on page 18. PRINCE OF MONACO (Kleinsorge, '56) Each $2.50 A regal flower in two shades of purple, heavily suffused brown on the haft and sporting a rich yellow beard. The standards are brilliant violet-blue, with crinkled appearance of a Poppy petal. The broad falls ffare out widely and are waved at the edges, a lustrous deep violet-purple which has the appearance of heavy velvet. Stalks are strong and reach almost 4 feet in height.

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