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Title: 1964 Cooley's Gardens
Identifier: 1964cooleysgarde1964cool (find matches)
Year: 1964 (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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ACCENT (Buss, '53) Each $1.00; 3 for $2.50 Large, tall and vigorous variegata. The clean yellow stand- ards contrast most agreeably with the rose-red lulls. It>. bright color and huge size resulted in its having been selected as one of the five "Iris of the Year" for 1958. 36 inches. AGATINE (Schreiner, '59) Each $2.00 A supremely smooth, trimly tailored, velvet) red. Ii is one of the earliest reds to bloom, with Pacemaker and Vrgus Pheasant in its breeding background. "I inches AHOY (Tompkins, '57) Each $2.00 liest described as a rosy toned cherry-red with a faint undertone of blue that adds to its brilliance and carrying power. Flowers are large, heavily substanced and have love- ly flaring form. 36-inch, well branched stems. Medium late. ALALOA (Gibson, '59) Each $2.00 Lemon-yellow with a lighter area in the center of the lalls. Alaloa ("Little Song") is a huge blossom, very wide and full, the standards broad, domed and glistening. Falls flare and possess a heaw enamel- like texture. It is a flower for foreground planting since its height is only about two feet. There is surel) a definite place for plants of such stature and you will be thrilled with this one! MM AIS, 1961. See page 6. AL BORAK (De Forest, '52) Each $1.00 \ very large brown and copper-russei flower, having wide spreading falls with extremely wide hafts. A light brown garden effect in an Iris which many judges regard as absolutely perfect in form. Three feet in height, finely branched. MM AIS, 1953.
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AMETHYST FLAME . . . DYKES MEDAL 1963 ALICE LEMEN (Plough, '57) Each $4.00 I his big. lacy beauty hints of Truly Yours in form and size though it is of lighter and softer color tones and the two are not related. The giant flowers are heavily laced and fringed, on very tall stems. Falls are white, shaded Empire yellow at the haft; standards are solid Empire yellow and the beard is also yelloyv. HM AIS. 1960. ALLAGLOW (Tompkins, '58) Each $5.00 A gigantic new Iris of bright sunburst-gold, blended bittersweet- orange, with an all-over flush of clear copper-yellow. The whole Mower has a glistening gold dusted finish and a tiny dash of on hid at the tip of the chrome beard. Very broad petaled. with flaring, ruffled falls and wide domed standards. Late; 38 inches. HM AIS. 1958; AM, 1960. (7)

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