Bertrand Farr Memorial Library

In John Wister's First Fifteen years of The American Iris Society (1920-1934), He describes the first AIS Library. It was portable so it could be sent around the country and had three replications. It was dedicated as a memorial to Bertrand Farr. "The Farr Memorial Library consists of a shipping box in which are packed the following:

• The Genus Iris - W.R. Dykes
• A Handbook of Garden Irises - W.R. Dykes
• Irises - W. R. Dykes
• Bulbous Irises - Sir Michael Foster
• A Book of the Iris - R. I. Lynch
• Les Iris dans les Jardins - Correvon et Masse
• The Iris - John c. Wister
• Iris in the Little Garden - Ella Porter McKinney
• Irises - F. F. Rockwell
• The Iris - Walter Stager
• Addisonia, December, 1924 and March, 1927.
• Bearded Iris; and A Study of the Pogoniris Varieties -A.W. Sand
• Bulletins of the American Iris Society - Nos. 1 to 29
• Bulletins of The Iris Society (England) - Nos 1 to 5.
• Garden Irises - B. Y. Morrison - Farmer's Bulletin 1406

An article on the Farr Memorial Library in the January 1929 AIS Bulletin, pages 18-22.

History of AIS Library

For more information on historic Irises visit the Historic Iris Preservation Society at http://www.historiciris.org/

-- BobPries - 18 Oct 2018