Another large-scale grower is Emil Wittman, of Clifton, New Jersey, successor to Robert Wayman. His fields are located just off U.S. Highway 6, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River, opposite New York. He has an exhibition garden unequalled in size in the East, to my knowledge. The best of the old varieties are represented, along with the newest and finest introductions. Mr. Wittman visits the gardens of leading hybridizers frequently during the iris season, and has spared no expense to add the very best things to his collection. In his extensive hemerocallis plantings, too, are many seedlings which he has purchased outright for exclusive introduction. Mr. Wittman is enthusiastic, and he has abandoned a large retail florist business to devote his energies exclusively to growing plants for his catalog. He has always had one of the largest assortments of Kaempferi iris, and I shall never forget the steaming day I photographed them in color for my slide sets! [Corliss, M.D., Phillip G. (1949). Two Big “W’s”, American Iris Society Bulletin 116(January 1950), 56.]