. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Phlox Mrs. W. E. Fryer. bloom June 13. No show of named va- rieties that I have ever seen together could begin to compare with it. As I took my first view within the shelter of young evergreens that en- closed it, the first thing that caught my eye, towering above all, was the stately variety that he has named for his wife, Mrs. Willis E. Fryer. It is a flower of the largest size, carried on strong stems thirty-four inches high, the standards of very light blue, giving at a distance the impression of white, the falls of the richest purple, veined a
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Phlox Mrs. W. E. Fryer. bloom June 13. No show of named va- rieties that I have ever seen together could begin to compare with it. As I took my first view within the shelter of young evergreens that en- closed it, the first thing that caught my eye, towering above all, was the stately variety that he has named for his wife, Mrs. Willis E. Fryer. It is a flower of the largest size, carried on strong stems thirty-four inches high, the standards of very light blue, giving at a distance the impression of white, the falls of the richest purple, veined at the base and bordered or shaded at the edge with a lighter purple. The health and vigor of the plant gives every promise of put- ting this variety among the really use- ful sorts for general planting. I do not recall any of the standard varieties of its color equal to it. If Mr. Fryer had accomplished nothing more in all his experiments with the iris in the past twenty years than the production of this one variety, it would Tiave been well worth his time. He has named two varieties after his children, W. J. and Kathryn Fryer, that may prove to be the most valuable of all his seedlings. They are both yellows of the largest size—the standards not quite so rich as the Honorabilis, but fully dou- ble the size and carried higher up, with falls of the deepest, velvety mahogany bordered with yellow. A bouquet of either one of them would cause a sensa- tion anywhere they might be exhibited, "Red" Irises! I have sometimes had inquiries for » red iris, which is so far from the natural color of this flower that it would seem' like trifling with descriptive terms to suggest the possibility of there being any such thing. However, we found among Mr. Fryer's seedling coUectiom two or three varieties of rich mahogmasy red that it would be hard to describe without some mention of red. It is im- possible to give anything like an ade- quate idea of the richness and beauty of this c
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