Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . tfulnessand peace which pervades its landscapes.—Bailey. October 14, 1896.] Garden and Forest. 415 New or Little-known Plants. Berberis Nevinii. OUR figure of this shrub, which is presented below,will, perhaps, serve to call attention to an exceed-ingly rare and little-known plant of which the fruit has notbeen collected, and which may be expected to be a mostdesirable inhabitant of the gardens of temperate Nevinii * belongs to the section Mahonia of thegenus, and is described by Mr. Nevin, who discov
Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . tfulnessand peace which pervades its landscapes.—Bailey. October 14, 1896.] Garden and Forest. 415 New or Little-known Plants. Berberis Nevinii. OUR figure of this shrub, which is presented below,will, perhaps, serve to call attention to an exceed-ingly rare and little-known plant of which the fruit has notbeen collected, and which may be expected to be a mostdesirable inhabitant of the gardens of temperate Nevinii * belongs to the section Mahonia of thegenus, and is described by Mr. Nevin, who discovered itseveral years ago on a sandy Los Angeles, Cali-fornia, as a shrub seven or eight feet tall. The leaves arecomposed of from three to seven oblong-lanceolate, spinu-lose-serrate, obscurely reticulated leaflets, often nearly aninch long, and are rather shorter than the loose racemes ofyellow flowers. Information with regard to this very hand-some and distinct plant and a supply of ripe fruit areespecially desired by the director of the Arnold Iris Japonica. —This plant, generally known as Iris Sinensisor I. fimbriata, is an Asiatic species which has been in cul-tivation many years in greenhouses. It may possibly behardy, but as it flowers in the late autumn and winter itshould be grown under protection and where slight heatmay be given when it flowers. This is a crested Iris, and isclassed in the same subgenus, Evansia, as our native spe-cies, I. lacustris and I. cristata. It has thin, sword-shapedleaves, one foot or more long, an inch broad and some-what lax. Strong plants produce stems furnished withmany flowers, which make a true raceme. The flowersappear in succession, and are some three or more inches indiameter. In color they are a beautiful delicate mauve,very similar in tone to those of I. cristata. They have adistinct crest and yellow markings at the throat, and thefalls are finely crisped. It is altogether a charming plantand worthy of a
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