. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book II. FRITILLARY. 841 striped -with white. It flowers tn the beginning of June; is a native of the Levant, and was cultivated by Gerrard in 1596. The bulbous-rooted, or Spanish iris (J. xiphium) (Bot. Mag. 686, a) has channelled leaves, c
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book II. FRITILLARY. 841 striped -with white. It flowers tn the beginning of June; is a native of the Levant, and was cultivated by Gerrard in 1596. The bulbous-rooted, or Spanish iris (J. xiphium) (Bot. Mag. 686, a) has channelled leaves, convoluted wild plant are blue, with emarglnate petals, and appear in June; but culti- vation has produced a great number of varieties with yellow, white, violet, and variegated flowers. It is a native of the south of Europe, and was cul- tivated by Gerrard in 1596. The great bulbous-rooted iris, the English iris of the Dutch, (/. xipkioides) (Bot. Mag. 602. and .fig. 601. 6), fe much larger than the other in all its parts, the flower-stalk is near twice the height,.and the flowers are more than double the size. It is equally prolific in varieties as /. xiphium, of which it is by some botanists considered only a variety. The tubers of both sorts are annually imported from Holland. during their whole length, and awl shaped at the tip ; the flowers of the 6305. Culture of the first three species. These seldom ripen their seeds in this country, nor are they often propagated here from offsets, annual supplies of bulbs being obtained from Holland, and generally forced like the hyacinth. Justice says (Brit. Gard. Direct. 222.) the Dutch florists told him, that they never could obtain any varieties from sowing the seeds of the Persian iris ; nor could this author himself, who cultivated the plant, and raised seedlings at Crichton, near Edinburgh, with great care and considerable success. The three sorts are best cultivated under the protection of a frame, where their flowers will be l
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