. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . eguminous plant, sometimescalled Parrots Bill, may usually be seen grow-ing in the greenhouse at Kew, and we believe the plant is used also for bedding purposes in someof the London parks, and at Hampton have never seen better specimens than thosesent by our correspondent. Ed.] IRIS HAUSSKNECHTII (Sub-gen. Ai-ogon). Among the spring-flowering Irises this is oneof the most interesting. The specimen fromwhich our figure (fig. 107) was taken was suppliedby Mr. Eeuthe, of Fox Hill Nursery, Kest
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . eguminous plant, sometimescalled Parrots Bill, may usually be seen grow-ing in the greenhouse at Kew, and we believe the plant is used also for bedding purposes in someof the London parks, and at Hampton have never seen better specimens than thosesent by our correspondent. Ed.] IRIS HAUSSKNECHTII (Sub-gen. Ai-ogon). Among the spring-flowering Irises this is oneof the most interesting. The specimen fromwhich our figure (fig. 107) was taken was suppliedby Mr. Eeuthe, of Fox Hill Nursery, Keston,Kent. It is nearly related to Iris persica, and sogood an observer and cultivator as Sir MichaelFoster tells us that, were we to depend solely onvariations of colour for points of specific differ-ence, it would be necessary to make twenty orthirty new species. Sir Michaels observationsare supported by the flowers shown by otherexhibitors than Mr. Eeuthe at recent meetings inthe Drill Hall. The species is a native of Asia Minor (Amasia).It has a short, thick root-stock, linear leaves, and. Fig. haussknechtii. the perianth segments are destitute of anybeard. In Mr. Eeuthes specimen the flower wasof a dark purple colour, with the centre of thefalls pale yellow dotted with small brownspots. THE DAFFODIL. That the Daffodil is the finest of vernalflowers no lover of Nature will be disposed todeny. It is also unquestionably the mostclassical of them all. One of its fairest forms,the sweetly odorous Narcissus Tazetta, was im-mortalised by Homer; while Sophocles, thegrandest of Grecian dramatists, sang of itsbeauty in imperishable strains. Shakespeare hasa memorable passage on the Daffodil, much toofamiliar to necessitate quotation; Keats singswith loving tenderness of its golden flowers and the green world they live in; and weknow how they inspired the great soul of Words-worth, the High Priest of Nature, amid hismountain solitudes. I have never felt their inspiration so p
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