. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. IRISES 87. Typical German Iris Bloom 8, Standard, p, pistil; c. crest of pistil;
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. IRISES 87. Typical German Iris Bloom 8, Standard, p, pistil; c. crest of pistil; St. p, stigmatic pocket; st, stamen; f, fall:_ t, tube; sp, spathe valve; o, ovary; r, reticulation; b, beard. A discussion of Iris is not complete without a short con- sideration of the way the German Iris came about. The dwarf German Iris is derived from I. pumila and a number of other dwarf species. The tall varieties are the result of I. variegata, a species with yellow standMds and ma- hogany marked falls; I. pal- lida, a very pale blue species with the two spathe valves (shown in sketch) always very papery and dry; I. germanica, a deep violet species, earlier than the others; I. florentina, a pale lavender white; I. very good light yeUow. Various combinations of these species have given the following eight groups of German Iris: I. variegata, paUida, florentina, sambucina, neglecta, squalens, amcena, plicata. There are other bearded species of Iris worthy of culture, such as I. mesopotamica, benacensis-, cypriana, Kochii and Caterina. It is interesting to know that Iris florentipa, the old-fashioned sweet, early-blooming, pale lavender-white species, is the [orris-root of commerce and beheved to be the original of the Fleur-de-lis, or French nationeJ floral emblem. The belles of ancient Greece grew it both for flowers and root, and the growing of this root is a leading industry of northern Italy. The rhizomes are dug in the Siunmer and peeled to remove the o
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