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flowering plants that benefit by a purple contrast. 

 There are varieties of this Iris with pale blue, and 

 some with straw-coloured and bluish-coloured 



petals, but they are neither so common nor so 

 desirable for the season of their flowering as those 

 of the royal purple. 



Many of the later-blowing Irises arc of a height 

 that towers above dwarf shrubs, and they have an 

 enchanting effect when planted amongst the bushes 

 of the roseries, or between the tall shrubs and 

 dwarf evergreens of the shrubbery ; the pale 

 Turkey, the yellow, or the various-coloured, being 

 planted in the vicinity of the purple rhododendron, 

 and the blue and violet varieties of Iris, where 

 white, yellow, or pink flowers abound 



The CHALCEDONIAN IRIS, Susiana, 



takes its name from Susa, in Persia. This species 

 requires a drier soil and warmer situation than 

 most other kinds, and has many qualities to recom- 

 mend it to our care. Its corolla is the largest of 

 all the species, the upper petals being as broad as 

 a hand, and singular in their colours, being striped 

 with black and white, whilst the falling petals are 



