IRISH GARDENING 



Obituary. 



Mr. Amos Perry. 



With much regrel we record the death of Mr. 

 Amos Perry, which took place al Enfield on 

 June Huh.' Mr. Perry was born on September 

 22. 1841, and started life as a pupil teacher, but, 

 owing to failing bealth, he obtained employment 

 in the open air al a Gloucestershire Nursery. 

 Later on he wenl to Ware's Nursery eventually 

 becoming a partner in the concern; after that be 

 began business at Winchmore Hill, and finally 

 moved to the more spacious grounds at Enfield. 



Mr. Perry was one of the few who believed in 

 t be i'ut lire of bardy plants From the first, although 

 they were not popular in bis early days. Until 

 a few years ago he was a frequent visitor to 

 Ireland, and few men had such keen eyes to note 

 a good plant <>r an improved seedling form. 

 This keen observance was one of the leading 

 factors which helped him to gather together such 

 a remarkahly fine collection of bardy plants in his 

 nursery, while to Ids collecting In the Pyrenees 

 we owe the beautiful while form of Ramondia 

 pyrenaica. 



Mr. Perry's stands of hardy flowers at the 

 leading show- have always been interesting and 

 attractive, and have done much to educate the 

 popular taste for these flowers, while one usually 

 found something novel in his collect ions. Very 

 numerous are the awards which Mr. Perry has 

 received for good varieties of Oriental Poppies, 

 Delphiniums, Phlox, Asters. Achilleas, &c. of 

 his own raising, and we are phased to know that 

 the sons in the business are to carry on his good 

 work in raisin- and distributing hardy plant-. 



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Correspondence. 



To the Editor of Irish Gardening. 



Dear Sir, We notice in Mr. .1. \V. Besant's 

 interesting article on Waterside Irises, p. 88, 

 that I. Bulleyana is described as yellow, hut it is 

 really blue, and on our young stork the (lower 

 steins are aboul a loot high. The true yellow 

 I. Forrestii and Wilsoni are just coming into 

 flower with us. ami seem a little later than 

 sibirica. The flowers are not large, hut will be 

 valued because of the new colours they provide 

 in this grass-leaved group. 



Another waterside Iris worth drawing attention 

 to is I. laevigata all. a. Those who know it speak 

 of it as superior to I- orientalis " Snow Queen." 

 It is a very pure white, with the palest tinge of 

 lavender on the style-arms, and is very vigorous 

 and floriferous, flowering a fortnighl or more 

 before the Kaempferis, and with us before I. 

 albopurpurea. Yours faithfully, 



K. Wallace & Co. 



lx reply to a (pi est ion about the winter t ei opera - 

 ture at Aldenham, the lion. Vicary Gibbs 



writes : 



••The lowest temperature I ever knew to he 

 registered here was three degrees below zero, in 

 January, 1895, hut. though it is a cold place, it. is 

 not the winter frosts that do the most damage. 



hut the fact that we never know when we have 

 done with winter, and at one time or another we 

 have had frost during every month of the year. 

 Severe frosts late in May are common, though we 

 did not have one this year, hut last year we had 



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