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are, however, for the individual gardener to work out; my garden 
is poor and dry, and the Japanese irises find a position that they 
like in a moist spot by the pond. There I carry on a judicious 
form of naturalizing. In early spring there are edgings of 
primulas, violas, and for-get-me-nots; Siberian irises carry along 
the bloom, and when the Japs have gone nature holds full sway. 
It becomes a tangle of the wild things, Joe-Pye-Weed, asters, 
golden-rod, and Eupatorium fight together, and at the very 
water’s edge are the white spikes of arrowhead and the red of 
cardinal flowers. Such is my site for Japanese irises, but I 
should like a more watery place with quiet pools, winding sluggish 
channels, perhaps a bit of cascade, and all so constructed that I 
might flood the beds at will and walk upon high paths or moon- 
arched bridges from which to overlook it all. How one can dream 
in and about gardens! 
I have purposely refrained from a recommendation of named 
varieties; almost every catalog offers a different selection and 
fundamentally color is a matter of personal taste. You will find 
here no such variation of good, bad, and indifferent as is the case 
among the bearded irises. Unless you are working out a par- 
ticular scheme in your garden proper, use them in masses at the 
edge of the wild, and paint broadly, with but a few colors upon 
your palette. 
If you are not familiar with these irises and their possibilities 
you may add a wealth of color to your garden for late June or 
early July, and we hope that in years to come the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden will show them to you at their best. It should 
prove a Mecca for flower lovers, particularly at this season. 
OBERT S$. STURTEVANT. 
ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE AMERI- 
CAN IRIS SOCIETY AND THE BROOKLYN 
BOTANIC GARDEN 
The American Iris Society, hereinafter called the Society, and 
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, hereinafter called the Garden, 
hereby agree to cooperate for the purpose of establishing a col- 
lection of Japanese irises and for the study of their cultivation, 
