ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



with a soft cloth and shaken in a paper bag 

 containing powdered sulphur, and replanted 

 immediately. Miss Jekyll recommends this 

 use of sulphur and I have tried it with good 

 results. 



It is always a problem how to arrange a 

 garden so that it may be flowering from 

 May until frost, and here were seven large 

 beds to be filled with Lilies and Iris only, 

 and yet kept blooming throughout the sea- 

 son. Of Iris Germanica there were pure 

 white, pale yellow with violet markings, 

 yellow and brown, and various shades of 

 purple and blue; the lovely "Madam Che- 

 rau," white with a frilled edge of light 

 blue; many varieties of Japanese Iris, 

 white ones predominating, however; Flor- 

 entine Iris and the English variety Mont 

 Blanc, both of these also white; Siberian 

 Iris, white veined with yellow, and also 

 violet ones; Spanish Iris, growing tall and 

 stately and bearing flowers of wonderful 

 coloring. The foliage of the Spanish Iris 

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