ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



but flourish and increase on the edges of 

 shrubberies and along a stone wall, which 

 latter place seems to be their natural habitat. 



The lovely Candidum, too, has no place in 

 this garden. It does not like our soil or my 

 treatment, and after buying hundreds with 

 scant success I have abandoned their culture. 



The German Iris began to bloom on May 

 20th and continued for three weeks. The 

 Florentine and Siberian Iris both began to 

 blossom on May 25th and shortly after these 

 came the English Mont Blanc. By June 

 10th the Spanish Iris unfolded its first blos- 

 som, dark brown with a tinge of purple and 

 a dull gold heart, and one day the third 

 week in June the first Japanese Iris, white 

 with a golden ray through the center, ap- 

 peared to bid me good morning as I walked 

 through the garden; I cut the last of these 

 Japanese Iris the 3rd of August. 



The fragrant yellow Day Lily, 'Hemero- 

 callis florham, was the first Lily to open its 

 petals in the new garden, about the 25th of 

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