THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Anemoniflorum sangnineum, carmine 

 rose, light centre ; Captain Nare's pur- 

 ple crimson ; Chamois, carmine shaded, 

 chamois yellow ; Cleopatra, white, with 

 yellow centre ; Cornte de Montbron, 

 rose pink, tipped white ; Delicatissi- 

 mum, rose lilac, shaded orange in the 

 centre ; Emile Lemoine purple crimson, 

 tipped yellow, and shaded yellow in the 

 centre ; Fulgens plenissimum, pale car- 

 mine, shading to white ; Haage et 

 Schmidt, crimson, pale rose in the cen- 

 tre ; Hermann Stenger, rose lilac ; J. N. 

 Tweedy, rich carmine red ; Le Dante, 

 bright rose, shaded orange in the centre ; 

 Madame Jules Aldebert, pale pinK with 

 light centre ; Marquis of Bute, deep 

 rose pink ; Melton, bright magenta 

 crimson ; Niveum plenum, pure white ; 

 Paul Journu, bright rose, centre creamy 



white suffused rose ; Prince of Wales, 

 purple crimson, with orange colored 

 centre ; Prince of Teck, bright crimson ; 

 Rev. J. Dix, rose carmine ; Rose Per- 

 fection, rosy red pale rose centre ; Ru- 

 brum plenum, rose lilac ; Rosy Morn, 

 blush white ; Sulphureum plenum, blush 

 white, with pale yellow centre ; vSyl- 

 phide, pure white ; Voie Lactee, white 

 tinted pink ; Wilhelm Kramper, deep 

 rose, tipped white. 



Single. — Albatross, rich pink; Adras- 

 tes, rose purple; Chromis, crimson pur- 

 ple ; Darwin, light red ; Hamlet, deep 

 pink ; Isis, purple crimson ; Letus, pure 

 white ; Mrs. Bateman Brown, carmine 

 crimson ; Weston, bright pink ; Ro- 

 seum, pale pink ; Ruby, rose purple ; 

 Sherlock, rich crimson ; Tasso, bright 

 crimson. — Frank Brunton, Boston. 



THE JAPAN IRIS. 



Y experience has shown that the 

 Ksempferi iris requires an 

 abundance of water during the 

 growing season. My first at- 

 tempt at the cultivation of this plant 

 was with a collection of upwards of two 

 dozen fine varieties ; the plants when 

 received from the nursery were strong 

 clumps, and where set out early in the 

 spring and given the same care I gave 

 the German iris. They grew finely and 

 produced some magnificent blooms in 

 June. The latter part of the season 

 was extremely dry, but I supposed that 

 the plants were all right, as drouths 

 never seemed to injure the common 

 sorts. But the next spring, when they 

 started to grow, it was noticed that the 



foliage of nearly all of them was of a 

 sickly yellow color and the growth very 

 weak, a large portion of them dying in 

 a few weeks, and those that survived 

 made a very poor growth and produced 

 only a few inferior flowers. I at once 

 concluded that what the irises needed 

 was water and plenty of it, so I re- 

 moved them to a swampy piece of land 

 which could be flooded. The results 

 were surprising ; the foliage soon as- 

 sumed a dark green color and began to 

 grow vigorously, and by frost many of 

 the leaves were upwards of four feet 

 long, — and such flowers as they pro- 

 duced the following June ! Orchids 

 could not surpass them. — Vicks Maga- 



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