with larger flowers and longer leaves. The following varieties English Iris 

 of Iris resemble ochroleuca in growth and form of the flower, and 

 bloom about the same time Monspur and Dorothy Foster mauve, 

 a urea and Monnieri yellow. 



Later still open the English Irises, growing in any ordinary 

 border, and lasting for years without any division, but doing 

 best in a rich, moist soil. The finest I have ever seen were 

 growing in clay close above a pool of water. The beauty and 

 variety of their colouring are very great, varying from white to 

 mauve, deep blue and violet purple, while some are delicately 

 flaked with a deeper shade of the same tone. They are most 

 beautiful when the pink and blue shades of mauve are grown 

 apart and white is mingled with both groups. There is a 

 large number of named sorts, and every grower seems to have 

 his own names. The following are some I picked out as good 

 at the R.H.S. exhibition: 



The Pearl 

 Mont Blanc 

 Miss Kitty 



Princess Beatrice 

 Van Dyck 

 Newton . 

 Bleu Aimable . 

 Hector . 

 Agrippa . 



Vesta 



Belle Agathe . 



> White. 



White flaked with pale mauve. 

 Blue Mauves 



.(. All blue mauve. 



r Deep blue purple. 



Dark purple. 



Red Mauves 



White with pale violet flakes. 

 Pink-lilac. 



