A Little Maryland Garden 99 
stranger appeared among the purple ones 
this spring, of a delicate veined mauve, 
so pale as almost to be white, and with large, 
full blossoms. A neighbour has the pure 
white ones, that look like a flock of snowy 
birds settling, and I must have some of them. 
There is a little list, in my Philadelphian’s 
book, of iris for the garden, which rather 
interests me because I have not been able to 
find them all in the catalogues; they are 
Spanish Tuberosa 
Pyrenean Snakeshead 
Dwarf Persian Sysirinchus or Crocus- 
rooted. 
The yellow lilies bloom early in May. 
In my garden the orange and lemon lilies 
(Hemerocallis flava and fulva) grow together, 
and none of the upspringing foliage of spring 
is lovelier than theirs. They are among the 
earliest plants to throw a veil of green over 
the bare ground. It is beautiful to see these 
masses of brilliant lettuce-green, and their 
rapid growth, when other plants are only 
tentatively pushing through the sod. First 
