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quently, but where they will be worth the trouble. 

 When this Iris is in bloom the garden presents the 

 most fairy-like picture. The beautiful delicate 

 flowers are borne so high and turn so lightly from 



White Japan Iris 



the slender stems that they seem to rise from the 

 sheaves of drooping leaves like coloured bubbles; 

 the effect in the moonlight is mystical. When the 

 scene is set for Kaempferi's appearance the Phlox 

 clumps are about two feet high and the ground is 

 quite hidden by them and the Funkias and Hemer- 



