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have lost all their roots will grow, though they are, of course, 

 handicapped by the loss. 



Most of the Juno Irises go 

 to seed very freely, especially 

 I. caucasica, I. Rosenbachiana, 

 and, in an adequately genial 

 climate, I. alata ; and the seed 

 germinates readily. The seed 

 of the two former, since it does 

 not sprout until spring, may 

 be sown in the open, in pre- 

 pared beds, and left there for 

 three or four years, at which 

 time the seedlings should be 

 moved when the 

 foliage has gone 

 down, since many 

 of them will by 

 that time have 

 become flowering 

 bulbs. It is, per- 

 haps, hardly neces- 

 sary to say that 

 when seed is thus sown in the 

 open, it should be covered more 

 deeply, with fine sifted soil, 

 than when it is sown in pots ; 

 otherwise much of the seed 

 will come to the surface and be 

 lost. The seed of I. alata will, 

 of course, need to be sown 

 under protection, and that of 

 I. persica will benefit by a 

 similar treatment. 



Iris nepalensis. 



With I. alata my tale of 

 bulbous Irises comes to an end ; Fl - 29. IRIS NEPALENSIS (reduced one-fourth) 

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