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Japanese Iris likes to be flooded when in bloom, but at no other time. 

 They bloom later than the other sorts and varieties can be selected 

 which bloom from mid- June till nearly the end of July. 



The Siberian Iris, with its blue or white flowers and grass-like 

 foliage, is indeed a beautiful garden subject. The spikes are also 

 effective in vase arrangements. The white variety, Snow Queen, with 

 its golden blotch on the falls, is exceUent, as are also the intense blue 

 orientalis varieties. Neither the Japanese nor the Siberian Iris is 

 insistent upon being planted in moist soil. 



Under "Bulbs" we have given a discussion of the Spanish and 

 English Irises. 



Iris border backed with shrubs in a semi- wild garden 



Perhaps no group is so easily grown, requiring as little care as 

 does the German Iris group. They are very hardy and stand all 

 sorts of adverse conditions, growing in the parched soil under the 

 eaves of houses, thriving where children tramp the soil to the hardness 

 of a cement pavement, blooming under trees choked by grass, and 

 stiU give flowers as pretty as an orchid. They should always be 

 planted quite on the surface of the soil, not deeply, and are best placed 

 in bold groups. So rapid is the multiphcation that if a fine variety costs 

 a dollar it usually produces so rapidly that the same plant will give 



