166 MY GARDEN 



Lemon Lilies, Foxgloves, and Peach-leaved Campanulas, 

 with a background of Persian Lilacs and such free-grow- 

 ing Roses as Stan well's Perpetual, Madame Plantier, and 

 the yellow Briers Harisoni and the Persian and edged 

 with double white Pinks and Nepeta Mussini, are a joy 

 indeed, if one has sufficient room to give up a whole 

 border to a single month. Often such a border as this 

 may be made in some inconspicuous part of the grounds 

 where it need be visited only when in festal array. 



All these Bearded Irises with fleshy, creeping rhizomes 

 or roots should be planted with the rhizome partly 

 above the surface of the ground, for the health of the 

 plant requires that this should be well ripened by the 

 sun, and the best time to set them out is just after they 

 have flowered. To increase one's stock pieces of the 

 thick root may be broken from the parent clump, the 

 foliage cut back to an inch or so, and the -root set firmly, 

 but only part way in the earth. These plants should be 

 large enough to bloom the following year. 



The Evansea or crested group is a small one and but 

 two of its members known to me are suitable for the 

 open garden. A jagged "crest" replaces the "beard" 

 of the Pogoniris and the rhizome is thick and creeps 

 along the surface of the ground very much as do the 

 roots of the latter. 



/. tectorum, the Japanese Roof Iris, from the roots of 

 which the ladies of Japan make a famed cosmetic, is to 

 me one of the most beautiful of the family. The re- 



