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Fades not with the season 

 When summer days depart. 



Stanton: Summer of the Heart. 



Where the house is a frame one on a very low 

 foundation, these Irises are better than most flowering 

 shrubs, for in summer their leaves are long enough 

 to hide the foundation but not long enough to keep 

 the woodwork damp during a long continued rainy 

 season, and during the winter nearly every shrub is 

 leafless. The flowers of these varieties are reddish 

 purple. If white flowers are preferred use Florentina, 

 but its foliage does not last quite as long as that of 

 the varieties first named. 



There are Irises for every purse. The old varieties 

 usually sell at fifteen to twenty-five cents a single root; 



FIG. XLVII. PURPLE KING, EARLY MARCH, 1917, NORTHERN ILLINOIS (Stager 

 Place, Sterling). ALL THIS FOLIAGE THEN GREEN 



