12 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 



that with care the bulbs can be moved successfully when 

 in flower. This enables seedlings and chance mixtures 

 to be sorted out, a process which is extremely difficult 

 later on, when the foliage has died down and the position 

 of any particular bulb in a group can no longer be 

 ascertained. 



The above-mentioned members of this group all have 

 four-sided leaves, but there is one species, 7. Bakenana, 

 named after Mr. J. G. Baker, the late keeper of the Kew 

 Herbarium, in which the leaves have eight sides, or rather 

 are round with eight raised ribs. The flowers are small, 

 but have a delightful velvety texture. The colour is 

 produced by deep violet dots and broken veins on a white 

 ground, which becomes entirely obliterated in the deep 

 self-coloured tip of the blade. This beautiful little species 

 blooms in January or early in February, and is indeed 

 worthy of some sheltered nook in the rock garden or 

 even the protection of a cold frame. 



7. Danfordice, the one yellow-flowered species of the 

 group, is a little dwarf Iris, of brilliant colour, remarkable 

 for the almost total disappearance of the standards. 



Indications are not wanting that other Irises of this 

 class may yet be found when Asia Minor becomes more 

 thoroughly explored. Farther East in Turkestan, to be 

 more exact two curious Irises have been discovered 

 which may or may not belong to this group, 7. Kolpakow- 

 skiana and 7. Winkleri. It is greatly to be hoped that 

 they will soon be brought once more into cultivation, and 

 their position in the genus settled. 



7. Sisyrinchium can hardly be said to belong to this 



