102 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 



Since various forms of bearded or Pogon Iris are so 

 commonly found in all gardens, it seemed unnecessary to 

 devote to them more than the single plate of /. Jacquiniana 

 (see Plate IV.), a richly-coloured representative of the 

 so-called German Irises. 



/. Susiana (see Plate III.) was included as being the 

 least capricious and perhaps the least difficult to grow of 

 the Oncocyclus group. Its sombre colouring is to some 

 extent typical of the group, though it must be added that 

 7. Susiana is the most sombre member of the group, and 

 that there are some species, such as /. urmiensis, with its 

 pure yellow, and 7. Lortetii, with its soft pink and deep 

 crimson, that are really gorgeous in their colouring. 



To the great beardless or Apogon section it would have 

 been easy to devote the whole of the eight plates without 

 reproducing any two Irises that were at all similar. 



Of the three examples chosen, 7. longipetala (see Plate 

 II.) is perhaps the most easily established member of the 

 much neglected, but very beautiful, Californian Irises ; 

 7. ochroleuca (see Plate VII.) is the finest of the large group 

 of Irises akin to 7. spuria, and a clump either of 7. ochroleuca 

 or of its kindred 7. aurea and 7. Monnieri or of some of 

 Foster's Monspur hybrids is an ornament to any border. 

 The last of the three plates of beardless Irises, a Japanese 

 hybrid of 7. Kcempferi see Plate VIII.), shows the usual form 

 of these double flowers, which for some unaccountable 

 reason the Japanese seem to prefer to the more graceful 

 single-flowered forms. They are at home in sunny water- 

 gardens or in any rich, heavy soil where the subsoil is 

 moist in summer. 



