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taking the lead among them. Of /. Iupi7ia I have now several 

 plants in full flower and I have no scruple in pronouncing 

 them to be among the most striking of this section. The entire 

 flower is of a greenish yellow color, delicately veined with 

 brownish black, the centre of the lip marked with a very con- 

 spicuous black blotch. Iris Gatesii has flowers the shape of 



dish brown on a yellow ground, and adorned with a very con- 

 spicuous deep brown eye in the centre. The crossing of this 

 with I. Susiana has probably given birth to the forms known 

 in gardens under the names of /. Iberica, I. Van Hontteana, I. 

 insignis, I. ochracea and others. *.- 



Haarlem, Holland. C. G. Van Tubergen. 



41. — Selenipedium caudatum, var. Warscewiczii. — See page 2S4. 



/. Susiana, but of a larger size and of a peculiar silvery yellow- 

 ish gray color. It has also the decided advantage of being much 

 hardier than I. Susiana. Among older introduced species /. 

 paradoxa well deserves the epithet of wonderful, no other Iris 

 flower presenting the same singularcombination of colors and 

 exquisite shape. It is a native of the southern parts of the Cau- 

 casus, and although it has long been in cultivation it is still 

 extremely rare in European gardens. The standard segments 

 of the flowers oil. Iberica, which may without exaggeration be 

 called gigantic in comparison with the miniature size of the 

 plant, are of a silvery white color only just perceptibly veined 

 with a delicate lilac; the falls are very large, marked with red- 



Cultural Department. 

 Notes on Shrubs. 



"\1/'HEREVER the native Redbud Judas-tree (Cercis Cana- 

 ** densis) and the Chinese species (C Chinensis, or C. 

 Japonica, as it is sometimes called) are equally hardy under 

 all circumstances, there can be no hesitation in selecting the 

 exotic species as the finest of the two when in bloom. The 

 flowers are about twice the size of those of our native species, 

 and are produced in fully as great profusion, and the color is of 

 a finer deep reddish purple. But unfortunately the introduced 

 species has not yet proved hardy enough in Massachusetts 



