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(The Iris family is one of the most beautiful of all, 

 and Iris chrysographes and /. Wilsonii are welcome 

 additions. These new-comers are allied to the well- 

 known J. sibirica and have a similar habit and fibrous 

 rootstocks. They grow from two to two and a half feet 

 high, are very free flowering and have narrow, dark 

 green leaves. In J. chrysographes the standards are 

 brilliant dark purple-violet and the falls reddish- 

 purple, each with a median stripe and numerous 

 spots of golden yellow near the base. Iris Wilsonii has 

 clear yellow flowers with a copious veining of purple 

 on the lower half of the falls. These two new species 

 delight in a moist loamy soil, are not averse to 

 partial shade, and are well suited for planting by the 

 side of water. 



In recent years China has given to gardens in the 

 west many very beautiful kinds of Primroses and 

 among them Primula pulverulenta, P. Cockburniana, 

 and P. Veitchii. In habit and in foliage the first 

 named resembles the well-known P. japonica but 

 has flower scapes a yard or more tall and each bears 

 nine to eleven whorls of flowers. The individual 

 flowers are a third larger than those of the Japanese 

 Primrose, rich crimson in color and often twenty or 

 more in a single whorl. The flower scapes are 

 clothed with a white farina and it is this peculiarity 



