SPRING FLOWERS 



good together. Sprengeri grows taller with me 

 than any other tulip, Louis XIV alone excepted. 

 It is a persistent grower, too, appearing year 

 after year as do almost no others except Tulipa 

 Gesneriana, var. rosea, that gay and resolute little 

 bloom always so enchanting above forget-me- 

 nots. 



Near Philadelphia last spring a marvellously 

 lovely combination of tulips and iris was to be 

 seen. A long, narrow bed had been made in the 

 centre of a similarly long and narrow piece of 

 sward. This straight hne was a glowing band of 

 German iris of the richest purple-blue, and of a 

 brilUant yellow tulip set in tall and ordered 

 groups alternating in effective fashion with the 

 iris. Of the tulips there seemed to be fifteen or 

 twenty in a group, and the variety, I thought, was 

 Mrs. Moon. The name of the iris is wanting; 

 but it was the counterpart of one of my own 

 which I owe to the kindness of a farmer's wife, 

 and whose colors, according to the chart, are Bleu 

 d'aniline No. 4 in the standards and Violet de 

 violette in the falls, 



A further suggestion for iris-and-tulip grouping 

 (this from an English source) is a bold use of the 

 deep purple-blue iris thinly interspersed with the 



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