Struct lira/ Characteristics 



tips merch' or nearly 

 touch. In some varieties- 

 as, Pare de Xeuilly (Fig. 

 II, 8, page 38), Caprice 

 (Fig. II, (), page 38 and 

 Fig.LMIin Chapter XI), 

 Jeanne d' Arc (Fig. XX\ )- 

 the}" are more wide-stand- 

 ing; in some — as, Celeste 

 (Fig. XX\'I), Prosper 

 Laugier (Fig. II, 2, page 

 ^8) — they are yet more 

 wide-spread, and in a 

 few — as, Dorothea (Fig. 

 XXA'II) — they are al- 

 most horizontal. 



Fig. XXIII. — Iris Kixc 



The names by which 

 the American Iris Society 

 designates the usual car- 

 riage of the standards of 

 different varieties, are 

 shown in Fig. XXVUI. 



It should be borne in 

 mind that the carriage of 

 flowers (standards and 

 falls) of the same variety- 

 varies at times more or 

 less Avith age (both of 

 the flower and the plant) 

 and environment. 



Fig. XXIV. — Monsignor 



