

Chapter XIII 



A Few Varieties 



>HE FOLLOWING are only a very few 

 of the many hundreds of varieties of Tall 

 Bearded Iris now in commerce — just enough 

 to indicate the wide range of colors of the early and 

 late moderately priced varieties. They are numbered 

 in the approximate order of their blooming — approxi- 

 mate only, for situation, soil and season are greatly 

 modifying factors — and those beginning about the same 

 time to bloom are given the same number. For the 

 rating of each, and, also of many other varieties 

 (many of them later introductions and higher priced), 

 see under Symposium, Chapter XIV. 



In the description the figures indicate in inches the 

 height of the flower-stalk. Height varies more or less 

 with locality and cultivation, but the relative heights 

 of the different varieties in the same locality and under 

 similiar conditions do not usually vary to any very 

 great extent. "S" refers to the three standards or 

 upright segments, and "F" to the three falls or droop- 

 ing segments. The descriptions of the flowers are 

 necessarily only general, for there is hardly any other 

 flower as difficult as the Iris, "The Rainbow Flower", 

 to either describe in words or represent in colors. 



