246 Tall Bearded Iris 



What skillful limner e'er would choose 

 To paint the rainbow's varying hues, 

 Unless to mortal it were given 

 To dip his brush in dyes of heaven? 



Scott: Marmi 



Who can paint 

 Like nature? Can imagination boast, 

 Amid its gay creation, hues like hers? 

 -Or can it mix them with that matchless skill. 

 And lose them in each other, as appears 

 In every bud that blows? If Fancy then, 

 Unequal, falls beneath the pleasing task. 

 Ah what shall Language do? Ah where find words 

 Tinged with so many colors? 



Thompson: The Seasons. 



WHITE STANDARD AND FALLS 



2 — Florentina (germanica, see page 109). S. creamy 

 white, faintly flushed lavender; F. creamy white, 

 more deeply flushed lavender, flaked yellowish 

 white at base. 24-29 inches. (Fig. XXXIII, 

 page 138; see page 230.) 



I — Ingeborg (intermediate). Pearly white; very large 

 flower. 17 inches. 



4 — Innocenza (variegata). S. ivory-white; F. white, 

 striped maroon at base; beard golden. 24 inches. 

 (See page 209.) 



