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their foliage disappearing at this time, leaving bare spots 

 in the flower garden. To avoid this, annuals, or green- 

 house plants raised from cuttings, are provided. These 

 are sown or planted in time to follow the bulbs, thus giving 

 a succession of flowers for the summer and fall. In addi- 

 tion to the bulbs there are many other kinds of herbaceous 

 perennials here. 



Bed no. n, located at the foot of the east terrace, is 

 devoted to roses. This collection was established in the 

 spring of 1913. The bed is about 250 feet long and 8 feet 

 wide. There are over 400 bushes, representing about 140 

 kinds, including hybrid perpetuals, hybrid teas, teas, baby 

 ramblers, moss-roses and others. The two rear rows con- 

 tain hybrid perpetuals, and a few other kinds, the two front 

 rows comprising hybrid teas and teas. 



The iris garden at the southwest corner of the grounds 

 was established in the spring of 1916. In front of a back- 

 ground of conifers and deciduous shrubs is a border 10 feet 

 wide. The rear portion of this border, with an occasional 

 approach to the front in places, is given over to irises, which 

 may be had in flower, by proper selection of kinds, from 

 early spring to the early part of July. The first to bloom 

 are some of the dwarf forms, such as Iris pumila and /. 

 cristata. Then come those of the rhizomatous type, with 

 creeping rootstocks, such as Iris germanica, I. pallida, I. 

 sambucina, and many others. These are followed by the 

 Siberian irises, and these in turn by the Japanese irises, 

 of which there are many beautiful color forms. If irises 

 alone are used, a garden of this kind is devoid of flowers 

 after the middle of July, and there are but few irises which 

 appear early in the spring. To avoid this difficulty it is 

 best to plant with the irises spring flowering bulbs, which 

 will give an abundance of color at that time of the year, 

 following these, as they go out of flower, with annuals, 

 which will carry the flowering period through the summer 

 and into the fall. The persistent foliage of the irises, 

 often of a gray green, offers a suitable background for 

 many annuals. 



