The Garden Magazine, June, 1922 



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Clifford Norton, Photo. 



JAPANESE IRIS PROLONGS THE PAGEANT 



Flowering after the Bearded Group, these natives of the Far East with their flaring, floppy bloom and languid grace of growth 

 invest the July garden with curious interest. Though naturally inclined to moist places, the Japanese Iris will grow elsewhere 

 if thoroughly cultivated. Carpeted with Forget-me-nots and allowed to spring at random in a setting strictly in character, as 

 it were, this Iris is perhaps at its best. The Japanese Garden of Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Prentiss at "Glenallen," Cleveland, Ohio 



the falls) : Amas, the exquisite, tall, purple flower, coming from 

 the place of that name in Asia Minor, and the white albicans. 



For Summer Bloom 



IT IS upon the Beardless Irises (Apogons) we must rely to 

 carry bloom on into the summer. They have more grass- 

 like foliage, and a greater preference for moisture than 

 the others. Our native blue Water Flag, I. versicolor, starts 

 to bloom while the germanicas are at their height; it thrives in 

 marshy places, and does not even object to wet feet over the 

 winter — a rare quality among Irises. I. pseudacorus is another 

 moisture lover, and has a white form which, to my mind, is 

 much lovelier than the deep yellow type. 



The Siberian Irises, natives of Europe as well as Siberia by 

 the way, are a joy which no garden can afford to miss. The 

 pale blue, George Wallace, is one of the most enchanting flowers 

 I know; and sibirica acuta, a dwarfer one, blue, veined with 

 white, is distinct and lovely. The orientalis forms, Blue King 



and Snow Queen, are truly royal in their beauty. The sibiricas 

 and orientalis have abundant and beautiful grass-like foliage; 

 and when well established, are very generous with their flowers. 

 Near a stream or pond they seem most at home, but care should 

 be taken that the crowns are above the water-line. They may 

 be grown as well in a sunny border, but then need to be watered 

 in dry weather. 



If someone could develop a Spanish Iris (I. Xiphium) which 

 had good, abundant foliage, he would indeed do the gardening 

 world a service. In early spring when the first green appears, 

 the novice is sure that Onions were planted by mistake; but the 

 flowers are so lovely and so useful for cutting that these orchid- 

 like blossoms should not be condemned for their lack of foliage. 

 They are of the easiest possible culture, and I grow them in 

 rows in the picking garden. La Tendresse is a lovely deep 

 cream; Louise, white with lilac shading; Flora, a beautiful white; 

 and Thunderbolt, a most interesting bronzy-brown beauty. 



Among English Irises (I. xiphioides) the pure white, Mont 



