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THE LOVETT COMPANY, LITTLE SILVER, N, J, 



IMPERIAL JAPAN IRIS. 



The Japanese, as is -well 

 known, have an inborn love 

 for flowers and are accom- 

 plished gardeners. It mav not 

 be so well known, however, 

 that they permit the finest va- 

 rieties of their flowers to get 

 in the hands of foreigners with 

 extreme reluctance. Seven 

 yeai's ago a friend of om'S who 

 was at the time Professor of 

 Horticultm-e in the Imperial 

 College of Japan, by reason of 

 their maiwelous beauty became 

 deeply interested in the Japan 

 Iris and. having exceptional op- 

 portunities, made a collection 

 of them embracing every choice variety 

 in the Empii-e. These he sent to us and 

 we have since been propagating them 

 until now we have a sufflcient stock of a number of them to 

 enable us to offer them to the pubhc. The Japanese names of 

 these Iris ai'e so utterly tmpronoimceable we have decided to 

 designate them by the names of persons wha are or have been 

 connected with our estabhsnment. The richness of color, ex- 

 quisite forms and markings of the flowers, added to their great 

 size, and the wonderful profusion vrith which they are pro- 

 duced is such as to render them simply marvelous and any 

 attempt to describe theii- beauty must prove a complete f aD- 

 m^e. We therefore simply give, in a few words, the general 

 make-up of the different varieties. 

 A. L. Sherwood. Purple, veined with white; very large. 

 Bessie Lovett. Six petals: pm^e white with yellow at base. 

 C. \V. Iford. Three petals; white, dehcately marbled blue. 

 Daffmar Georgeson. Indigo blue, reticulated with white. 

 Edith Gray. Lilac, blotched, streaked and marbled white. 

 Elsie Iford. "White, striped, pencilled thi'oughout with blue. 

 Fred'k Renner, Self-colored deep bluish plmn. base orange. 

 F. S. Hiney. xsine petals; rich blue shading to pm-ple lilac. 



G, Coroey. Rosy lilac, white running into golden yellow at base. 

 Lester Lo>ett. Six petals; blue, running to violet, a broad band of white 

 spreading into each petal with broad yellow band at base. 



I*Iiss Gray. Three petals; indigo iDlue, reticulated with white. 



Mrs. Georg^eson, Outer petals pearly white, veinea blue vrith base yellow; inner petals a deeper blue. 



I^lrs. Lo>ett. Six petals; lavender, veined with rich pm'ple and margined with white; centre splashed canary. 



Prof. Geor^eson. Pure, rich pm^ple-plum color ; mammoth size. 



Thos. H. Spauldinff. Six petals; white, veined and broadly margined with violet; deep yeUow band at base. 

 Ea., 2SC. A set, one each of the fifteen varieties fot only ^2.50. 



OTHER JAPAN IRIS. 



The flowers of the following varieties are also of im- . ^\jRf\\^ 

 mense size, often exceeding eight inches in diameter, 5,^^ 

 They present a remarkable variety of color, ranging 

 from ivory-white thi'ough violet, pm-ple, blue, yellow, 

 etc. Some are single, others semi-double and all bloom 

 in great profusion in Jime and July. Exceedingly 

 harrly and especially adapted to moist situations. 



Blue Danube. Deep velvety blue, rich yeUow centre. 



Blue Jay. Pale blue dehcately lined with white. 



Eclipse. Beautiful, deep pm-plish crimson. 



Gold Band. Large, pure white; gold-banded centre, 



I*laho?any. Dark red shaded with maroon. 



Pyramid. Tiolet blue, veined with white. 



William Tell. Grey and blue: centre blue and yellow. 



Ea.. 15c; 3 for 35c; doz., 81.00; for rockwork and the forecrround of bordei^s. It 



Plued. The choicest varieties. Doz., 75c. ^ is but little more than six inches high, bearing 



Dwarf Iris {Iris nudicaule). A magnificent dwarf large violet and purple flowers in great abundance 

 species of wonderfully profuse bloom, especiaUy fine during early spring. Ea., 10c; 3 for 25c; doz., 75c. 



