yellow and pearl; Queen Flavis is a great primrose 

 beauty; Ivorine a cream-white; Dorothea a chalk- 

 white tinted mauve; Fritjof a pale lavender with 

 shadings of purple, and Bosniamac a tender soft 

 lavender and cream. I found it difficult to choose 

 favorites among them because they all seemed 

 equally desirable. I admire them all and you will, I 

 know. These intermediates, blooming as 

 they do in May, precede the later flowering 

 Germanicas. I saw some darling dwarfs too, grow- 

 ing in small border masses. They were Blanche, a 

 cream and primrose-gold; Citrea a citron-yellow 

 and pale gold; Florida also a citron yellow; Cyanea 

 a fine clear blue; Eburna creamy-white, and dainty 

 little Josephine a pure white. All of these dwarf 

 bearded irises are exquisite. They grow but a foot 

 tall, some even less and as they come into bloom at 

 different times they give us a succession of flowers 

 all through April and May. 



^ The few varieties of the water-loving kinds are 

 those we see in water-gardens, on the lake-side and 

 in wet places, breams, etc. Versicolor is one of our 

 native species and has handsome blue-violet flow- 

 ers and dark green spears. Pseudo-Acorus is a tall 

 clear yellow, and is a species that will grow in 

 water, ju^t as water-lilies do and the effedt of its 

 many ^rong green spears, with the flat lily pads is 

 mo^ intere^ing and effecftive. Versicolor kerme- 

 sina is a valuable example to grow with ferns and 

 grasses in the moist soil of the brookside but not 

 in the brook, her ruby-red, white lined flowers are 

 warmly attractive, especially so when grown with 



