IRIS. 



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IRIS, or Flew de Lis. 



This flower, from its great combination of colors, (whence it derives its title,) and 

 altogether unique appearance, has ever found admirers among the curious and the 

 scientific. It is also ihe court flower, or emblem, of the Bourbons. In addition 

 to these here etaimcrated, there are about 50 beautiful bulbous varieties, for which 

 see catalogue of bulbous flowers. 



25 cents each, except those noted. 



1 Large blue German Iris germanica 



2 Large purple German, 50 cts 



3 Large bicolor elder scented, 37 cts 



4 Large while Florentine, or Orris root 25 cts 



5 Pale bluish Florentine, 50 cts 



6 Great chalcedouian, splendid, 50 cts 



7 Large pale violet, 37 cts 



8 Lurid, or dino;y, 37 cts 



9 Pale lurid, 50 cts 



10 Yellowish lurid, 50 cts 



11 Nepal, 75 cts 



13 English yellow, blooms twice 



14 Jjaier flowering, do 50 cts 



15 Tricolor, white, purple, and yellow, 50 cts 



16 Variegated Hungarian, purple Sc orango 50c 



17 Tall straw colored, 50 cts 



purpurea, vel pomederiana 

 samhucina 

 florentina 

 ceruleo-pallida 

 susiana 

 pallida 



lurid a, vel sordida 

 pallida 

 flava 



nepaiensis 

 pseudacorus 

 tardiflora 



18 Yellow German, curious, 50 cts 



19 Sulphcr colored, 50 cts 



20 Maritime blue. 50 cts 



21 Zigzag, straw colored, 50 cts 



22 Long leaved, 50 cts 



23 India f.agrant, or Papant, 75 cts 



24 Blue Virginian, or Celestial 



25 Various colored 



26 Ditto, curled leaved, 50 cts 



27 Prismatic 



28 Red flowering 



29 Dwarf vernal, 50 cts 



30 Dwarf crested 



31 Carolina three petalled, 50 cts- 



32 Dwarf blue Austrian 



33 Dwarf purple, 37 cts 



34 Dwarf yellow, 50 cts 



35 Swert's Iberian, curious, 50 cts 



36 Whitish, 50 cts 



37 Snake's head, delicate, 50 cts 



38 Chinese fringed, delicate, 50 cts 



39 Siberian tall light blue, 37 cts 



40 deep blue, of minor height and later 

 flowering than No 39, 50 cts 



41 Striped leaved Gladwin, 50 cts 



42 Slender leaved. Iris 37 cts 



43 Double bearing, 37 cts 



44 Dauric light blue, or forked, 37 cts 



45 Brown and blue flowered, 50 cts 



46 Tall cream colored, 50 cts 



48 Beautiful blue Russian, 50 cts 



50 Hungarian large violet dwarf, 37 cts 



51 Acid, 50 cts 



52 Blue Missouri, 50 cts 



53 Double blue do 81 



54 White acute, 50 cts 



55 Dwarf Persian, fragrant, 15 cts 



variegata 



luieo variegata 



lutescens 



ochroleuca 



maritima 



flexuosa 



halophila 



odorata 



virginica, vel hexagona 



versicolor 



curvifolia 



prismatiea, vel gracilis 



euprsea 



verna 



cristata 



tridentata, vel tripetcla 



p\]mila 



puvpurea 



flava 



swertii', vel aphylla 



albida 



tuberosa 



chinensis 



sibirica 



var. 



foetidissima, varieg 



tenuifolia 



biflora 



dichotoma 



aqualens 



stenogyna 



desertorum vel spaUdata 



hungarica 



acris 



missouriensis 



pleno 



acuta, alba 



persica 



