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F. W. BOLGIANO & CO., WASHINGTON, D. C. 



IRIS 



Iris Germanica (Fleur-de-Lis) 



IRIS, QUEEN OF PERENNIALS 



No other flower will give you more delight and enjoyment than the stately, graceful 

 Fleur-de-Lis. They bring all the colors and tints of the rainbow to you and return each 

 year in increasing numbers to glorify your garden at the time when spring flowers have 

 gone, but summer flowers have not yet come. 



Plant shallow, barely covering the roots, in the early fall. Give Lime or Bone Meal, 

 but avoid fresh manure. 



"Standards" are the upper petals, "Falls" the lower ones. 



ALBERT VICTOR. Light hyssop-violet. 



ATRO-COERULEA. Standards lavender blue, falls rich violet-purple. 



AUSTRALIS. Silvery purple-blue, 



BRONZE BEAUTY. Standards bronze, falls yellow brown. 



CELESTE. Standards lavender-blue. 



FLAVASCENS. Pale lemon yellow. 



FLORENTINA ALBA. White 



HONORABALIS. Standards vivid yellow, falls yellow marked cocoa-brown. 



LAVENDULACEA. Lavender, yellow. 



MME. CHERAU. White edged with bluish purple. 



OSSING. Bright yellow* standards, falls yellow brown. 



PURPLE KING. Rich red purple. 



SAMBUCINA. Standards yellow-lavender falls chocolate-purple. 



QUEEN OF THE MAY. Soft, rosy pink. 



Roots, 25 cents each, any ten for $2.00 



SPANISH IRIS 



SPANISH IRIS. Known as "Orchids of the Hardy Flower Garden." They grow from 18 

 to 24 inches high and produce their exquisite aii-y blooms during the last of May and 

 through June. Plant the latter part of September. Mixture containing all colors, bulbs, 

 75c per dozen. 



