As usual, they were excep- 

 tionally fine rhizomes — I've 

 never seen better. There must 

 be something in your soil out 

 there that the rest of us haven't 

 got — I certainly can't grow 

 them that large.'' 



W. E. Schreiber, 

 State University, 

 Missoula. Mont. 



"The Japanese Irises are the last of 

 the more important groups to flower. 

 Beginning before the latest of the Ta 

 Bearded sorts have finished, they carry 

 on the pageant of iris beauty for most 

 of another month, and to new peaks 

 of splendor." 



RISHONO 



SHIMOYO 



"The Japanese irises, as already pointed 

 out, differ from all of the preceding sorts not 

 only in flower form, but in general habit of 

 growth. They are considerably taller. The 

 effect as they grow in the garden, either at 

 close view in the hardy border or bed, or at 

 a distance in landscape planting, is so rad- 

 ically different from that of the Tall Bearded 

 irises that it would be well worth while to 

 have both, even if they bloomed at the 

 same time. Not only are the plants taller, 

 but the foliage and flowers are less formal, 

 and for that reason preferable for certain 

 types of landscaping." 



