have used some varieties twice to produce a required shade of 

 color tone. I have made blunders but T leave it to the iris. They 

 will tell me when they bloom where changes must be made. In 

 the lawn surrounding this drift sparkle myriads of Johnny- 

 jump-ups. No keeping Johnnys from jumping in my garden! 



In front of the house T have a rainbow picture in which I use 

 sixty clumps, each a different variety, of tall, modern iris. These 

 are planted eighteen inches apart and T have worked to make 

 neighbors congenial for this is really more important to an iris 

 than to a human being. In this bed of strong vivid coloring, 

 yellows are of the greatest use. Last 3'ear Valor and Lady 

 Paramount stole the show. 



Tn partial shade is a smaller picture made U]i of pink and of 

 blue iris. Through the center from top to bottom is an irregular 

 planting of blue composed of Sierra Blue, Shining Waters, Pale 

 Moonlight, El Capitan. Gloriole. Blue Triumph, Blue Monarch 

 deepening to Blue Dusk. On each side is a pink drift. On the 

 left are Pink Satin, Pink 0])al, Airy Dream. China Pose, At 

 Dawning and the beautiful IMorocco Pose of Dr. Loomis, a 1937 

 introduction of Mrs. Pattison who has revealed so much beauty 

 to iris lovers. On the right are Imperial Blush, Thais. Ethelwyn 

 Dubuar, Eros, Sandia and Frances Chreitzberg. This is an iris 

 by a Spartanburg amateur whose Avork with iris has the love, 

 skill and infinite patience of the expert. His iris, Frances 

 Chreitzberg. is a large, slightly ruffled flower of fresh, spark- 

 ling medium pink. Form, texture, substance, and garden value 

 are good. The medium stalk is strong and branching. On each 

 side of this garden picture is a frame of Noweta with colum- 

 bines in pink and blue shades. 



Red iris are a joy to me — and a ]iroblem. Every gardener 

 knows that dark colored iris have to be prayed over if man- 

 aged successfully, but I have no trouble with the beautiful dark 

 blues, violets and purples for they are carefully planted with 

 other colors where, with a little help at times from the yellows, 

 they harmonize and make themselves perfectly at home. But 

 reds! They grow on a bank facing the rising sun, a home they 

 like for they flourish and multij^ly. The upi^er part of the bank, 

 sloping down from the rose garden, is covered with creeping 

 roses. The red iris are far enough away to escape all entangling 

 alliances but near enough for perfect drainage and for a perfect 

 background. First I ])lanted with my reds some stunning varie- 

 gatas toning in with yellow selfs. I could hardly wait for May! 

 What happened? My reds .shrank into the shadows and had 

 nothing to do with the gay picture. In another part of my 

 garden I had a modern dashing drift of red and of white tulips : 



