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hate to be disturbed. They send down their great thong-like roots deep 

 into the soil and anchor themselves very firmly in it, and because 

 of this it may also be very confidently said that what is called the 

 "taking-up system,"— which impUes that the plants should be taken up 

 out of the ground and kept on a greenhouse shelf for a few weeks or 



Fk;. 172. — lias ' Alkmexe ' x . {Gardeners^ Chronicle.) 



months every year— cannot, from the very nature of the case, do so well as 

 if they remained in situ and undisturbed. 



It is believed that no one in England has any adequate idea of what 

 these Irises can really do, because they have been worried so much and 

 treated after a fashion which they are prompt to resent. 80 far as I know, 

 Oncocyclus Irises have never yet remained in this country perfectly 



