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few are really decorative or garden plants for they have not yet been 

 worked from their original state as wild plants. Exception must be made, 

 however, for a few choicer species, such as Iris Tolmieana (missouriensis), 



a species with large pale lavender flowers and a valuable early-flowering 

 propensity ; Iris setosa (if you get it), flowers rosy-lilac ; I. sibirica, in 

 some of its varieties, is a very charming, free-flowering species. There 

 is confusion here in the naming of a large-flowered variety of it 



