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for any but simple colours. Flowers of complicated colour should not 

 be grown in places where decorative plants are needed, but by themselves, 

 where they can be examined and cut from without incurring unmerited 

 depreciation. Thus I would suggest a bronze flower to be well seen 



Fig. 154. — Intermediate Irises ' Reinette ' and 4 Queen Flavia.' (Caparne.) 



when near or upon white, lemon, or yellow, * alone or in combination. 

 I. squalens vars. 'Socrates' (A. F. Barron), 1 Salar Jung,' 'Mozart,' 

 1 Greyhound,' ' Jacquiniana,' and ' Lord Grey ' are simply splendid seen 

 thus, but would be passed by as garden plants. Again, the appreciation 



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