SELECT BULBS FOR FALL PLANTING 
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GERMAN IRIS (Flag Lilies, or Fleur-de-Lis ) 
There are flowers which are so common that we lose sight of their real beauty. 
Sweet Peas were hardly noticed until Eckford brought out his new varieties and made 
them the most popular flower grown, and the old Flag Lilies of our childhood have 
possibilities that we have overlooked entirely. A hardier, more graceful or more satis- 
factory flower does not exist; and to the light blue flowers that we know have been 
added fine forms in white, creams, yellows, bronzes and purples in great variety, and 
both tall and dwarf. 
Culture. — Nothing is easier. You can plant them in any soil, clay, or light 
loam, in sun or light shade, in dry places or in almost a swamp soil, and they will thrive. 
If you wish the very finest flowers give them a rather heavy soil, well drained but well 
watered until May. 
About August the second or third year after planting lift them and divide the 
clumps into pieces with one or two eyes and reset at once. 
After they flower let them dry off, or if you would 
like to have another season of beauty from the same 
ground, alternate with groups of Montbretias, and 
later you will have a wavy mass of orange-scarlet, 
The Montbretias should be treated just as the Iris 
are by resetting the second or third year. 
The common Montbretias bulb at $i per 100 for 
this purpose. 
The Iris affords a great opportunity for the grower 
to display skill and taste in color grouping. Along 
shrubbery borders and near the waterside 
may be found ideal locations for planting. 
