SELECT BULBS FOR FALL PLANTING 13 
THE IRISES 
JAPANESE IRIS 
Gloriously beautiful plants are Japanese Irises. At th 
rise from a mass of grassy leaves, and bear at their tops Howe 
The colors are delicate, and the texture of the Bowers is like .... 
These are my varieties: Apollo, pure while with pink ( enter; Blue Danube, double, 
deep indigo-blue, center violet shading to yellow; Frate, double, silvery white veined 
and shaded with lilac, center deep lilac; Helen von Siebold, 1 
veins and a yellow center; Oriole, double. 
- best, stems 4 feet tall 
as much as a fool across. 
rith white 
center, and 
Pyramid, al 
rked 
white; Robert Craig, a 
aencate i< rcncn gray with violet veins, 
most charming; Topaz, single, reddish 
amaranlh throughout; T. S. Ware, red- 
dish violet, veined while and white center 
with some lemon markings; Victor, white, 
veined violet -purple, pure violet-purple 
center. 
Strong plants of named varieties at 
25 cts. each, or $2 a dozen. 
Plants can be set out from August to 
.March. Where plenty of water is avail- 
able, September planting is the best. 
II on the edge of ponds, running 
Th 
stn 
several inches of w 
and plenty of water 
On dry hills pi; 
across and a foot a 
plants about ? incl 
between the rows. 1 
irate of soda and bon 
.Mulch with manure i 
should be kept wel 
not allow it to bee 
The plants will gro 
if it is made fairly 
supplied with moist 
i feet 
v; the 
planting, 
he ground 
1, and do 
or baked. 
. any soil, 
the roots 
Spanish Iris 
GERMAN IRIS 
' the 
lder the 1111 
will, 
■rv best So 
The German Iris is 01 
body knows the older sort 
the lovely new sorts, eith 
colorings the Irises are rivals of 
cessfully in the most humble gard 
or shade; vet, in rather good soils 
should be reset about every third 
at the latest. 
I have unnamed bulbs in whit 
per 100. Or f will put up sets o 
$2.50 (with names, $4 for the 20). 
Purdy's Blue is a lighl blue, very sweeUscenti 
Irises of the Pallida class are very tall planl 
among the best of these is Odoratissima, almost ti 
each. I have quite a number of this class 
make sets at 30 cts. each variety. 
; that the garden 1 
1 hold 
Every- 
f Flag Lilies, or Fleur-de-Lis, but few know 
all. In structure of flower and in the delicate 
stociratic orchids, but they can be grown suc- 
noderate moisture, it does its best. The bulbs 
n August. Plant new bulbs before Christmas, 
or purple at 10 cts. each. Si per dozen and S5 
y of the finest sorts, one each, unnamed, for 
I sort and a line thing. Price 20 cts. 
, with stems often 4 feet high, and 
same as Princess Beatrice, al 25 cts. 
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