6 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
THE CLASSIFICATION OF GARDEN IRISES. 
II. Outline of Classification. By the Iris Committee. 
The Committee appointed by the Council to draw up a classification 
of Bearded Irises for garden purposes met several times at Wisley and 
elsewhere, and devised the following grouping. It is based on the 
general colour effect of each variety as seen in the garden, and pro- 
vides in each colour class for grouping according to (i) season : early, 
mid-season, or late ; and (2) height : dwarf, intermediate, or tall. 
The varieties are arranged in each class in a sequence beginning 
with the palest and progressing towards the deepest shades in the 
group. 
The Committee included Mr. E. A. Bowles (chairman), Sir Arthur 
Hort, Messrs. R. W. Wallace, J. W. Barr, W. R. Dykes, E. H. Jenkins, 
A. Perry, E. A. Bunyard, and the Director of Wisley. 
The following is merely an outline of the colour classification, with 
typical examples of each class. It will be followed by a complete list, 
with notes of the more important varieties, in a future Journal. 
Wherever the word purple occurs the term is used in the sense 
defined on p. 2, and includes all shades in which both blue and red 
are present. 
Class I. White. 
■ Albicans,' ' Innocenza,' ' Mrs. H. Darwin.' 
Class II. White feathered with Purple. 
a. Colour confined to margin. 
1. Blue-purple. 
' Madame Chereau.' 
2. Red-purple. 
* Mrs. Reuthe.' 
b. Colour suffused. 
' Parisiana.' 
Class III. Standards White (or nearly so), Falls Purple 
a. Colour confined to veins. 
' Due de Nemours/ 
b. Colour suffused over falls. 
' Thorbecke,' ' Rheinnixe.' 
Class IV. Purple Bicolors (standards paler than falls) . 
a. Standards pale blue-purple (lavender). 
' Lady Foster,' ' Miss Maggie.' 
b. Standards dark blue-purple. 
* Perfection,' ' Black Prince.' 
