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Japanese Irises in Their Native Home 
In the lower picture Japanese Irises are shown equally at home in my fields at 
Wyomissing. The Rev. Dr. Rice, who came here to see them after having spent 
many years in Japan, expressed his surprise at the luxuriant growth and abundant 
bloom. He stated that it surpassed any that he had seen in Japan. 
In your garden they will thrive as well with only ordinary care. Spring is an 
ideal time to plant, as they w’ill bloom the first season. 
Farr’s Hardy Plant Specialties 
will tell you all about the rare varieties that 
have been collected from the old Palace and 
Temple Gardens in Japan — parents of many 
new seedlings that I have raised here at Wyomis- 
sing, to which I have given the dainty and poetic 
Japanese names. I am now offering a few of 
these for the first time. 
The completeness of the Japanese Iris 
section is only a hint of many other suggestions 
of interest to the garden lover. Peonies in over 
500 varieties; the splendid collections of 
Lemoine’s Lilac, Philadelphia, and Deutzias; 
the section devoted to Delphiniums, Hardy 
Phloxes, Roses and Rock plants, are all notable 
features in this book of 112 pages of text, to 
which are added 30 full page illustrations (13 
in color). If you are a lover of these things I 
shall be glad to mail you a copy free on request. 
BERTRAND H. FARR — Wyomissing Nurseries Co. 
104 Garfield Avenue Wyomissing, Pennsylvania 
I offer twelve named varieties of Japanese Irises, my selection of choice sorts, for $ 2 . 
One hundred Plants in Twenty-five varieties for $ 12 . 
Real Novelties and Novel Realities” 
IN HARDY PLANTS 
'THE biggest collection offered anywhere is found in our 
1 supplement to Palisades Popular Perennials. 
Of great interest to the amateur and commercial grower 
alike. 
It ^describes uncommon plants of singular beauty, de- 
sirability. and simplicity of growth; inexpensive to ac- 
quire. 
Mailed with one 25c Novelty hardy plant not before 
offered elsewhere, on receipt of three two-cent stamps, the 
value is credited on first order. 
A Palisade Hardy Border 
A perfect picture in your garden to last for years will be I Our "Artistic ” Border. 100 feet by 3 feet costs $25 only, 
the result if you allow us now to plan a scheme, whether of for 300 plants, freight charges included. Consider what is 
contrasts or of harmonies, to be carried out this spring. | “ saved r ’ by this system and what is gained in true beauty. 
PALISADES NURSERIES, Inc. ( Im ^mV g ° a Hn 9 n,ion ) SPARKILL, NEW YORK 
(i Concluded from page 150) 
wonderful collection of French origin with 
which you are probably familiar. The plants 
can be left to stand singly, but I think they are 
often most effective when they are given a 
setting with a background of other plants. 
As to the Evergreens; among dwarfs is'that 
hardiest strain of English Yew, Taxus baccata 
var. repandens. It may be used if not too ex- 
posed; also there is the more hardy Japanese 
Yew (Taxus cuspidata) also Taxus cuspidata 
brevifolia or short leaved. These are hardy. 
I find the short leaved Japanese Yew a very ' 
effective low-growing shrub and owing to its 
slow growth the specimens are more expensive 
than some of the others. 
Among Junipers there is J. horizontalis, 
which may be used for ground covering, alsothe 
prostrate Juniper nana. Juniper chinensis 
Pfitzeriana which lives well under our con- 
ditions is taller growirtg. I could also give you 
a longer list of Junipers which would be worth 
planting, also some of the new and rare Pines 
which have come in recently from Japan and 
one or two from parts of Europe, such as ex- 1 
posed elevations in Serbia. 
Some Mahonias, Japanese or American 
would be worth including, and because of its 
interest a Japanese Umbrella Pine. Canadian 
Hemlock would probably find a place as a 
background for some of the other things. It is 
one of the finest trees we can use for planting 
in a mass and instead of a Colorado Blue 
Spruce I would suggest a Silver Fir which has 
biue-green foliage like a Blue Spruce, but is , 
more hardy. The Chinese Arborvitae has a 
very deep-green color and is more delicate in 
its makeup than the American; Nordmann’s 
Fir has a wondrous dark-green foliage. For . 
common hedge planting or to fill up for awhile 
Norway Spruce or American Arborbitae can be 
used to give quick effect, but a hedge of Jap- ■ 
anese Quince, if one will spray for scale, is 
beautiful early in spring. American Arbor- 
vitae makes a good screen hedge. 
One other thing I would like to mention is 
Sorbaria arborea which is one of the Spirea 
group and is a particularly interesting plant 
for its mass of white blooms in summer. For 
a plant for bloom in the winter, a massof yellow 
bloom in November and December, and of in- 
terest to the children the Witch Hazel, Ham- 
amelis mollis, is the best. 
I have not mentioned anything about the 
new Barberries, but there are some of decided 
value for us, as B. verruculosa, also B. (Jilgi-1 
ana and B. aggregata. Some of these are 
evergreen and in addition are desirable in 
other ways. They will improve any hedge 
planting you would make and give color during 
the winter to clumps. There is a hardy Cedar 
of Lebanon, Cedrus Libani, which 1 saw grow- 
ing in Boston; it is slow-growing. I saw 
specimens there which were 30 years old, but it 
strikes me as well worthy of planting. 
If you want something to cover a building 
the Evergreen Bittersweet Evonymus vegetus 
is new and hardy; it bears red berries. I here 
is a house at Erie, Pa., on which this has 
climbed to a height of 30 feet. 
Among the Deutzias, gracilis has very good 
foliage and flowers and is useful for planting on 
the sunny side of the house. Among Spiraeas, 
Thunbergii has a place because of its dwarf 
habit and good flowers and Anthony Waterer 
on account of its blooming late in the summer 
despite the objection to its color that some 
purists feel. Some of the Wichuraiana Hybrid 
Roses keep their foliage late into winter. 
There is no end to the good things available 
now for beautifying our grounds. 
Geneseo, N. Y. Samuel Fraser. 
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