4- Mme. Boulanger (Crousse) 
Large full flower. Glossy pink. Beautiful and inexpensive. 
5. Milton Hill (Richardson) 
Large bloom of soft flesh colour. Beautiful form. Very fine for cutting. 
6. Sarah Bernhardt (Lemoine) 
Large well-formed flower of moderately deep pink. Good for both garden and cutting. 
WHITE 
1. Avalanche (Crousse) 
Milk white, compact, fragrant flower. Very free bloomer. Valuable for both garden and cut- 
ting. 
2. Baroness Schroeder (Keiway) 
Globular flower of large white petals, tinged with palest pink. On established plants this is a 
wonderful flower. Garden and cutting. 
J, Couronne d'Or (Caiot) 
Fine inexpensive white. Full flower with ring of golden stamens around centre tuft of petals. 
Good for both garden and cutting. 1 
4. Marie Lemoine (Caiot) 
Massive, compact, ball-shaped white of great beauty. Not a tree bloomer, but very fine and 
especially valuable because of its lateness. 
5. Mireille (Crousse) 
Fragrant, massive, compact white. Tall, handsome plant, foliage particularly large and strik- 
ing. 
6. Solange (Lemoine) 
Cream white, tinted amber and salmon. Most unusual and exquisite colouring. Compact 
and high-built bloom. Distractingly lovely. No mere description can do it justice. 
RED 
1. Delachei (Delache) 
Good shade of red. Free bloomer, good for massing, inexpensive. 
2. Grover Cleveland (Terry) 
Large compact flower. Good shade of red, and valuable because late. Not, however, one of 
the freest bloomers. 
J. Rubra Superba (Richardson) 
Clear dark red. Very late. Valuable for colour and season, but slow to get established and 
not a free bloomer on young plants. 
Iris in the Hardy Border 
Anna Gilman Hill, Garden Club of Easthampton 
The Fleur de Lys has at last come into its own in America and 
with the starting of the American Iris Society on March 29th it takes 
its rightful place with the Peony, Dahlia, Carnation, Rose, Gladiolus, 
Sweet Pea and Chrysanthemum, all of which have had their own 
Societies of enthusiastic admirers. We never expected to "root for 
the German Flag", but we have to blame Linnaeus for our seemingly 
verbal disloyalty while the Peace Treaty is unsigned, for it was he who 
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