that you go in July to the Nursery and select some fine three-petal 
white, some clear violet, a deep plum and its pink-plum mate, and 
the white one with the mauve halo. These will go well in the border, 
if fed and watered. The following are some good combinations for 
Japanese Iris: 
Plum Iris Kaempferi with Pink Canterbury Bells, Mauve Opium 
Poppies and Lavender Candytuft. (Keep all Violas, Campanulas 
and purples away from this group.) 
Blue Iris Kaempferi with White Annual or Perennial Lupine, 
Yellow Iceland or Cahfornia Poppies in front. 
Digitalis Grandiflora (Yellow Foxgloves), Bella Donna Seedling 
Delphinium with purple Iris Kaempferi, Veronica Incana in front. 
Clematis Jackmanii and white Rose {Gardenia) with a planting 
of white and deep purple Iris Kaempferi below it. 
Miss Jekyll says on Page 3 in her Color in the Flower Garden, 
that " to devise living pictures with simple well known flowers is the 
best thing to do in gardening. " The following are pictures from my 
neighbor's gardens, as well as my own, all using Iris Germanica as 
the main subject. 
I know a border 10 feet by 60 feet where the Iris are planted in 
irregular bias bands from back to front, (three feet between the bands) 
first, German Iris in pale blues for June, then Japanese Iris in sim- 
ilar shades for July, again German in purple and three feet further 
Japanese, in purple. The pattern is repeated by two white, a yellow 
and a plum band, then large bronze Germans at the end. Between 
these bands are generous clumps of Phlox, Anchusa, Campanulas, 
Delphinium, HemerocalUs,etc.,but the character is given to the border 
by the irregular bands of flowers and foHage sloping away from the 
grass path, and which are decorative, whether in or out of bloom. 
It is the framework of the border. Note — See paragraph on ''Frame- 
work in Design," on Page 189, Studies in Gardening, by Clutton- 
Brock. 
Another Iris picture, I know, is a curving double terrace under 
some low hanging branches of Dogwood and Elm trees. The upper 
terrace is planted with blue and violet shades of Iris, mostly the 
PaUida and bluish Neglecta groups, with some standard Bechtel's 
Crabs among them. The lower terrace is planted with pale yellow 
Iris Flavescens, Iris Aurea, the pink Her Majesty, pink and rose 
Princess Victoria Louise and Jacquesiana, maroon, with standards 
of the French lilac, Ludwig Spathe. Later in the year the terraces 
have Phlox and late annuals which do not disturb the Iris. 
A group of tall white Foxgloves and Dropmore Anchusa that I 
know has associated with it blue and white Lupine and white Spirea 
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