Best White: 
La Neige and Kashmir are veiy expensive and rare. 
Innocema, pure white, unmarked, yellow beard. 
Mrs. Darwin, white purple veins, 24 inches. 
Florentina, grey white. 
Best Yellow: 
Aurea, 2 feet (Clear yellow, unmarked) 25 
Mrs. Newbronner 35 
Shermin Wright 50 
Flavescens, exquisite pale canary 25 
Best Yellow marked with Rose: 
Princess Victoria Louise 50 
Darius, 20 inches 25 
Best Yellow and Maroon: 
Maori King, i& inches 25 
Best Light Violet: 
Pallida Dalmatica, 40 inches high. The true variety hard to get, but all the Pallida Hybrids 
are desirable and among our finest Iris 35 
Cengialti, sweet scented, 24 inches 25 
The following table gives the approximate time of blooming and 
is taken from records kept at Beech Gate during the past i8 years. 
The date would be a fortnight later for Boston or the Eastern 
end of Long Island. 
April 15th JrisPumila 
April isth " Intermedia 
April 20th " Germanica Type {Early Purple) 
April 20th " Florentina 
May ist " G. Variety Kharput 
" " " Kochii 
" " " Flavescens 
May 15 th Most of the Hybrid Germanicas 
May 15 th " Tectorum 
" " Album 
" Chrysographes 
May 20th Earliest Pallida, Queen of May 
Iris G. Var. Mrs. H. Darwin 
May 30th " Pallida Dalmatica (blooms till June loth) 
June 1st " Eybrida, Crusader 
" " _ Trojana 
June 5th " Germanica, Var. Black Knight 
(this is the las, Germanica to bloom) 
June 10th " Sibirica 
" Alba 
June 15th " Orienlalis , Snow Queen 
" Xipium, Spanish Bulb 
July 4th to 24th " Kaempheri or Japanese Iris. 
Some or the Best Iris Nurseries in America 
Mrs. Dean's Iris Garden Peterson Nurseries 
Moneta, Cal. (near Los Angeles.) Chicago, 111. 
Bertram H. Farr Movilla Gardens 
Wyomissing, Pa. Haverford, Pa. 
The Fryer Iris Garden Rainbow Iris Gardens 
Mantorville, Minn. St. Paul, Minn. 
R. T. Jackson Shroup Iris Gardens 
Peterborough, N. H. Dayton, Ohio 
Mrs. P. J. MiUs r Wing Seed Co. 
Des Moines, Iowa Mechanicsburgh, Ohio 
Farquhar, Dreer, Bobbink & Atkins, Horsford, and Hicks all have superb collections. 
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