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Ophiopogon has four species *from the Himalayas 
and Eastern Asia, the best known of which are the 
variegated forms of O. Japonicum and O. Jaburan. A 
form of the latter called Aureus variegatus with purple 
flowers is a very pretty plant, and I should think hardy 
at southern points. 
Iris has at least 150 species, with innumerable vari- 
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eties. They are natives chiefly of warm and cold tem- 
perate regions in Europe, Asia, America and Africa. 
They are popular and beautiful rhizomatous and cor- 
mous herbs, generally divided into four sections by 
systematists. The so-called German Irises are best 
known far north, and have a great variety of colors. 
Many owe their origin to the equally hardy I. Floren- 
tina and yield the orris-root of the perfumers in com- 
mon with it. Another remancable but somewhat more 
tender set is derived from the Asiatic I. laevigata, 
which Japanese gardeners have wrought up by fertil- 
izers, irrigation, and possibly hybridization, to a won- 
derful pitch of development and coloring. Dwarf Irises 
in blue-purple, lilac, yellow and white are also often 
quite hardy and a good deal grown. The so-called 
bulbous Irises are better adapted to the Pacific coast. 
I. xiphium, for instance, is a winter grower. I. xiphi- 
oides is later, but it also may be caught by spring frosts, 
even south. 
These and many other species from the Mediterra- 
nean regions are wonderfully colored and sometimes 
highly fragrant flowers. The European I. pseudaco- 
rus, the native I. versicolor and others are semi-aqua- 
tics. All require good soil ranging from heavy loam 
to sandy loam and leaf-mold for the finer, more delicate 
kinds. Morseas are the fugitive flowered Irises of the 
Southern Hemisphere. Two or three are in southern 
gardens and have long seasons of bloom. 
Tigridia has seven species of Mexican, Central and 
South American cormous herbs, treated north like glad- 
ioli, but hardy in the warm sections of country. T. Pa- 
vonia grandiflora and alba are very effective massed. 
Crocus has seventy or eighty species in cultivation 
besides varieties. The greater numbers of these are 
autumn flowering species rarely or never seen in Amer- 
ican gardens, probably because none but the very early 
bloomers would get a chance to show themselves north, 
but at the south a number ought to succeed. 
James MacPherson. 
Notes About Monuments. 
A design has been accepted and the contract is soon to be 
let for a memorial arched entrance to Snyder Park, Spring- 
field, Ohio. The design is a modification by Architect Robert 
C. Gotwald of the original drawing by Mrs. Nelson Fitch. It 
will be of buff Ohio limestone, 27 feet high and 24 feet 
wide. A fund of $5, 800 has been raised for its construction. 
* * * 
The Civic Improvement League, of St. Louis, has appointed 
a committee to look after the matter of preserving some of 
the most popular pieces of statuary of the World’s Fair, for 
use in St. Louis parks and highways after the Exposition is 
over. The idea is for the league to replace one or two of 
these statutes each year in bronze, thus making it possible to 
distribute the expense over a long period of time. Robert 
P. Bringhurst is a member of the committee. 
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Jonathan Reed, of Brooklyn, N. Y., is said to have lived 
for the past ten years in the mausoleum in Evergreen cemetery, 
in that city, where his wife was laid to rest, in fulfillment of 
a vow that he would never leave her side. He has brought 
mementoes from their old home to the tomb, and placed 
flowers about it, which he attends daily. The vault is built 
on the side of a knoll overlooking a small lake, and the old 
man is well contented to wait till he can join his dead 
wife. 
The colossal bronze statue of the late Governor Hazen S. 
Pingree has been placed on its pedestal in Detroit and is to be 
unveiled next spring. The statue was modeled and cast by 
Rudolph Schwarz, of Indianapolis. The casting was made 
by what is said to be a revival of the ancient Greek method 
of casting bronzes. The governor is shown seated with one 
hand on his knee and the other on the arm of his chair. 
McDonnell & Sons, Buffalo, N. Y., were the contractors for 
the pedestal. 
* * * 
Charles J. Mulligan, of Chicago, is modeling a statue of 
the late President McKinley, to be erected in McKinley Park, 
in this city. The figure is to be cast from the bronze of the 
old Columbus statue, which formerly stood on the lake front 
in that city, but was condemned a number of years ago and 
taken to the rubbish heap in Washington Park. The statue 
is a gift from D. F. Crilly, formerly president of the South 
Park Board, and shows Mr. McKinley as a representative in 
congress in the act of presenting and advocating the McKin- 
ley tariff bill. “My idea,’’ said Mr. Mulligan, “is that the 
statue, being placed in a workingman’s park, should set forth 
Mr. McKinley’s most conspicuous act in their behalf. One 
hand rests on his desk and the other holds the memoranda 
of his speech. I have attempted to depict his earnestness and 
enthusiasm in presenting and urging the important measure.” 
