March 15, 1894. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
205 
and as they are all large clumps I shall look out for some fine things 
when they are in flower. I believe that anyone having pools or supplies 
of water in their gardens could easily grow them and should try them, 
I understand that at sales a great number of the plants are from 
Holland, and that it is advisable to obtain the Japanese importations of 
strong plants; the chaste markings of some of the flowers, their rich 
Fig. 34.—iris K^MPFERI. 
but the plants do not flower well until they are strong. The small j colours and great size, will be a surprise to those who are unacquainted 
plants usually sold at sales require two to three years’growth before I with this superb section of Flag Irises, as represented in the illustration, 
they bloom w'ell.” I fig 34.—W. D. 
