August , 1888. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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THE DALMATIAN IRIS. 
This beautiful species has been known to me under the name of Iris 
dalmatica for at least twenty-five years. I am aware that it is now 
Foster has given great attention to the Iris family, and I feel certain he 
is in a position to clear up the mystery, being extremely accurate. I 
recollect sending a bulbous species to an authority one year, who called 
Fig. 15.-THE DALMATIAN IRIS. 
•classified as a variety of Iris pallida, still it is quite double the size in 
flower, foliage, and height to the so-called typical species. Anyway, 
whatever may be its family connection it holds its own in being by far 
the most strikingly beautiful of the bearded section of Iris. Professor 
the Iris by a well known name, and to which it certainly had no rela¬ 
tion. The next year I sent it to Professor Foster; he at once recognised 
it as a scarce specidS, and only of recent introduction.— Winton. 
[The illustration (fig. 15) was prepared from a flower supplied by 
